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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When one of my teen daughters did this I went to the store and stockpiled cookies and chips. Put them in the pantry and told her she could have as many as she wanted. The key was to not get many different varieties. 'You like Oreos? Okay, here are six packs of them!' Despite maintaining a normal weight (115-125 lbs at 5'6) for most of my life, I eat huge quantities. How can I get angry at DD? She is just the greedy daughter of a greedy mother. Genes are no joke.[/quote]

Would you do this if your daughter was binging on junk food and also overweight? [/quote]

After I have provided nutritional information, abundant access to healthy whole foods, and slight incentives, my job as the pragmatic parent of a teen is done. Only a dummy futilely tries to limit portions or ban more than one or two things. If my daughter, having a vegetarian mother who exercises daily and regularly rails against the addictive power of sugar and processed food items, were very overweight I would not modify my approach in the slightest. The answer is to make MORE FOOD AVAILABLE, not less, to the overeater, regardless of her size. My 13 yo DD, who is, in fact, much heavier than I was at her age, can have all the fries and hamburgers and desserts she wants AFTER she has had a glass of water and an apple and a bowl of raw spinach. All I can do is insist that something with [i]some[/i] nutritional value also goes down the gullet.  [/quote]

And if she tells you she doesn’t want the apple and spinach, she wants the fries, and you say no, you limiting. And she may just sneak later.  You aren’t somehow more right by doing this.  At 13 turns into 14 and 15 and they will ultimately eat what they want, regardless of how much you tell them they should eat apples and spinach first.
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