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[quote=Anonymous]My son started putting on weight at this age and by 7th grade was quite chubby. You get advice from all sides—take out all sugar from your house—but don’t police their sugar intake! It will give them a complex! Give them only vegetables for snacks—don’t make chips and goldfish the fobidden or they will binge it when they’re not at home!

A lot of people give advice and say it worked for their thin kids, but what they don’t know is that their house rules may have been completely unrelated to their child’s thinness and they would have been thin/not thin regardless.

Fwiw i also have another kid who has always been super thin regardless of appetite or intake.

My son isn’t chubby anymore as he had a huge growth spurt, but I admittedly worry about his future because he’s not naturally thin and he still eats voraciously but without the natural metabolism of some of his friends, I think once he stops growing and is in college it will be hard for him.

We do not keep soda in the house and we have limited juice.

We have more single serve desserts like popsicles than we do ice cream that you scoop into a bowl and make your own serving

I still throw fruits and vegetables into my teens lunches even though they are capable of making their own lunches.

Do your best to have them eat a high variety of foods. I did not settle for my kids being chicken nuggets and hot dog kids, I served vegetables at every single Meal even if they wouldn’t eat a bite. Yes you may waste food and money, but the expectations will be there and they’ll rise up to it. My kids went from picky elementary kids to non picky high school kids.

Keep them active.

Good luck! [/quote]

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