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Does your child snack before dinner?  I would recommend that you start trying to get your child to snack on fruits and veggies before meals.  Also have her drinking more water before meals.  Have a limit on the higher calorie and starch components (only 2 servings of starches per meal, or only 2 servings of high fat items like casserole, gravies, fried foods, etc).  Make extra veggies and proteins and allow extra servings of those.

Basically, you want to steer her towards lower consumption of fats and carbohydrates and higher consumption of proteins, vegetables and fruit.  Make this policy for everyone so it's a family rule.  I tend to do bargaining for my younger kids.  I give them certain portions of things and if they want more of something that is higher in carb or fat, they have to eat another portion of protein or vegetables first.  I'll keep doing 1:1 portions of what I want them to eat for what they want to eat.  But we also portion ourselves as parents to do the same.  We just use bigger portion sizes for the foods.[/quote]

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