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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 2 kids, we eat 90% home cooked organic Whole Foods meals, lots of veggies and lean proteins, normal amount of carbs and overall a Mediterranean diet. Dessert is a piece of dark chocolate or a fruit. We eat out once a week to a simple quality restaurant.

My girl is stick thin and we have to push her to eat her meals. My son is chubby and his appetite for carbs seems insatiable. He doesn’t have a sweet tooth but will beg and beg for more pasta, more rice, a bit more beans and cheese etc.. when he encounters chips or junk food at a party you can see he could easily gorge on them every day (he knows not to for his health but you can see he doesn’t have the same satiety for it as the other average kids).

And yes they are both active and involved in tons of sports.

I am sure if my son was in another family he would already be more than chubby and be overweight or obese (right now if he is dressed you would not call him chubby, at the pool like OP you would see his soft dimpled belly).

The boy is HUNGRY. He talks about food all the time. He plans his next meals. He makes recipes in his mind. This is no mindless junk eating. And neither his dad nor me are like that. I can’t restrict a 10 y boy food intake, veggies and protein at meals are pretty much unrestricted but we only allow one serving of carbs, that’s the only way to keep us weight from creeping up.

When I look at family history, on my DH they had a lot of weight issues already 2 generations ago. I think he took from them and his appetite is driven by his metabolism.

Yes CICO is key but hunger and energy exerted when he has to be active (how much he will run when he is at his soccer practice) is driven by genetics. Parents cannot control that (and he cannot either)[/quote]

I would guess he just doesn’t like the food you cook.  Let him make some choices.  Let him go shopping and pick out some food that he enjoys.   And fruit is not desert. [/quote]

He loves the food we cook and he takes a very active part in defining the menu. But some of the foods he love, he cannot stop eating them (carbs). For example, he really likes roasted chicken, he will eat a reasonable portion of it and be full. He also really loves homemade spaghetti bolognese, but because it is spaghetti he will eat a gigantic portion.

Both can be nutritious meals (there are veggies with all this), but he can still gain weight if we don't monitor his portions of carbs and let him eat whatever he wants.

And yes, fruits are a perfectly fine dessert, your comment is a bit strange. We also have cakes or ice cream on the menu some nights but in any case he doesn't have a sweet tooth and desserts are not the problem. [/quote]

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