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[quote=Anonymous]This happened with my DD I made a few smaller changes that she barley noticed.  Instead of juice boxes I started making crystal light and encouraging more water.  I also stopped packing dessert with her lunch, she still has a small dessert after dinner.  I also started only buying snacks that were lower in calories - so little packs of mini oreos that are around 150 calories instead of packs of 6 full sized cookies that are double.  Some granola bars have 100 calories and some have like 250 - it was surprising when I started comparing.  I don't buy "diet" food and the portions are probably smaller but all that is fine.  The thing is she doesn't really feel like she's being denied anything.  I've just shifted the options.  I had also been packing "snacks" for breaks and after school.  This was something that was a hold over from the little kid days when you had to send in snacks all the time.  I just stopped and told her that a 10 year old should be able to get from breakfast to lunch without a snack.  She got used to it and turns out a lot of her friends parents had already stopped packing snacks too.  The key is to not think about it like an adult who is trying to loose 10 pounds.  Basically you just want to slow her weight gain and allow increases in height and puberty changes to bring her back to a healthy weight.  [/quote]

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