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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to like Ellyn Satter, but I think the idea that children sneak and overeat sugary/caloric foods if you don’t regularly serve them as part of healthy meals is BULLLLLLLLLL. BULL. SO MUCH BULL.

Picture a small hill. This is the contribution of making something “forbidden.”

Picture Mount Everest. This is the contribution of the foods being highly palatable and the body being biologically wired to want them. [/quote]

As someone who struggled with binge eating and overcame it in adulthood, I can tell you you’re wrong! The reason is that things like Cheetos, cookies, etc actually dont taste that great and they don’t make you feel good, if you pay attention. So learning to tune into your body is what makes all the difference in the world.

Op I think you’re doing things right in terms of her eating but I’d be on the lookout for PCOS or high insulin. If her insulin is high, that’s what needs to be checked - not her weight - and that can be managed through meds, or more exercise, or other strategies. I still think you need to be very careful because you don’t want a kid to be obsessing about diabetes prevention either. But just food for thought that I think you have a good perspective but you still aren’t wrong that your instincts are saying something might be off here.[/quote]

Binge eating is a physiological disorder.  You likely would have been a binge eater regardless of what type of foods your parents had at home[/quote]

this is mostly true and does not contradict anything in my post. It is more about the restriction aspect.[/quote]

Parents don’t cause binge eating by telling their kid they can only have one piece piece of cake and not two or three. Or by not buying Cheetos except on road trips or whatever [/quote]

Yes, that can cause binge eating. [/quote]

It doesn’t.  No kids are truly deprived of junk food.  Between friends, relatives, birthday parties, other parties and gatherings, the numerous school celebrations and just school in general..they are all getting plenty of junk food, whether parents have it at home or not.  [/quote]

Great logical answer and also completely wrong. [/quote]

Nope.  Your kid is getting processed snack/sugary  foods at least weekly between all the above sources.  Now also add family ice cream stops, cookie at a coffee shop ajd whatever treats you get them occasionally.  Between all this, you are really trying to say if you don’t also stock the house with Oreos and oatmeal creme pies your child is living a deprived life and will be a binge eater? [/quote]

I am saying that the thing that matters most in terms of long term impact is the degree of parental restriction. How much junk is available to a kid overall is not really relevant. If your parents approach food from a place of fear, control, and/or restriction then it will affect the kid. Some kids will be more affected than others (eg, an adhd kid). You can HAVE the Oreo and still be messed up by your parents if they say “oh we will have to do some exercise tonight and work that off.” So the access to the food is not the be all, end all that you make it out to be. It is the messaging around the food. I could explain further but you really need to read a book or two to understand.[/quote]

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