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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She cannot be hungry or her diet will fail.

She needs to eat a lot of low calorie foods to fill her stomach. Think veggies and green juice.   After she has had her veggies and healthy filling food, then she gets to eat a small portion of the hearty and healthy home cooked meal.  Something like a savory stew or chilli.

[b]1) No junk food.  Zero. 
2) No processed food. 
3) No added sugar and no artificial sweetener. [/b]

Start lunch and dinner with a huge bowl of salad which has lots of veggies, beans, protein.  Eat a side of steamed veggies (at least 2 cups).  Then have your a small amount of your regular home cooked meal.

Breakfast -  Big bowl of old faishoned plain oatmeal with berries, fruits, nuts, flaxseed powder, hemp hearts.  Still hungry? Add an egg, a banana/apple with a tsp of peanut butter.

Make her drink a lot of green tea or lemon water. Sometimes thirst is misinterpreted as hunger.

Parents need to get their act together and make sure that tasty, healthy food is available for the kid at all time.   I am feeling really bad for this child.

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This sounds good but isn't reasonable or sustainable.  Going cold turkey is just going to make a kid sneak food.  I know kids whose parents don't allow sugar and guess what they do when they are at other kids houses? Binge.
For our kiddo, it is all about portion size.  I have always heard that half of your dinner plate should be fruits or veggies.  (no one ever got fat eating apples).   Limit portion sizes of treats or processed foods.  Offer up 1 slice of pizza, not 3.  Only buy/make enough for the portions that you will use.  If it isn't available, they can't go back for seconds.

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