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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,  do you spend a lot of time talking about "bad" foods? Do you restrict food consumption in your home? Do you count calories out loud, and verbally track what people have eaten today? Do you tell other adults in front of your DD to make sure she doesn't eat too much, please don't give her anything?

If so, your DD has a food issue, and it's not weight. It is around the attitude she sees in her home around food in general. You are making food consumption a battleground. Kids react to that by hoarding it, and hiding it.

I remember hosting one girl that age for a play date once, and she snuck an entire box of crackers upstairs as well as other food items and ate them all, then stuffed the boxes under my kid's bed. Her mother had told me in front of her "please do not give her anything to eat if she asks for it, she needs to eat less".

Making food a battleground is a bad road to go down, OP. Enroll your kid in a sport instead, and never say anything about her weight or food.[/quote]

We don’t track calories, tell other adults to watch or restrict what she eats, or discuss what she has eaten (unless she has been at a friend’s house and asks for a treat, in which case we ask if she had one at the friends’ house).

What we do do is tell her she should eat at least two servings of fruit and vegetables per day but she can pick what and when. She eats very fast (literally shovels food in until her mouth is stuffed) so we remind her to chew each bite before taking another and to put her fork down between bites. When she asks for more food we ask if she is sure she is still hungry. I am sure those last two are annoying but I think part of the overeating is because she eats so fast her stomach doesn’t register being full. She often finishes her meal before DH and I even sit down at the table.[/quote]

Oh brother…. “Literally shovels food into her mouth”…. We get it OP, you think your daughter is gross. So, either she is eating that much bc she is actually hungry and requires that much food (very possible!!), or she’s stuffing herself at meals bc she knows she’s not allowed to eat any snacks except fruits and vegetables![/quote]

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