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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tell my children not to eat past full. We regularly throw food away, like if they take two bites of pancake and are no longer hungry, it goes in the trash. Most overweight adults have a very hard time throwing away food, especially if it’s perfectly good and you only took one bite. I never ask what our children ate at school, I ask who they ate with. We basically ignore food outside of meals. Food-focused parents create food-focused children, and this is true of both hyper-nutrition-focused moms and severely food addicted moms. [/quote]

I agree that eating more than you want is a bad idea, but so is food waste. Why not pop unfinished food into a Tupperware and stick in the fridge or freezer for later? I enjoy making meals out of random leftovers--sort of like being at a cocktail party and having a bit of this and that. [/quote]
Because it trains them: there is a freedom that you get when you are able to take one bite of a delicious cookie and throw the rest in the trash (the only place it can serve the greater ecosystem). That freedom is what makes people permanently thin and diminishes their focus on food.[/quote]
I'm thin and I eat the whole damn cookie...or three of them. I credit good genes and daily exercise.[/quote]

That was me until I was about 47.  Now I’m at the top end of the normal BMI range but I still eat the cookies.  There’s so little in life for middle aged surbaban moms, I’m going to eat all the damn cookies.
But I’m still an almond mom, in that I bought a huge bag of Korean bbq almonds at Costco and have been trying to get them to eat it for snacks for protein.  No luck yet, but today for lunch I had a salad, a boy bowl of bbq almonds, a bag of dried fruit and a half a bag of caramel corn.  So almond mom?[/quote]

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