Sun, Jun-15-03, 12:45
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Finding the Pieces
Posts: 17,050
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Plan: Mishmash
Stats: 365/308.0/185
BF:
Progress: 32%
Location: Maryland, US
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I agree with Jeannie F. If the problem is carb addiction, and it surely sounds like it, especially with your 5 year old, Weight Watchers with its carb based program won't help. It might just seem more fashionable and easier to your daughter because she can still have carbs. The problem with still having carbs on any program but CAD/CALP is that you don't get to the underlying problem and the addiction can escalate piling on additional weight. Further she can start yoyoing, damage her metabolism and wind up ever heavier.
I'm sure that you've read of many on the board who started out 30 pounds overweight and over the years ballooned to 100+ overweight. Don't allow your daughter to start down that road, please. You are still the parent. If your afraid your daughter will sneak carbs outside, make lunch RM for everyone and just serve CM for dinner. That way she can eat "normal" with her friends.
Your son and daughter are still growing and need more calories and are hopefully more active than adults. Their bodies can probably tolerate some carbs more than once a day or higher carb but still lc snacks such as nuts, sunflower seeds. If you serve a filling CM breakfast and dinner, your daughter probably will find she's not as hungry for junk food. Also be sure to have some protein options available for her to carry with her as lc snacks, beef jerky, smoked sausage, pepperoni, cheese sticks, nuts, sunflower seeds, etc.
Also, do share information and have her read the Carbohydrate Addicted Kids book and print out articles for her to read about the dangers of a high carb diet and the world-wide obesity epidemic resulting from the spread throughout the world of fast food purveyors and the subplanting of native diets with refined foods. It's always been telling to me that the government sponsored "healthy" diet has the same carb/protein/fat ratio as hog feed lot feed. Feed lots are where hogs are sent before slaughter to fatten them up.
Good Luck!!!
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