Re: food addiction (was caffeine)

[Guest guest]

Sad but true. Fortunately for me, my younger children's favorite

meal/snack/whatever is organic frozen vegetables. My son will eat an entire

package of pea or corn. Regrettably, I can't get him to eat meat (or other

protein sources) very often. Not a problem now, he's only 5 and barely 30

pounds, but still....

Lynette

That's because it is engrained in us from early on that food is

a " reward. " Eat your yucky peas, and we will go for ice cream. If

you don't behave, I will put back the box of oreos, etc.

[Guest guest]

Too true, Jill. I've done the same thing with MY son. I soothed him

as an infant with crackers in the restaurant if he was cranky. I

take away his desert if he's naughty. He gets gummy octopus when

he's good...it goes on and on. I'm having a problem right now in

that I don't know how to tell my MIL to stop buying my son candy.

She buys him tons of 'fruit snacks' that are chock full of sugar. My

son is a chubby dude, stocky. He's almost 6, about 4' tall and

weighs 70lbs. He doesn't need any help gaining weight.

Thanks,

Astra

> >

> > Just today, some guy's freezer broke and I walked into the aroma

of

> > cooked meats...steaks, chicken, pork in what had to be the

biggest

> > electric roaster I've ever seen. Today is also profit sharing

and

> > the dept purchased a large cake to celebrate...it killed me to

have

> > to pass that stuff up. There was even a piece of cake sitting on

> my

> > desk when I got back from a break. I gave it to a co-worker.

> >

> > It is so frustrating. I agree with a poster in another thread

who

> > said that a food addiction is the hardest one to break. So

true.

> > It's EVERYWHERE!!!

> >

> > Astra

> >

[Guest guest]

Get him onto a pee-wee football team! :-)

OK - all kidding aside - kids will often take better to things like

organized sports than restriciting their diets. There are so many

things out there, I'm guessing that your son would enjoy any number

of them: soccer, football, hockey, karate (good for discipline

too!), basketball, baseball (not much exercise, though), gymnastics,

and the list goes on..... It is a good way to get them exercise, off

the coush, and to meet & hang with other kids! Of cours,e if you

become the crazy and obsessed *soccer mom* then it starts to take the

fun out of it.

Jill

******does not own any rugrats, but can relate to being one!

My son is a chubby dude, stocky. He's almost 6, about 4' tall and

> weighs 70lbs. He doesn't need any help gaining weight.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Astra

>

[Guest guest]

I know girl, he is so active, though! We have him in T-ball this

year and soccer in the fall. My son has a visual genetic disorder

and upper body hypotonia. He has a very hard time with coordinated

tasks, like most sports. Nonetheless, we're going to let him try (he

always suprises us with how well he does)and take it from there. I

don't want to limit his diet, but I really want to limit the sugar a

bit. He eats TONS of candy, ice cream, snacks and such...tons. Not

to mention juice in mass amounts.

So, I think he needs to be limited as far as sweets go.

Thanks,

Astra

> My son is a chubby dude, stocky. He's almost 6, about 4' tall and

> > weighs 70lbs. He doesn't need any help gaining weight.

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > Astra

> >

[Guest guest]

I've always thought of addiction as a monster. If your monster is

alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, you can shut it away in the closet and

never look at it again. It's extremeley difficult, both physically

and psychologically, to do, I know, but you can, nevertheless, live

without your monster. If the monster rears its ugly head, you can

stuff it back in the closet again.

But you can't do that with food. You can't not eat again. You still

have to take your monster out of the closet a few times a day and

walk it. You have to deal with your monster on a daily basis. You

can't remove yourself from it. The best you can do is afford the

trigger foods, the foods that set the monster off.

As many of you have illustrated, the food/emotion connection starts

at an early age. I don't have any children, but I remember when I

was a child being told to be good or no dessert. I hate veggies to

this day because I was forced to eat them.

Dani

[Guest guest]

This is why every kid needs a dog. I had a big collie. She would

eat practically anything/everything. I am still traumatized about

the night my mother served liver -- I can still smell that stinky

stuff on my plate, and it still makes my stomach turn (30 years

later!). My dog liked to keep her head on my lap (or my sister's

lap) while we ate. So, it was pretty easy to sneak the stuff to

her........

Jill

You know it's weird but

> the only veggie I have a bad relationship with is the Pea. I

remember one

> specific instance of being told " You can't leave the table until

you eat your

> Peas. " and that has clouded my judgment about them forever. The

mind is a

> funny thing.

> Serenity

[Guest guest]

Lynette, that's so funny!! My kid will only eat MEAT! He'll eat

broccoli SOMETIMES, but we have to tell him he's a dinosaur and the

florets are little trees! Then he'll gobble them up. He will eat

applesauce (which I sneak a little serving of Udo's into) and

oranges. But that's pretty much it...oh, and potatoes...but I don't

even consider that a veggie.

These kids....

> Sad but true. Fortunately for me, my younger children's favorite

meal/snack/whatever is organic frozen vegetables. My son will eat an

entire package of pea or corn. Regrettably, I can't get him to eat

meat (or other protein sources) very often. Not a problem now, he's

only 5 and barely 30 pounds, but still....

>

> Lynette

>

>

>

> That's because it is engrained in us from early on that food is

> a " reward. " Eat your yucky peas, and we will go for ice cream.

If

> you don't behave, I will put back the box of oreos, etc.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

> Sad but true. Fortunately for me, my younger children's favorite

meal/snack/whatever is organic frozen vegetables. My son will eat an

entire package of pea or corn. Regrettably, I can't get him to eat

meat (or other protein sources) very often. Not a problem now, he's

only 5 and barely 30 pounds, but still....

>

> Lynette

>

>

>

> That's because it is engrained in us from early on that food is

> a " reward. " Eat your yucky peas, and we will go for ice cream.

If

> you don't behave, I will put back the box of oreos, etc.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Interesting!

Stacey

haftaski77 <no_reply > wrote: That's because it is engrained in

us from early on that food is

a " reward. " Eat your yucky peas, and we will go for ice cream. If

you don't behave, I will put back the box of oreos, etc.

Geez, we even train our dogs with food as a reward!

Jill

>

> Just today, some guy's freezer broke and I walked into the aroma of

> cooked meats...steaks, chicken, pork in what had to be the biggest

> electric roaster I've ever seen. Today is also profit sharing and

> the dept purchased a large cake to celebrate...it killed me to have

> to pass that stuff up. There was even a piece of cake sitting on

my

> desk when I got back from a break. I gave it to a co-worker.

>

> It is so frustrating. I agree with a poster in another thread who

> said that a food addiction is the hardest one to break. So true.

> It's EVERYWHERE!!!

>

> Astra

>

[Guest guest]

Lynette - try some frozen soybeans (just the bean part not the pod). I boil

these up with a *lot* of salt and my kids love to eat them for a snack and they

have a good amount of protein. My kids are like yours - hard to get protein in.

Park

Re: food addiction (was caffeine)

Sad but true. Fortunately for me, my younger children's favorite

meal/snack/whatever is organic frozen vegetables. My son will eat an entire

package of pea or corn. Regrettably, I can't get him to eat meat (or other

protein sources) very often. Not a problem now, he's only 5 and barely 30

pounds, but still....

Lynette

That's because it is engrained in us from early on that food is

a " reward. " Eat your yucky peas, and we will go for ice cream. If

you don't behave, I will put back the box of oreos, etc.