Long post - apologies - didn't want to drip feed but would love opinions please..
My lovely, happy and very active DS2 is always hungry. He has a very sunny disposition, loves sport (in term time does football, swimming, gymnastics and trampolining), in the holidays I make sure we do something everyday even if it's just the park. He has always liked his food (unlike DS1age 12 who needs to be reminded to eat). I am up to speed on nutritional balance (used to be a PT, no expert but I'm not clueless I hope!), I make sure they get 5 a day, limit sweet treats and crisps etc.
However, more than ever DS2 is saying 'I'm hungry' - all day from the second he wakes up. Today he ate 2x bowls of cereal, toast & fruit salad with a glass of juice for breakfast and was 'hungry' again in 5 minutes, I asked ask him to wait 30 mins at which point I will make him a banana milkshake, some hummus and pitta, he'll was immediately hungry again and I gave him some quorn eggs, then for lunch (bang on 12 - he counts the minutes down) today I gave him a ham sandwich (brown dense bread) with cut up toms/carrots/cucumber, he begs for another sandwich (if I say no he will cry because he is 'so hungry') has the second, he then had 4x petit filous and within 5 minutes was upset again because he was hungry. Being hungry is the only thing he gets upset about and having spoken to him about it he says he always feels hungry, before during and after eating.
If I make a dinner for all of us (roast chicken and all the trimmings, loads of veg, yesterday for example) I try and give him a smaller portion but he will eat as much as his Dad (healthy stuff mainly - loves greens etc), then ask for pudding (a big bowl of greek yoghurt with a bit of honey and loads of grapes), then say he is hungry again. I am genuinely concerned there is something wrong with him.
He drinks plenty of water and is active and energetic, not bored (will beg for food all day even when we're out all day doing kids activities). He is chunky and over the holidays, a month in even chunkier - he says he is also hungry at school all day but understands they can't give him food all day in lessons - he comes out of school and is ravenous though - will eat a meals worth of food after school (I'm sooo hungry') then have a full dinner after the after school activities.
I do realise I have a choice not to give in to him, if I actually gave in to every request he would be a little barrel - but I don't want to end up in a constant battle about food (although it feels like it right now), or make him feel weird about food. One of his oldest friends (very skinny) says 'why are you so fat?' to him which makes me fume! I do try and make healthy choices on the whole (but also not make stuff forbidden and therefore more interesting) but it is really doing my head in! What do you reckon?
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6 year old always hungry - can't stop eating, any ideas?
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whattheactualflump · 15/08/2016 16:03
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