People commenting on my 6 YO DD weight?

You have made a positive start, that's great! I know someone said I was harsh with you but you are jren to make changes.
My suggestions would be:

How about making your own bread at weekends. There are really quick breads with minimal ingredients. You could do it as an activity with Dd.

As others have said, look at doing food shops for healthy options. It can take a while to get in to the swing of things but it will soon become a good habit.

Buy some nice cookbooks and choose some meals together. Admittedly I didn't have a great deal of success with this. My lads weren't interested! However it worked well for my friend.

When mine were little I never had snacks such as crisps, cereal, chocolate, ice cream, biscuits in the house. Of course we did have these things occasionally, they werent forbidden, but we had to make a conscious effort to get them. They were a treat rather than an everyday expectation. If we were at the beach or a country park, of course the kids could have an ice cream but there wasn't tubs in freezer.

Op you are starting at a different point than I did. That was my normal living before I had children. With you it's a case of making a fresh life style choice sticking with it until it becomes second nature. I swear it will happen if you are consistent.
Another thing is that we were ( still are) an active family. I know not everyone wants to get out every weekend but we thrived on it and spent time hiking and mountain biking in Scotland since the kids were about seven. Now they are older this early behaviour has stayed with them and they hang round with like minded friends. Make time to do fun active activities together.
I hope it goes well for you both!

Vast improvement! Well done!

I think it's more accurate to base it on weight and height together, the nhs has a bmi calculator for children. She not that tall so is on the overweight/obese end.

Because Ive had to be defensive ! With my older dc it was just how they were but I’ve had a lot of hassle with my youngest so I thought I’d post about our experience that’s all.

to add - not defensive due to MN but our experience with HV mostly

Given how you keep describing your family as uniquely unsuited to NHS health measurements and how sure you are of that you’re posting a huge amount explaining it all. It sounds a bit defensive.

Oh I know I mean we as a family disregard the bmi calculator till after that age as my dc come out as overweight but they all grow tall and slim down quickly around age 5/6 and stay slim . The HV didn’t even believe my food diary at one point !

Sorry jus reread your post. I now realise you meant just people in your family are overweight until 5. I apologise

That's not true at all, my son in reception was checked and I had a letter saying he is a healthy weight. So no not all under 5s are classed as overweight!

@mumspiration1997 the depending on whether she is closer to 6 or 7, she is somewhere around 75th centile on weight for her age according to the RCPCH charts: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Girls_2-18_years_growth_chart.pdf

She's not officially overweight but the bar for overweight does seem to be quite high

I'd cut out the McDonalds. For the whole family - it's not a great example for the children.

In the photo I notice she is holding what looks like a sugary drink. Makes me think there are many more of those. They are not going to help her.

Cut them out and replace with water. At meals water, milk or fresh juice. The dentist may well have warned her so build on that immediately. Presumably at school she has water so this shouldn't be too hard. Make sure your relatives understand why that is happening to and support the action as they presumably offer her drinks when you see them - "for her teeth"

A child sat on the 67th centile is on the wrong side of 50. You don’t want to be on the heavier side

You're proving pretty spectacularly that you don't understand how centiles work @Otherstories2002.

The phrase 'wrong side of 50' is nonsensical. Children are not one homogeneous group and not every child can or should be under the 50th centile. Even within the exact same height, there will be a range of healthy weights to account for the individual. Build, muscle mass, whether they've just had a growth spurt. For girls after puberty there needs to be a wide margin of normal weights just to account for differences in breast size, hip size etc.

Do you realise that if every child on the 'wrong side of 50' lost weight to get them down to just below what 50 is now...then your hypothetical average child on the 50th centile for weight would suddenly be on the 100th centile?

That’s an awful lot of food. Breakfast cereals are full of sugar. Well done on recognising this and trying to change it

I do think she looks overweight OP. It’s a tell tale sign when the thighs meet until the knee then the legs splay outwards from there (like hers are doing). And also the stomach being visible through the clothes. Good luck with the health kick - looks like you can reverse this pretty quickly.

OP, she does look a little bit overweight in the pic (being honest) and it sounds like you are taking all the comments onboard. Just one other thing, does she drink plenty? Kids always presume they’re hungry when actually they could just be thirsty. Make sure she drinks lots of water/no sugar squash (if she wont drink water) throughout the day.

I do think the snacking culture has to change in this country - we have become a culture that can’t do anything or go anywhere without ‘grazing’. People need a snack for the train, the car journey, waiting in a queue, sitting at their desk! I love the feeling of actually being hungry for my meals so tend to not snack. We always grew up on breakfast, lunch and dinner, never missed any of those meals and the occasional biscuit as a snack (no problem at all as we burnt off the energy). It sounds like if you cut down a few of the extra snacks and make sure she does plenty of activity, there wont be any problem at all.

Also, I would argue that an active child with an excellent, varied diet on the 64th percentile is far far healthier than a child on the 10th* who doesn't exercise and has a very limited palate.

*Am obviously in no way suggesting that every child on the 10th percentile is that way because they don't eat 😆

That's why I edited and deleted my comment, because I'd put in the wrong figure into the calculator. Unfortunately MN does not allow you to delete a post.

But you chose to try and score a point anyway, even though I'd retracted my incorrect comment. 👏

Well done you. What a fun life you must have.

You know that even after you edit we can still see the original post? Dont know where you are getting your calculations but a 5 year old at 116 cm weighing 3 stone 11 lbs is most certainly overweight at the 90th centile on the NHS
Nowhere near 17th

@mumspiration1997 she does look a little overweight.

I have a 6 yo who looks like skin and bone to me (can see all ribs, spine, knobbly little knees, no fat anywhere) but he is 75th centile weight and height so perfectly in proportion. We’ve forgotten what “normal” kids should look like.

It’s great that you have noticed and are taking action.

PPs have made lots of good points about her diet - for me the thing that stood out is that she is eating loads of UPFs. If you can replace these with real foods (read up on the science) she will feel fuller and it will be so much healthier for her, and for all of you.

(And what's extra scary is that the number of children who are overweight DOUBLES between Reception and Y6. What are we doing to our children??)

So, using your logic, the 'healthy' bmi scale for adults is between 18 and 25. Under 18 is underweight and over 25 overweight (same as second percentile and 90th for children).

Admittedly the adult range is not percentiles, but the median of that is 21.5. So all adults with a BMI above 21.5 are on the wrong side? Hope you don't have one greater than that!

@Investinmyself those stats are indeed horrifying. 40% of year 6s overweight! I have a year 5 and a year 7 - the year 7 gets regular growth checks but as he's on ADHD meds they are never problematic - the year 5 is a skinny minny and as I've said pretty good at stopping when she's full - just need to watch her sugar intake. She is however from an ethnic group which has a high genetic risk of overweight.

When I was 16 I was slightly overweight in the 91st centile. "Come back a decade later" - I was BMI 19 as a 26 year old.

My dc are always on the 99th and then drop right down currently the older 2 at age 11 and age 13 are on the 12th and the 17th . Youngest still on 99th

And do you understand that the mid point - 50 - is just that. As children get heavier that mid point relates to heavier children. Children today are overweight. Our idea of what’s healthy is utterly warped.

No, there are a range of weights which are healthy between the 7th centile and the 90th.

It's a bit like arguing with a government minister who thinks that all children should be above average academically.

My 15 year old is 5'10 and ten stone, so she is exactly on the 50th centile for weight. I'm not about to tell her to lose half a stone just so she can be in the bottom half. She could be a stone heavier or a stone lighter and still a healthy weight.