People commenting on my 6 YO DD weight?

This is true, yes. This is what I meant in my post rather than reducing overall carbs. Dd’s evening meals were things like spaghetti bolognese with plenty of veg (onions, garlic, courgette, carrot) or eggs and marmite toast. So I wasn’t reducing complex carbs. She had fruit or yoghurt for pudding.

You are. That’s hugely overweight. If people are commenting about it that says it all!

she weighs more than my 7 year old who’s a bit of a chunk.

whilst fruit is a great snack or ‘pudding’ some are very high sugar, esp the tropical ones like banana, mango etc. Best to stick to apples, pears and berries. Better still would be veggies such as carrot sticks, cucumber, celery, and peppers. I’d really try to up her veg intake and reduce the sugar.

@mumspiration1997 you've not mentioned what she's drinking?

I'm 34 years old and your 6 year old is nearly half my weight. It's not ideal imo.

The thing is a stone when you are talking about an adult being a stone overweight is very different to a 6 year-old child being a stone overweight. OPs daughter is in the obese category at a stone overweight. This wouldn't be the case with an adult.
An attitude like you don't GAF is awful. You should GAF it is literally your job as a parent to GAF about your child's health.
Also you imagine incorrectly about your final point. When you are dealing with small numbers the range isn't very large. A child being a stone overweight at that age and size is 25% heavier than they should be. That is a massive amount. If they continue as they are within 5 years they could easily be 50% heavier than tbey should be.

That’s not a meaningful comparison and your weight at 34yrs old is irrelevant. A female will reach their full adult height in their teens.

@mumspiration1997 I think cutting out treats until the weekend will be difficult and all children have things they see as treats more than that. It's changing what they view as the treats that is the key.

For instance, a croissant should be viewed as a treat breakfast or snack. Normal would be Weetabix or some other low-sugar cereal. You can make massive changes by reading the cereal ingredients/stats, they all look like they are relatively healthy but it's misleading. The image are two granolas from the same brand, both of which look health from the front of the package.

Desserts can also be natural greek yoghurt with some no added sugar jam (I use St. Dalfour) and maybe some cereal added for little crunch. At least this way she's getting the natural fruit sugars rather than a bunch of additives

Small adjustments like these will make a big difference to her intake, its so important to get good diet started early

You sound like you have a good attitude and you were open to receiving what others who loved you said about DD's weight.

DH was a very overweight child/ teen. Pretty much down to his mum. Maybe if someone had, had a quiet word with her it'd have helped.

This is a very bizarre comment! My son is 7 and at 5 stone is well over half of your weight! That has no relevance at all.
No idea how tall are you but he is 100% more than half your height unless you are over 9 ft tall. That is about as relevant as your comment!

@bleughgreen

100% agree McDonalds 1 times a week is far too much, even 1 times a month in my opinion. Its pretty much all completely ultra-processed food which is so bad for us all.

@mumspiration1997 have you looked at alternatives for a easy night like cook they deliver frozen meals that have all been freshly prepared etc and you can get a meal for 4 for around £20. They also do things like thai and Chinese style food. Maybe then you can save the McDonalds restaurant trips for a real treat?

Have you checked her on the bmi calculator? My just turned 4 year old is tall (110cm) and 3 stone and that puts him on 51st.

If you input your child’s height, weight and age into the nhs app, she comes up as overweight and almost in the obese category being 4stone and 115cm

Reception age so it would have been last year for OPs daughter!

Cut out the ham, the nuggets and the takeaways.

edited as posted too soon!

Now is a good age to introduce healthy food habits. My 6yo has covered healthy food choices recently in school and is always reminding me what’s healthy and what isn’t. He’s just under 3 stone.

I absolutely won't and im going to use the dentist as an excuse
Dont blame the dentist and use that as an excuse.
Just reduce your intake and if any questions are asked you can talk about health then. Don't blame someone else.

Your daughter sounds happy.
It's great that she has a good appetite.
The change I would make would be limiting take-aways to once per week and lollies to once a week.
The SOMETIMES FOOD should be limited to sometimes and the fresh, cook from scratch food is best to be indulged.
Fruit bowl, popcorn, wholemeal breads and low sugar/salt spreads available rather than chocolate bars.
Vegies with mince meat patties, tuna bake and sausages rather than chicken nuggets for most nights.
Water and milk rather than solf drinks and juice.
Lower sugar/salt breakfast cereals in the trolley rather than those saturated in sugar.
People have commented to you so take the time to be alerted to what she does seem to eat most weeks.

All kids eat treats and enjoy them sometimes.

Your 7 year old is also overweight.

You can say it’s not relevant but young children should not weight half that of a fully grown adult.

This!

He isn’t overweight at all. He is very tall and well within the healthy weight range. This post is meant to help educate so saying rubbish like this isn’t helping.

Talk to your GP if you are genuinely concerned, there are an awful lot of ‘superior’ mums here.

My 11 year old son is 5 stone.

Yes but how tall is he. Height is always relevant. Just throwing out numbers is helping anyone!

Good you are planning to take action already. An girl in DD's class was a little bit plump at that age and just steadily put on more and more weight through childhood. She is now an obese teenager. I don't think it i easy to shift weight if you have been carrying it all your life.