I’d cut out anything that has sugar in it, or anything that’s quickly converted to glucose in the body. Is your dd prediabetic. She sounds like she has poor insulin control. Have you had her blood sugars tested. Ask for a fasting and glucose tolerance test.
AND it sounds to me like your DDis addicted to sugar highs.
She’s behaving like an addict, and sugar, like other refined white powder, such as cocaine is addictive.
Leave out anything that is converted to glucose out of their diets for at least six weeks. Then reintroduce wholeran cereals and more whole vegetables.
Up their proten intake, so have meat stews with root vegetables, and for goodness sake no fruit!
Fruit is instantly converted to glucose. I’d only introduce cold weather berries, and tree fruit such as pear and apple, after six weeks.
Up their vegetable intake to seven a day, and up their fat intake to 50 grams at least.
Whole milk, cheese, butter, coconut oil are your friends when going cold turkey on sugar.
No juices
No squash
No fruit
No sugary drinks
No sweetners
They can have a few wholemeal carbs like oat bran only
No refined white products at all, no flour, no sugar.
Increase class 1 protein, eggs, fish, meat, full fat dairy, like Greek unsweetened yoghurt. They should have three helpings of protein a day. Give them adult portions of steak, don’t scrimp.
Have no carbs like lentils and white rice, couscous, breads, cakes, scones, pita, wheat based pasta, breakfast cereals for the first six weeks.
Serve their meat with heaps of steamed vegetables like broccoli, green beans cabbage spinach, salads, courgette, carrots sweet potato, and with oils, fats, nuts, olives. NO starchy veg like white rice, pasta or potatoes. Aim to fill in the corners with fats.
Increase good fats, olive oil, coconut oil, and let your kids snack on steamed veg, olives, slices of full fat cheese and berries only.
You are feeding their addictions at the moment, and making them much more likely to do badly in school, have ADD, and develop addiction behaviors. You have to think of sugar is a gateway drug.
Stealing a fix, in this case, can of coke to drink, is the typical behavior of an addict.
She’s doing something harmful without being able to stop and hiding it out of shame and fear of being found out. It’s interfering in her relationship with you and her own health and self esteem.
Cut the sugar and flour out and you’ll see
First.. a reaction to the new rules and
Second when they’ve gone cold turkey, much better heath and behavior.
Be prepared for Armageddon for the first week, but hold fast. It’s better for their heath to have no addictive white refined substances.