Crap. Dd is "extremely overweight"

[Allisgood1]

Off the back of another thread I weighed and measured dd (3.0) today. She's 89cm and 15kg. According to the NHS calculator she's in the red, "extremely overweight".

Now I know you have to look at diet and portion sizes, but dd is currently doing that thing that three year olds do and not eating.

For example:
Today:
Breakfast: 1/2 scrambled egg
Snack: breadsticks and apple (water) at nursery
Lunch: 1/2 peanut butter sandwich and organix carrot stix
Dinner: 1 homemade chicken tender and 3 pieces of red pepper.

She did have a treat of two celebrations today.

This was a typical day. She doesn't get treats everyday. She drinks 1/4 fruit juice (not squash) to 3/4 water. She usually doesn't eat dinner because she refuses and has maybe 1/2 apple. She doesn't eat "normal" crisps. Snack at home is usually a naked bar.

What do I do? The child barely eats, although this is a rather new development. Do I go to GP or wait and see if she evens out? How do I cut anything "bad" out of her diet when she's currently being so bloody picky??

That makes a lot more sense!

:)

How's the height weight ratio now?

Ime most kids go out before they go up. There's rarely cause to worry with very small children unless you can see there's an obvious problem, the main concern is parental blindness to it.

Oh and her eating/diet is fine really. If she was at home I'd swap the breadsticks for something else, but it's not worth a fuss over. Keep putting something else on her plate that she's previously refused, she'll start retrying things if you don't make a fuss about it. Also, no comment re eating more, or whatever and no praise for any of it either or you just set yourself up for it becoming a control thing. Ask if she has finished or wants anything else and that's it.

According to this link she's perfectly fine.

Why do breadsticks count as processed food whereas oatcakes don't?

I can see that oatcakes are potentially marginally healthier but it's pretty marginal in the context of a child who has a healthy diet and whose basic problem is not really eating anything much at all.

There is a tendency to overanalyse on all these threads and mums who are doing a decent job suddenly get told that they are doing it all wrong because they've bought the odd product rather than cook every single thing from scratch. There's plenty of fresh stuff on the menu so there really isn't any need to get paranoid about "processed food". I don't know what organix carrot sticks are but they don't sound like a stuffed crust pepperoni pizza. And the woman is making her own chicken tenders (is that like a nugget?). I think she's doing fine.

I was also impressed by the homemade chicken tenders :) how do you make them?

Ellli, so simple: crush cornflakes, did chicken in egg then in cornflakes. Fry in coconut oil. Goes down a treat and takes about 15min beginning to end

*dip not did

Yeah, I really can't see what's wrong with breadsticks. They are just dried-out bread dough, not much extra fat in them and probably fewer additives than many kinds of bread because they're dehydrated so naturally less likely to go mouldy. NHS website suggests that "After age two you can gradually introduce more wholegrain foods" -- which suggests that it's still ok for toddlers to eat some non-wholegrain breads etc.

She only has breadsticks at nursery. I don't see the issue.

When DD was 3 she was 'overweight' and this continued until she was 8 and (what felt like) overnight she just shot up and slimmed out, now there's nothing to her and she still eats like there's a food shortage on the horizon! For the first year she fits in last years winter clothes. Her build was always tall but stocky, broad shouldered and carried the weight well- she didn't look massively overweight. I spent so much time worrying over it.
If your daughter is eating well, is healthy and gets plenty of excercise then I would just get on with enjoying her childhood

your measuring sucks op. At least you do know how to feed children though!