Anyone else's child overweight?

[mollyfolk]

My 3 year old is overweight. She has a healthy diet - just loves her food. I have gone from being very restrictive with how much she could eat at meal times to being more relaxed because she was becoming food obsessed. Anyone else's dealing with this?

I have child with compulsive over eating issues and am getting a referral atm in the process of.

Who are you getting a referral to? We were referred from G.P to a dietitian who said that her diet was fine and we were to follow the portion sizes. However this upset my DD at times as I was halfing slices of bread etc... this has seemed to make her even more obcessed. I now tell her that she can eat what she wants at meal times (nothing outside of this) which has relaxed things a bit.

I have another child inthe family with ASD so i wanted to rule it out re:obsessive behaviours etc last time it went to the local hospital unit.

Me - 6 year old obsessed with food or constantly hungry. Trying to keep her occupied with things she really needs to concentrate on like jigsaws and lego and lots of playing in the garden.
Minimise treats, smaller portions etc and teach her about healthy eating but it's hard.
Dd2 is perfectly average - only ever asks for food when hungry, stops when she's had enough etc and I've done nothing different so definitely nature.
We had class picnic and everytime I was wondering where dd was the answer was by the food table!

How over weight is she? Ours (2 and 3) both love their food and are on the heavy side of ok. They are at nursery full time so we are limited in what we can do about their diet. But things like offering fruit and veg for snacks and first at dinner, no eating in front of the tv, no special 'kids' type meals, limited semi skimmed milk etc help I think.

I dont know why theres a grin in my post

She 1lb overweight but this puts her right at the top of their bmi tool. We've been working on it for over a year and a half. She doesn't eat kids food or drink too Much milk, or eat outside of set times - like I said the dietitian said her food was good. She over-eats when ever she gets the chance. Parties with buffets are the worst!

My DD1(5) is overweight. She is 97th percentile for height and weight, and when I typed it in the nhs website it puts her into the obese category
She doesn't look overly big to me though. She takes age 7 clothes because she is the height of the average 7-8 year old.
I have started to limit treats more. She takes a packed lunch to school everyday and we only ever put a sandwich thin in, portion of fruit, yogurt, and some small sweet treat. She eats porridge for breakfast, and dinner is also home cooked such as spaghetti Bol or chilli, but she always wants seconds so we've been satin no. She also does tai kwon do, swimming and plenty park visits etc so hopefully it starts to come down. It has me really worried though.
DD2 is pretty thin though.

Peas the yogurt is the sweet treat....it's hard I know but fewer processed foods will help.