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My nearly 8 year old has become very podgy 😬

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justanotherneighinparadise · 22/10/2020 17:07

I’m not sure what I can do 🤔

He doesn’t like sport so he’s not a child that naturally runs around, although he does do PE at school. His food isn’t too bad. I’ll give an example;

One poached egg on a piece of toast for breakfast.
Lunch is half a beef sandwich. Small yogurt. Grapes. Mini pepperami .
Snacks; small bag of organic gingerbread biscuits (they’re aimed at babies and sweetened with grape juice)
Small amount of grapes with a chopped up babybel
Dinner ; chicken curry with rice and a mini naan. Pudding is an ice lolly or a corner yogurt.

Drinks are milk and water.

What do we think? If it’s too much what would you do instead? He would happily skip breakfast but darent incase the school thinks it’s neglect or something 🤦🏻‍♀️ Portion sizes are pretty small but I could cut down the portion size for dinner.

He’s always tracked the 91st centile got height and weight but I’m pretty sure he’ll be over that for weight now. In fact I could do a child’s BMI to get an idea.

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justanotherneighinparadise · 23/10/2020 09:15

He hardly has an appetite at all weirdly, he rarely asks for food so I suspect it’s portion size and being sedentary. Like I said he’d happily forego breakfast entirely and at the weekend is happy to have lunch as his first meal. So I’m not hugely concerned about how he’ll be as a teenager/ adult. If he’s anything like he’s dad he’ll be a string bean. I am concerned right now though as it’s difficult to find trousers that fit abs I think he just feel uncomfortable primarily.

For the PP that said about veggies. He loves vegetables so that’s not too much of an issue. He has lots of veggies with dinner and my plan is to make raw carrot, cucumber etc his snack at school.

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InvincibleInvisibility · 23/10/2020 10:03

I think you need to get him moving for his health.

I had a friend who was a really skinny teenager and could eat what he liked but had absolutely no muscles or stamina. Which isnt healthy either.

justanotherneighinparadise · 23/10/2020 10:05

@InvincibleInvisibility

I think you need to get him moving for his health.

I had a friend who was a really skinny teenager and could eat what he liked but had absolutely no muscles or stamina. Which isnt healthy either.

I completely agree. I’d absolutely love it if he enjoyed sport. I adore exercise so I’d be the first one to get him anywhere he wanted to go. Unfortunately he has zero interest 😔
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ColonSemiColon · 23/10/2020 10:15

Would be like something like dance? My DS isn’t into team sports like football but enjoys things like street dance.

justanotherneighinparadise · 23/10/2020 10:17

Oh god I doubt it 😱

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OrlandointheWilderness · 23/10/2020 10:26

Tbh I wouldn't worry too much - he's tracking fine on the centile thing and may just be getting ready to go up. His diet sounds fine.

Insertfunnyname · 23/10/2020 18:04

Why the horror about dance?

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