Little girl needlessly on restricted diet .

[bluebellwood]

The stupidity of this mother is quite astounding. There needs to be some intervention, surely? www.mirror.co.uk/life-style/real-life/2010/10/19/i-put-my-daughter-on-a-diet-at-2-so-she-wouldn-t-end-up-looking-like-me-115875-22644361/

Scary if true

Link not working, saw it briefly on the news though. Being underweight carries much higher immediate risk than being overweight IIRC

Sorry, can't do links. It's on the Daily Mirror website in the Life and Style section. Or Page 23 in the paper.

To be honest, my first thoughts after reading that article are:

1. Heavily restricting a child's diet while at the same time consuming 3000 calories a day is obviously not going to be the way to give that child a good attitude to eating. I can just see the poor girl binge-eating the moment she can .

1. If she wants her child to not be like her, then going on a strict diet and losing some weight back when her child was 2 sounds like a better plan than putting a perfectly normal 2-year old on an insanely strict diet.

Why is she still on 3000 calories a day?!?

1. Why has nobody intervened!?

I know myself that I am very overweight and I am desperate to try to prevent DS and DD from following the same path. But I do this by going on a healthy diet myself and feeding my children a diet that is healthy but not obsessive. I am doing the best I can.

To be honest, my first thoughts after reading that article are:

1. Heavily restricting a child's diet while at the same time consuming 3000 calories a day is obviously not going to be the way to give that child a good attitude to eating. I can just see the poor girl binge-eating the moment she can .

1. If she wants her child to not be like her, then going on a strict diet and losing some weight back when her child was 2 sounds like a better plan than putting a perfectly normal 2-year old on an insanely strict diet.

Why is she still on 3000 calories a day?!?

1. Why has nobody intervened!?

I know myself that I am very overweight and I am desperate to try to prevent DS and DD from following the same path. But I do this by going on a healthy diet myself and feeding my children a diet that is healthy but not obsessive. I am doing the best I can.

I understand that the mother doesn't want her child to experience the unhappiness that she herself has experienced as a result of being overweight. But what she is doing is abuse, pure and simple. This child will probably have lifelong issues with food as a result of her mother's stupidity.

It's really odd. I fail to see why she isn't addressing her own issues first.

I'm overweight. I am also desperate to prevent the same thing happening to my kids (though so far they seem to have inherited DH's skinny disposition) but IMO this is done by giving them a BALANCED attitude to food.

But most crucially having kids has given me more reason to be healthier and I am now losing weight. I'm actually doing slim fast but I'm being mindful of DD not seeing me starve.

OMG just found the article, that's far worse than I imagined. I can't believe it's true, surely she wouldn't get away with that?! :(

"With an eating disorder you can get through it with therapy."

Unless you're the one in five who DIES. Stupid bitch.

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surely thats abuse! someone should do something, where is the father or the grandparents

1000 fewer calories than the number recommended for her age? I think an e mail to Ipswich Social Services is called for.
(It did appear in Closer magazine first. Let's hope it's just a sensationalised story).

that is shocking.

I have a daughter (almost 12) and although she eats a balanced diet(just not much of it), she is tiny and it is a constant worry to me. I am a dress size 10 so not big and I used to be a size 6 / 8 before I had the children. I watch my dd very carefully with food as I would hate for her to develop an unhealthy relationship with food

I can't beleive that any parent would do this to their child. It is insane.

Clearly she has never met anyone with an eating disorder. And you can get therapy for overeating too. Silly woman.

I think she needs some help from somewhere. I hope for her daughters sake, as well as her own, this article draws her to the attention of someone who can help educate her and help her with her own food issues.

It's very sad. I feel sorry for the mum as much as the daughter. She must be incredibly unhappy with herself/her body to feel she has to subject her daughter to this.

I hope the mother reads Mumsnet. She needs a reality check. She is abusing her daughter and sometimes I do think there is a time for outside intervention. This is one of those times.

I read this in Closer magazine. And cried (damn pregnancy hormones).

I can not believe how stupid some people are! She is setting her daughter up for a lifetime of eating disorders from which her DD may never get away from. AFAIK, Anorexia doesn't go away with "just a bit of therapy". But you can diet and exercise to lose weight and keep it off.

She says she doesn't want her DD to end up like her, well there's a better solution imo: Lead by example, get some self control and stop scoffing 3000 calories a day, you selfish cow!

I tried to have sympathy for this mother but tbh she doesn't deserve any.