Not sure if anyone has any advice for this quite specific problem but I’d appreciate some if you do.
Ds1 (7 and 97th centile, wears 10-11 age clothes height 141cm) has a very self restricted diet. He has been very active and skinny up to lockdown but now has become obviously overweight since and refuses to do very much activity without his routine of school.
Every day currently he eats 2 bacon sandwiches for breakfast, a panini with turkey salami, a pepperami and a pack of hula hoops for lunch and a homemade pizza with turkey salami and an ice cream cone/mini magnum for dinner, and a small cup of hot chocolate (1/4 of a mug with a level tsp chocolate powder) and 4 digestives before bed. Other than the hot chocolate he only drinks water. Plus he has a multivitamin as recommended by the paediatric dietician we saw about 2 years ago.
He has this every single day since lockdown (before he would have the same but skip breakfast). He often says he’s still hungry and I have to say he cannot have any more food. He used to have a McDonald’s once a week when he was skinny and they were open but obviously not since lockdown.
I would logically up the healthy stuff and reduce the higher calorie/less healthy stuff, but with his restrictions I can’t see how I can other than just reducing amounts/portion sizes, which is going to be miserable for him and leave him hungry and asking why we are starving him.
We have bought him a new bike this week and for the past 5 days he’s been for a bike ride every day. But it’s nothing compared to the level of activity he had pre lockdown.
He absolutely won’t eat anything not on his approved list which is generally bread and processed meat or ice cream and dry biscuits.