Dd has had a good appetite generally but always been fussy since childhood and would live off pizza and junk food everyday, with little fruit and veg given the chance. I’ve been pretty strict until now and managed to enforce a balanced diet whilst allowing 1-2 days a week of ‘junk meals’.
However with her sensitive age, I’m really worried about triggering an eating disorder...and don’t want to set of ‘control’ issues in her. I know there is a lot of chat in her age group about this sort of stuff, and preoccupation with body image etc. She has become more conscious of body image and weight etc recently.
Should I ease off now? And give in more to her demands of junk, in the hope she’ll come back to a healthier way of eating a few years down the line?
Or carry on as I have been ensuring structured meal times, making sure she is eating enough of the right sort of food?
I feel she should be encouraged to be a bit more independence now, but a few years ago when I eased off a bit and got her to make her own breakfasts and lunches she lost a lot of weight, so I’m always worried this will happen again, especially as she does a lot of sport and is naturally very slim