Overweight kids

honeybeez · November 25, 2012, 7:59pm

Re: Overweight kids

Ladies, I need your help and suggestions. At 20 months and few weeks my son is a whopping 36 lbs. That’s a bit over weight for his age, umm okay a lot overweight. I need your suggestion as to how to control his weight gain/diet. My son loveeeeees food. He eats pretty much everything. I personally don’t think that he eats a lot of food, he drinks a lot of milk. He is still on formula because the regular milk doesn’t suit his tummy. I need advice from parents who went through this and had to at some point check their kid’s diet. What did you do to make sure your kid falls in a healthy weight chart? I know I need to cut down on his milk but other then that what else can I do. Ideally I would like him to lose at least 5 lbs by his second birthday, which is in March. Not sure if that’s doable.

I had the same problem with my older kid too. He was heavy ever since he was 8 months and it was so tough to carry him around. Could never move around without a stroller! The doc first advised us blood tests to ensure his thyroid levels were OK and they were fine by god’s grace. We shifted him from formula to cow milk, introduced finger foods like boiled carrots, cauliflowers, broccoli, with yoghurt dip. We also introduced him to some whole fruits around this time - slightly cooked guava without the seeds, apples without the skin, poached apricots, poached plums. His khichri was made with 2:1 proportion of moong daal and rice and we started using unsalted fresh butter instead of ghee. Another thing that helped me was we’d got a new puppy around that time and they used to play so much together. Earlier he was just sleeping as he did not have any company to play with but with the puppy around he turned into one active fella. He dropped abt 7 pounds in 4 months. And another feather in the cap was I lost some 7-8 pounds too along with him as I too started eating “healthy”

People did curse me for making the kid “diet” but then I decided to give a deaf ear. We as educated mothers, obviously know that golu-molu-ness isn’t healthy in the long run.