I've been working over the last year to change my familys habits. We walk to school. We walk home from school. My son runs a mile every morning on the TM. He is in sports and the running club.
For our diet, we eat a lot of fruits and veggies now. I cook breakfast every morning or we eat oatmeal. Fish has been added and my son will at least eat tilapia. I too have taken bread away from most meals and will, sometimes, have 2 veggies, a fruit and a meat for dinner with no starch. I took away all my sons snacks. He now is hungry at his meals and will eat the veggies. I only allow him 1 glass of skim milk a day (he eats yogurt and cottage cheese and cheese, so he gets plenty of calcium).
My 10 year old has lost 15 lbs and gone from overweight to within a very healthy range. He is actually a size smaller than he was last year and is so much happier.
That is a huge accomplishment that you got your DS down to a healthy weight! He will thank you for it later in life! Way to go Mom!
Glad someone is trying to revive this thread. It is such an important thing!
DS and I were trying to feed him an "allergen free" diet for the past two weeks. It has been a tremendous struggle. He is SO picky and would rather go hungry than eat something he doesn't like... even if it is one of the few non-allergy foods he can have! He has pretty much survived the last two weeks on pb&j on whole wheat, rice milk/tofu smoothies, bacon, soy crackers, and a few assorted handfuls of rice chex and raisins. Sad but true. And after all that I am not even sure that eliminating the allergens has had any positive effect.
DD has been packing her lunches (with my help) for school over the past few weeks instead of buying lunch. I'm SURE that the turkey and spinach on whole wheat is a WHOLE lot healthier than anything she could be buying! And she is okay with spinach instead of lettuce on her sandwich (maybe she doesn't realize it is spinach? I'm not gonna tell her!!).
Today's breakfast was nice and healthy for all. Fat free organic vanilla yogurt and fruit parfaits for the adults, fruit/yogurt smoothie for DD, and rice milk and tofu smoothie for DS. Not sure lunch will be quite so healthy, as there is a bit of leftover pizza in the house. I'm SURE that DH will be looking for that! I will try to steer the kids elsewhere for lunch though.
Dinner tonight (for DH, DD, and myself) will be something made with the all-natural chicken sausage I have defrosting. Probably some sort of pasta and veggie dish. Not sure what DS will have, as he is allergic to the chicken sausage.
Maybe I'll set aside a portion of the pasta and veggies before I add the sausage. Then I'll put cheese with it and give that to DS. Sounds like a plan!................P
Wanted to add... I made the veggie/pasta/chicken sausage dish for lunch and DD and DH loved it. DS did eat his portion (without the sausage, but with bacon and mozzarella), but only tolerated it. It was really good and healthy, but next time I will make it with whole wheat pasta. Trying to use up the last of the white pasta I have in the house. For veggies I used fresh green beans, red bell pepper, onion, and mushroom. No sauce, but mozzarella on the table to be used as desired.
I know this will help him and me to be healthier in the long run--since he tends to bring home lots of junk food when he does the shopping 
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