Late check in, again.  Busy busy busy lately.  I am finally home, still working, but all the meetings are behind me and I think the rest of the day will be quiet.

Kids checkup was this morning, everyone is healthy.  I mentioned DD’s weight to the ped again, but she seems unconcerned.  She is the exact opposite of the last ped I had (who was doing bone scans and suggest growth stunting medication for DD, insane) and is very relaxed with the attitude that she will just always be a little bit bigger girl.  Well, that very well may be, but it isn’t exactly the answer I want from the doctor.  What she doesn’t get - which I always explain - is that in general, (okay yeah despite my crazy dinner yesterday), my kids are healthy eaters.  They eat salmon and they like vegetables.  I watch portions.  In my house, everything is lightened or reduced fat.  Ice cream is only served in 1/2 cup servings.  And yes, there are doritos - and if I give them some, they get one serving.  But then for dessert, they would have fruit because they had doritos earlier, etc.  So I think I am really on top of those things, and THAT is not the problem.  The problem is somehow, at her young age, DD loves food, and eats whether she is hungry or not.  My boys will turn down a pc of chocolate or a cookie if they aren’t hungry.  MBFF almost died laughing when DS6 turned down ice cream from the ice cream truck because he had ice cream the night before.  (He actually said that to her! lol)  My DD though … she could have just eaten a huge dinner, had dessert, and would ask for DS’s leftovers.  Last night, we baked cupcakes together.  (healthy cupcakes, without oil! and with fresh cherries)  DD ate hers, and DS6 didn’t like it because he didnt like the cherry filling.  DD asked for his, and I told her no.  Then DS picked out a peach instead for dessert because he didn’t eat his cupcake.  I literally stood there in anticipation, and sure enough it happened - he left the kitchen, and I hear DD’s footsteps running to the kitchen to ask for a peach. 

She isn’t hungry!! So this is nothing about “cutting out the starches” in her meals.  Do you understand?  Because I don’t think the doctor gets what I am saying.  It has nothing to do with replacing whole milk with 2% … she already drinks skim or 1%.  Her cheese is lowfat.  She eats 3 healthy meals and two snacks per day.  If she picks a cookie for snack, her snack is two reduced fat oreos.  I limit her fruit juice.  She drinks water.  She goes hiking and walking with me.  She has her own workout videos that we sometimes do together, and sometimes she likes to do them herself, for fun!  She generally is an active little girl!  But, she LOVES FOOD.  She can’t, or just doesn’t, distinguish between when she is actually hungry to when she is bored, etc.  I’m not looking for advice on how to put a kid on a diet, that isn’t the answer.  I am looking to understand why/how she has already developed this relationship with food, and how I can fix it. 

Although I suppose if I knew that, I could fix my own. 

Hip is a little better today.  There is a yoga/pilates class tonight … I am contemplating going.  I don’t know if they hips track would be too much strain on it, or if the stretching might actually be a good thing.

Food … breakfast was … forgot.  Oh, lenders bagel with smear of brummel&brown, coffee.  Didn’t get to eat my snacks.  Ham on 100 cal flatbread for lunch.  Dinner is tilapia and zucchini risotto, yum!

Okay, back to work.

PS - FINALLY!  I have a therapy appointment! Lol!  Next Tuesday.  Woo Hoo!