Yesterday, I had to shampoo my daughters carpet in her room because the puppy used the potty in there a few times. I had to pull a bunch of stuff out of there before I could clean it.
As I was cleaning out her room I noticed a blanket shoved in a cubby hole in her closet. I went to take the blanket out and all kinds of goodies fell out of the cubby. She had lollipops, bubblegum, peanut butter snack crackers, marshmallows, raisins. Those are just a few of the things she had. This has happened before and it concerns me.
I made some brownies on Sunday because my inlaws were coming over for dinner and I wanted to serve something for dessert.
Well, this afternoon I went to start supper and I noticed the plate of brownies was almost gone. There were probably 8-10 small brownies left over from Sunday and when I noticed them this after noon there were only 2 left. This is not the first time that has happened either and it worries me too.
It worries me because I did the same things when I was a kid. I hid food and ate more than my share. I was slightly over weight. I was about 7 when my step dad came along and from then on out I had to ask for food before I could eat anything. I hated it. And then a lot of the time the answer was no. So I resorted to hiding food and gobbling up food when given the chance. This is a habit that continued into my adult hood and its how I worked my way up to 265 lbs. I don't want her to follow in my footsteps.
She is not fat, nor has she ever been fat. So far she's been blessed with a high metabolism. I asked her why she ate the brownies and she said she didn't know. I wish I could do something to help her before it turns into a bad deal for her.
Anytime she does things like this I always take some time to talk to her and explain why its wrong to do what she did but I try not to demean her in anyway. I tell her I don't care if she has these things to eat but I do care when she eats a bunch of these things at one time, and I do care when she hides things from me. I don't want her to feel like she cant talk to me and I don't want her to think the only way for her get a goody is for her to gobble it up or to hide it.