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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 172447" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I was a terribly thin child, as was my brother. I would eat regular meals and would eat just plain fat (crisco - yuck! - out of the can when mom was baking) and everything was fried in bacon grease. We were just plain bony. This was in the early 60's and I was about 3 - 4 years old and everyone called me twiggy. I heard it all, skinny, skeleton, knee butt. (Your butt looks like two bony knees together.) As an adult I constantly heard "anorexic", which was even used against me in hearings with L's dad as "no one could be that thin and not be anorexic." I stayed that way until I was in my 30's after I quit smoking. Now I'm just thin. </p><p></p><p>I don't think I would say anything to your son. If he's not eating enough at meals, try snacks that he enjoys. Stay away from the high fructose corn syrup, but make some cookies and freeze them so that there will be a few every day for him. If he likes cookies and milk, get whole milk for him. If he eats cereal, use the whole milk. Find a type of toast that he likes. English muffins or bagels, and lots of butter. If he likes nuts, get him some cashews or smoke house almonds. All of those things are less expensive at Costco or Sam's Club. Let him pick out a healthy filling snack.</p><p></p><p>But my strong advice to you is to not say anything to him about his weight or his appetite. I doubt that it is something he is consciously doing, and it wouldn't help him at all to be told that there is something wrong with him and that he is being singled out by his mom for what amounts to "self harming" behavior.</p><p></p><p>If you modify his eating habits, and there is no movement a month or six weeks down the road, contact his doctor for advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 172447, member: 99"] I was a terribly thin child, as was my brother. I would eat regular meals and would eat just plain fat (crisco - yuck! - out of the can when mom was baking) and everything was fried in bacon grease. We were just plain bony. This was in the early 60's and I was about 3 - 4 years old and everyone called me twiggy. I heard it all, skinny, skeleton, knee butt. (Your butt looks like two bony knees together.) As an adult I constantly heard "anorexic", which was even used against me in hearings with L's dad as "no one could be that thin and not be anorexic." I stayed that way until I was in my 30's after I quit smoking. Now I'm just thin. I don't think I would say anything to your son. If he's not eating enough at meals, try snacks that he enjoys. Stay away from the high fructose corn syrup, but make some cookies and freeze them so that there will be a few every day for him. If he likes cookies and milk, get whole milk for him. If he eats cereal, use the whole milk. Find a type of toast that he likes. English muffins or bagels, and lots of butter. If he likes nuts, get him some cashews or smoke house almonds. All of those things are less expensive at Costco or Sam's Club. Let him pick out a healthy filling snack. But my strong advice to you is to not say anything to him about his weight or his appetite. I doubt that it is something he is consciously doing, and it wouldn't help him at all to be told that there is something wrong with him and that he is being singled out by his mom for what amounts to "self harming" behavior. If you modify his eating habits, and there is no movement a month or six weeks down the road, contact his doctor for advice. [/QUOTE]
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