My toddler eats and eats and eats!

Update: we have lentils three times a week, beans, chickpeas, fish and chicken.

She can easily eat 200 gram of chicken.

I never had a food obsession, neither my husband. We are both quite thin and sporty.

In both of our families we have overweight ppl with a lot of diseases.

I got so funny as people comment on it.

Her doctor recommended a nutritionist as she is overweight.

She war already as a baby above 97 percentile. Now she is around the 90 percentile. So she is kind of slimming out?

But out doc does not have a clear instruction on what to do. He says it is possible she looses it if we watch her.

I think she picked up this behaviour at the nursery as she eats there that much. She tells me off for not finishing my plate. I said it is alright to leave leftovers.

I never tell her that she is big! But people around us do. That hurts so much. I always encourage her and tell her she is perfect the way she is and how great she is doing.

Obesity is a dangerous disease as it brings a lot of other problems. I am just worried about my Babygirl.

I am also not starving myself.

I just don’t know what to do as I hear so many different opinions.

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My toddler is nearly three years old and quite big for her age.

We brought her up sugar free and we don’t have treats at home. I cool fresh every day and we have lots of veggies and fruit.

But my daughter just eats tons! It is getting out of control. It’s not a growth spout as she is eating like this since forever.

She goes to nursery. She gets breakfast at home, second breakfast/snack at nursery, lunch at nursery, afternoon snack at nursery, dinner at home.

Sometimes she eats 8 half rolls as second breakfast in nursery! She always has three portions for lunch! And three portions for afternoon snack.

Every time I am with people they comment on how much she eats.

I don’t know what to do. If I leave her hungry I do feel very bad.

The worst is I bottle feed her as my milk wasn’t enough and she was loosing weight for the first 2 weeks. I tried to bring her up as “natural” as possible and gave her a milk every time she “asked” for it. Unfortunately I overfeed her! I do know now! She wasn’t always hungry! Sometimes she was just tired or upset! She had a night time bottle until she was two!

I already went to a nutritionist! She said I should write down for two weeks what she is eating and optimise the diet! Which is crazy as we eat so healthy! She said I should cut out bananas and other high calorie healthy foods.

I am out with her every day for several hours. I lost a lot of weight as I try really hard not to eat to much in front of her.

I am really afraid she might turn into an obese adult. All the diseases which can occur.

My two main issues:

- I feel so guilty for over feeding my little girl! I will never forgive myself if she gets sick because of me :(

- I don’t know what to do and how to handle this situation!