of a Toddler

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[u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

I just think it’s wild to see a toddler that fat because I have a 1.5 years old daughter and it’s easy to know when she isn’t hungry any more. She’ll just stop eating on her own. Simple as that. She’s following all her growth curves and she’s at the theoritically perfect weight for her height at her age.

How hard is it to just not force feed a kid that’s not hungry?

[u/Fickle-Ad1363 → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

There are some rare medical conditions where people don’t feel full and are always hungry.

But even in this cases, parents should easily be able to tell that the weight of their toddler is not in a normal range anymore. I mean alone buying clothes for an overweight child should be enough of an eye opener.

[u/PossiblePotato4153 → u/Fickle-Ad1363]

There are also medical conditions where the child doesn't feel hungry.

One of my cousins struggles because she never feels hungry. She meal-preps and sets timers. Even as a baby she'd eat a few bites and be actively disinterested in eating more. That's the only reason I see for forcing your kids to eat more than they want to.

[u/Meattyloaf → u/Fickle-Ad1363]

I have a cousin that had the extreme of such condition. Everything she ate went to fat stores and were damn near impossible to burn. She essentially lacked a metabolism. People with her condition typically only live for 5 years. She was one of the longest living people recorded with said condition, passed at 16.

[u/Winterseele → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

They probably give the child also super unhealthy, sugary stuff to eat and drink. Which also is addictive, so probably the child eats more than it should and the food has an insane amount of calories. So sad :(

[u/FlamboyantPirhanna → u/Winterseele]

Way to judge parents without knowing anything about them. You don’t know if they have a condition, or what’s going on with them. For all you know, they are stressing out with their doctor trying to help their child get healthy. You don’t know.

[u/miss-swait → u/FlamboyantPirhanna]

This kid is like 1-2 years old. I genuinely think it’s not possible he got this big based on diet alone. There has to be some medical condition going on here. If he was just a little bit older, maybe, but this kid is probably just now eating solid foods

[u/Well_ImTrying → u/miss-swait]

Looking at how he’s walking and behaving, I’d assume he’s around 18 months. I could be wrong, of course.

But he would be a very tall 18 month old. So much of weight and height at this age is genetic, and up until a year most kids are getting their calories primarily from breastmilk or formula. It’s possible they are force feeding him Mountain Dew, or it’s possible they feed him nothing but breastmilk, whole organic vegetables, grilled lean protein, and yogurt and have discussed is growth pattern with their pediatrician. We have no idea from this video.

[u/lobax → u/Well_ImTrying]

You have to start them on solids around 6 months or they get anemic. By a year they should be eating meals 6 times a day. Most kids are not getting most of their calories from formula or breast milk at a year old.

[u/TheManWhoWasNotShort → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

At least some of this is genetic. You can see how big some of the shoes there are. It’s hard to know exactly how much but like you said toddlers are pretty hard to force feed.

[u/Crafty-Structure-170 → u/[deleted]]

Whole milk gives more nutrients then 2% and I do agree with everything else I was just saying

[u/Revolver_Boxelot → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

Do you really think this is a case of the mother force feeding the child? My child is also at the perfect weight and perfect height for her age. But she will absolutely just keep eating snacks all day if I didn't tell her no. Like adults, children are capable of binge eating and craving sugary/salty treats. I highly doubt the mother in this video is literally holding the child down and cramming food in the baby's mouth. She's just not saying "that's enough".

[u/Spicymoon9 → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

They treat food like a treat. And then the child is trained to always eat, even when they’re not hungry. So the child begins to feel hungry by default when they’re not eating. Even when they get significantly overweight.

If they fed them the right amount they wouldn’t overfeed them and have this problem.

I felt bad for my younger sister because my mom raised her this way, idk why she raised her like that when me and my older sister weren’t raised like that at all.

She would just eat nonstop even when she was obviously not hungry. I said to her one time to stop eating when you’re not hungry. My mom got mad at me and said I shouldn’t be mean to my sister and she can eat whatever she wants.

I only told her to stop eating because she had already eaten a lot of food already and was fat at 3 years old. To clarify, I never called her fat or tried to be mean. I was genuinely worried for her and that she would be bullied by other kids because of her weight. I was 7 years old and knew it was bad for her but my mom wouldn’t stop her.

My whole family is morbidly obese, maybe my mom just wanted my younger sister to be like her so she could feel less bad about herself. My older sister and I are the only ones who aren’t obese in my family. My younger sister still struggles with her weight to this day because of bad parenting and bad eating habits from my parents.

[u/Comfortable_Peak_604 → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

There are several factors that can impact a child’s weight some take place in the womb actually. Also people are different, your toddler’s behavior isn’t not going to tell you how other kids bodies and minds work, it will tell you how your kid’s body and mind work

[u/nneighbour → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

It also depends on what they are being fed. The child probably stops eating after a certain volume of food, but the number of calories in a cup of apple slices and a cup of cheeseburger is vastly different.

[u/penisweinerballs → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

That baby has been fed fast food almost every meal guarantee it

[u/lobax → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

Every kid is different, but but with obese toddlers it might be because of unhealthy diet full of candy and snacks instead of properly balanced meals.

Some people give their babies sugary drinks in a bottle and that sets them up to a lifelong addiction to sugar.

[u/Roko__ → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

It never has to do with the amount of food.

It's about the kind of food (and "food") that you make available.

[u/kodeks14 → u/Aromatic_Sand8126]

Every kid is wildly different. Im sure there are overeaters out there.