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My daughter, Lucie, is a sugar addict. It’s come to the point where we’ve had to discourage her passion for baking, because she’ll eat almost all the baked goods herself. Not only that, but she’ll sneak the containers of leftover icing up to her room and snack on that as well! After I found several empty frosting containers under her bed, I had a serious discussion with her about all the sugary snacks she was eating.
There were all the goodies at school – cookies at class parties, candy the teachers passed out, and the chocolate milk I found out she was buying every day at the school cafeteria. I asked her to cut back to one chocolate milk a week. I also stopped buying her favorite cookies and instead bought her favorites types of fruit such as grapes, peaches and apples. I also encouraged her not to eat sweets all the time, but to try savory treats such as pickles, low fat cheeses, or chips and salsa.
It wasn’t a matter of being overweight, since Lucie at age 10 can still fit in size 6 and 8 clothes and is still a member of the “tiny hinny club.” Instead, I’m more concerned with her developing healthy habits over her lifetime. As I told her, once she hits puberty, she may not have such an amazing metabolism and all that sugar may make her chubby and unhealthy.
Since Lucie’s such a sugar fiend, when we were watching TV the other day, we saw the following video from Brita, which made us laugh. (This post is sponsored by Brita, by the way.) I told Lucie that I need to make her one of those shakes, because some days that’s how I feel she eats, especially after she came home with 10 pounds of Halloween candy. She carries it around in a pillow case like a burglar!
Here’s the video:
Ironically, Lucie’s not all that much into sugary soda, and I can usually get her to drink a Hansen’s Natural Diet Soda though I would prefer that she drink more water. One step at a time, I guess.