This morning at the gas station

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #1

I dutifully packed my HWC and stopped in the gas station for coffee on the way to work.

A woman slides up next to me to add fixings to hers and I hear her say, “Isn’t that yummy? If you like that one, you’d love the creme brulee flavor”, to which a four year old who is drinking a french vanilla creamer cup says, “Gimme” and reaches up and she opens a creme brulee creamer and hands it to him.

I said, “Boy is he lucky” (a bit sarcastic) and she says, “Well, I have to give him a couple of shots of sugar before preschool.” She laughs.

THEN she says, “Which donut do you want this morning, buddy?” and grabs him a Krispy Kreme.

I about died.

(Michelle isaacson) #2

@PetaMarie as a parent and a pediatric nurse…I am always floored by what parents think their children should eat. I can’t tell you the number of times I have had parents tell me “My child will only eat Chicken Nuggets and French Fries what do I do”? I tell them don’t give them Chicken Nuggets and French Fries. :rofl:

Yet seriously it has gotten out of control. Don’t get me wrong my kids are not KETO we just aren’t there; yet they eat every KETO meal I make. :slight_smile:

I so wish we could educate what real nutrition is and that Sugar isn’t always a treat but can cause harm.

(Blessed with butter ) #3

OH MY Gosh if she only knew.

(Running from stupidity) #4

Yeah, but you VERY CLEARLY don’t care if that poor kid starves! It’s all they can eat, doncha know!

(Michelle isaacson) #5

Haha! Starvation is relative! He already is starving for Nutrition! :rofl:

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #6

If you starve a child, they will eat anything eventually, even vegetables! GASP! How could this be?! rolls eyes lol!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

My mother, God rest her soul, had remarkably little patience with fussy eating. Mom did plan meals so that we had favorites reasonably often, but we got what we got when we got it, not necessarily what we wanted when we wanted it. “I am not a short-order cook!” We either ate what was set before us, or we went hungry.

The documentary film “The Magic Pill” follows, among many other people, an autistic girl who refused to eat anything but certain carb-laden foods, until her parents were persuaded to put her on a ketogenic diet. The transition was not easy, but the girl eventually started eating and enjoying a range of much healthier foods. I wonder if the high level of carbohydrate in the standard diet messes with the mechanisms of food preference, somehow.

I’d still rather go hungry than eat beets, but I did learn to like liver and broccoli—when properly cooked—in adulthood. Yum!

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #8

My mom was the same way with me and my brother–eat it or starve. She wasn’t, however, with my 9 yr younger brother who got a special meal somehow if he didn’t like what he family was having. He grew up to an adult with very limited food preferences.

My brother and I will eat anything, or at least try anything, once. I will say, at least my mom let us slather the “gross” things in condiments which made it edible when we were hungry and weren’t getting anything else.

(Frank) #9

I had tears running down my face when she finally started eating well. I worked with autistic boys when I was in college and the amount of patience that family showed during that period of transition was nothing short of superhuman. I tell everyone that will listen about that documentary.

(Michelle isaacson) #10

That was very emotional! My son is in the process of evaluation for possible ASD. Very high functioning and at 7 they have bounced Aspergers around. We get the results Next Friday. Also super picky eater. He loves meat though! I will be transiting him to Keto.

:heart:

(Frank) #11

I don’t know if it was because of my past experience that I had this reaction or not. I just wish everyone on the planet could simultaneously have this epiphany that processed carbs/sugar are bad. I can dream.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #12

The progress she made, and that the other autistic boy made, was phenomenal. And just from eating a healthier diet! “Let food be thy medicine”—who knew how true that could be?

(Running from stupidity) #13

Hippocrates did

#14

That is my favorite story from that movie. IIRC it took almost 10 days of “starvation” before she started eating real food and her dad says “and she didn’t stop eating!”.