After obesity surgery

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I agree.

 

The whole 'pour it in a bowl and microwave' was foreign in my house growing up.

 

As a kid, I remember experiencing actual hunger. When dinnertime rolled around, my tummy would be growling and I'd feel a bit shaky.

We always had ENOUGH food, but we didn't snack between meals so the feeling of hunger at meals was normal for me.

 

Today I don't think kids even know what 'hungry' feels like. They are always eating.

 

My sister in law's kid came over one afternoon and we had lunch. Then we went hiking. The child started crying and wailing about an hour after lunch because I didn't have snacks for the hike. It was a short hike (less than 2 hours) and we were to have dinner shortly after returning to the house.

 

I told her she couldn't possibly be hungry; she'd had a really big lunch.

 

Her mother told me she was 'used to' having a snack between lunch and dinner. And a snack, apparently, was a bag of chips, a juice 'drink' and pepperoni slices with cheese.

That's probably enough calories to qualify as a meal!

 

ANd yes, this child is quite overweight.

 

I gave her some gatorade to drink but she continued to carry on like she was being starved and tortured.

 

Later we returned to the house and begged for a snack. When I gave her an apple she sulked.

 

I said, "If you're hungry, an apple will taste very good."

 

She continued to sulk and told me "Well, I'm not hungry for THAT."

 

In other words, kids do not know what true hunger feels like. I think many of us don't.

 

There's nothing like a delicious, healthy meal when you're hungry. I wish parents could teach children to learn to feel when they're truly hungry, instead of making them so 'used to' snacking all the time