Random thoughts

Be warned, there is no definite coherence this morning in my ramblings.

For a while I've been musing this, there is a woman I know, who has been overweight for all of her adult life, and a part of her adolescence too. To this end, she has done incredibly well to turn this around for herself, and found the focus and determination required to lose the weight and gain fitness.

But at the same time, I see her child being fed sugary rubbish on a lot of occasions, yes, yes, I know that seeing a snapshot of a child's life via photo's will only show a part of the story, and perhaps the child eats a well balanced diet the rest of the time .... but, I also see the size of the child, and the woman's partner .... and I suspect not.

I've yo-yo'd with my weight since, forever, well, about 13, when a girl told me I had the hugest backside she'd ever encountered. That comment hit a chord. The fact that a) I was a perfectly good size, hell, I had a 24" waist and b) I wasn't the one who became an aneroxic, now was I .... thanks for that transference onto me, thanks ... thanks a lot ....

But I digress ...

My point being, as a parent, I have a responsibility, well, many responsibilities, but let's focus on one for the moment.

The one I am focussing on, is the one where I bring my child up on a healthy, balanced, diet, knowing that certain things are great for you, certain things should be eaten in moderation .. etc., etc., my child has a balanced diet, my child eats it's veggies, it's fruits, grains, meat, also eats sweet, sugary, chocolatey things ...

I've been criticised by some on the way I've brought my child up. In the sense, that I brought her up with healthy snacks from day one, her snacks have always been of the route of carrot sticks, diced peppers, blueberries, grapes, breadsticks .... not of the fizz and sweet variety. As a baby, she ate to be alive, not to fill up on chocolate, for what nutrients was that going to provide for her ? As an older child, she eats not only to grow, but also to enjoy, she does have sweets / crisps on occasion, they are not banned food, nor are they "treat" only food, but they are what they are.

She is a gorgeous, healthy, weight wise - there is not a scrap of fat on her that she doesn't need, nor is she scrawny ...

Those people who "criticised" me, when she was a baby, have all turned around, and remarked on how well she has grown up, and how they'd wished they'd done the same for their children, how their children have temper tantrums when they don't get their "snacks", how they "steal" from the cupboards, that they won't eat their dinners (well, if you will feed them ten tonne of junk just before a meal, no, I'm not surprised they won't eat their dinner ... d'ur!)

Yes, I told you there was no coherence to my ramblings. I guess I was just annoyed when that woman was "pleased" that she had to buy her child school uniform which was in an age older than the child, because of it's size ... due to width, not height.

Back, to my own diet ramblings later, and perhaps I can take my own parental advice and apply it to myself.

(Weight down a tad more today, hurrah!!)