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ClariRose
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Hi. I hope it's alright I wanted to introduce myself. While I did experience CSA, mine was nothing compared to what happened to my DD a few years ago. Lucky for us both, her perpetrator confessed and is in prison, at least until she graduates from high school. We both have been and still are in therapy. I joined because I want to do all I can to help her to become the best she can be and to avoid the same struggles I've experienced. I hope you will be willing to help me help her.
I do know she has a tendency to binge when given the chance and her birth mother is morbidly obese. At the moment, she is physically very healthy and at a good weight for her height. She spent some time in a residential therapy program where her diet wasn't monitored. She came home from there having gained nearly 30 pounds in four months. (Some of it due to vertical growth, but most due to overeating.) Her sitter (she has epilepsy) and I both noticed she would eat until she was so full she felt sick. So, we started monitoring her portions. If she complains of being hungry after having consumed reasonable portions of the meal (or between meals) she knows and we often remind her that she can help herself to the fruits and vegetables we keep on hand for her. This is also how I know if she's really hungry - she'll eat the fruits and/or vegetables when she's really hungry; otherwise, she won't. We also remind her to drink adequate amounts of water every day (though she resists this more often than not).
We are working on helping her identify for herself the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger and helping her develop appropriate and healthy methods to respond to each type of hunger. I'm finding that helping her learn these is helping me to be better at recognizing them in myself.
I hope I can be a support to you all while you help me develop some of the tools I need to help my DD.
I do know she has a tendency to binge when given the chance and her birth mother is morbidly obese. At the moment, she is physically very healthy and at a good weight for her height. She spent some time in a residential therapy program where her diet wasn't monitored. She came home from there having gained nearly 30 pounds in four months. (Some of it due to vertical growth, but most due to overeating.) Her sitter (she has epilepsy) and I both noticed she would eat until she was so full she felt sick. So, we started monitoring her portions. If she complains of being hungry after having consumed reasonable portions of the meal (or between meals) she knows and we often remind her that she can help herself to the fruits and vegetables we keep on hand for her. This is also how I know if she's really hungry - she'll eat the fruits and/or vegetables when she's really hungry; otherwise, she won't. We also remind her to drink adequate amounts of water every day (though she resists this more often than not).
We are working on helping her identify for herself the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger and helping her develop appropriate and healthy methods to respond to each type of hunger. I'm finding that helping her learn these is helping me to be better at recognizing them in myself.
I hope I can be a support to you all while you help me develop some of the tools I need to help my DD.
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