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My son is the same way. He was so underweight that his pediatrician recommended chocolate milk for the extra calories.

My 8 year old twins got Vivofit Jrs for Christmas last year after asking for them for quite a while. Most of the kids in their 2nd grade class had Apple watches, but I said no way to that. They mostly use it to compare how many steps they got to me, and they often beat me since I have a sedentary job and they are running…

And you know where that water came from...

I may be the oldest mom in my kids' classes, but there is no way I'm going to be the heaviest.

This is what I do exactly. I find that I'm busy enough in the morning getting my kids up and off to school, my dogs taken care of, and myself to work that by the time I get there, I'm thrilled just to be sitting down with coffee in peace and quiet. I try to push lunch as late as possible to make the afternoon shorter.

I do most of my shopping at Costco, so the bags are the size of a small child.

The main problem with the vertical tear is you can't be sure you've sealed the bag if you re-close it with a twist-tie. There is always some of the rip below the tie and the snack/chips get stale. ETA - I guess that's only a problem if you aren't eating the whole bag at once...

Pike are freshwater. Wisconsin is in the middle of the US - no saltwater nearby.

Yeah - one thing that really helped was that I had to be in the "office" since I was teaching. I shared with 5 other grad students and there was a "no food in the office" rule. I didn't realize it at the time but I'm sure it helped a ton by blocking mindless study-eating.

I had the opposite problem of most...I was in the best shape of my life in Grad school. I used exercise as a way of avoiding working on my thesis (and there was plenty of avoiding going on). Money was pretty tight and I had no car, so I rode my bike or walked to school and back (2 miles one way) each day. I was also in the…

Seriously? That sounds like fire in a cup.

+1. Now you have n=2. Probably statistically significant ;)

As others have mentioned above, if I don't weigh daily it's because I am pretending that my choices are not leading to regaining weight. I have noticed this pattern over and over, but this is the first time I've really thought about it like this. Hopefully this insight will finally teach me that I need to weigh every day…

Exactly the same here. Once I started running/walking over my lunch break, the LOOONG afternoon waiting for dinner was no longer do-able. Plus I realized I was inhaling a huge dinner without really enjoying it at all.

Yes - put "stuff" in it. It looks creepily like a blow-up doll mouth (not that I've ever seen one of those - moving along).

I didn't look - are you from MN? I've lived around the country but only in MN have I heard "criminy heck". :)

My child's first grade teacher said it best: "If you promise to only believe half of what you hear went on at school I promise to only believe half of what they tell me they do at home"

I do all the food not touching/taking things apart stuff. When we were little we'd take graham crackers and dip them in red koolaid until they were soggy. Then you take the cracker out and suck the koolaid out of it and eat the cracker mush. Usually we'd toss the remaining crumby koolaid.

I'm so sorry to hear about the crap you're going through. When I had a lot of stuff going on, I went to this yoga/pilates class often. I would lay in the back of the room at the end of class when we were cooling down and just sob. We were laying on our backs so my ears would fill with tears. I have also on occasion sobbed…

cottage cheese and sour cream - both are gone within way too few hours potato chips (especially if I've planned poorly enough to also have cottage cheese or sour cream around to dip them in) cinnamon rolls or cinnamon bread caramel corn or cheddar cheese popcorn ETA - Honey bunches of oats cereal. I will eat the whole box…

I have never heard of a hotdish being cooked on the stovetop. What ingredients would that have? Where in MN is that the definition?

Correct. I'm in MN. You cook a hotdish in a casserole. The hotdish is the food, the casserole is the dish you bake it in.

I have too, and I agree. I also can't tell you how many times I've started thinking about the "I want to buy an argument" Monty Python sketch, where they argue about what an argument is.

I have the exact same experience.

A little off topic, but don't these kids just sort of "automatically" get free/reduced price lunches? In our school district, it's all taken care of outside the lunchroom, and the kids just punch in a code to get their lunches just like everyone else. No one would ever let a kid just bring candy (or whatever) day to day. I…

I saw that at Costco once and didn't think I'd like it. I'm glad I didn't buy it.

How is it that you all of a sudden "have money" due to going to university? I all of a sudden had a whole lot LESS money when I went to school. Do you not need to save that money to buy books and pay lab fees and stuff?

Bought a bag of this at Target yesterday. It's all gone. My kids don't like it.

Seriously - it was soul-crushing at best.

Now that I think about it, I talk to my kids about money pretty much the same was as about food. You have amounts that you choose how to spend or save, and you overall keep track of surpluses and deficits.