stellauk
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OK, I need to clear something up. The day I made the original post was more than a month ago. Why the shit storm now? She had lucky charms THAT MORNING!!!!!! She does not get them every day. She regularly rotates between cereals, pancakes, eggs, and toast.
She can take 45 fricking minutes to eat one slice of toast. If she is in the mood for lucky charms, which can be gone in 15 minutes, I am sorry, but she is going to get it.
It doesnt matter what the cereal is. Cheerios, rice krispies, or lucky charms. The weight is calculated to give her 15 grams of carbohydrates, usually about 18 grams. It isn't like she gets a heaping bowl full. I challenge any of you to do the math and pour out your cereal to equal 15 carbs, and see exactly how little food it is.
Consider this. She is on a food jag right now. Double chocolate Krave. One serving = 3/4 cup = 19 carbs. Now compare Muslix. One serving = 3/4 cup = 40 carbs!!!! Not only that, the Krave carbs contain 10 grams of sugar. Muslix contains 14!!!!
My girl is not on a "diet", but we measure everything. Does she get a couple of heaping spoons of rice? No. She gets. 1/4 cup = 15 carbs. She has carb targets. Usually, 40 breakfast, 50 lunch 60 dinner. Does she always get that? No. Sometimes she isnt hungry and gets less. Sometimes she is and gets more.
As for the rest of her day, I wouldn't call it regimented, but there is little variation outside of dinner. Why? Her choice. She likes what she eats. She know what good snacks are. She probably eats more fruits and vegetables than the rest of us combined.
Now about the chocolate milk. It just happened, that my 1% had gone sour, so she got pure chocolate milk. Her REGULAR routine at home is 1/4 cup chocolate, 3/4 1%. Why? #1. She will not drink white milk. Just wont do it. #2. Because the mix equals. ... 15 carbs. Now, at school, she gets pure chocolate, because I am not mixing milk every morning, for it to warm and possibly leak. This year, the school changed providers and we now get the sugar reduced chocolate milk.
Now, I admit that I have not read all the posts, but I will. But, I challenge anyone, ANYONE, who criticizes me, the come and do my job for one single day.
I want to add two more things, then I will shut up.
The point behind my original comment, and I should have been clearer, was not that it was a disasterous breakfast, and if you paid attention to the math you know it isn't, but was meant as a comment that she pours her chocolate milk onto her cereal, lol. I just find it.....yucky! Thankfully, she has since stopped that most days, preferring to eat the cereal dry to enjoy the taste more.
The last thing is this: without carbohydrates, you will die. The only thing that is carb free, besides mushrooms, is pure protein. Everything else, in broken down to carbohydrates in your body, which is then converted to glycogen and stored in the liver, until your body needs it.
Okay, I lied, one more thing. I have a challenge for each and everyone of you, whether with me or against me. Take one day and track everything you eat. Measure everything. A sandwich for lunch? Count your bread, your mayo, what ever you put on it. Do it for an entire day, and add up how many carbs you ate. But be fair. Eat as you would for a typical day. Do you drink three cans of pepsi a day? A beer with dinner? Count it. And I will guarantee that my beautiful nine year old who live with a chronic life threatening disease every single day, eats better than the majority of you. Measure it. Weigh it. Count it. Its not so easy, is it.
I'm glad I held off posting until now, because I thought it was idiotic how anyone could make any sort of conclusion about your relationship with your daughter or your family eating habits on the basis of one example.
Lucky Charms is a crap cereal... but you know, every packaged cereal you find in a supermarket - including all the healthy ones - are also crap as well. You want to eat something healthier? Why not try dog discuits or rabbit food? Seriously.
But you know everybody eats some sort of crap - everybody, call it comfort food, soul food, but everybody at some point eats it.
If they didn't then the food industry wouldn't be able to get away with producing so much manufactured processed crap but they do because they know people will always flock to the supermarket to buy it.
All this 'healthy eating' is a marketing trick which not only sells all this processed crap in the supermarkets but also provides many in the media with an income for writing insipid, vapid articles on such subjects where they are often clueless and ignorant, such as diet, obesity, and so on. It's social engineering and people fall for it over and over and over again.
Having a healthy lifestyle isn't just about diet and food choices, and healthy eating isn't just about counting calories but about striking a balance.
People have different metabolisms, as have children, and diabetes affects people differently. I wouldn't even think of forming any sort of an opinion without knowing the person or child involved and seeing (i.e. witnessing) how diabetes affects them over a period of time. This is the thing about diabetes - it's not exactly a straightforward illness to diagnose or treat.
But I guess some people have nothing better to do but sit in judgment on others from the comfort of their computer screens.
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If i didnt want to eat what was cooked, i had to make myself something.. including my school lunches.. 
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