If you’ve followed my blog for awhile, you know that we have struggled with Jordan’s weight since I took him off ritalin when he got so skinny he looked emaciated. He just kept gaining at a rapid rate after that and even with the doctor’s help, it wasn’t slowing down.
We’ve been watching what he eats, trying to let him have the fun foods that he likes but in small portions along with healthy foods - thank goodness this child loves salad, unlike myself and my girls. He plays soccer, plays outside all the time, and we just seem to have stalled.
We decided for snack at school (I think this is their last year for that, they stop snack in 5th grade.) instead of sending reduced fat crackers or 100 calorie packs of things, we’d try protein bars. Pato bought him the Special K Protein Bars
Here’s the nutritional stuff for the chocolate peanut butter (we’ve been getting the strawberries and cream, but they look similar)
I’ve been getting him the light vs the regular Muscle Milk because it has quite a bit less fat in it. When you’re training for football season you need more fat, with Jordan we’re trying to get those muscles working to burn the fat he has, not add more on top of it.
So, after that, then he eats lunch at school, but after the news report yesterday – School Lunches Are a Threat to National Security, Retired Officials Say, I’m thinking I should send cold lunch more often. I always thought school lunches were supposed to be healthy. Guess not.
At night he has a small-ish supper. I think it’s working.
1 – He has more energy. I mentioned the other day that during his soccer game he was running faster (take that to mean running, period – most of the time he mosies anymore) than I have seen him run since he first started playing when he was 5.) Last night at practice was the same, when I was watching him, he was out there moving quickly. Wore himself out. He was exhausted when we got home. And usually when I tell him to do something, he drags his feet, he’s tired, he just can’t do it. He’s been getting up and doing his chores, quickly. There’s something in something that is giving him more energy, he’s focusing better, not getting sidetracked by say, a YuGiOh card he finds when he’s cleaning up.
2 – I haven’t had to button his pants. Yes, that’s a huge indicator. When I bought him new pants over spring break, he had to go up a size, again. Those aren’t tight, but his 36 huskies were getting to the point where he had to suck in big time as I squeezed to button them. He wore those to school today and buttoned them on his own.
Yippie!
I hope this continues and he doesn’t plateau out. I worry about his heart. I don’t really care about what he looks like. Husky or not, I think Jordan is a handsome kid. (That’s not just a mother’s bias. 
) I seriously worry about what the effects on his heart would be if he continued gaining weight like he has been. It scares me.
And it breaks my heart when the other kids make fun of him. I’m tired of hearing about these little miscreants on the bus who call my son a fat a$$ and constantly terrorize him. I really just want to shake them until they figure out how to behave like decent human beings. Maybe I should be shaking the parents, because I’ll tell you what, if someone came to me and told me my child was acting like that on the bus, woo-ie. Those children would be in some serious trouble. My children are raised to respect others around them and not to say things that would hurt others feelings. (Unless of course they are doing it to their own sibling. rolling my eyes We’re still working on that one.)
**WARNING – this has an offensive word in it **
There was another issue on the bus. When I say this word, please don’t be offended. I personally hate this word with a passion, but in order to tell you the story, I have to tell you the word.
There’s a girl on the bus who has been calling Jordan a faggot. He didn’t know what it meant and asked me what it was. I said that it’s a horrible derogatory word that some idiots use for homosexuals. That I didn’t ever want to hear that word come out of his mouth and where the heck did it hear it at. That’s when he told me about the girl. I said, you need to tell the bus driver that. He said he didn’t want to because they would all call him a tattle tale again.
I said, what’s her name? I’ll take the bus driver aside and tell him he needs to keep his flippin’ ears open. He didn’t know it.
Here’s a conversation on the bus yesterday –
Jordan: DJ, what’s that girls’ name over there?
DJ: Why?
Jordan: It’s personal.
DJ: You better tell me, that’s my cousin. I’m not telling you her name until you tell me why. You want her name, you tell me why.
Jordan: Because she keeps calling me a faggot.
DJ: Hey – insert whatever the heck that childs name was – did you call Jordan a faggot?
Girl: No, I didn’t call Jordan no faggot. I don’t call nobody no faggot.
(Lovely grasp on the English language BTW. And these children are being taught by the same teachers who teach mine? Crap.)
DJ: She said she didn’t call you no faggot, she’s got witnesses, witnesses that said she didn’t call you no faggot.
Jordan: Who are her witnesses?
DJ proceeds to tell Jordan who the witnesses were, herself and two people who weren’t even on the bus that day.
Jordan: She can’t be a witness to herself.
DJ: What? Now you racist? You saying she can’t be no whiteness. No whiteness. You a racist man. You a racist.
And it continued on. Where the other cousin – the boy who asked Jordan at the beginning of the year if he was going to r*pe his sister, started in also.
It ended up with Jordan in tears on the way home and them laughing at him.
I HATE that bus.
In other news, our beds are here. I just had to take a 2 hour break to get everything done. I now need a shower. And to wash my sheets and comforter. So, I’m off to do that. Delivery guy was a butt head, but that’s for another day.
Have a great day!
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I gave my son’s Instant Breakfast by Carnation they get their nutrition for sure by drinking this in the morning. One boy loves the chocolate & one loves the vanilla. I like it because it can work for you in both situations such as a kid being to heavy or to light. I drink Muscle Milk after I am done exercising & love it but I only do one scoop of the light instead of 2 scoop. It makes me sooo frustrated when I hear about kids getting picked on or name calling. Don’t some parents teach their kids how to respect each other?
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