I wouldn’t eat the dog shit food they serve up!
I don’t blame Lottie!
Good should be appealing and colourful! Make meal times inviting!!
I cannot believe the others are eating Dessert in front of her!
My kids eat dinner! I try to make them all wait until everyone’s finished, on the odd occasion if someone’s taking forever they are then allowed down a smidge earlier.
Leave the kitchen whilst I clean up, and then those who have eaten sufficiently will get to come and have dessert!!
It’s a joke! Just one of many issues these kids will grow up with due to their parents actions!
see, this is part of the reason why i struggle to believe Alex's claim that a nutritionalist is involved in Lottie's care and has absolutely no concerns about her weight or state of nutrition. unless Alex and Char outwardly lie about the food they feed Lottie - or massively embellish the spag bol they serve up every other day as being a nutritious meal, packed full of a range of colourful vegetables, as opposed to the reality - a jar of tomato sauce poured over pasta - because, as you say, the meals they feed the kids are brown and sloppy and not at all appealing. plus it's not like Lottie is refusing nutritious meals and wanting to stick
with a very limited range of foods that she perceives as safe - because even the blander foods like waffles and nuggets seem to be yet another meal she just picks at and pushed around her plate, entirely disinterested.
any pediatric dietitian would be advising that the family offer a variety of foods - different meals on different days, with varyibg ingredients, colours and textures etc, and pushing Alex and Char to actually put effort into encourage Lottie to eat and praising her for doing so - not leaving her on her own, miserable, to fend for herself, with the only attention they give her when they want to use her struggles for content.
i imagine they would also likely suggest the family eat together and make meals times a relaxed environment where the family chat and engage with each other, to take the focus off the food and ease some of the pressure - y'know, like specifically
not shoving cameras in the kids' faces while they're eating and distracting their focus from their meal, by expecting that than answer stupid and inane questions - particularly in Lottie's case, when the poor girl often looks overwhelmed, upset or uncomfortable - and certainly not to deny her a dessert if she doesn't complete a meal, or punish her by refusing to allow her to leave the table, yet giving all her siblings biscuits and ice cream to eat right in front of her, because that is completely cruel and unnecessary.
unfortunately, the Galbally's care
far more about content than they do about their daughter's mental and physical health - and i can just imagine Char in particular snapping at Lottie when the camera isn't filming. there was a point Alex shared that the nutritionalist had prescribed supplemental build-up drinks for Lottie, but she only seemed to drink them once or twice - and it's not as though Char bothers to put any effort into bulking out Lottie's meals with milk, butter, cheese etc so that the small amount she
does eat is far more nutritionally dense. I also cannot believe that the dietician involved in monitoring Lottie wouldn't have given the Galbally's a range of meal and snack ideas - like, snacks which are physically small in size - so not too filling - but nutritionally dense etc - yet they obvs just can't be bothered, and instead continue to serve the routine of spaghetti covered in tomato sauce and rice with curry sauce - generally always severely lacking in vegetables. Lottie is visibly much smaller than Jim and the twins and currently her body is used to eating far less than them - they're going to achieve nothing by forcing her to sit for hours at the table in front of a plate of cold food that she has no intention of eating, while the other kids eat desserts and play around her, and her parents make scathing comments. it's just going to make her dread meal times even more! it would be far more beneficial for them to serve her a smaller portion of each meal, allow her to eat the amount she can manage and react positively when she does eat, and she then take her plate away and offer her a snack a while later - like, break up her meals into smaller portions more regularly throughout the day, and she may do far better.
i mean, i'm not a professional, so i don't expect them to take any of my advice but if they care about Lottie at all, they should be listening to the advice from her nutritionalist and at the very least not be ridiculing and punishing her because she struggles with food. and honestly, if I were her parents, I would be far more concerned about her waifish, undernourished physical appearance, and using that to inspire me to improve my ability to prepare balanced, nutritious meals for my family - and potentially pushing for an assessment to determine why Lottie struggles so much with food, because anything like ARFID, she will do far better with in terms of making progress the earlier it's diagnosed.
#saveLottie
