I cannot believe the amount of food my teenage son can eat

[Shine]

he basically eats from the moment he gets home from school til dinner and then he can put away a whole dinner, too!

:crazy: I'm constantly food-shopping, seriously.

I never had a brother, so this is all new to me....It's unreal.

[KitchenWitch]

When I was a teen I used to eat like that.

I had really fast metabolism in those days. Now I merely look at food and gain 5 pounds. Back then, the energy expended by eating was somehow more than the caloric intake...no matter what I ate.

T'ain't fair...

x(

[DarkTirade]

2. Jinx. :)

Said the same thing at the same time.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I know!

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

6. Seriously though... I ate more than any of my family, probably more than any two combined.

And yet you could count my ribs all the way through 10th grade.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I could count my ribs well into my twenties.

Until I quit smoking and bore children, now my metabolism is wrecked.

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Don't tell me that!!!

*lalalalalala....cannot hear you!!!*

x(





:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

16. Denial is not just a river in Egypt!

:P









:rofl:

[Shine]

9. I know what you mean

My metabolism was never quite THAT fast, but nowadays....yes, even looking at food can pack on the pounds.

It's harder to keep it off as we age, too. Gawd, don't get me started.... :(

[DarkTirade]

1. I was like that. Skinny as a rail too.

Until my metabolism slowed down halfway through high school. :(

[Ariana Celeste]

3. always hated my little brothers metabolism

from the point he hit his teens and still going strong today at 20 yrs old, this kid can eat anything you put before him and never gain even an ounce of fat. x(

[Shine]

11. It's not fair!!

good to see ya, girl! :hi: Long time, hope all's well... :hug:

[Ariana Celeste]

20. heya!

all is good, hope you can say the same :) :hug:

[trof]

5. Mom called me 'The Bottomless Pit'.

yep

[Blue Diadem]

7. amazing isn't it?

I raised two sons and a daughter. She ate like a little bird, the boys pigged out.

My oldest has a little 1 yr old boy now. That child can put away more food than his 4 1/2 yr old sister.

It's amusing to attempt to adjust your cooking back to normal after they're all grown.

Good luck on those grocery bills.

[Shine]

13. Yeah, my daughter eats like a bird, too.

I've always been a big eater, but clearly my daughter doesn't take after me in that regard. :D

:hi:

[Bucky]

8. Remind him that he's gonna pork out at age 30 if he doesn't develop a serious exercise routine

When that metabolism down shifts, it down shifts hard and fast.

[Shine]

14. Tell me about it!

x(

[ThomCat]

12. Don't all teens eat like that?

:shrug:

I was a bottomless pit from 13 until I was in my mid-twenties. I never stopped eating, and I didn't start to gain any weight until I became a vegetarian in College.

[Shine]

17. I don't know, but I've certainly heard horror stories about teenage boys

I've never quite had the metabolism to justify eating anything I wanted whenever I wanted, sadly....well, I guess I kind of did during my pregnancies. I suppose that time counts. :D

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

18. My ten-year-old son is almost 5'2," weighs about 110#, and has size 10 feet.

What's to become of us when he hits his TEENS? ... We'll be bankrupt from food bills and custom-made size 15 sneakers. :cry:

[Shine]

22. Wow, he sounds solid!! I feel for ya.

Our kid is 14, weights about 120lbs., is already as tall as me (5'6") and is wearing men's size 8 1/2 shoe.

MrShine wears size 9 shoe and is 6 ft.

Yup, it's weird...:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

37. Thanks for the sympathy.

I think I've birthed a Sasquatch. We do live in the Northwest ... :)

:hi:

[truedelphi]

38. I'd like Darwin to come back from the dead and explain this big foot

Phenomenon to me.

So many parents I know with kids 10 to 14 are moaning over their kids having big feet.

Now according to Darwin, an adaptation is supposed to serve as a functional response.

Like giraffes getting longer in the neck so they can reach tree tops.

But what the heck is this big foot thing about? It only makes sense in terms of survival of the shoe specialty stores.

My son is thirty and has size 12 and a half feet. That's three sizes larger than his dad, and a good five sizes larger than me.

[BarenakedLady]

19. At what age does that start?

My son (age 7) is such a picky eater. I would love to see him actually eat and enjoy something. Actually all my kids are so damn skinny, it sucks buying clothes for them. They are all legs and no waist. Hehehe.

[Shine]

24. I guess it depends on the kid

for mine it really seemed to have started in the last year or so...but most especially during these past 6 mos. He's put on about 3 inches of height since the summer. It's so weird....he's as tall as I am now and of course he LOVES that! :eyes:

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

21. He has two hollow legs.

That's what my mother used to call it when my brothers were at that stage.

[Shine]

25. That's funny. He likes to say he has many different stomachs

One for "regular food"

One for "potatoes"...his favorite food group

and One for desserts.

:rofl:

[ulysses]

23. yeah, that was me.

Still is. :D

[seemunkee]

26. My son is like that too, and he's not a teen anymore

Snack before dinner. dinner. Snack after dinner. Then a pint of ice cream. A beer and a bed time snack.
He was lucky that his girlfriend worked at a farm market all summer and was able to bring home free produce.

[JoePhilly]

27. Agree .... my 14 year old is 5''11' ...

He weighs around 190 ... we sometimes leave old left-overs on the counter so he will eat them.

[Shine]

28. OMG, 5'11" at 14?!?

:scared: I guess you're living in the Land of the Giants....

:hi:

[1gobluedem]

29. Our 14 year old boy is a bottomless pit

He eats a 10" pizza for an appetizer. The other day he said to me "I'd eat cardboard if it had salt on it." And I think he would.

My brother lived with me for a semester when he was playing college football. He'd have four grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. It was impossible to keep food in the house.

Good luck! It's not going to stop anytime soon. My brother is 37 now and can still eat like that.

[tigereye]

33. "I'd eat cardboard if it had salt on it"

:rofl:


we had a housemate years ago who used to describe himself as a "6 plate man." :wow:

[JVS]

30. What would happen if you didn't give him more than a normal adult needs?

Would he wither up?

[MissMillie]

31. my son is the human garbage disposal

well, except that he's a little more fussy than a garbage disposal.

[tigereye]

32. he's got that hollow leg to fill!

:hi:

I had three brothers, so I sympathize. My son is just beginning to eat prodigious amounts of food.

[Swede]

34. KIds seem bigger,too.

Go to a mall,and they are all giants.

[IzaSparrow]

35. I think it's because they have so much going on in their head and body...

schoolwork
sex
extracurriculars
sex
social life
sex

maybe that was just me. still waiting on all of it to materialize though:P

[Cabcere]

36. My little brother is the same way

and yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. :crazy: This past summer, he would eat an entire pizza for breakfast and another entire pizza for lunch (seriously!), and then have about two or three HUGE sandwiches (like "Dagwood" in the Blondie comic strip - these sandwiches seriously had at least an inch of fillings, and he'd slather them with mustard and mayo) for an afternoon snack/dinner. He would use that as an excuse not to eat dinner with us (and talk to his girlfriend on the phone for three hours), but then when he got off the phone after we had finished eating, he would come back downstairs and raid the fridge. And then he'd eat a bowl full of chips or crackers while watching TV, and then later he'd come back downstairs for a midnight "snack" usually consisting of another ginormous sandwich. :crazy: When he was working, he would also go out for lunch at fast food places every single day during the week, and of course he never gained a pound. x( (Granted, his job was pretty physically demanding, but it didn't last all summer, and even taking that into account there's no way he should've been able to burn off the approximately 500,000 calories he ate every day.) :eyes: He's sixteen years old, about 5'11," and he weighs maybe 140 pounds. It's disgusting. x( (I still love him, though. :))

[unsavedtrash]

39. the other day the kid asked, "Do you think I can start having a second dinner?"

He is 12 and he wasn't kidding.
Tonight I heard the first squeak in his voice.