{"id":935,"date":"2012-01-09T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2012-01-09T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:17:41","slug":"story-illustrating-im-offering-diet-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Story Illustrating Why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Not Offering Diet Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I shared with you my <a title=\"The New Health Regime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=932\">pre-diet diet<\/a> last weekend, I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d share a brief excerpt from my life over the holidays. While we were celebrating Christmas with my family, <a title=\"Miscellaneous Holiday Highlights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=920\" target=\"_blank\">I had plenty of time to watch my one-year-old nephew eat<\/a>. And guess what? In large part, because my sister, his mom, is a registered dietitian, he eats exceptionally well. Fortunately, too, he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appear to be a picky eater. So I sat and watched her feed him countless tiny pieces of various produce and other healthy fare, and at one point, it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>There she was, feeding my nephew an avocado, of all things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-936\" title=\"100_3647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_3647-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_3647-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_3647-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Honestly, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even think I knew you could <em>do<\/em> that. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had three children move through babyhood and toddlerhood, eating <del>barely<\/del> respectable amounts of fruits, veggies, lean meats and dairy products, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it once dawned on me to feed them avocados.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-938\" title=\"100_3648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_3648-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_3648-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_3648-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Then, as my nephew was about halfway through his avocado, looking much like a poster child for the salubrious lifestyle, I looked over, and the small people were all decorating and devouring Christmas cookies, frosting and crumbs smeared all over their faces. Sadly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll admit that this is a pretty fair representation of how they eat on all holidays, all days surrounding holidays, most weekends, and on days their parents come home from the grocery store with clearance candy.<\/p>\n<p>In these moments, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to believe my sister and I are really from the same gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, after some consideration, I imagine she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have a pre-diet diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I shared with you my pre-diet diet last weekend, I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d share a brief excerpt from my life over the holidays. While we were celebrating Christmas with my family, I had plenty of time to watch my one-year-old nephew eat. And guess what? In large part, because my sister, his mom, is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[819,818,816,820,817,105,100,465],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-a-pre-diet-diet","tag-being-related-to-an-rd","tag-diet-advice","tag-feeding-kids-avocados","tag-funny-diet-stories","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-island-mom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}