My son and I have had the same doctor (when I was a kid I had the same doctor), and we've both been told we have a very high metabolism. We can both eat high amounts and not put on anything.

But is that normal for young kids? I can see kids around him gaining weight but he's just so "tiny" compared to them - and thin. He's not going to "break" - just he's thin. I grew up the same way. I just don't want him to do the same thing. :(

My father and his siblings as well as my husband are the same way. Sometimes it slows down after about 30/40 but sometimes its just how you are. My father-in-law started slowing down at about 30, but my own father is still slim as a stick at 55 years old. As long as you focus on eating healthy food and not just anything he pleases because it doesn't make him fat he should do fine. I know my father and husband prefer an all you can eat salad bar to chips or candy because it fills them up better. A salad with a meal is a great way to help him feel full.

I have a high metabolism as well, since my children have different fathers I worry more for this with my son (his father is tall and slanky like me), however my girls fathers family genes allow for short members, not obese, but not slanky either. I have no idea what to do when she gets older. :(

My father and his siblings as well as my husband are the same way. Sometimes it slows down after about 30/40 but sometimes its just how you are. My father-in-law started slowing down at about 30, but my own father is still slim as a stick at 55 years old. As long as you focus on eating healthy food and not just anything he pleases because it doesn't make him fat he should do fine. I know my father and husband prefer an all you can eat salad bar to chips or candy because it fills them up better. A salad with a meal is a great way to help him feel full.

That's another scary thing - I can't have salad everyday (Obviously I'm not going to have salad EVERYDAY) because lettuce is high in Vitamin K. When you're a baby you get a shot of Vit. K and he had a bit of a reaction too. So basically we're both allergic to large doses of it.

I can have salad yeah, but not ALL the time (as in everyday constantly) - I already take a blood thinner - Coumadin.

I have noticed a difference in mine, to a point in the past couple of years. I still have a HM, but I have also gained some weight in the past few months, which unless I'm pregnant, never happens (and no, before anyone asks, I'm not pregnant). :) I think the older you get, it will balance out, I'm almost at 30 soon enough and its finally started to get a little more evened out.

Only certain vegetables are high in vitamin K and so if you were to avoid those I believe that you should be ok to eat salads fairly often. However, like you said given that you already have to take coumadin perhaps the risk is too great. Hey, it's only salad, not like you have to give up chocolate!

My problem is the opposite. My daughter has an average metabolism right now but if she follows in my footsteps that will slow down and become soggy in the next fifteen years or so.

Hi New2BabySteps,

It must have been the high metabolism rate of your body and that of your kids which made you both thin. some kids do gain weight faster. But expect this pattern to vary as the years go by. So, don't worry, it's just natural. :)