Growth charts amp goal weight made simple eating disorder recovery

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Full weight recovery is essential in the treatment of eating disorders. How a growth chart is part of the estimate of goal weight (or 'expected', 'target', 'ideal' or 'healthy' weight)? • Too many people are locked in anorexia / OSFED because their goal weight was set too low. Become confident in your teamwork with clinicians. • In 8 minutes I show you: • 1. How to plot your child's data on a pediatric growth chart. • 2. How to use it to for a rough estimate of a catch-up weight • 3. How to add to that estimate, and why (growth spurts etc) • 4. How a growth chart could mislead if you don't have good pre-restriction data • 5. How it's normal to deviate from those percentiles -- so a growth chart is only ONE of your tools • 6. Caution if your child has been very light since toddler years • 7. How you want an individualised target weight rather than a one-size-fits-all BMI or 100% Weight-for-Height number. • 8. What to do if you hardly have any weight/height data to plot • 9. How in any case many clinicians don't focus on any goal weight, and why. • 10. Recommendation for a 'wait and see' approach: focus on the work and on your child's physical and mental state, not on a weight goal • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • MORE HELP FOR PARENTS: • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • my book Anorexia and other eating disorders - How to help your child eat well and be well is recommended by clinicians worldwide https://anorexiafamily.com/order • -my Bitesize audios: an vast searchable library of searchable tips(e.g. how to talk to your child about weight) https://anorexiafamily.com/bitesize-p... • -my website has lots to get you started https://anorexiafamily.com • -and I do online workshops for parents: https://anorexiafamily.com/workshops-... • RELATED ARTICLES ON MY WEBSITE: • 1. Weight centile growth charts: why they can’t predict your child’s recovery weight: • How normal growth involves moments of slower or faster growth, which growth charts don't show. So take any prediction as a very rough guide. Keep assessing your child's physical and mental state! https://anorexiafamily.com/weight-cen... • 2. Weight gain in growth spurts: The percentile charts don't show the very normal growth spurts that youngsters go through. Weight may need to shoot up (by more than a few kilos). • https://anorexiafamily.com/growth-spu... • 3. Weight-restoration: why and how much weight gain? • My main page on healthy weight for eating disorder recovery. Why weight gain, how much, danger of a low target weight, buffers, overshoot, ‘stuck’ patients. • https://anorexiafamily.com/weight-res... • 4. Is your child's target weight a gift to the eating disorder? • Comparing two methods therapists use to determine a weight target: growth chart (plus adjustments), or the one-size-fits-all BMI approach briefly mentioned in this video. The difference can be huge! • https://anorexiafamily.com/target-wei... • 5. What do BMI and Weight-For-Height mean? • What BMI and Weight-for-height (WFH) mean, and how they cannot be used for advice. Read this if your child’s therapist uses BMI or WFH • https://anorexiafamily.com/bmi-weight... • BLANK GROWTH CHARTS: • For charts (and be aware they are just statistical compilations from particular ethnicities, and that they do not show the whole picture of a healthy child's growth pattern e.g. growth spurts): • a) CDC (american) growth charts for boys http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/... and for girls http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/... and lots more on https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/char... • b) British: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/uk-.... • c) There's also access to WHO (World Health Organization) and CDC charts on https://mygrowthcharts.com/ • THE RESEARCH I MENTION IN THE VIDEO • On toddlers moving from their weight curve being predictive of eating disorders in adolescence: • Zeynep, Y., Gottfredson, N., Zerwas, S.C., Bulik, C.M., Micali, N., ‘Developmental premorbid body mass index trajectories of adolescents with eating disorders in a longitudinal population cohort’ in JAACAP (2019), vol. 58, no. 2, jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(18)32042-2/fulltext • MORE ON BMI and WEIGHT-For-HEIGHT • I made another video on what NOT to do: 'What is a BMI or '% Weight-for-Height' target, and how wrong it could be' • What is a BMI or '% Weight-for-Height... • Subscribe to my YouTube to be informed of the next videos! • Subscribe to my newsletter: https://anorexiafamily.com/signup • CAUTION PLEASE • I’m a parent – not a clinician. My resources are not a substitute for professional advice and I can't tell you everything you need to know in one short video.

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