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Not really. We sort of just ate whatever. Mom cooked good meals for us and we had treats when it was appropriate.

My mom didn't keep a ton of sweets in the house. But there was always some kind of ice cream or cookies that we were allowed to have a small serving of if we finished our dinner. I agree that we were just way more active than kids these days are so it wasn't really a battle for our parents to keep us at a healthy weight.

We didn't have too much in the house, and we always had a homemade lunch/dinner (we walked home from school at lunch and my Gran had lunch ready).

I did eat like crap for a while though.. from about 11-12 I had icecream for breakfast every day!! My parents let me!! I would eat it before bed too!

I started to get a bit "chunky" according to my mom, so she stopped letting me (I don't remember this) and then was small again! LOL

I'm glad she stopped me though, I am tiny now but I have to watch what I eat to stay this way.. so if I kept up with my twice daily icecream I'm sure it would have been really hard to slim down.

I think back in the day, there were less packaged foods, too. You said your mom cooked healthy...once my mom started working, I don't know how often we had Stouffer's Lasagna or Beef Stroganoff for dinner. Not healthy at all! Lunch was almost always a sandwich, chips, carrot sticks, fruit snacks, and a Little Debbie cake. Oh plus a Capri Sun. Way too much sugar/junk, in my opinion.

I don't want to limit snacks, but I will limit junk. I think if most children are presented with fruit snacks or an apple, the fruit snacks will almost always win. But I don't want to limit to the point that they become obsessed with it, either. We don't eat a lot of junk in general, so it will already be limited around the house. I think processed foods is more the culprit for obesity, as is less activity.

To answer the question, no, we weren't very limited. But I played 3 sports and was very active. However, I grew up with a complex about being overweight and heavy (even though I wasn't) because I wasn't model-thin. So there was a gross double standard

We had sweets, but they were limited for sure. She made sure we ate healthy, even though I had the biggest sweet tooth known to mankind. I could seriously sniff out where she was hiding the chocolate/candy!

Nope, my parents bought us all kinds of treats but we self regulated somehow! None of us kids really overindulged because we'd get tummy aches. I remember Entenmanns cookies were my favorites...

yes my parents would limit how much candy or sweets we could have. but they let us keep the change from our lunch money and we would sneakily buy sweets on the way home but not tell. So I cant blame anyone that I had to have so much dental work to repair all my cavities

No real limiting. I really think the key is that as kids we were much more active than many kids nowadays.

I wasn't into sweets growing up so my parents didn't have to worry about too much candy. I did like salty snacks. My parents never limited them as they are snackers themselves. But they always made sure we had healthy home cooked meals for most of our meals.

Our house was stocked with junk food and we ate fast food regularly as kids. My friends loved coming over because we had the best food! My dad always packed us healthy lunches though.

Luckily (thanks in large part to genetics), my sisters and I are all perfectly healthy and we practice good nutrition.

Yup, I wasn't allowed to drink soda or have instant noodles or any sort of junk except on very rare occasions. I remember not being allowed sodas on a regular basis until I was in junior high, and by then, I didn't even care for it anymore.