BJ's Favorite Food

When BJ was first diagnosed with Autism I ran into a lady that gave me some very valuable advice.  She told me to change his diet.  She asked me what was some of his favorite foods.  I begin listing all of the things he loved to eat.  By the time I was finished she told me that all of things that I was feeding him with a red-dye was not good for him.  He was very young at the time so it wasn't as difficult to just stop buying those things.  I immediately saw a difference.

Before I changed his diet, BJ would not even make eye contact.  He would not answer my questions. He would have tantrums and just be totally unresponsive.  When I changed his diet I saw a huge improvement.  Well, now that I'm researching again I'm learning more and more about the things that I should allow him to eat.  He's not going to like it but a change is about to happen again.

BJ's Favorite Foods:
1. pop tarts
2. milk
3. bread
4. fried chicken
5. french fries
6. pizza
7. fruit punch or red sodas

For some reason BJ was attracted to red.  He wanted red pop tarts and red juice.  I don't know if anyone else deals with this with their autistic child but my son is 12 years old and for 12 years I have been trying to get him to eat different things.  I've played all of my cards, trust me.  I've threatened, spanked, yelled, cried...you name it...I've done it.

He is stubborn.  I have to trick him a lot of times or bribe him to eat certain things.  I pick my battles, because YES it is a battle.

Our next mission is to change his diet.  I know that BJ is very capable of a lot of things.  I honestly feel like his diet is holding him back from reaching his fullest potential.  It's hard for me as well because changing his diet means that my diet has to change as well, but I'm definitely going to make a commitment to do this because he deserves a real shot at life.