Re: Sim size upon aging up

@greenean71, I think it can happen at any age change, but I just noticed it recently with my toddler aging to child.  But that is because I was testing genetics and needed to age up the baby to a teen in a short amount of time, but at the time I posted earlier I had only gotten to the child stage.  And if I don't have her loose some weight, I won't know if aging her to teen will make her heavy or not.  This time around it seems to be a problem with female Sims.  I think in the past it happened to both females and males. 🤔

As for foods making your Sims gain weight, some do have more calories, but other foods have zero, which seems to be an accident, since some of these foods are fattening in real life.  The best food to eat (that still has some calories) is Garden Salad.  The worst is Lobster Thermidor.  Check the list from Carl's Sims 4 Guide for the list of foods and calories. https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/tutorials/calories.php  (I think the previous link that I gave in the other post is broken.😳🤭  )   You will also see the section of foods that accidentally have no calories, so you can make those dishes as well .  Bacon and Eggs aren't too bad in the game, but not as good as salad.  And all of this depends on which packs you have added to your game.  Also, some foods aren't listed (like the food stall dishes that come with City Living, or the Grand Feasts that come with Seasons.  But the Grand Feasts can make your Sims fat very quickly!   And as with real life, the best way to loose weight is a combination of diet and exercise.  Just make sure you do cardio activites -- jog and use the treadmill.  ( @SheriGR & I love the treadmill combined with a TV for raising the Fun need (and Cooking skill if you have them watch the Cooking Channel) or the 2 treadmill combo for the added socialization they can get.  But some gyms have these set ups too!

Punching bag and training dummy (Strangerville) raise both cardio and muscle tone. And if you have Fitness Stuff you can do a cardio workout.  I'm not too sure how swimming and skating affect weight loss.🤔  I've used those more for fun so far.  😃

I hope this is of some help to you! 🙂  Hopefully they will fix the bug soon! 🤞

@PugLove888 @greenean71 Yes, swimming does help because it is the method by which I had my chubby girls (child) drop her weight. I can also say that the two toddlers-aged-to-children I had the weight issue with were girls.If you want to have Lobster or something fattening just don't have it often... and you can combine it with a dessert of the diet ice cream PugLove mentioned! Also, as she said, a decent reflection of real life. Balance seems key. Another decent trick is to grab the food and drag it to the trash or to the refrigerator to be used for leftovers once the sim is full so they don't overeat. Or just stop the eating interaction and distract them to some other activity.

This is still happening, but yesterday I had THE weirdest, exact opposite problem, and food seems to be the culprit. My sims have been max-fat on age-up to teen as an unwritten rule for ages, and will often be perma-stuck at that weight without using cheats to edit them in CAS mode. But yesterday I had a toddler (Jace) with a mother who has the "health nut" lifestyle trait and decided to experiment with feeding the toddler "healthy" meals out of the mother's available cooking list. Then as a child, Jace ate only about a handful of those healthy meals and otherwise ate harvestables because their garden produces a ton of edibles. I think he spent a week and a half to two weeks in child mode, and then I aged him up to teen. Immediately I could see that his waist is so thin it's cartoonish and he has muscle tone on his arms and legs which makes him look even more like an hourglass-gone-crazy.

My guess is the game is doing some kinda calorie math with normal meals and possibly even "quick" meals from the fridge, and toddlers/kids should not be eating the full meal but they do anyways because the hunger bar works the same regardless of a sim's age. I can't say for sure if the healthy meals affected Jace as that would take more experimenting with future kids, but I'm going to guess the harvestables made a huge difference because eating harvestables with adult sims seems to help them keep slim even if they don't exercise. But yeah... Jace literally looks like he... skipped abdomen day? And is missing some ribs to boot. It's that bad.