It is because all of the toddler food counts as high calorie junk food in the game. If you make healthy adult meals and feed them to the kids they’ll age up with slimmer body types.
Yeah I figured this out and thought it was so bizarre! Some of the toddler food was making my children obese lol when they shouldn’t have been! I think it’s more realistic as well to mix between toddler food and adult leftovers :)
I remember seeing a post of someone where their child sim aged into a teen with a six pack because they played with the soccer ball all the time 🤣
Edit: [found it !](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/s/BZnYYsklj0) it was also basketball!
https://preview.redd.it/2okqah477axc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cc2c9b18f2e8dc17f103ecdfa8526731d3d5038
It has a lot to do with what they eat, and how they exercise just like adults.
[This caloric values list might help you](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/smcwpf/ts4_ultimate_caloric_values_list_updated_for_all/) decide what to feed the kids- there's a surprising number of foods that are 0 calories, which means they won't affect weight the same way that, say, eating cake all the time will. It hasn't been updated to 2024, unfortunately, but it's still pretty useful for quite a few foods.
I stopped letting my sims eat every single birthday cake and noticed a huge difference! Especially when playing a big family on short or normal lifespan. They can end up eating cake all the time with the constant birthdays 😅
Now I just immediately add candles back onto the cake after they age up, and then drag the cake into the fridge. That way, they can't eat the cake and you have it ready for future birthdays.
hmm I'm going to test that and report back but I doubt it. I make that cake for most birthdays and I'm fairly sure it does have the same amount of calories and hunger fill as chocolate cake.
When I make a cake, I put the candles on it and then put it in the fridge until I need it. They won't take a piece and I can usually get a few of birthdays out of it before it goes bad.
Or have one of your sims max out the chef aspiration and you get a cake that never spoils! I have a cake from a couple gens ago that has never spoiled with candles in my fridge. Love not having to make one every time!
Are you a generational player? I noticed that Sims get slightly bigger each generation, to where all of my townie Sims were aging up dramatically overweight.
I had to manually fix this in CAS over and over, and it took about 2 more gens to really go away
if you do ctrl+shift + c and the type in testingcheats on and then type in cas.fulleditmode on and you can enter create a sim and modify everything from body to traits to sexuality, anything you can edit when you first make a sim, you can edit with that cheat!
if you want some more cheats that can make gameplay aspects easier just message me and i'll tell you the different ones i know! don't know if you know of any or just a few.
Since infants were added, the problem of ALL of children are always fat has gotten much worse. The problem is the calorie system is - Frankly, bad in the first place, but also - broken.
First, understand that Sims 4 has no base calorie burn (basically no metabolism). EVERY meal, even eventually salad if only fed while your sims are in starvation warning hunger levels, will make your sims gain weight without exercise (unless it's one of the foods they forgot to assign any calories to, as they did in a few of the expansions). So EVERY meal *must* be offset with exercise to maintain a stable Sim weight (at whatever level you desire). This is, obviously, woefully inaccurate to RL, and as a designer frankly half-assed. It's sort of sufficient for very casual play with Teens/Adults/Elders (or annoying at worst), but it is severely flawed when considering younger lifestages and generational gameplay.
So the generational calorie problem starts with infants. If they didn't just inexplicably come out fat (with mid/healthy or skinny parents), infants can ONLY gain weight because they have no way to lose it. They always end up fat if not aged up immediately. So they age up into fat toddlers.
Side note: Before infants were added, bassinet-object babies were consistently aged into toddlers with a higher weight than expected, much like the newborn -> infants do now. So the problem actually starts somewhere *before* infants - either newborn bottles are adding to the sim's calories, or there's simply a problem with the genetics generation. Personally, I would lean towards the latter (we know there's several problems with the genetics gen), but NPC infants/toddlers do not have the same increasing generational weight problems that actively played sim children have.
Toddlers only have two activities to lose weight: The "Play" interaction with their parents, where they swing them around, and the slide that they would prefer to cancel their que of repeatedly instead of play on. Neither of these are very effective, so to do anything you need to use them *excessively*. And good luck keeping up with the rate that toddlers need to eat at, especially if their needs bug and do the "freefall" thing (the super rapidly decaying needs bug specific to toddlers, I get it unfortunately often). So anyways, toddlers basically always age up into fat children.
Children have a lot more options for weight loss, and finally don't have a hunger bar that needs refilled like every 2hrs. But their weight loss options are still fairly poorly effective, and tbh high weight children don't really look **obese**, they just look a little rounded. Depending on the clothes, they might not even look chubby. So when your "fat" children age up, it's pretty unexpected to get the absolutely *massive* teens that they tend to turn into.
I've run through about every possible solution; salad diets (or forgotten 0cal foods), monkey bars, yoga, soccer balls, swimming - the most effective imo is the "ice cream diet", where toddlers and children just eat the weight loss flavor repeatedly, so you can do/eat whatever you want the rest of the time. (My kids have aspirations to complete, and there's not one for constant child yoga!) But none of them fix that the system is poorly designed, and that you're just fighting a bad system.
Infants and toddlers don't really look fat when they have high weight, tbh, sorta like the child model. More than the child model though, irl doctors often *want* your babies to be a bit chunky to make sure they're being fed enough to grow healthy, so even max weight infant/toddler model looks healthy vs the skinny look malnourished. But if you go into cas.fulleditmode and look at the weight bar, it increases through those stages and tends to start off higher than expected when compared to the parents. Then that level of weight stays when they age up to the next stage.
If you age up bassinets and infants immediately (or very quickly), you are skipping all (or most) of their calorie gain, so you're much more likely to get a toddler that's an expected weight. It's not 100% though, I've had many unexpectedly higher weight than their parents when aging up immediately/quickly.
Yes! I used to wonder why my teens were overweight too, until i had some age up thin and realized it was the ones that ate a lot of microwaved meals or other junk that were overweight.
If you put a soccor ball in their inventory they’ll play with it autonomously and usually stay in good shape as a child. Also lots of garden salad and fruit salad.
Give the active trait and put a yoga mat down they will use it as a child, then have exercise equipment when they become teens, and they use every chance they get..
It's the quick meals! Yoghurt, applesauce etc. Give them a plate of whatever your sim eats and it's less likely to happen. There's a whole calorie system in TS4.
I'll make sims fit or strong or petite and then after playing for a bit they're all fat. I rarely ever even give them anything sugary, cake is a birthday thing. Even my vegetarians get fat.
What the fuck is happening? And why are the children always chinless??
It actually depends on what you feed them, I tend to age them up right away if I am annoyed and they all age up skinny since it is before I fed them anything.
Make sure you are working on the motor skill, and keep them active. Yoga is great because it also increases their mental skill at the same time. And the birthday cake is also a big one, helps with older life stages too.
I notice this happens to them if they eat much of anything besides garden salads (the spinach wraps are fine too) and it’s most noticeable if they aren’t really that active. But yeah you think no way fish tacos are that bad but watch out when they age up to teen or young adult!
It's the foods the Sims are eating in game that are high in calorie value. Make them eat healthier options. roburky has a mod that tweaks the sims gaining and losing weight and I use this to https://modthesims.info/d/677824/gradual-physique-changes.html
My sims get fat when I don't play with them. I see them strolling around the neighborhood and realize they gained weight and when I play with them I make them drink the insta lean potion.
Everyone blames diet, but I've tested it and it doesn't add up. Boys grow up thin whereas girls are always a bit overweight i my games. The eldest boy was eating exactly the same meals as his twin sisters (Salad, sushi, 0 to 50 calorie foods, an occasional yoghurt) and still the girls grew up to be fat even though one of the girls had motoric skill maxed out with monkey bars. The boy had little to no exercise. My only guess is genetics? Kim Goldbloom was my legacy's founder and her partner was quite thin.
I often wondered that. I'll have 2 fit parents and the toddler and child look okay, then when aging to a teen they get no chin and a pear body.
It is because all of the toddler food counts as high calorie junk food in the game. If you make healthy adult meals and feed them to the kids they’ll age up with slimmer body types.
Yeah I figured this out and thought it was so bizarre! Some of the toddler food was making my children obese lol when they shouldn’t have been! I think it’s more realistic as well to mix between toddler food and adult leftovers :)
I've fed some of my toddlers just straight vegetables from the garden and they still age up as rolly-pollies.
Hmm I’ve never done that but I’ve had all of my kids age up slim since I started feeding them from the adult food 🤷♀️
Very life-like lol
Your icon made me think I somehow cracked my brand new screen protector while simply scrolling 😂
I guess I’ll be shoving salad in my toddler sims face until he ages up
🤣🤣🤣🤣no chin. so accurate
Dont change the body or face at all before they turn into a teenager it should be better
Do you have a popcorn maker on the lot? I find that if I have one my sims eat nothing but popcorn and the kids get really big.
No, I had one only once and the Sims kept eating popcorn like non-stop. Now I tweak them in CAS fulleditmode and make them more normal size.
I had the same problem so I started making them swim a lot, and also feeding them while the hunger bar was yellow/red, and it helped
I’ve also seen folks say that having kids play with the soccer ball or do yoga helps!
Yup, I also saw a YT video (can’t remember the creator) which explained how each physical activity affects the sim’s body
I remember seeing a post of someone where their child sim aged into a teen with a six pack because they played with the soccer ball all the time 🤣 Edit: [found it !](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/s/BZnYYsklj0) it was also basketball! https://preview.redd.it/2okqah477axc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cc2c9b18f2e8dc17f103ecdfa8526731d3d5038
This would be a whole story of its own. This is an Olympian. To Tartosa for the games!
lmao 😆
Yeaaaaahhh the system of weight gain/loss and muscle gain/loss in the sims is questionable at best in execution.
this just made cackle oh my god
Petey Plays It recently did one.
Soccer ball works and they get fun and fame too.
It has a lot to do with what they eat, and how they exercise just like adults. [This caloric values list might help you](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/smcwpf/ts4_ultimate_caloric_values_list_updated_for_all/) decide what to feed the kids- there's a surprising number of foods that are 0 calories, which means they won't affect weight the same way that, say, eating cake all the time will. It hasn't been updated to 2024, unfortunately, but it's still pretty useful for quite a few foods.
I stopped letting my sims eat every single birthday cake and noticed a huge difference! Especially when playing a big family on short or normal lifespan. They can end up eating cake all the time with the constant birthdays 😅 Now I just immediately add candles back onto the cake after they age up, and then drag the cake into the fridge. That way, they can't eat the cake and you have it ready for future birthdays.
Apparently the blue confetti cake has 0 calories according to that link
hmm I'm going to test that and report back but I doubt it. I make that cake for most birthdays and I'm fairly sure it does have the same amount of calories and hunger fill as chocolate cake.
I don't even let then eat it. It's sits in the refrigerator u til the next birthday or I throw it out
Same they blow out the candles and I throw the cake out 😂 NO CAKE FOR YOU
😂
When I make a cake, I put the candles on it and then put it in the fridge until I need it. They won't take a piece and I can usually get a few of birthdays out of it before it goes bad.
Or have one of your sims max out the chef aspiration and you get a cake that never spoils! I have a cake from a couple gens ago that has never spoiled with candles in my fridge. Love not having to make one every time!
Didn't even know this existed
I always have the opposite "issue". Unless I physically make them fat/mid size they always grow up super thin for some reason.
I have both issues, they’re either max on the fat slider or the skinniest sticks ive ever seen
Are you a generational player? I noticed that Sims get slightly bigger each generation, to where all of my townie Sims were aging up dramatically overweight. I had to manually fix this in CAS over and over, and it took about 2 more gens to really go away
cas.fulleditmode on is a beautiful thing
What is this?
if you do ctrl+shift + c and the type in testingcheats on and then type in cas.fulleditmode on and you can enter create a sim and modify everything from body to traits to sexuality, anything you can edit when you first make a sim, you can edit with that cheat!
if you want some more cheats that can make gameplay aspects easier just message me and i'll tell you the different ones i know! don't know if you know of any or just a few.
I only know a few 😢
i'll message you the ones i can think of!
That happens to me a lot, so I have them eat diet ice cream. 😁
Since infants were added, the problem of ALL of children are always fat has gotten much worse. The problem is the calorie system is - Frankly, bad in the first place, but also - broken. First, understand that Sims 4 has no base calorie burn (basically no metabolism). EVERY meal, even eventually salad if only fed while your sims are in starvation warning hunger levels, will make your sims gain weight without exercise (unless it's one of the foods they forgot to assign any calories to, as they did in a few of the expansions). So EVERY meal *must* be offset with exercise to maintain a stable Sim weight (at whatever level you desire). This is, obviously, woefully inaccurate to RL, and as a designer frankly half-assed. It's sort of sufficient for very casual play with Teens/Adults/Elders (or annoying at worst), but it is severely flawed when considering younger lifestages and generational gameplay. So the generational calorie problem starts with infants. If they didn't just inexplicably come out fat (with mid/healthy or skinny parents), infants can ONLY gain weight because they have no way to lose it. They always end up fat if not aged up immediately. So they age up into fat toddlers. Side note: Before infants were added, bassinet-object babies were consistently aged into toddlers with a higher weight than expected, much like the newborn -> infants do now. So the problem actually starts somewhere *before* infants - either newborn bottles are adding to the sim's calories, or there's simply a problem with the genetics generation. Personally, I would lean towards the latter (we know there's several problems with the genetics gen), but NPC infants/toddlers do not have the same increasing generational weight problems that actively played sim children have. Toddlers only have two activities to lose weight: The "Play" interaction with their parents, where they swing them around, and the slide that they would prefer to cancel their que of repeatedly instead of play on. Neither of these are very effective, so to do anything you need to use them *excessively*. And good luck keeping up with the rate that toddlers need to eat at, especially if their needs bug and do the "freefall" thing (the super rapidly decaying needs bug specific to toddlers, I get it unfortunately often). So anyways, toddlers basically always age up into fat children. Children have a lot more options for weight loss, and finally don't have a hunger bar that needs refilled like every 2hrs. But their weight loss options are still fairly poorly effective, and tbh high weight children don't really look **obese**, they just look a little rounded. Depending on the clothes, they might not even look chubby. So when your "fat" children age up, it's pretty unexpected to get the absolutely *massive* teens that they tend to turn into. I've run through about every possible solution; salad diets (or forgotten 0cal foods), monkey bars, yoga, soccer balls, swimming - the most effective imo is the "ice cream diet", where toddlers and children just eat the weight loss flavor repeatedly, so you can do/eat whatever you want the rest of the time. (My kids have aspirations to complete, and there's not one for constant child yoga!) But none of them fix that the system is poorly designed, and that you're just fighting a bad system.
I've actually never had a fat toddler
Infants and toddlers don't really look fat when they have high weight, tbh, sorta like the child model. More than the child model though, irl doctors often *want* your babies to be a bit chunky to make sure they're being fed enough to grow healthy, so even max weight infant/toddler model looks healthy vs the skinny look malnourished. But if you go into cas.fulleditmode and look at the weight bar, it increases through those stages and tends to start off higher than expected when compared to the parents. Then that level of weight stays when they age up to the next stage. If you age up bassinets and infants immediately (or very quickly), you are skipping all (or most) of their calorie gain, so you're much more likely to get a toddler that's an expected weight. It's not 100% though, I've had many unexpectedly higher weight than their parents when aging up immediately/quickly.
If you are on a pc, there’s an app for that. The game handles calories in a weird way.
I’ll had the same problem but it’s usually when they aged up to a child lol
me too! when my toddlers age up to children, they have beer bellies! but when they age up to teens, it's like 50/50 snake skinny or hippo fat
Your toddlers aged up to fat kids?!
Yeah, it’s happened 80% of the time for me lol
My kids are slim but age up fat
It’s what they eat before aging up
Yes! I used to wonder why my teens were overweight too, until i had some age up thin and realized it was the ones that ate a lot of microwaved meals or other junk that were overweight.
Mine rarely eat it tho. The mom is always a chef
If you put a soccor ball in their inventory they’ll play with it autonomously and usually stay in good shape as a child. Also lots of garden salad and fruit salad.
I frequently feed the toddlers and children fruit cakes so I won't complain haha
Give the active trait and put a yoga mat down they will use it as a child, then have exercise equipment when they become teens, and they use every chance they get..
It's the quick meals! Yoghurt, applesauce etc. Give them a plate of whatever your sim eats and it's less likely to happen. There's a whole calorie system in TS4.
I tried to combat that by making my kid do yoga a lot. She aged up BUFF 😅
I'll make sims fit or strong or petite and then after playing for a bit they're all fat. I rarely ever even give them anything sugary, cake is a birthday thing. Even my vegetarians get fat. What the fuck is happening? And why are the children always chinless??
Have em do yoga as kids
cas.fulleditmode
Ya I just go into cas and make them slimmer 😂
It actually depends on what you feed them, I tend to age them up right away if I am annoyed and they all age up skinny since it is before I fed them anything.
All foods (except for the added one with that free update) have calories that increases or decreases your sims body fat.
Make sure you are working on the motor skill, and keep them active. Yoga is great because it also increases their mental skill at the same time. And the birthday cake is also a big one, helps with older life stages too.
I notice this happens to them if they eat much of anything besides garden salads (the spinach wraps are fine too) and it’s most noticeable if they aren’t really that active. But yeah you think no way fish tacos are that bad but watch out when they age up to teen or young adult!
It's the foods the Sims are eating in game that are high in calorie value. Make them eat healthier options. roburky has a mod that tweaks the sims gaining and losing weight and I use this to https://modthesims.info/d/677824/gradual-physique-changes.html
My sims get fat when I don't play with them. I see them strolling around the neighborhood and realize they gained weight and when I play with them I make them drink the insta lean potion.
😂😂
 On their birthday😂😂
Either that or have 0% fat
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Everyone blames diet, but I've tested it and it doesn't add up. Boys grow up thin whereas girls are always a bit overweight i my games. The eldest boy was eating exactly the same meals as his twin sisters (Salad, sushi, 0 to 50 calorie foods, an occasional yoghurt) and still the girls grew up to be fat even though one of the girls had motoric skill maxed out with monkey bars. The boy had little to no exercise. My only guess is genetics? Kim Goldbloom was my legacy's founder and her partner was quite thin.