Husbands constant eating

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Surky the easy solution is to have separate food shelves in the fridge? Family food shouldn't be touched by him and all food on his shelf is fair game, he then reorders at his own expense when needed. He obviously isn't gaining weight so the only issue is cost and eating the family food.

Morsel?! I don't see any 'morsels' in that list!

Switch the sexes and imagine a man watching every morsel his wife is putting in her mouth and complaining about it on the internet. MNers would go crazy.

He's not gaining weight so obviously he needs the calories. Buy more food or tell him to buy his own food.

Get him to do all the food shopping and putting away.

I don't see the problem, he needs to eat as he's exercising a lot. However, all that processed meat is really bad for his health. How about roasting some chicken or beef, slicing it, then he can snack on that? Would be much healthier and more filling too, plus it gives him the protein he needs.

Could he buy and roast a chicken and have that instead
It's really selfish not to consider you and DC. You need to tell him that

Can he not visit Tesco or order a shop in? Especially working from home. Easily pop out at lunch break to get a top up shop done.

Seems a bit odd you having to buy it all and him not leaving any food for you/DC. He can get his own food if he doesn't appreciate or respect you doing it surely.

It is possible to address this positively.

Suggest a shelf in the fridge for family meals- not for snacks- and the rest is fair game. Ask him what snacks he particularly likes- meat etc. stock up on those, but keep the family shelf sacred. He mustn't gorge on that.

12 miles, be it walk or run, is approx 1200 calories spent for an average size person btw. The person with 510 in their Fitbit may want to check its calibration, it’s not an exact science but that’s extremely low.

I'd say get him to cook whole chicken and someone said, do a big boiled ham/roast. If he has one of those plus couple of chicken a week that should cover his protein snacking needs, if not the rest of the familys. It seems mean that he eats things destined for you and the kids so make sure you make it firm that certain things are shared else he just buys his own food for snacks. It's great he's kept his weight off though, that should be applauded.

He’s obviously not over eating as he’s not putting the weight back on. I presume the beer isnt a daily thing? The rest wouldnt worry me genuinely. Lots of protein in there.

if you tell him not to eat eg some of the cold meat so it’s there for you and dd would he leave it?

Is he putting on weight with all that food? Exercise burns a depressingly small amount of calories so no way he's burning much of that off, even with 12 miles of running walking/day. I've walked today, just over 12 miles and have burnt less than 2500 calories. Fitbit calculates my exercise calories at 510. I know it's not amazing accurate but a rough idea and enough ti say he's no chance of burning off all that food with exercise. I don't know how many calories in meat but 6 pints?! and the food is surely thousands of calories over the recommended amount per day?

Regardless of calories and exercise, his behaviour isn't normal and is a manifestation of his unhealthy relationship with food. 9 stone lost in less than a year is a huge amount and he must have been very restrictive to achieve that after years of overeating. It sounds very much like he has an eating disorder and needs professional help.

What have you actually said to him about this situation??
Do you not say something everytime you go to use something and it's been used? Even the dogs meat?

Why do you buy it then? Stop buying it then he can't eat it

Just open the fridge when he is there and comment on how there is no such and such left you were hoping to give to the child sort of thing to start the conversation casually. Dou you actually want him to eat less or just to replenish things? Maybe he needs to do the shopping to understand?

Its just communication OP but you have focused on his 'eating' as if that is the actual problem

Just make sure enough food is in, or ensure he gets enough food in

I dont know what cold meat he is eating so cannot say (and neither can you) about additives and artificial sweetners.

Nearly all protein drinks have artificial sweetners, I havent found any that dont (and I am supposed to drink them myself as I cant have huge volume of food but need high protein, but I dont for that reason)

And cold meats don't have any of that?
Unless the OP can afford lots of meat he's not going to meet the amount he's aiming for. Good quality protein shakes shouldn't have too many additives or artificial sweeteners.

Running 5km a day is only going to be accounting for one hot cross bun and maybe a couple slices of his ham. Where are the other several thousand calories going?

And that amount of ham, plus all the beers etc means his diet is horrendously high in salt & sugars. Seriously, no amount of running can out-run the damage that is doing to his organs.

Tell him he's being greedy and over eating x

You shouldnt supplement foods with shakes etc, they're full of additives, artificial sweetners etc.

You should be getting as much of your nutrients/protein from food and only topping up where you cant (if you cant eat a lot of volume for example)