Partner telling me to eat healthily- fuming

I’m super confused about why everyone is trying to tell OP what and when she needs to feel good for a run of any distance, be it water, food or otherwise. It 100% OP’s prerogative and no one else’s.

It's interesting how when you're talking about yourself and what you ate, you say I had a half a sandwich and a banana.

Yet when you're talking about your DP and what he ate, you describe him as stuffing a cream cake in his face.

Why is that OP?

One has to consider the source of the feedback: do you think your dh knows more than you about what you did and why? If you let others create your "feelings" how do you make yourself feel good? I don't need dh to make me feel good...there are times he does something that makes me know he loves me and other times he says things that are dumber than dirt but I am not going to give him rein on my feelings. Only you can control your feelings so you don't get zinged into a "you hurt my feelings" BS.

You need to have a look at this fella on instagram, he talks a lot about guilt and food and how no food is “bad” and when you associate food with guilt you’re more likely to binge it because you’ve had one chocolate bar, you may as well have 10. He’s great!
337 calories of food after a run is fine!

My husband moans he needs to go to the gym to lose a small amount of weight so I comment when he then snaffles a lot of a family pack of M&Ms afterwards. I mention it because he moans about this precise amount of pounds so often. I find diet, exercise and fitness talk really tiresome. Maybe your husband feels the same.

Sorry OP but I think you’re reading too much into it.

That's not a theory, just a pseudo-science myth.

I don’t understand any of the replies on here which reference how good an idea it might or might not be to eat some Macdonalds fries after a run, as if that’s anywhere in the region of the issue.
OP, you can have some Macdonalds fries any fucking time you like. It’s a small box of chips, not a wrap of coke. You’re clearly leading a generally fit and healthy lifestyle, and Macdonalds chips are nice. Everyone in this situation needs to chill the fuck out.

Yes

There are 337 calories in a mcds medium fries. There is nothing wrong with eating fries after a run. The reason we’re all so fucked up about food and dieting is we attach guilt to it. You could have come home and had avocado on toast or egg on toast for the same amount of calories. Yes, there would be more nutrition in the avocado or egg but it’s the same amount of calories. It won’t make a difference if you also don’t eat a tub of Ben and Jerry’s and 3 pizzas later on. You went for a run, probably burnt off a fair few calories and then ate 337 calories. Perfectly fine.
You’re a size 10, BMI is healthy and you can run 3 miles in the sun. Enjoy the fries !

Did he buy you a cream cake when he went to Greggs?

It would make me prickle too if someone said that to me.

I had a massive McDonald's the other day with a milkshake and wine after. I have barely done anything this week thanks to a foot injury so no gym, running, no walking the kids to holiday club.

I'm in training for a half marathon and in this weather even on short runs I take water with me. Some days I can run 10+ kms, other days just half does me in! I struggle to do a short run on no food but I have done it occasionally yet I regularly lift heavy weights having had no breakfast and succeed more often than I don't. Running is just hard so even 3 miles followed by some chips is something to be proud of in my eyes especially if you aren't dieting. It might not be the best of food choices but we can't spend our lives living in lettuce and pomegranate seeds.

Aww bless you OP. I'm sure you look fantastic especially after having a baby. Maybe you are feeling sensitive about your body and overthinking it... hell you enjoy those fries 🍟

Embrace your squishy bits and well done on starting a regular exercise routine, it's shattering. I've not done my exercise routine since summer holidays as kids have broken up and I've lost my routine and don't feel very toned at the minute which makes me quite irritated over the silly things, like someone not leaving me an Ice cream etc. .... what are they trying to say?! When logically they didn't think and just ate it.

'Stuffing a cream cake in his face'?

Do you mean simply eating it?

You do seem very touchy about food and actually more judgmental than him.

I used to run on a treadmill for an hour (intervals) just so I could eat a big healthy slice of chocolate pie for lunch. Am no saint in the healthy eating department: life is too short for no bennies after a good workout.

do you know how little calories you burn on a 3 mile run? All this talk of salts depleting and needed to refuel is just silly. Leave a banana in your car next time.

When I used to run frequently, once a week I used to get chips on my way home but we’d laugh about it and how absurd I must look in my running gear sweat drying waiting in chip shop. I can’t imagine getting annoyed if someone pointed out how it was contradictory.

@piccolorhinoceros are you okay hun? You seem like an angry little bunny.

OP clearly is exercising to improve health, not simply because they enjoy it. Gains from exercise is a term to explain increased fitness such as weight loss or improved strength. Processed, high calorie junk food isn’t what will lead to muscle gain nor weight loss. It just simply doesn’t fuel your body in the appropriate way as it isn’t nutritious.

I have been a runner for years, but found nothing toned me after kids like pilates. It's quick and easy to do at home just grab some resistance bands for 10 mins a day 👍