Partner telling me to eat healthily- fuming

Dietary sodium does next to nothing to replenish your stores.

Source for this please? Dietary sodium is sufficient for most healthy people. Advising crappy UPFs like energy gels and protein shakes wouldn't be my choice.

The decadence! I merely sniff delicately in the carrot’s general direction 😉

No one said that - a few people think it’s mildly odd, most people think the chips are all good - it is just funny the OP is so chippy* about some throw away comment from her husband.

Now, obviously she has explained it’s a deeper issue, but it took her a good long while.

** @MeowCatPleaseMeowBack you win the thread 🏆 🏃‍♀️☀️the prize is 🍟 maybe the OP will share.. I hope you’re craving salt.

Why do you care? Giving him power over your thoughts thus your emotions. Next time: don't tell him you went to get fries.

Honestly, if I was at a soft play with the kids, which is not a lot of adults idea of fun and dp was texting me looking for support because he found a 3 mile run a bit difficult then started telling me he was getting chips ‘for the salt’. I would probably roll my eyes to be honest.

I am not sure what support someone needs after finding a run a bit difficult. That’s how it works. Some are better than others. But I am also not a fan of people sending platitudes for the sake of it either so I wouldn’t want dp texting ‘well done’ either.

and honestly, if you posted this the other way round I don’t think many people would have sympathy for a man looking for support for a 3 mile run and approval of him going to McDonald’s ‘for the salt’.

I never have a post run Frappuccino. I just lick a carrot and feel smug.

Context and tone matter. Because he is right, when your doing strenuous excercise you do need to replenish in a healthy way. However as you've taken this so badly, and are not reading this as concern but as criticism/control, I'm assuming there's a bit of history.

Honestly all the sanctimonious twats on this threat criticising a woman for needing to take water for what they perceive is a short run and slagging off her food choices. You're as bad as her dh!

For sure it's better to eat healthily and refuel with lean protein. But sometimes a bit of what you fancy does you good.

I ran 27k today. I've just finished my Macdonald's large chicken selects meal. Which I really really fancied (and often choose for after a long run). I run marathons and ultras and it doesn't do me any harm 🤷‍♀️

I wouldn't criticise what someone else chooses to do in the same situation.

Newsflash - what works for one person doesn't for someone else. WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT

OK, maybe what he meant was "you need to eat something healthy to support your run" rather than "chips? after a run, that'll make you fat"

I think most people equate exercise with merely wanting to be thin(ner) so expect people who exercise to be eating vegetables and fruit. Some of us just run because we enjoy it.

I'm not sure why you are getting a hard time here OP. It's like people think you are either a healthy person who goes for runs and would never touch McDonalds or an unhealthy person who doesn't run so it's fine to have McDonald's because you've given up, and there is nothing in between! As someone who never runs, well done you and why shouldn't you have a bit of what you fancy! And 3 miles seems like a long run to me!

In terms of your husband that would annoy me too and I would absolutely be replying that I don't need dietary advice from Mr cream cake for lunch thank you very much. However, looking at it as an outsider, is he responding to you feeling a bit off after a run and saying you'll feel better after eating something 'proper' rather than just chips out of concern for how you feel, not as a telling off? After all, half a sandwich doesn't seem like a great lunch to fuel exercise.

I think you are more preoccupied with your diet and food than you realise. I gave up reading your posts after you’d mentioned the cream cake four times.

That would have annoyed me too if there was nothing more supportive in it. If he’d phrased it like, “Are you sure you fancy chips now? You’ve been working hard to be healthy this week” - then I’d have appreciated the comment.

How did you respond, OP? And did you ever get your chips?!

I’d have left a packet of salt and vinegar crisps at the top of our stairs by now for DH because “you’ll need to take on some salt after all that elevation” 🤣

@dreamer24 I would have been pissed off if dh had said anything other than ok - especially if I was onto a size 10.

However, I work in healthcare and we have a big focus on hyponatraemia (low sodium) at the moment. Dietary sodium does next to nothing to replenish your stores. You need electrolytes (can get the gel packets on Amazon) and then some proper energy for post run, either a banana or something high in protein. Could you take a protein shake, or a protein bar with you to have on the way home next time? If you're feeling shaky and dizzy it's more likely due to the exertion than truly low salt.

How date she text her partner letting him what's going on. She didn't text him saying she was going for all you can eat Chinese ffs she felt unwell went for fries, most normal people would reply 'can you pick me up a.... whatever' or 'do you need me to bring anything?' Or 'let me know you feel better' or '3 miles well done, those fries will taste especially good after that, see you at home!'

Meh, if DH had said he'd finished his getting fit bike ride and was going for chips, I'd have ripped the piss out of him 🤣😅
I think.you may be taking things too seriously OP - is he supporting you in other ways? Does he show you he cares?

Just tell him to shove his cream cake where the sun don't shine and crack on with your exercise🙂

He sounds rude. But for me McDonald's chips aren't even salty enough, lol. It's just empty carbs.
A handful of salted nuts would be good, or even some salami, chorizo or something?
I'm not saying he was right to be rude but I'd be loth to waste my run calorie deficit on maccas straight afterwards.

I thought that. I’d have thought fucking cheek but I’d have said “whatever”

if its your choice why did you text him then?