Partner telling me to eat healthily- fuming

example: I ran today and was Hot. I’m currently eating chocolate. Because I want to. Not because I’m pretending I need it for energy / to replenish sugar after my run. It’s just what I’m eating.

So many bizarre, uninformed and unhealthy attitudes to food and exercise on this thread.

@dreamer24 i hope you get “nutribollocks” into this sentence “my husband laughed at me when I spouted nutribollocks by saying i needed to eat salty chips after a run to replenish my salt”.

I personally have no problem at all with you eating whatever the hell you want after a run, I regularly do. The problem is your dressing it up like you did. Eat the chips, don’t eat the chips, just don’t dress it up as a nutritionally necessity.

Well you did go for a run then eat fat laden fries so it was probably the first thing that came to his mind.

And Gatorades and shop bought sandwiches are also ‘processed stuff’, generally.

it’s processed stuff that you can eat once in a while not as a post run snack

It was ‘once in a while’, it just happened to be after a run.
They’re not ‘terrible’, they’re just food. Not to be eaten all the time, granted, but the OP hasn’t given any indication that she’s constantly mainlining McDonald’s fries.

Chips from McDonald are terrible !!! You could have had anything else to “ replenish the salts (?)” unless you were in a field with only one McDonald in there you could have popped in one of those 24/7 and got yourself a getorade … a sandwich from Asda … chips from McDonald’s is crap quality and not for the calories … it’s processed stuff that you can eat once in a while not as a post run snack … and you know that this is why you got so mad . Cause everyone else here thought he was right . It’s the equivalent of saying I went for an icecream sundae cause my sugar level was low …

run followed by McDonalds is pretty unusual and many partners would comment on it

When I was a student I used to jog to the shop to buy fags and cider 😁

The amount of times I've read 'cream cake' on this thread has me gagging for a cream cake 😅

Wow the nutribollocks on here is crazy!
Here are a couple of points:

1. exercising and eating foods that contain fat and sugar are not mutually exclusive
2. chips are not ‘unhealthy’. They simply contain a certain nutrient profile which in the context of a persons nutritional requirements, and the rest of the weeks intake should be taken into account.
3. sometimes we choose food because it tastes nice/is available/is what fancy etc not simply because of nutritional value
4. as a runner myself I often have chips post run or a can of coke or whatever I fancy because unlike most people on this website I do not have an unhealthy relationship with food
5. The goal of exercise is not always weight loss. I exercise a lot but am not trying to lose weight. People exercise for many reasons including cardiovascular health, to help their bones, for alone time, for relaxation, they enjoy it, to get outside….

You sound fun

😆

So tell him to shut up 🤷🏻‍♀️

We do get four proper seasons here in Anhui, you just get used to it as it builds up through the spring, (as long as you don’t hide indoors from May). Same with the cold, we got -8 in January and it makes me a bit wheezy running to be honest.

This. I don't get how saying you need to eat healthily has to equate to losing weight.

I wouldn't take water on a three mile run. Not saying it's wrong, just unusual. If my partner called me saying they felt dizzy after a three mile run I'd think maybe they weren't fuelling their body with the right things. Maybe that's where he was coming from.

OP you seem overly pre-occupied with food and very defensive overall.

Hi OP!

Firstly, well done on your fitness endeavours; I hope you are doing well and wish you the very best towards achieving your personal goals.

Simply, in answer to your question... YES! I feel you have massively overreacted! Look at scenario... you did a run. You sweated. Your body told you it needed salt. You decided to grab some fries. You texted your partner and they replied. You saw red and here we are 19 pages into a MN thread (and counting). The whole situation could have been moved on immediately and you could have eaten your fries moments later, safe in the knowledge you have achieved a great run today.

Has it occurred that your partner was possibly supporting your endeavours and by him texting "you need to eat healthily", he was simply, albeit clumsily, supporting your goal.

A more rational reaction could have been you either ignoring the text and getting your fries. Or, you could have joked back to him and called him a CF. Then had your fries. The pure speculation here on MN is absolutely crazy, turning a very none eventful situation into something it absolutely was not... very much a butterfly effect.

Text's often fail to convery emotion or context and I have lost count of the amount of times I have witnessed a text coming across 100% the opposite way it could have been intended.

You have nothing to justify to anyone, you sound very healthy anyway and in future I recommend you focus your energy on achieving your personal goals rather then fuming, venting and wasting your precious time responding on MN to all the ridiculous insinuations. My mind is blown by your almost 4 pages of (almost 100) replies. A horrible waste of your time, unless of course, you felt the venting was cathartic.

P.S: I sincerely hope you enjoyed some fries (i didn't read all of your replies to establish this) and you have inspired me to pop down the road to have some too! Thank you, but you may have just taken a few days off of my life expectancy as I will be driving, not running. Perhaps I will get a cream cake from Greggs along the way... oh, damn the irony... and those pesky butterflies...

Haha, I would laugh and comment on it too. I'd think you were joking. Feeling dizzy after a run and then eat chips? I'd puke.
My husband would also say something if it were the other way around.

Doesn't matter if you ordered everything off the menu. That was a shitty thing for him to say. He could have said, "Oh if you only want salt, I'm sure they'll give you a pack for free, but please make sure you keep hydrated." Or if you actually wanted the chips the absolute worst IF you had said you were trying to loose weight, "Perhaps eat them slowly, with loads of liquid, you may find you don't want them all".
Chips in moderation aren't bad. I believe McD's use rapeseed and sunflower oil. They aren't bad fats and your body does need oil.

A good friend of mine (female) exercises so she can eat those "bad things" and drink beer. She likes to stay the same body weight, done it for 30 years. It's so funny to see people's expressions when we go to the pub and I order something kind of healthy (like salmon and salad which I love) with a sugar free drink and she orders steak, chips and a pint. The server usually gets the plates the wrong way around. She's 5"3 and slim, I'm 6" and not slim.

I think he's a cheeky bastard for saying that to you, as you say, you're not even overweight. Hope you got your chips and enjoyed them girl 🍟

How had you run out of water but then the water that was left was warm? Haha

I feel like that's too far the other way though and you're not drinking enough. In 38 degrees I'd struggle to go outside. It would be interesting to know how well you'd cope with running in sub zero temps.

Sorry will try harder in future to totally understand what the thread is about.