Partner telling me to eat healthily- fuming

One portion? OP hasn't said how often she eats them or what other foods her diet is

the diet stuff I see on here isn't relevant to anything I see in RL. I would say the majority of people eat some chips every so often whether it's at home or McDonald's or a chip portion on a trip to the beach

This.

A quarter teaspoon of salt in water would have replaced some electrolytes. The fat on fried chips could damage arteries, run or not.

It was clumsy of him and I daresay, from someone who'd just necked a cake, it felt unfair.

I agree, chips are not really the way to go when you're trying to tone up - although once in a while is hardly a crime. Perhaps, the next time you want a little 'treat', don't tell him?

It's not the case for the OP. Eating chips for rehidratation is absurd. She wants to get fit. I guess cardio fitness so eating salt and and chips is one the worst things you can consume for your heart health. I will ar rubbish food but I don't lie to myself saying that will do me any good. That's probably what triggered her partner comment because she tried to justify why she was eating chips. As if it was a bit healthy. It definitely isn't .

OP, well done for getting back into fitness. You’ve run further than some people, less than others. You can probably objectively accept that you haven’t set any records and you do come across as a little defensive. However, you’ve got out there and done it, it was a bit tough and you didn’t need what appeared to be criticism from DH. But who’s made him your coach? You are doing it for you. He can eat his cream cakes. You’ve had some good advice, you’ve endured some petty bragging from the endurance runners who do 1000 miles on the dew from a leaf, but the important thing is you put your trainers on again tomorrow.

Why? You're not undoing everything you've done, that's saying you should only bother to exercise if you don't eat fried food or eat well so if you eat fried food you shouldn't exercise because there's no point?

I exercise for the fun, the heart and lungs fitness, for bone density, for helping myself in older age, for mental health. Not for weight loss or even necessarily fitness
But eating fried food even after exercise doesn't take away fitness or the rest of it

He’s right though McDonald’s isn’t healthy. Theirs plenty of food that will raise your salt levels then chips. His food choices are his and yours are yours but perhaps since you’ve been on a health kick he made the comment to stop you eating shit and regretting it later when you didn’t need it.

why? better than not going for a run and having chips! maybe they run so that they can have a (very small!) indulgence every now and then!

I went for a sea swim yesterday and then had two McD’s cheeseburgers! My diet is mostly healthy - I’ve lost 5 stone over the past two years and am still steadily losing 1/2 to 1 pound a week.

but I like swimming so I went and I like cheeseburgers so occasionally I have them…

you do you OP

You probably did need the salt, also your body might have needed to replace the carbs so chips would be fine.

If you want to replenish electrolyte at mcdonalds an orange juice with a pinch of salt is a better bet.

What you expected to hear? Why did you explain why you need to eat chips for the salt? Makes no sense.
It's kind of whats the point of going for a run and undo all the good it did by eating fried food?
Not about calories only. Chips are very unhealthy

Agree

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Just reply with 'healthy eh Mr Gregg's cream cakes for lunch' with a winky face.

I go to running club and once in a while we do a chippy run. Having a run out and chips on the way back. As long as you don't do it after every run you'll be fine! Keep going with the running, you get used to running in the heat, although some runners hate running in extremes of hot/cold. My nemesis is cold weather 🥶, then I become an indoor treadmill runner and freeze during my competitions!

No, not at all. I didn't lose any weight with Graves. My heart was fast, though, hence the need for the medication.

I am now on Mounjaro and, even with that and hardly eating, I'm losing on average less than a pound a week.

As I said, there are many women on it that have ballooned. As ever, people want it to be put down to 'laziness' etc, but it's not. I've always been a 'bigger' girl, actually, and have only had Graves for about 8 years. I haven't eaten more or moved less since being on it, which is the general report from people who take it, but many see a huge increase in weight that isn't 'returning to normal weight' at all. They are now fat, not their normal weight at all.

It's really disappointing to see someone with a thyroid condition being so ignorant to other conditions and dismissive of the struggles of others.

You can die from the disease. It's not flippant and if we need medication, we NEED it. It's not fair at all to then be dismissed like that when they gain weight on it, a recognised side effect of the drug slowing your metabolism.

A ridiculous time of day to run.

There is never a reason to eat a McDonald’s product - just a self indulgent poor food choice.

Ahh I see.

But that's just their weight going to 'normal' after their overactive thyroid has become stable.

So technically it causes weight gain, but only until that point.

The rest is down to diet/exercise, the same as it is for everyone else.