Partner telling me to eat healthily- fuming

Carbimazole. All of the Graves Disease groups are full of women who've been thin their whole lives but ballooned on it.

It's the devil, but then it does keep us alive 😂

You’re not running to lose weight though are you OP? The chips are fine! When I was training for London marathon I had a crème egg after almost every run 😂 I’m training for one in Italy at the moment and I eat bacon butties and sweets most days

I can absolutely relate to the feeling off | coming down bit. I had an unpleasant run a couple of days ago and couldn’t understand it then. Well, I am now down with shingles…

As a thyroid sufferer myself, I'm curious to know which medication this is?

Why is it weird ?

I used to run a lot. I used to love running.

I would often pick up some chips after running. It is not weird.

It's only weird if you associate running with trying to keep yourself fit. But a lot of people run because they just love doing it. Even though that might actually be incomprehensible to people that do it as a chore.

It was 40C or thereabouts when Michael Mosley died, and in a very different climate to the UK, a whole step change different from 27C, let alone the 23C that OP says it was when she went out. He was also in his 60s, not a woman of childbearing age. The two events are simply not comparable.

I’m with you OP! A portion of chips is an easy way to replenish salt and carbs after a sweaty run, and half my running club can be found in McDonalds after a hot evening session. Emile Cairess (4th in the olympic marathon) is also a big advocate of a chippy-inclusive nutrition plan if his Runner’s World Podcast interview is anything to go by. As long as your overall diet is balanced, there’s nothing wrong with some of it arriving in a fast-food wrapper

I personally wouldn't eat crap then exercise as I'd probably feel rubbish during. Whereas on occasion if I exercise and then fancy a takeaway for dinner, I'll have it. Equating 'bad' food with guilt, and exercise with worthiness isn't a good way to approach a healthy lifestyle. I don't exercise to 'burn off' the bad food, I exercise to be fit and healthy, and I eat an overall good diet to be fit and healthy. I also occasionally eat a McDonalds, because I want to. I don't feel guilty about that.

@BunnyLake It's Alright Darling has already explained, but I just want to back her up. Your body is constantly using calories to function, it's an ongoing process. Even when you're asleep. Thinking of calories in terms of 'one cream cake = 300 calories and one run = 300 calories, so I can eat a cream cake because I ran' isn't particularly useful, and is why a lot of diets fail.

It doesn't sound like you're trying to lose weight, but tone up - which is done in the gym and with things like protein. Some chips won't derail that so I'd be fuming

Unfortunately Micheal mosley and many others thought the same and wasn't fine. It's been 27°-32° across the UK and the OP has started exercising after a pregnancy. She doesn't have to declare if she's been/is bf but would need extra hydration if she is.

But overall, you’re consumed 300 calories and you’ve burned 300 calories.

I suppose I saw it as burning off calories you already had, not future calories.

Plus of course your body is burning calories all the time, not just when you exercise. It doesn’t hold on to the cream cake calories until your next run.

Scientifically, why would that be the case?
I’m saying that the run you do at lunchtime specifically burns the calories you eat at 9pm. It’s your overall calorie intake/expenditure that matters for weight loss (if that’s your goal).

I didn’t read all the replies sorry! Next time I would not share the nitty gritty (that is, what food you are going to snack on) and just go ahead and enjoy it. If he asked about it later (if there is a bank transaction and he notices maccas, then consider paying cash to avoid having the conversation). Life it too short to explain everything to everyone if they get in a tizzy about it.

Interesting. I didn’t know that. I thought anything you ate several hours after exercise would only burn off at your next exercise.

It doesn’t matter what time you eat the calories. If you eat an extra 300 calories in the morning then do a run at lunchtime and burn 300 calories, it’s exactly the same as not eating the extra 300 calories in the morning, burning 300 calories at lunchtime then eating an extra 300 calories in the afternoon, everything else being equal.

You should have sent him a photo of you eating the chips and a 👍 as a reply.

Does that mean you can run at 7am burn 300 calories then eat a 300 calorie cream cake at say 9pm and it doesn’t count as extra calories?

I'm glad he apologised, but I do feel this is more about how you feel about yourself. Your body has changed. It's a bigger deal in your mind than it is in reality. All the things you wrote about your fears that your husband isn't happy with the post-baby you are really about you not being happy with post-baby you. And that's understandable. Your body doesn't look exactly how it did and you want it back. So you are doing something about it. Good for you, BUT...look at yourself more kindly. Listen to what your husband said in his apology and take it on board. He still loves you, he still thinks you are beautiful. You need to think you are, too.

Putting aside what he said, making McDonalds fries your food choice after a run does seem odd. Take some snacks with you and an electrolyte drink next time.