to think my dh is trying to starve me?

[superbagpuss]

today in my packed lunch

half a sandwich
bag of hula hoops
grapes
small tangerine
tiny twix

for dinner

one veggie burger
two scoops veggie and potato mash

this was the same size portion as DT age 4

I know I'm an adult and can buy/ cook my own food but wondered if I'm being greedy? is that another food for an adult?

A+ waffly you are a good and eager student!

Talkinpeace I'm amazed at your estimates. On MFP the food you've listed would come in at around 1200, not 1700 unless you put lashings of butter or mayo on the sandwich. Or unless unlimited tea and coffee means about ten cups.

On MFP on a 1200 cal day I have fruit for breakfast, a big salad with some protein for lunch and a small, healthy main meal including carbs, with lots of teas and coffees. Another 500 cals would allow quite a lot more carbs.

Meant to say, I mean amazed at the estimates as in - I wonder if I've been getting mine wrong and under-estimating. I am losing weight but fairly slowly.

Oh Zing, your widge-based exuberance has really made me giggle this evening, thank you very much :D

Yes Pret sell halfwidges (sorry about the witch thing). But I buy a whole widge and divide between meals.

Small meals are the way to go IMO. Then you don't have to either starve or spend all day doing Zumba.

Wouldn't say he is trying to starve you. Instead he's sending you on a carb overload, so you will be feeling hungry when you shouldn't really be, because realistically with less carbs and fat you would have eaten enough.

racingheart
ah, yes, my tea habit : 2/3 of a pint of milk a day = 100 calories

a decent slice of giraffe bread = 100 calories
a spoonful of mayo = 30 calories
2 slices of ham = 200 calories
spoonful of chutney = 30 calories
banana = 80 calories

pasta at supper = 300 calories
meat or fish = 300 calories
vegetables = 100 calories
sauce / cheese = 300 calories
fruit for pudding = 100 calories

to stay slim you have to underestimate your exercise calories and overestimate your food calories ..... then you have leeway for weekend wine

I'm at a DH making a packed lunch! We have been together 17 years and NEVER not once has my dh even offered to make my lunch. I make his every single night.

And dinner!

Fuck sake...

purrpurr

I'm glad!

I tend not to joke about people's usernames, but yours just begs the question : do you like purrwidge?

Wildthongs OP mentioned up thread that her DH is currently a house husband. I think its really sweet that he makes her a lunch ... they just need to agree on the content

The lunch would be enough for me. Though I'd rather have a whole sandwich and not the hula hoops or the crisps.

The dinner is a bit sparse. Maybe 2 veggie burgers would do it. Extra green veg too.

Zing! Ha. I officially luffs you! I had purrwidge for my tea. You'd think from everything this message contains that I am roughly twelve years old, but I'm at least double that.

Talking - aha - that's naice ham you're listing. I should have known. The kind of ham I occasionally buy (don't really like ham) is about 30 cals a slice. Full of water and salt and no pig.

Well aside from the half a sandwich it sounds fine to me. (The chocolate and crisps I guess are because of the half a sandwich then?)

I'd have added a load of veg to the dinner but yeah, sounds ok to me.

What would you have had instead of that's not enough for you?

yup, I don't eat much, but what I do eat I try to have naice quality - perk of my 'little job' - shopping in Waitrose

purr I ? you back!

I love purrwidge with maple syrup in the morning. Sometimes I add ground almonds to it.

btw you should totally namechange to PurrWidge

I'd happily eat twice that lunch & dinner. Starting to realise why I always always got comments in breakroom about the size of my lunch when I worked in a mostly female workplace.

I agree that people seem to underestimate size of portions they are having. I went back home to see my family recently and ate with DB family. Struggled to eat the mammoth amounts of food but everyone else just thought it normal - and that included one person on invalid portion as recovering from major illness.

Invalid portion would be 2 days food in my house!

When I lived at home I was quite fat! Was delicious of course but I prefer the halfwitch manner of eating and smaller clothes sizes!

OP if there's no fridge at work, could you get a little cool bag and the freezer block cool packs? If it's hot weather, (part) freezing your drink might also be an option, as it'll defrost during the morning.

fridge porridge (purrwidge?) for breakfast! Can't link as I'm on my phone, but it's basically oats, natural yoghurt, tiny bit of milk, and flavours, all shaken up in a jar. Make it the night before and keep in the fridge. flavours can be fruit, ground linseeds, cocoa, peanut butter, ground almonds, maple syrup etc. You can even make a batch for the week and just add fresh fruit the night before. Tasty, healthy and filling.

Mugshots are good and filling for lunch, as a better than packet soup option. The sweet and sour one is lovely. Quite chocked you have to pay for hot water though.

MrsMango that sounds lovely!

thank you for all the ideas

I had no packed lunch today and ended up eating a lot less as chained to my desk

still looking forward to dinner, no ideas what it might be as DC have already eaten - sometimes I get dinner cooked to order

dinner sounds rather mean, some extra vegetable would have made it fine. For lunch I'd have a whole sandwich, fruit but not the snacks. Sounds like he was low on bread and bulked it out with junk. A mixed salad with the half sandwich would have been both healthier and more filling.