yes you can be overweight and in poverty

[Mumof4worriedfor]

Just saw this story on ITV twitter.com/itvnews/status/614128648585617408

Most of the comments are about her weight. Don't people understand the cheaper food is more unhealthy and you can very quickly get into poverty! Really annoyed by the response.

[unlucky83]

I said I'm overweight but don't stress - just make sure I don't go above a certain weight. Weigh myself once every few weeks and if I am coming close I eat a bit less and move a bit more, if I'm ok I don't worry and eat what I like...(I guess I could them push more and lose more but then I know I will get slightly obsessed, not be sensible and lose lots and then pile it on again ...I read something that the first goal for obese/ overweight people should be to stop gaining). I don't buy biscuits or fizzy drinks - but I do eat too many crisps...and most of my exercise only comes from housework/DIY ...
Anyway recently I got roped into doing a sponsored activity - I knew I was so unfit that I would really struggle even to walk round the course so I decided to up my activity a tiny bit (in the end I didn't do it - after lots of faffing/permission from gp (other health issues) my DD was sick so I couldn't go .) Anyway I started walking the long way back from school drop off/pick up - only a few extra minutes a day but it did mount up. And I lost half a stone in a month ... and I started to feel better, I was semi jogging along the path. Sadly DD is now going on her own more and so I'm not even doing the normal 5 mins there and back ...and the weight is creeping up...
(Also for some reason I felt really tired - legs felt like they were made of stone - maybe I was fighting a virus or maybe something to do with my health issue or maybe just being peri-menopausal) - will need to start being more active again ....

[puffinrock]

I will admit I don't believe the 90% diet and 10% exercie thing.I believe exercise plays a massive part but not exercise slots but just constant movement. I don't know if that is a personality thing though.

[HelenaDove]

I think part part of the problem Cherries is that like i said we are all different. So the same guidance or solution wouldnt work for everyone.

My DH is another one who can eat a pack of biscuits a couple of Kit Kats and half a victoria sponge in a day and stay the same or lose. So this stuff sits in the flat and i never touch it.

And occasionally something happens which confirms i did the right thing in losing it.

I have to attend a funeral next week in 30 degree heat and will be wearing all black including tights. Im dreading it but not as much as i would be if i was still bigger.

[Cherriesandapples]

Helena Dove - congratulations on you weight loss, that is truly epic weightloss, well done.

I don't think it is helpful to have 2000 calories as guidance. I have a calorie counter watch and it tells me how many calories I use in a day and it is about 1600 on most days, if I aimed for 2000 I would put on weight!

[HelenaDove]

Thanks Puffin I eat smaller portions now too. it took five months before my stomach got used to it and the pains stopped.

[TealFanClub]

I'm currently eating a 25p avocado on rye with homemade sauerkraut (40p for two big maison jars) and a bean pâté

BOAK

[Superexcited]

I don't know how anybody can eat a whole pizza (thinking regular size pizza, not the mini ones). If I tried to eat a full pizza, even a thin crispy one I would be very bloated and feel sick. Eating a full pizza, especially regularly, isn't the result of poverty, it's just greed.
Surely if you are that poor it makes more sense to only eat half a pizza and save the other half for tomorrow's main meal.

[WorraLiberty]

Exactly puffinrock. If people are comparing to those around them who also overeat/overfeed their kids, then they probably think their portions are reasonably small.

[puffinrock]

*loss helena sorry I have a baby attempting to claw my face!

[puffinrock]

People don't realise it is a lot though Worra. I have oveeweight friends who think I eat like a sparrow whereas to me their portions like huge. It is what you have always known. I look at it as I would find it impossible to eat what they eat in a day so that must be how difficult it is vice versa.

[puffinrock]

I eat whatever but I find it hard to sit still and I have no drive to snack. Dh is skinny but he does things like eat a whole pack of biscuits.I hate it and I dislike when people bring out massive portions as I find it really offputting. It is weird how everyone has food habits engrained in them. Congratulations on the weight Helena.

[WorraLiberty]

I realise we're all different

However, I never knew that carbs was a 'thing' before I joined Mumsnet.

I read all the time about people low carbing/cutting out carbs/eating too many carbs.

My experience though of people who are not overweight, is that they don't tend to worry or think about carbs. They just have a little bit of what they fancy, with the emphasis on a 'little bit'.

It must be exhausting to have to watch these things all the time and I do sympathise with people who feel they have to, instead of eating less of everything/exercising more.

And I wholeheartedly agree with the PP who said it's a lot to do with stomach sizes...which is why I think a lot of kids today are being set up for weight problems in the future, due to the volume of food they're often given to eat in one sitting.

Some 5 and 6yr olds eat dinners the size of mine.

[HelenaDove]

First time on slimming world i ate pasta every day and lost weight I was 29.


second time on sw i had to drop the carbs because i was staying the same or gaining once i had hit 40

[HelenaDove]

I eat for health as well as weight loss. And i know my body You are talking to someone who has lost TEN STONE and you think you know my body better than i do.


Stunned absolutely stunned.


I cant eat like that It makes me bloated and gain weight.

[puffinrock]

*thing

[puffinrock]

That's the think it is filling if you have never eaten too much to start with as it is to do with stomach sizes. I realise that is hard to chance I know it would be really, really difficult for me to be overweight so I do get it the other way round. You get used to what you have always known.

[HelenaDove]

Worra with me its the dough. I cant eat it at all. If i keep my carbs as low as possible i keep the weight off.

[whois]

Fun if i ate pizza every day even if it was the only meal i would gain weight. We are all different.

No, you wouldn't.

One pizza. 1000 calories more or less. Very few people gain weight when eating only 1000 calories. FFS.

groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-thin-and-crispy-double-pepperoni-pizza-371g/p/50759

[WorraLiberty]

The thing is, one person's idea of eating pizza every day is different to another's.

For some people it will mean one slice of pizza with salad and possibly a slice of garlic bread.

For other people it will mean eating the whole pizza, and even then they come in small, medium and large so one person's 'eating a whole pizza', will be different to another's.

[HelenaDove]

Buried You think THIS thread is the most depressing. Even though this site is full of threads about women suffering domestic abuse and threads discussing the cuts and how ppl are being badly affected by them.


Have a word with yourself and check your privilege FFS!

[HelenaDove]

Fun if i ate pizza every day even if it was the only meal i would gain weight. We are all different.


Im not suited to eating sugar. its why i dont eat ice cream even in 30 degree heat.

puffin junk isnt very filling which is why ppl end up eating more of it. Ive yet to meet the person who would feel full from a handful of Pringles or a couple of custard creams.

[formerbabe]

Formerbabe it is a fact though, whether you like it or not. Barring a few medical causes most of us can be within the normal health range

You are forgetting the whole issue of mental health. It's like saying "there's no excuse to be a drug addict". I put on a lot of weight when I suffered from a very close bereavement...is that a good enough excuse to be fat for you?!

[BuriedSardine]

noeffing And yet this thread is bursting with posters falling over themselves to give excuses - the children will cry at lentils, there is no other way to pass the daylight hours while watching television other than to eat biscuits, among others - so clearly there are plenty of excuses.

I can't decide whether it's patronising or not. This thread is truly one of the most depressing things I've read here in over ten years.

I think I'll hide it and go for a long, free walk.

[noeffingidea]

Formerbabe it is a fact though, whether you like it or not. Barring a few medical causes most of us can be within the normal health range.
Yes obesity is associated with poverty in our society but it doesn't make it inevitable. British people used to be much poorer overall yet obesity was rare.

[formerbabe]

No excuse to be fat.

I absolutely hate comments like this...so unhelpful.