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To think tha more than one carb for dinner is unnecessary (and will probably make you fat if done regularly)

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HackerFucker22 · 20/09/2015 19:12

Just back from a friends and had a very interesting debate over dinner.

We all had homemade pizza and garlic bread which was bloody lovely but I made a comment about having a "carb on carb" meal to be met with blank stares... I explained further and not one person seemed to think there was anything odd about eating so many carbs at once.

There were 6 of us and I am the only fat one.

Half of the group said they have more than one carb with dinner "quite often" examples were jacket spuds served with Lasagne, some type of bread with pasta dishes and curry with rice and Naan - one friend has very posh bread on the table with every evening meal

We're all in our 30's, mostly have kids and jobs so no time for excessive gym attendance.

AIBU to think they are all talking utter shite?

OP posts:
HumphreyCobblers · 21/09/2015 07:00

Yes CheerfulYank, and they are all thin!!! It is AMAZING.

TheBunnyOfDoom · 21/09/2015 07:05

Eating too much and moving too little makes you fat. It's all about portion control. For example, a half sized portion of pasta plus garlic bread is the equivalent of a full bowl of pasta without the garlic bread. So if you want to double carb, you can, you just need to eat less of both carbs.

But most people eat too much and are a bit lazy. People snack and eat dessert with most meals (not fruit, but things like ice-cream or chocolate), drive when they could easily walk and have a fairly sedentary lifestyle. If you work behind a desk all day, you don't need three meals plus snacks, plus coffee/tea with milk and sugar all day to keep you going.

Sazzas · 21/09/2015 07:27

Yanbu.

Processed carbs are probabaky responsible for most people being overweight or obese. And in the UK that's 70% of adults!

In Scotland out and about the veggie option was a macoroni cheese pie..

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 21/09/2015 07:55

Processed carbs are probabaky responsible for most people being overweight or obese.

No, really it isn't. Eating too much and moving too little is.

Sazzas · 21/09/2015 08:01

Eating too much of what?Hmm

Bunbaker · 21/09/2015 08:09

Double carbs are too much for me in a meal as well.

I would never serve chips with lasagne for example, but when I make lasagne I am not stingy with quantities, so it is filling enough on its own. I would just do a salad with it. If we had company I would also do garlic bread because I know most people need more filling up than we do.

If we have a curry we get one portion of rice and one naan between the three of us because the portions are so huge, not because we feel we should cut back.

And I find chip butties too stodgy.

I know it sounds a bit sanctimonious, but it is just personal taste - I just don't enjoy eating loads of stodge and nothing else, and we are all skinny in our house.

whois · 21/09/2015 08:19

I'm, you just eat less of each type of carb than if you have one carb?

Curry with rice and naan = normal.
Pasta with garlic read = normal. (Although, who am I kidding, garlic bread is akin to crack in its deliciousness so that's a high cal meal)

Abraid2 · 21/09/2015 08:26

We 'double carb' with roast potatoes and Yorkshires or rice and naan bread with curry, but I would never eat lasagne and chips or pizza and chips! That's just weird, if you have any kind of interest in Italian cooking.

BertrandRussell · 21/09/2015 09:08

There is a particular sort of mother who manages to look down her nose at children who eat peas because they are "too carby".Grin

PrimalLass · 21/09/2015 09:13

The person who invented the Atkin's diet died from his own diet plan.

Are people still believing this shit?

CheerfulYank · 21/09/2015 09:23

Some things just "go" to me. Rice goes with tacos or fajitas but potatoes do not. Garlic bread can occasionally go with spaghetti or pizza (though not usually) but potatoes, again, do not. Potatoes go with meat :o

But there may be cultural differences at play, too.

tootsietoo · 21/09/2015 09:25

YANBU. I don't do Double Carbing! It just doesn't seem quite right. Unless it's at the curry house, in which case I have no problem with rice and peshwari naan. Or in fact at a friends house for pizza and garlic bread, which I also wouldn't have a problem with!

I have two DDs, one is "clinically obese" (NHS's definition) the other is very skinny (as in her teacher saw fit to ask me about her diet at last parents evening because she thought she is too skinny). I have watched and calorie counted (secretly, not with them) for about a year now, and the only key difference I can see in their diets and activity levels is portion size. DD1 hoovers up every morsel of food from her plate and then dips in to everyone else's leftovers. DD2 picks round her plate eating her favourite bits and leaving half. So essentially she eats about half the daily calories of DD1. I think it's ALL about portion control. So double carb if you want, but only have one slice of pizza and one piece of garlic bread!

hollieberrie · 21/09/2015 09:27

Yanbu. I would never double carb unless out for a curry.

tootsietoo · 21/09/2015 09:38

It's probably worth saying that everyone's bodies are different. So different ways of eating will work for different people. I have a theory, based on observing myself, DH and DC (and I heard an obesity scientist on the radio once who said the same thing) that weight issues are not about metabolism or what you eat but about appetite. I feel sick if I eat too much, and if I've had a particularly binge-y few days I feel really disgusting and will end up eating good stuff, and not much of it, for a few days. It's just what my body tells me to do. DH and DD1 on the other hand have never ending appetites. I am convinced it's something to do with levels of hormones or chemicals - their bodies somehow don't tell them to stop eating as efficiently as mine and DD2s. So some people are naturally predisposed to eating too much. Sadly for them, it means if they are going to eat the correct amount for their size and level of activity, then they have to consciously restrict themselves, and it's hard. And obviously find the type of food which makes them feel fullest for longest. And there is a school of thought which suggests that fats and protein make you feel fuller for longer than carb-laden foods do.

Just my tuppence worth, based on no scientific knowledge whatsoever.

howabout · 21/09/2015 09:56

YABU
6 pages of nutritional drivel (apart from everyone who agrees it is portion control and not endless snacking) and no discussion of what you had for pudding.

Only rich people can afford to low carb and eating less would probably do them and the planet more good.

BertrandRussell · 21/09/2015 09:58

"It's probably worth saying that everyone's bodies are different."

No they aren't. Everyone's thought processes, attitudes and experiences are different, but normally functioning bodies are the same.

JawannaDrink · 21/09/2015 10:01

Carb bores are almost as dull and irritating as Loud vegetarians. Yawnsville, and mostly wrong anyway.

Also wveryone s bodies are not different, they are remarkably similar on the whole. You don't have a slow metabolism, you eat too much.

Mrsjayy · 21/09/2015 10:02

I eat lasange and chips usually when im eating out at home i have garlic bread double carbs is usual and they are not evil

tootsietoo · 21/09/2015 10:04

Of course they are different! We all have different...... everything!

JawannaDrink · 21/09/2015 10:05

How is your pancreas different to anyone else's? Or your stomach? You aren't a special snowflake, we're not that complicated.

tootsietoo · 21/09/2015 10:06

I am saying that the food in/calories out thing is unarguable. But some people eat more, and that may often be for psychological reasons, but I am pretty sure there are also physiological ones, purely from observation.

tootsietoo · 21/09/2015 10:06

I'm not a special snowflake! But I feel for my poor DD1 who always wants seconds and is never allowed them.....

BertrandRussell · 21/09/2015 10:13

"
Of course they are different! We all have different...... everything!"

No we don't. And it's a good thing too- otherwise how would medicine and surgery work?

Sazzas · 21/09/2015 10:14

We're all the same really.

Highly produced carbs are addictive as fuck. Mixing sugar with fat and its very easy to overeat and its not a combination found in nature. Apart from maybe durian but most people don't like to eat that.

Lurkedforever1 · 21/09/2015 10:16

The only difference between someone who maintains a healthy weight effortlessly, and someone who is morbidly obese, is the fact the former has a different mental attitude to eating. A fast metabolism, or a slow one, doesn't make you thin or fat. Eating only as much as your individual body/ lifestyle needs, no more and no less is what maintains a healthy weight.
And if you can't do that, then it's in your mind, not your body, that the difference lies.