Ive just watched my friend eat a tub of low fat humourless, half a pack of rice cakes and a large glass of juice

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And she is desperately trying to loose weight for her wedding. I usually wouldn't comment on what another adult eats. But I think she maybe very clueless to the amount of calories and has probably just eaten one thousand , what she should have for the whole day just for breakfast.

Should I say something?

I know this sounds flippant and a bit rude Identity, but can you cultivate other friendships?! No women I spend time with go in for this sort of stuff. It doesn't have to be a part of your life.

No, Alconleigh, I don't - but this thread has made me curious, so I've checked:

Recommended portion size of hummus is usually one quarter of a pot or less, (obviously) depending on size of the pot.

According to their website, Tesco's reduced-fat caramelised hummus is 540 cals for 300g pot, and plain reduced-fat hummus is 720 cals for 300g pot.
www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=255412715

Portion size is shown as one-sixth of a pot for both.

I agree with you OP. I often see people at work sitting down to two slices of wholemeal toast, a huge pot of fruit and fat free yogurts etc ... And they're trying to lose weight.
A bowl of bloody cocopops would be a better choice

They must be putting far more tahini in than is needed and the rapeseed oil can just be totally left out. How is it only 55% chickpeas???

God, I love hummus but I'd comment with my head voice only about why she's eating low-fat crap.

I love humous, but I avoid it when dieting because it's so moorish. Even so, I'd be hard put to eat a whole pot for breakfast.

Rice cakes are the food of the devil - vile things only fit for toddlers to smear around the place (they never actually eat them do they?)

I'd never drink fruit juice on a diet either - full of sugar.

I don't eat 'low fat' anything - it's a complete misnomer and not usually healthy. Low carb/low sugar is the way to go for weight loss.

There really is nothing at all wrong with home made hummus. It is nutritious, filling, and although includes some carbs it also has protein. It isn't just chemical shite in a tub from a supermarket where low fat or high fat the neither is better or worse.

Yes I know saucony. I should probably have said the calorific equivalent of a Mars bar. The point was that even healthy food to excess will lead to putting on weight.

Trying to lose weight when your planning a wedding is a disaster in itself. Especially if she's a stress eater. Telling her what she's eating is wrong, is going to stress her out more, and potentially make her eat more.

If you really want to talk to her about her eating habits, I'd wait till after the wedding.

Who'd of thought the eating of Hummus would spark a five page thread?

As for Grapes being the equivalent of Mars Bars?

It must be nice on the Planets you live on.

It's the Hummusgate ; that's a Chickpea Dip with the suffix that suggests a scandal.

Birds, clearly grapes are far healthier than eating a Mars bar, I quite obviously meant the same amount of calories as a Mars bar not the nutritional equivalent.

i only took part but of the humouress quip in the title, or so I thought, turned out it was just a typo

Not all low fat stuff is evil . You just need to read the nutrition info. I eat low far hummus almost every day, Asda own brand, and it has less calories and less fat than the regular one... it's less oily.

Am I the only nutter who actually reads the labels before buying stuff?! (blatently outs self if so!)

You eat 1000 calories a day for any length of time and you are in trouble, sorry. See for instance what this guy www.marksdailyapple.com/1000-calories-a-day-no-appetite-after-exercise-and-how-to-not-lose-weight/#axzz3paFf1XUf has to say:

'the most famous caloric restriction study of all, the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, used diets of 1560 calories a day to induce starvation symptoms in adult males who had previously been eating 3200 calories a day. And they weren’t running barefoot, foraging for food, climbing trees, or lifting logs and heavy rocks while on it. They merely maintained their regular walking habit of 22 miles a week. The symptoms were severe: They became depressed, hysterical hypochondriacs. Most of them experienced bouts of severe emotional distress, and there was even an instance of self-mutilation (a guy cut off three fingers with an axe). Interest in sex vanished (and erections grew scarce), replaced by interest in food. Metabolic rate plummeted across the board, as did body temperature. So yes, we can technically survive on 1000 calories a day, but it isn’t going to be pretty. And doing so while living off the land would be nearly impossible for most people.'

I've seen people on here claim ludicrously tiny daily amounts of food on which they supposedly live. As for the 'shite' about needing 2000 calories, well obviously it's an average (I eat considerably more than that and am pretty slim), but it's not far off. 1000 calories is stupidly low daily allowance, even on a diet.

Why are people so obsessed with protein?

The daily recommended intake for a woman is 50g

Hardly anything to be honest.

Agree with you, Big . It's almost impossible not to eat enough protein, seeing as it is in virtually all foods. It's like being on a bodybuilders forum sometimes the way people obsess over protein. 'OMG I must eat a 3 egg omelette for breakfast every day'. No, you don't have to, you just want to.
No element I read the labels as well, or just google the nutritional content. I used to eat low fat houmous as well (and even low fat yoghurt and lost nearly 5 stone in the process.

Element I also read the labels. I wouldn't buy low-fat hummous as a serving is 60g (from reading the label) and I know full well I'd eat a whole 230g tub instead. So I'd rather not buy it.

And Big I totally agree with you about the protein. On Mumsnet apparently you can only get protein from meat or fish or at a push lentils. The fact that bread, potatoes etc all contain protein is lost on everyone. Or that practically no-one in the Western world is protein deficient.

Yep, Alconleigh - I'm trying. It's just a frustrating dynamic that is rife in my workplace and associated social circle. I am consciously trying to step back from it because I think it's damaging. It doesn't seem to help anyone lose and keep off weight either! It's just constant moaning about food... Makes me want to scream!

Nothing wrong with houmous and rice cakes. Juice I would avoid on a diet though and just have the fruit itself.

Interesting that being only a diet should exclude something healthy such as hummus and rice cakes, but 5 g&t are grand.

With the greatest respect its none of your business. Its her body. She can eat what she likes. When she likes. It's no skin of your nose if she doesn't loose weight for her wedding. For all you know she may have saved up all her syns for the weekend.

5 G and Ts were presumably intentional - it's her choice as an adult. The thing about the low fat hummus and rice cakes is that the friend is probably under a misapprehension and hence not making an informed choice. It would be a friendly thing to do to put her in the way of the information she needs to get what she says she wants.

Bread

Ham

Bread

Hamwich

You sound like an awful friend.