To think you can still be greedy if you are slim?

[baublesbells]

Reading several of the food posts on AIBU, a common thing I come across is people who say, usually about their DH or DP, is that oh my partner needs loads of food and it doesn't matter because he is slim/thin etc.

You can still be greedy and be slim. Stuffing loads of food isn't a good thing and it doesn't make it ok just because you don't visibly look obese.

Slim people can have high levels of internal fat so may not look fat

Lots of disordered eating on mn, it's very weird

I would have been with you if you used "greedy" to mean rude behaviour like taking the last chocolate, best treat etc - of course someone of any size can do that. But you seem to be using greedy to mean eating an unhealthy diet, and to me that isn't greed, it's just an unhealthy eating habit.

People can be very bitchy when you are slim like me!

I've lost five stone, wasn't overweight before being ill.

I eat more now than when I was Obese.

A pasty, tub of Pringles compared to big plates of (Vegan) food and snaking on fruit.

Calories have little to do with quantity of food consumed.

I know what you mean, though, my DH could eat anything and stay just over underweight, he had a Heart Attack and later died of Cancer, his diet was the cause of some of his health issues, yet he had a sculptured physique.

Recent research shows the amount of exercise is as important to carry fat around your organs, than body size.

'Why don't you start a thread about something you give a fuck about rather than commenting on one you don't give a fuck about?'

Because I'm commenting here about busybodies who monitor what others eat, baubles. But feel free to carry on playing the frustrated wee prefect. It's rather endearing.

'Lots of disordered eating on mn, it's very weird'

Very.

expat why are you busybodying in my thread?

Anyone would think you gave a fuck

By the way you are definitely not endearing

Because I can, baubles. It's an open forum.

Despite your protestations, you do actually give a fuck expat

I'm slim and can be very greedy, but I dont overeat all the time, thats why I'm slim.

I eat smallish portions of healthy food day to day...but I have a blowout now and then, and can be a real glutton at those times. Like today. I ate a whole pizza and two slices of cake . I won't eat like that again until Christmas day, though. If I did, I surely wouldn't be slim.

I had a horribly abusive early childhood, and had to be treated for malnutrition once the bastard left

Sorry you had such a difficult time, I can completely see why this affected your eating

Not sure about being greedy but I would advise getting their cholesterol levels checked because it is a silent killer and heart disease is very damaging. Family health history is a better guide than the person being 'slim' but greedy

YANBU, although for some people being greedy and being able to 'out eat' the next person, seems to be a source of amusement

There seems to be competitive eating here on Mumsnet sometimes with people almost proudly talking about eating a whole cake or box of chocolates with other posters encouraging them

I tend to notice it the other way round, people going on about how you can't have more than two biscuits, must make a chicken last three weeks etc.
I'd say greedy is taking more than your fair share of something, no matter what your size.
Piling your plate high where you've paid for the meal, at a carvery or similar isn't greedy if you eat it, but it is uncouth and bad manners.

I rarely read threads on MN where people enjoy food and eat it for pleasure without getting themselves tied up in knots.

I think you have confused the word 'greedy' with 'unhealthy'

It really depends how you define greedy.

I eat a lot, but am at the lower end of the healthy bmi range, if I eat less I lose weight to an unhealthy level. You might think I am greedy for eating so much, but I genuinely need the calories.

"Slim but greedy"

ffs. So many watchers around its no wonder there are so many eating disorders.

Stuffing loads of food isn't a good thing and it doesn't make it ok just because you don't visibly look obese.
Chera I never decided what is ok for people to eat

Yes, you did. There, see?

I am pretty sure that "excess fat" always sits on the inside, in that it is udnder the skin. But thin people are not hiding fat in some mysterious places that don't show. It's not scientifically possible. They simply don't have "excess fat".

I don't understand how it's possible to be really fit and overweight? Surely in achieving the former you'd remove the latter?

To me being greedy has nothing to do with size. It's piling one's own plate to the detriment of everyone else

Thin people can be hiding "excess fat" because they aren't carrying around enough muscle. I have friend who is a size 8 and did a test that looked at muscle vs. fat ratio labelled her as obese, her doctor told her to get to a gym as she is at risk of obesity related diseases. She is totally sedentary and eats crap. I'm a size 12/14, overweight and my muscle vs. fat labels me as athletic. My doctor says I'm perfectly healthy.

I find the tendency of some mumsnetters to monitor and disapprove of what other people do quite unpleasant. I am not sure whether it is because they are sat behind keyboards or whether are they like that in real life. The only time I would use the word greedy would be to describe someone taking more than their fair share of a scarce resource, to the detriment of others.

Is it greed only if it affects someone else?

There is no issue with sitting and eating three boxes of chocolate or a whole cake?

Is it greed only if it affects someone else?
Yes. Greedy is wanting more than you need.

Greedy is taking more than your fair share to the detriment of others, whether in terms of food, money, time, etc.

No issue with eating 3 boxes of chocolates, unless one belonged to someone else.

Or a whole cake, unless you did it knowing your DH also wanted some but you scoffed the whole thing because your selfish.

It's not the most healthy diet, but unhealthy =/= greedy.