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Is there anyone who just eats normally?

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Peanutss · 22/01/2019 13:46

I can't believe the amount of threads where the OP claims to eat only a boiled spinach shake for breakfast, plain cous cous for dinner and a salmon fillet with veg for tea. With of course, only an apple as a snack in between.

Is there anyone like me who just has a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, a meal deal for lunch and then whatever I can be arsed putting in the oven for tea? I'm beginning to wonder if I'm massively unhealthy in comparison to most or whether people are just making this up.

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SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 22/01/2019 17:09

I've just had 8 chicken dippers and a glass of wineWine

WorraLiberty · 22/01/2019 17:10

Has anyone thought maybe the problems with diabetes are that the shops selling so much crap.

No. The problem is people make the decision to buy and eat too much of it.

We all have to take responsibility for what we put into our own bodies/our kid's bodies and most importantly how much.

marymarkle · 22/01/2019 17:10

RedforShort I agree. I am amazed at how much food some on here feed young children and can see why so many are overweight.

marymarkle · 22/01/2019 17:12

worraliberty We know that environment affects the choices people make. That is why food companies advertise. People do not make choices in a vacuum.

WunderBlah · 22/01/2019 17:12

Spicy beanburgers and chips in the oven, I may join you in a glass of wine SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc

Flooffloof · 22/01/2019 17:14

I enjoy food. I don't really care if I live a few years less because I don't eat mung beans for lunch

This with bells on. No one will go to the grave saying "it's all ok I lived a great and healthy life"

I dunno if I eat normally.
Never eat breakfast
Lunch today was cheese on toast and a yoghurt
Tonight's meal is Kiev with lots of veg.
A day when OH works late (means I eat alone) can be frozen pizza, or takeaway pizza, or fish cakes I make myself or just toast, or on odd occasions nothing.
It seems normal to me.

wowfudge · 22/01/2019 17:15

I had a bag of Smarties mini eggs for breakfast, avocado on toast with tabasco for lunch. Tea, coffee and water to drink. I gritted the drive for exercise.

Madwithjealousy · 22/01/2019 17:16

Yesterday:

Spinach & blueberry smoothie for breakfast
Veggie meatballs for lunch
Tea & Nakd bar for a snack
Rice & peas & escovitch fish (using vegan pretend fish)
Tea and about 10 golden Oreos

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Peanutss · 22/01/2019 17:19

I don't put not sun tan lotioning children and giving them a sandwich for lunch in the same category to be honest.

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Glitteryfrog · 22/01/2019 17:21

I've been in Las Vegas. I've been eating enormous portions and drinking cocktails.
Today was mostly plane food.

Tomorrow will be more vegetable based...

stegosauruslady · 22/01/2019 17:21

Today I have...

B two pieces of brown toast with marmalade
L IKEA meatballs and mash
D will be fish, potato wedges and peas

Wish I had wine in!

WorraLiberty · 22/01/2019 17:22

worraliberty We know that environment affects the choices people make. That is why food companies advertise. People do not make choices in a vacuum.

Yes. You hit the nail on the head right there when you said choices.

People choose (mostly) what they put in their mouths and how much/how often.

Blaming the food industry etc may make people feel better but it won't make them any slimmer.

Not until they realise they need to stop making the wrong choices.

Buggerbuggerbuggerargh · 22/01/2019 17:23

Yep, me. I spent years overweight doing stupid diets (low carb, 5:2, slimming world, calorie counting, Joe Wicks etc) and turned 30 and went oh do you know what fuck this shit, I'm just going to eat what I fancy.

Anyway, once I got rid of food based restrictions, thoughts of certain foods as "good" or "bad" and just allowed myself to eat whatever, my appetite regulated itself and I lost 3 stone and kept it off.

I eat whatever the fuck I feel like now. Yesterday I had a takeaway pizza for dinner with zero guilt. Today I didn't have breakfast as wasn't hungry, then smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel for lunch. Jacket potato for dinner.

I eat full fat everything and loads of carbs. The anti carb lobby boil my fucking piss.

Asta19 · 22/01/2019 17:23

My problem is finding something I like that's deemed as healthy! As a kid it was always plain water to drink, dry tasting chicken breast and plain boiled potatos. So called "stew", which was actually just a watery vegetable soup (and certainly no dumplings!). My mum has always had massive food issues (she used to take laxatives every day and completely messed up her bowels!) and she wanted us kids to be as "healthy" as her! I really do think she pushed me the opposite way.

I hate chicken breast now, give me a nice juicy thigh with the skin on! Things like chick peas and cous cous make me gag. I do eat veg but add butter to a lot of vegetables. I can't stand blandness. I also really dislike "sameness" like if you covered a load of rice in a curry so every mouthful tastes the same. Looking at it, I am really picky over food now.

Ultimately, when you look at it, eating is better than not eating, even if what you eat is crap (Unless you're morbidly obese and even then you still need some food!). So sometimes you just have to go with that and not stress over it. Like I say, my mum did herself no favours, her body is a mess internally.

marymarkle · 22/01/2019 17:25

worraliberty And meanwhile people get fatter. You can talk about individual choices all you want, it has little impact in changing anything. Changing the environment does have an impact.

DonCorleoneTheThird · 22/01/2019 17:26

I thought that people priding themselves on giving their kids a daily sandwich and a back of crisps was a wind-up to be honest.

You asked a question, so my reply is yes I judge, yes I find it poor parenting.
there's not one week when my youngests don't come home with a least a bag of sweet and a bar of chocolate because of somebody's birthday. Rarely one weekend when they don't go to a party with junk food, sweets and sugary drinks. We have junk food when we travel, even when we only drive a few hours over the weekend to see friends.
I think that's much more than enough in term of junk food for a child! The reason why I am not bothered about it is because they eat a healthy diet the rest of the week. It's important for me to feed them well, and not centre their life around food.
you can feel superior because you can't be arsed, I don't have to agree.

Buggerbuggerbuggerargh · 22/01/2019 17:26

There are countless of threads about losing weight, clothes too small, quick diet fix but yes, it is wrong not to give in to the junk food movement

I did not allow myself to eat junk food for years and I was still overweight. It is quite possible to overeat "healthy" food. I was brought up to cook from scratch and eat at the dinner table, both supposedly healthy habits of slim people, and I. Was. Still. Fat. Because my mindset was wrong.

My best friend has always been a healthy weight and eats plenty of junk food. The difference between us is (or was) that she stopped eating when she was full.

For most overweight people it's a question of habit and mindset, not actual food. Obviously the food is what's making you fat, but the reason people are fat is not just that they are too stupid to realise that some foods have more calories than others.

marymarkle · 22/01/2019 17:27

asta I love vegetables. But I was brought up with a very healthy diet. Water only, no sweets and very healthy meals. I now as an adult eat too much chocolate and drink lots of tea. I know my mum judges my diet.
But I love food. My philosophy of life is to enjoy myself.

Buggerbuggerbuggerargh · 22/01/2019 17:27

I hate chicken breast now, give me a nice juicy thigh with the skin on! Things like chick peas and cous cous make me gag. I do eat veg but add butter to a lot of vegetables. I can't stand blandness.

There's nothing unhealthy about chicken thighs or butter, unless you're eating them all day everyday.

WorraLiberty · 22/01/2019 17:30

marymarkle, changing the environment in this case means banning and taxing the crap out of everything.

People will still get diabetes through diet choices, until they take responsibility for themselves.

That's the bottom line imo.

Lifeisnotsimple · 22/01/2019 17:32

We dont have a choice in what we eat, advertising infiltrates our brains on a subconscious level. In the 80,s it was all low fat shit, now we know its all crap food and actually full fat is needed for a healthy functioning body. In the 80,s we thought it was healthy. If you actually sat down and looked at each and every food alot of it is shit. The post who eats granola which is packed to the rafter with sugar but advertised as healthy. To say in posts its because people are buying crap and eating too much is naive at best. Companies have actually said now they add sugar to everything why?

marymarkle · 22/01/2019 17:33

worra Changing rules around adverts has an impact and tax.
Anyway we will always disagree. I think people can bang on about individuals taking responsibility as much as they want, but nothing will change.

ihearttc · 22/01/2019 17:33

Ive had

Porridge and full fat milk with some sugar Glass of orange juice

Apple and banana at break time (I'm a TA!)

Cheese, crackers and another apple for lunch along with some crisps (I eat the same thing every day for lunch so I don't need to think about it!)

Some grapes and a cereal bar when I got home from school

One of DS's mini creme eggs

Spag Bol for tea-homemade with onions, carrots and mushrooms

Couple of jaffa cakes and a few Tangfastic sweets

Water to drink all day and a can of full fat pepsi!

marymarkle · 22/01/2019 17:33

The only way you really control what you eat is to make everything from scratch.

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Peanutss · 22/01/2019 17:34

you can feel superior because you can't be arsed, I don't have to agree

Give over, I don't feel superior because I can't be arsed. I've admitted I can't and asked if there was anyone else like that. I'm entitled to not be arsed what I eat you know... It doesn't make me superior, just an adult owning up to a decision I make.

And whilst yes of course, it's a public forum and so you are entitled to disagree and express that opinion, you've come on here and called people shit parents and been generally unpleasant. The only one with a superiority complex is you.

You're a prime example of the judgemental shitty attitude I was talking about. Looking down your nose at people and calling people's parenting over a bloody sandwich.

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