Your favourite competitive under-eating thread

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

We’ve had a couple of doozies lately - the woman who was told her Morrison’s jacket potato should fill her up for the rest of the day and was unreasonable to cook a roast after a ‘treat lunch’; the woman who thought her husband was ordering too much pizza and

Food threads on MN are always batshit. Always.

People get so weirdly irate about other people’s eating habits. Fun to read though.

I once went to a very slim lady’s house for lunch. We met via playgroup. She was always complaining about her kids being mad for food. We all, including my big husband, got one slice of pizza and a cup of tea. No wonder her poor kids were always cramming in the toast etc at the playgroup...
She told me once that she “didn’t like food “ Like how can that even be a thing??? Mind you I am fat, so...

Had a childhood friend who was told to put an apple back in the fruit bowl as she’d get fat.

No word of a lie, I’m the only woman in my circle of local friends (London, high income, met through kids at private school) who eats three meals a day and occasionally snacks.

I hate going out for meals with this crowd as they will announce that they since they had lunch (usually a salad) they won’t be having dinner that day. If we’re out for an evening meal (always the sea bass) they either won’t have eaten lunch or will miss breakfast and lunch the next day.

They are all extremely slim or underweight. Which is good for their health in that they are not overweight but man do they suck the fun out of life!

I'm probably one of the few exceptions here. I had my stomach and duodenum removed, which means I can only eat tiny amounts at a time. I also had another major op which means I don't have the ability to feel hungry. I've just had my feeding line removed and it's a constant battle to keep it out but anything other than eating the tiniest amount makes me ill.

Food threads on MN are always batshit. Always

Yup.

There is a culture of disordered eating in the UK, and most of it affects women. It has a long, long history rooted in misogyny - because women are less important and valuable than men, they should have less food, and there is considerable moral virtue, for women, in undereating. Whereas the woman who unashamedly eats what she wants, when she wants, and refuses to perform self-hating rituals when eating in public, is bad and dangerous.

(ISTR threads about mums/MILS bullying and shaming posters who want to eat a little more when they are BFing. MILs, in particular, with obvious eating disorders who expect everyone else to eat only one meal a day and cry and tantrum that they are being 'bullied' if other family members rebel and seek food.)

I love it when someone says their children have 'unlimited access to the fruit bowl'. It's always followed by someone who equates eating fruit with a sugar addiction. This place is definitely full of people with weird ideas about food. And then there are those obsessed with protein.

Tbf I can't eat more than two slices of pizza. It's too greasy and I don't enjoy the taste much. I may just be eating bad pizza but I'd only order a personal size one and I'd eat half with a salad. If I had soup I'd have half a tin with bread because its not something I can eat a lot of but I can and will quite happily eat a whole tray of chicken wings or bag of fish and chips.

I love when people say “oh I just had a massive salad”

This is probably very outing as I have told this story in RL but my MIL is a competitive undereater who HATES fatties ( like me). She will announce that she’s only taking a quarter of a slice of bread that someone has to cut etc etc or we all have to hear about her low carb, low joy diet.
Anyway, when I had just had my first child, she told me that she was “going to take me shopping”. This turned out to involve me only being able to pick baby clothes she liked ( but then she stepped back at the till and I realised that I had to pay for all these ghastly pale blue and beige clothes) then we went for coffee. “I’ll treat you,” she trilled... and came back with two coffees and one brownie cut in two. “Half is enough.” I was told. Since then I take great delight in eating big slices of cake in front of her, moaning in ecstasy about how lovely it is.

Can I put my pizza eating story here ?
2 pizzas. 1 meat other veg. 5 people. 2 meat eaters 3 vegetarians. So veg pizza to be shared by 3 and meat by 2.
One Meat eater then started on the veg pizza when meat pizza not even finished. Was asked politely by other meat eater to stick with the meat pizza ( they had chosen it by the way not forced on her) .After a bit of persuading she put the slice down ....Then re helped themselves to the veg pizza in front of everyone after another slice of meat pizza . We were to flabbergasted to say anything. This was weeks ago and I still feel a bit outraged . People are odd around food, me included to still feel so annoyed.

Absolutely, SGB, I will be surprised NOT to see a thread about 'penis portions' at some point over Christmas... or a wailing over the lack of roast potatoes available. It amuses me because I don't see this in RL, it's like a fantasy-no-food-fest...

I don't know why people have to comment on other people's food. What's the point? For me, dinner threads are for inspiration or compiling a shopping list for recipes. There's no need to judge what other people are eating at.all.

Oh and anyone describing someone who eats more than a lettuce leaf a day doesn’t eat, they stuff, ram, shovel, rip apart food like savages. I see that on here a lot regarding food.

I'm the same as @Footiefan2019

Some days a slice of pizza and some wedges is all I want.
Other days I will bosh a whole dominoes with wedges and chicken strippers.
Plus dessert.

I listen to my body, when it tells me I've had enough I put the food down.
Also don't encourage 'clean plates' for that reason.

I am technically 'underweight' 5ft and just under 7 stone, but I don't look it because of the way I'm built.

The virtuous 'I couldn't eat all that food' on those threads is just pathetic though.
No one has asked you if you'd be able to eat it, nor have they asked for your negative opinion on what is clearly a 'treat' (hate that word!) dinner.

Since then I take great delight in eating big slices of cake in front of her, moaning in ecstasy about how lovely it is

Honestly can you not see how messed up that is? How you're both at it? Her under eating and you over eating. Wouldn't it be better to just eat healthily.

I can’t eat healthily in front of her because she’s pissed me off and I’m annoying like that 😄

It's like all the teenage rugby players that MNers seem to possess.

'My DS is, 15, 6ft 4, eats 6000 calories a day, but is so slim that you'd count him absent if he turned sideways. I can't believe you've only served him a vat of soup + loaf of bread. DS needs at least double that.'

Then there’s the posters who think it must be incredibly difficult for people not to scoff food on trains or in public its not hard to wait a few hours to eat. Something I only see on MN

Did someone mention the MN magical roast chicken that feeds a family for 4 days? Lol

It's a matter if time before penis portion threads start. If you're a man reading this, take note of the amounts that your mum/MIL serve your wife this Xmas. If it's noticeably less offer some of your food then get your plate refilled

Hah! Ignore my post, I got my numbers completely wrong there! It’s actually way more!

Mistlewoeandwhine... did you take the baby clothes back? I would have, if you don't like them... and you did have the receipt!

Oh, another one.

The MN MASSIVE salad.
Never a side salad, or just a salad. MASSIVE SALAD.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe i do hate that.how obsessed and disordered so many people are that the threads zoom into the tens of pages in minutes.
so many people shaming too.either with over eating jibes or under.
and too many people not realising there under eating or are disordered and then people reply with such unhelpful things to a person who is clearly very poorly.and i worry for the ops then that are coming off the thread even more sick because of thoughtless comments.
and also on the kids threads about food.so fucking disordered.