Your favourite competitive under-eating thread

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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

I'm slim as I have a digestive disorder and literally can't eat much !! Which can be annoying 🤪

But bluntness of course you had a big salad for lunch yesterday, no one is saying that people aren't eating big salads

Nothing wrong with eating a big salad. Or indeed a massive salad. But really when describing your lunch would you say massive salad, or just a salad?

It's the word massive. Or 'piles' of veg. When posters are saying this they are using it to indicate how healthy they are and you know it. No one is laughing at people actually eating a big salad, just the description of it as massive.

What I love is when the very slim posters come and comment giving their weight and their moral superiority shines out as they give advice to others.

'I'm 5 stones and I eat 10 pizzas a night'

'I'm a size 6 and can't possibly eat a potato and my DC are far healthier than yours'

As for me, I'm a bit of a fat pie with some distorted ideas about food and eating. Sometimes I'll scoff pizzas and on Christmas day I'll be shovelling in the roasties, sometimes I eat really healthily.

Oh, and I love a lentil dinner. Bolognese made with lentils or tarka dahl are both fantastic meals.

Sorry, that was a bit serious of me wasn't it?

No its a good point. My kids are also long and thin (especially at growing stages) and it was very notable to me how often people would talk about feeding up the "growing boys" and pressing them to more, whilst policing the girls' food in a very different way. It was never particularly overt - more along the lines of "are you sure you want that?" and the type of comments which undermine girls' confidence in their own food judgement.

Its pretty much impossible to get away from and it has become worse not better as far as I can see.

The beans on toast as a treat thread.... my god the craziness!

Does anyone have a link to the pizza thread?

lionel I once ate the other half of someone's lindor chocolate. Because half a lindor was plenty for them, and they couldn't possibly eat a whole one

Just admit you don't want to eat the lindor because you think it'll make you fat

Thanks JapaneseBird. She's fine at the moment, she has an appropriate diet for her age/physique and has a healthy appetite, probably due to being pretty active. But I worry because of the early intervention, and the judgemental comments we've had. They're not frequent but they hurt, and you can't help but take them to heart.

The sugar-phobes are the funniest. Refined sugar is not very good for you, so I try to -scoff, shovel, hoover eat biscuits in moderation, but I have read people on here throwing their hands up in horror over a carrot (full of sugar!) or a orange (LOADED with sugar). If you have some grapes you may as well just eat out of the sugar bowl with a spoon. You fat fucking pig.
Not to mention CARBS. I think if you waved a baguette in front of some mumsnetters they would actually pass out.
Oh, and "we" have lost sight of how big portion sizes should be, apparently.
Well I can remember all my older siblings (so 30-40 years ago) piling their plates with food and coming back for seconds every time. 1 chicken would last 10 minutes not 3 days

If I said I had a salad for lunch if would sound like I'm virtue signalling. Oh I didn't eat much kind of thing, if I said I had a massive salad, then I'd mean it was more than just a few leaves.

This is a true statement.

There obviously ARE people who bang on about how little they eat and kill everyone else’s joy around food. Just like there are greedy people who act like twats to try to justify their greedy behaviour

What annoys me is people deriding each other when displaying a staggering lack of knowledge about the food they eat.

The classic being "oh it's so unhealthy to cut out a whole food group"

When referring to low carb. No one cuts out carbs, it's nigh on impossible.

My mum genuinely isn't interested in food. She doesn't like chocolate. She is a size 6-8 (five foot tall.)

I LOVE food and could quite happily polish off a whole large pizza. I have recently lost my baby weight and now a size 10-12 and terrified of putting it back on so I tend to stick to one meal a day on most days which I know isn't good. I'm trying to train myself to not use food as pleasure and jsut see it as fuel, if that makes sense.

and it was very notable to me how often people would talk about feeding up the "growing boys" and pressing them to more,

Yes, my mother does this all the time and it drives me mad. She'll leave half her meal (as she is a competitive undereater) and try to get DS to eat it 'because he's a growing lad and needs it' - not when he's just eaten his own meal, no.

The op who had a jacket potato and went and made a roast dinner.That roast was for herself and dc.whats she supposed to do,not eat because her DH had a big breakfast.

Im 46 and fat,and theres no way i can eat the way i used to be able.But i wouldnt say anything to anybody else about what they ordered or were eating.And i think thats the problem.

I always remember the family of 4 sharing one small portion of fish and chips ( with a salad)

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland "and, before I stopped carbs recently"

See this i find a bit mental. Surely its not healthy to stop a whole food group 

Portion control for normal day to day meals = sensible

Thinking its normal to never/rarely eat lunch etc, exclude a whole food group from your diet, never ever have sugar/a treat = bordering on disordered imho.

Not if you are diabetic.

"No, no Footiefan2019 they don't eat it they inhale or hoover it, you must get the terminology correctgrin. It's incredible how many kids on MN are super sporty and constantly eating yet you can see their rib cages as there is nothing of them, chinny reckon, aye."

Nobody on MN just eats. If you have the typical MN elite-athlete-ribcage-like-a-xylophone-child, then yes, they inhale/devour.

If you have the misfortune to not be built like the side of a fiver, then you stuff/trough/guzzle/slurp/chomp/pig. No one just fucking eats.

I’m a size 8 and I had a memorable customer, not a big woman, average sized say a 14, go on about how her husband ordering dessert and how it’s greedy and she doesn’t know how he can ‘ram all that food in!’ As if I was going to agree with her. I happily told her I eat what I want when I want and that normally means dessert when I go out to eat. She looked flabbergasted. Like anyone who is not ‘overweight’ (whatever that means) eats like a bird and hates those that eat more Than them. Weird
@Footiefan2019
very bizarre that you look at your customers and assess their size

@spacepyramid We buy lots of fruit and vegetables in this house - my youngest is currently munching his way through a cucumber for his afternoon snack and did the same with some broccoli this morning, he'll be begging for more this afternoon as he loves them so much.

There is definitely a culture of mildly/moderately disordered eating in this country, and for women in particular

not in anyway fuelled by "diet" clubs that refer to food as sins, and push crappy frozen ready meals that they get a commission on.

I hate the ones where the OP asks if you are a size 8 what do you eat?
You get lots of posters detailing their rigid eating regime that they stick to in order to keep themselves slim.

I just want to say whatever the fuck I fancy. Some days it might be pretty healthy with lots of fruit and veg, but some days it will include cake, crisps, chocolate or puddings. I eat whenever and as much as I want and in a roast I will pile on the roast potatoes and have as many yorkshires as I can; I will have as much on my plate as the men in my family. But lots of people don't like to read that, because they want to believe that anyone who is slim has to practically starve/deny themselves to achieve it.

My sister used to always bang on about how she hadn't eaten yet, as she only eats one meal at night. She would repeat this over and over again. If it was lunch time and I said I'm having a sandwhich, she'd always reply, "but you had breakfast?! Are you hungry?! I'm not eating until 10pm" Since then, shes had 2 children and developed chrohns, she now actually eats 3 meals a day! The shock of it.

JapaneseBirdPainting keep going your doing aazing.im so poroud of you for stoppig the binging part.you can do this.it would make you so poorly and your lovely heart now can heal without vomiting.im sorry your suffering still though and have in the past.that woman was a fucker.ignore her.you deserve better than to listen to your nasty illness remember that always.

So what the hell is a normal portion size? I have this discussion about fishfingers with friends (yes we have exciting life’s)
I have 2 (previous gastric surgery) kids 2 and H 3 apparently I’m stingy

3 fish fingers is nowhere near enough.

1. You need five. Fish fingers are tiny these days.

5 of the extra crispy ones fit perfectly on a warburtons farm house loaf

This thread just made me go back for a second early dinner