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

We;d have potatoes and peas with fishfingers, or sometimes a couple of potato waffles each. I guess the number you have depends on what else is on the plate?

Oh and those pps who say 'I always give my dc a healthy and nutritious meal' - of course I never did 😁 - good on you!

I am way overweight but I don't remember when I last ate a 3 course meal, maybe last Christmas day, but the starter was smoked salmon. If we've been out for lunch I will gladly share a tin of soup or my legendary home-made soup, can't see what's wrong with that. OH always takes a smaller portion of whatever than me but then spends the rest of the evening picking at the left overs in the kitchen.

BTW beans on toast results in an extreme reaction similar to a large bag of jelly babies.
Brilliant!grin

The poster who posted this is diabetic and being diabetic myself I know that some seemingly innocent looking food can have a huge effect on your blood sugar. Tinned beans are normally high in sugar, add some unrefined carbs in white bread and I can see why there is a large reaction.

Something else which causes a spike in sugar levels is mashed potato. from a blood sugar perspective roast potatoes or chips are better since the fat slows down the release of the carbs.

People should just eat what they want but take responsibility for the outcome. Everyone has different metabolisms, hunger levels etc.

I have a smaller appetite than my 7 year old so I don’t eat as much. It’s simple, we both eat enough to fuel our bodies. My DH eats more than both of us put together - no one is fat or underweight.

If we want to end the obesity crisis we need to start viewing food as fuel, people should not be stigmatised for correctly measuring their fuel requirements

Yeah I know a bit about diabetes. Restricting refined carbs is best generally, but seriously. Beans on toast is NOT the same as eating a large bag of jelly babies. I promise.

Food is not just fuel. I agree that trying to believe that is disordered in itself

I'd cook a box of 10 fishfingers for two of us, with chips and peas, or in a sandwich.
We'd then probably have a dessert, yoghurt/trifle/cheese, whatever's in the fridge really.

My grandma used to do this when we were really quite little - not letting us have an ice cream at 11am because "you've just had that massive bowl of Shreddies" (at 8am...) or using phrases like "pigging out" about totally normal food portions. She'd never allow herself any nice food either - when she stayed with us once she said her favourite food was Cinnamon Grahams ("but you can't get them in ruddy insert large city where she lived") We bought her some once and she wouldn't take them home because she "didn't trust" herself with them. We once went to stay and her cupboards were bare becaude "I don't keep food in the house in case I eat it."

Poor woman - she'd have been 80 now and I think a lot of her generation who grew up with rationing struggle / struggled with a weird combo of fetishising food while thinking greed or perceived greed was the ultimate sin.

Agreed food is not just fuel. Feasting has been a celebration in every culture throughout human history. It’s a sensual pleasure for most people, whatever exact food does it for them.

The beans on toast as a treat thread & someone said something along the lines of they buy tinned or proceeded food for fun sometimes 😂 being arsey about it lol

Fuck off with this
Food is fuel bollocks
Food is part of life and eating, feasting and sharing food and drink is a great pleasure
If you want to be that joyless knock yourself out
It is possible to gain pleasure from food as well as having a sensible healthy attitude to food
Balance
That's the key word
Try it some time

My mum is like this.
All my life she has been on a diet of some kind or other
I realised recently that she can’t ever eat something and just enjoy it, she always always has to comment about how awful, piggy, greedy it is.
I have seriously disordered eating now as an adult

I don’t really know what to say on this thread. Some people are interested in/knowledgeable about food to the point of obsession. It’s not that nice to read. Who wants to sit there assessing every meal for its nutritional content, or, worse, look at others and do the same for what they’re eating? And who the heck has time?

There’s an excellent bit in Bridget Jones’ Diary in which Bridget realises that humans actually need to eat and should be absorbing calories. She recognises that she actually thinks that the ideal situation would to eat nothing at all, and that it’s really not a good thing to feel like that.

I was friends with a woman,, we met up at a cafe at 3pm but she didn't eat. She told me she was stuffed as she'd had a crumpet for breakfast and some raisins later on in the day...

Grumpbum123 I'm laughing trying to imagine my OH face if I served him 3 fish fingers for dinner

@ManiacalLapwing
Yes women, on average, need less calories than men. But your calories balance out over about three days. So if you were going to serve someone less or more food, from a health pov, then you need to know what they've already eaten.

Women also need more, B vits, foliate, iron etc, so they need bigger portions of meat. Which traditionally womnever got. Under 25's are still building bone density.

So feeding a female guest less, doesn't make sense.

Plus the fact that it's a, celebrationary meal and each guest should be treated the same.

I've stopped eating processed carbs, the reactions that I've had are worse than when I went vegan. (I'm no longer vegan).As a post menopausal woman on HRT, who was pre-diabetic (family trait), it makes sense and I've turned my blood results around, as well as loosing weight. But it seems to upset people

I remember a thread where a poster said she would eat one chicken drumstick for the meat component of her dinner and couldn't believe my ds (who was 10 at the time I think) would eat 3.

Another poster who'd serve her dh one chicken thigh for dinner.

On the fish finger point, I don't understand restricting them and not the potatoes.

Spacepyramid, lol, am I the only one who noticed?

Being 30 stone is bad for you, but being 12-15 stone really doesn't make much difference.
Really? A 5ft 5 woman would be obese at 13st.
I'm just under 5'3" & slightly overweight at 10st 3. I find it strange (though it's obviously normal for many people) that 11st can be a healthy weight, I'm seriously chubby at that weight.

Like Lifeover, I often eat less than my 7 y/o. I often just don't feel that hungry. DD, however, seems to be your typical bottomless pit... I'm dreading the teen years.

Like Lifeover, I often eat less than my 7 y/o. I often just don't feel that hungry. DD, however, seems to be your typical bottomless pit...

Perhaps she just has a normal healthy appetite

Just because you eat less than a seven year old don't describe others as 'bottomless pits' especially your dd.

Gosh some angry people on here. Even angry about others attitude to food, a poster even being told to fuck off because she's trying to see food as fuel.

I'd bet good money this anger is related directly to people's feelings and discomfort about their own weight.

Why are people so tetchy about this?

What bothers me is folk insisting they are entirely healthy at BMI 17 or that they always eat 800 kcal/day and that is all they need. Sometimes coupled with claims of very physically active lives. These claims mean one of 3 things:

1. They are smaller than Ellie Symonds & nowhere as active.

2. Bald untruths. Either self-delusion or deliberate misleading from the poster. Tedious at best.

3. Active aspiration to anorexia or pro-Annie attitudes. Promoting anorexic mentalities as a legit 'lifestyle' choice. At best I find that disturbing.