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 liked the thread last year where someone was fretting about her child eating 2 oranges after dinner

I think I eat healthily and don’t really care what others eat
I suffer when people don’t give me enough food though!
DM thinks a single pizza or small quiche will feed 4 with a bit of salad!
I had an elderly aunt who was famous for small portions - I vividly remember the ham salad that had 1/2 slice of boiled ham each, a boiled egg between 4 people, a 1/4 of a small tomato each, 2 slices of cucumber each and 1/2 a stick of celery - KFC or McD on way home!!

Nothing wrong with my weight bluntness and I have never dieted in my life. I'm never going to be sylphlike as I'm a sturdy build but I have zero food "issues".
I also don't care what other people eat and don't want a) it rammed down my throat just how birdlike their appetite is or b) shock horror over someone else actually enjoying food.
Food is a pleasure to be savoured, and actually, savouring your food is a much healthier way to eat as you are conscious of what you are eating. It's those people who pick at a salad in public and then eat a whole chocolate cake standing up in front of the fridge in an act of self loathing that have a problem.

i've read this thread with my hands in front of my face.

i am one of these women.

i am a size 8 weigh 7-8 stones.

i love food....am a serious chocoholic. i ate cake for lunch today. but just a cupcake.
dinner....well - that was just chips. they are beige. i eat beige food.

i would never eat a salad...massive or otherwise. a piece of fruit hasn't passed my lips in over 20 years.

i have a diagnosis of ARFID, avoidant, restrictive, food intake disorder.

i so wish i could just eat without thinking about it all day long. its so complicated for some of us

@sadwithkiddies I’m sorry to hear that. Assuming you don’t make a massive song and dance about it for attention or make others feel bad for managing different portion sizes to you, or use negative language when it comes to others eating you aren’t the sort of person that’s being discussed here.

A lot of women associate food with morality, as if eating less makes you an intrinsically better person. Nonsense, obviously.

(and before anyone leaps in with "so you're saying that anyone who doesn't want dessert has an EATING DISORDER?", no I'm not, I'm saying that someone who views any food as a 'naughty treat' that they need to be seen as refusing but will eat anyway regardless doesn't have the healthiest attitude to food.)

Yes some people do seem to view eating as something really rather disgusting that they’d really rather not do if they didn’t have to.

MN food threads are bonkers and entertaining in equal measures.

There's the 'I only have to lick an egg for breakfast and I'm full for the rest of the day' crowd or the 'I eat a ten course banquet for each meal, plus a snack every hour, and 10 pizzas is a light meal' lot. Rarely do you see in between.

This thread proves it.

I'm slim after recently losing weight. I've had quite a few comments from family members saying I'm practically anorexic (size 8-10 at 5"5 nope just a healthy weight) and yet also the same ones who express shock when I eat cheese or chocolate as it's fattening one of my relatives who is quite a bit overweight was visiting, she brought a dry chicken salad and a diet yoghurt for lunch then went home, got a McDs on the way then had a takeaway and a half a large chocolate cheesecake in the evening (she boasted on social media)

I typically eat 3 meals a day but generally follow my appetite. If I'm hungry, I'll eat more. If I'm not, I won't eat as much. I just listen to my body for the most part. I value quality over quantity.

I bloody love food but give me a smaller portion of a proper homemade lasagne oozing with yummy cheese than some SW low fat version made with quark. Or a few squares of dark chocolate than a huge bar of crappy tasteless Cadburys.

Since I've had kids, I completely changed my eating habits and want them to follow suit. As in listen to your body and eat proper food. My 2 year old generally loves food. However some days he's a bottomless pit and other days like today, he's barely glanced at his meals. In reference to fish fingers - last week, he devoured 2 fish fingers with chips and beans then fruit and yoghurt. Today, he ate half a one, two chips, no beans and small bowl of yogurt. He's obviously not hungry.

I HATE this labelling of food as fattening, diet, clean, dirty, and so on. It's damaging and I refuse to expose my kids to this (still toddler and baby but in the future) I'll also be careful with relatives talking about weight and stuff around my kids, especially my daughter.

Half a tin of soup 🤣

Can people ever stop themselves from posting "I weigh X stone and I'm 5 foot blah". NOBODY. FUCKING. CARES.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland If there's plenty of carbs in the food you eat you haven't stopped carbs!

There's carbs in my salad, vegetables, fruit, in fact almost all food contains carbs. So it would be almost impossible to cut them out completely unless you have a restricted meat only diet. Since I was talking about french stick I thought it was fairly clear that I was talking about bread etc but obviously not. I'll remember to explain properly next time

@TheStuffedPenguin I wouldn’t normally give a shit of notice. But when someone bangs on at length about their small appetite you do tend to have a split second to assess whether they’re unusually small or something . And this customer wasn’t.

Can people ever stop themselves from posting "I weigh X stone and I'm 5 foot blah". NOBODY. FUCKING. CARES

Why are you so angry? What difference does it make if they post it? I find the thread informative and entertaining, I don't really care if some random loves to feast or their mum doesn't like food, but I'm not shouting and all angry about it.

People can post what they want within guidelines.

I think it's quite important to remember that being fat is not a crime, and that being thin is not a moral obligation for women. I haven't been anywhere near 'dieting' for the best part of 40 years; I am what I would call medium sized (between size 12 and size 16 depending on the cut and brand of the clothes). I eat what I like, when I like, and will cheerfully ruin the day of anyone who tries to pester me about what I'm eating. I try to make sure that DS and I get plenty of veg for the sake of having enough vitamins, but otherwise life is too short to listen to all the fucking idiots giving wave after wave of stupid, contradictory advice that is rarely based on anything other than odd moralising and a desire to police other people.
The increase in eating disorders is more of a public health problem than the fact that some people are a bit chubbier than others. And poverty, inequality, and the extra difficulties poor people face in getting enough food are bigger problems than both the previous things.

'I only have to lick an egg for breakfast and I'm full for the rest of the day'

The increase in eating disorders is more of a public health problem than the fact that some people are a bit chubbier than others

Obesity is factually the biggest issue the nhs faces, and it's also the biggest cause of cancer, but arguably anyone who is obese may a,so have an eating disorder, although clearly not all. The two are not mutually exclusive nor directly correlated. The causes of obesity are varied.

I'm not sure there's been any form of study to validate what you're saying? Or is this just what you think?

The bigger concern is many people no longer recognise a healthy portion of size, this thread is a prime example where the op basically states that eating half a large pizza as an adult is competitive under eating, and not just that, but it's so bad it's laughable for her.

Obesity is factually the biggest issue the nhs faces, and it's also the biggest cause of cancer

No its literally elderly people and smoking is the biggest cause of cancer.

I worked in a food place for ages and the amount of women (always women) that would say ‘oh just a small portion, oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY manage all that’ in an OTT, almost scripted way was astonishing. Quite sad really

It is sad, and it is mostly women. Me and dh regularly go out with 3 other couples.

The 3 other women of the group nearly always order fish & veg or salad ALWAYS. I order whatever the hell I fancy sometimes that’s steak & chips, sometimes that stuffed chicken or salad depends on my mood. The men however ALWAYS order steak and chips, all of them they give it no thought. Then the 3 salad women sit there on that steak looks nice, oh are those chips nice etc etc

Then it comes to dessert 3 other women sit there umm ah, oh I shouldn’t really, oh it would be naughty too, no I won’t 🙄 I order dessert ( I don’t have dessert at home but when out I normally have main & dessert, I haven’t got a fat arse due to this yet!) ALL the men order dessert, they don’t even think about it. 3 women sit eyeing up your dessert.

I mean ffs Sandra if you want A slice of cheesecake or whatever when out for meal, have it. It’s not naughty, it’s not a whole cake, it’s 1 slice 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1 slice isn’t going to make anyone weigh 20 stone

No its literally elderly people and smoking is the biggest cause of cancer

No it's not. Google it.

Boris you're correct, smoking is the leading cause, however overweight/obesity is the second biggest preventable cause.

I've got a completely didordered approach to food. It started from young - mam was on countless diets when I was small and was always saying she was fat. She had me on slim fast shakes at 9. I wasn't particularly big but around 10/11 I was always hungry - probably a growth spurt. Rather than increase portions of healthy food and exercise, mam would look as though I had 2 heads of I asked for more. So I snuck food and then got in trouble.

By 11 I was dieting obsessively which only deteriorated in secondary school. I was obsessed with being skinny and really liked being hungry. Even now, I enjoy feeling hungry. Not starving, but that peckish feeling. I love it, and I like ignoring it, I feel in control. I exercised lots and barely ate and it was hard work and miserable. I wanted to be underweight, would pour over magazines of Victoria Beckham and lindsey lohan, and be so upset when I was a normal bmi not underweight. I exercised lots - an hour circuits class, an hour gym at a lower intensity and an hour boxercise class, four times a day, was not unusual.

Then in year 12 I relaxed. I made good friends and focused on my studies and put a lot of weight on. I became someone I despised. I joined slimming clubs galore - I would become obsessed with getting good losses each week, obsessed to win slimmer of the week. I wouldn't eat on weigh in day, was constantly weak, wanted 4lb loss a week. I joined ww which was better and less binging led, but I still didn't eat on weigh days and I still wanted big losses and I started taking laxatives.

I've not dketed for 6montha and my diet isn't the best. I don't particularly like my body. But as well as addiction recovery, I've realised how weight was another addiction for me. That the nice feeling I get when I'm hungry isn't good, or healthy. Tjst I've started using that feeling In place of a high from drugs. I know I need to sort my addiction and my head first. I know that dieting, laxatives anf obsession isn't good for me. And for now maybr trying not to binge is the best I can dk

Sorry I stand corrected, obesity is the second biggest cause of cancer. Smoking is first.

Since the beginning of my teens, any time we would have dinner with boys or men my age present, my mum would go on a walk with me beforehand and buy me a bread roll to eat so I would nicely eat almost nothing at dinner. Some women do really think like that.

I dislike the how much do you weigh if you're X height threads, they always degenerate into "I'm 6'4 and I weigh 6 stone and look a bit chubby, I could definitely do with losing half a stone". And posters seem to not grasp that every person of a certain height and dress size will not necessarily be the same weight because weight distribution varies.

I know I'm overweight and my father would be disgusted at me but I'm trying to relax about it. I still wont look at my body though, in a mirror or photograph either. But I'm seriously struggling with what I can eat. My hiatus hernia isn't big enough apparently to cause problems yet they cant explain why I regularly choke on food as though therefood caught at the bottom of the oesophagus, vomit and have serious pain and other symptoms if I stray away from solid carbohydrate. Eating Rennies like sweets isn't fun but all the gastro department can suggest is cutting out all the foods that I actually can eat.

I also gave up going by weight years ago. As I said earlier, I have my maternal hefty strong build that easily builds muscle. I was always getting nagged about my BMI at my regular military reserve physicals but I just kept getting more solid and less fat the more exercise I did but sod all effect on the scales. They did eventually realise that my uniform was hanging off me and I was carrying almost no fat in gym clothes despite the scales; now I'm just fat with arthritic joints! 😃 I judge by what I can wear.