Aibu to think you can eat a weekly takeaway and still be healthy?

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Or am I deluded? We have one every week, chippy, Indian or Chinese. Anything goes! We eat healthily the rest of the time and both exercise and we are healthy weights.

Is this a once a week treat - yanbu

or too much? - yabu

yanbu :) Enjoy

YANBU, if the rest of your diet is balanced and you live fairly active lifestyles. Although I guess it depends, if you order the entire menu or just a reasonable amount!

Of course you can.

We do, always have, and I think we're pretty healthy on the whole.

Hope so,
We have a takeaway every week. I also have breakfast, lunch out at least once a week. Been known to visit McDonald's with dd during the week.

Sounds fine to me. Although ironically I find that if I eat healthily most of the time the amount of an unhealthy take away I want to eat reduces. So I would still have it weekly, but not crazy big portions.

100% yanbu so far, a MN first!

We're the same btw, weekly takeaways but perfectly healthy.

We have a weekly takeaway! I don’t think anyone will be on their deathbed wishing they hadn’t had a weekly takeaway and stayed with fish and boiled potatoes

At one point in my life I was eating takeaway 3 times a week and the weight piled on.
Finances changed and it was home cooking for months. I lost a lot of weight unintentionally.
Once in a blue moon now for takeaways. They are usually so highly spiced and salted I struggle to eat it.
I think you're ok where you're at OP.

We stopped having our weekly curry as it was costing £100 a month!!!

It's more a treat to us to have one when we I can't be bothered to cook, so once a month at the most....

Fine re health but as a family of 5 - two strapping teens and a tween - we found they cost a fortune so have cut down to once a month or so.

That's a relief!

Cost in an interesting factor I havent added up that before. It's only the two of us who have it and we share starter and main but will still all add up!

I managed to 2 stone a couple of years ago whilst doing this, ate very healthily at a good deficit 6 days of the week and then had whatever I wanted for tea on a Friday or Saturday. Its all about balance, if a treat for you is takeaway once a week, I don't see the problem

You’ll get people telling you what a huge amount of food it is and how it would be so much healthier to cook fresh fish instead, but once a week is fine.

Can't see anything wrong with it, though probably would find once weekly excessive personally, we have one a month (or two months) and it feels like a treat. i Only really fancy it when i am really hungry anyway and craving the fat/salt i suppose. Otherwise it's a cost thing though- there are things i would rather spend the money on. £100 plus a month on takeaway is a lot.

Health wise i suppose it depends how your weight and general health is otherwise, if both are good then why not OP, i imagine it's a nice way to wind down the week tbh

This is one of those things that I find it so bizarre people need to ask. You eat healthily most of the time, you exercise, you are a healthy weight. Why would you think one weekly takeaway is enough to counteract all of that and suddenly make you unhealthy?

To me it kind of depends. I get takeaway once a month, but we quite often go for coffee and cake/crisps, or a share bag of chocolate, or popcorn at the cinema last night - and I don't want us to do all of those things every week iyswim? If you however do otherwise eat healthily then not really an issue.

By the sounds of it you eat an extremely tiny portion so can't imagine it's too bad at all.