To think you can't be 'greedy' if you're not overweight

[LaurieFairyCake]

Seems simple to me

If you're not overweight then no matter what you consume you can't be 'greedy'

As you are a healthy weight and BMI and you're just eating to maintain that

Are you sure? I'm a size 6. Yesterday i had a miserable day, i went to Tesco and bought a HUGE chocolate birthday cake and ate 3/4 of it by myself. Like, 12 people's worth. Does that not make me greedy?

Wouldn't that be gluttony?

I'm fairly sure it's only greed if you had more than your fair share - thus leaving less for others.

Ohalrighthen

Nope, don't think you're 'greedy' for eating a big cake - instead you've got awareness that yesterday you 'ate your feelings'

It was one day 🤷‍♀️

Lucky is word I would use , im overweight but eat like a sparrow and have such a slow metabolism I would love to be able to be greedy and maintain a healthy bmi

Muskox

I'm sure it's unhealthy to eat a pack of Mars Bars for the average person but NOT a builder

Calories needed in day = 5000

Pack of Mars Bars = 1000
Giant salad/whole chicken/fish/veg/potatoes = 4000

Is the SAME as me:

Sedentary life - 1000 calories

Biscuits = 250
Salad/chicken/potato = 750

EXACTLY THE SAME PROPORTIONS

I’m greedy. I see something I want, and sometimes I stuff my face with it - like an entire Ben & Jerry’s tub in one go, where it’s hard to finish and I feel sick after - but god it tastes nice and I want it. If I wasn’t greedy, I’d enjoy half the tub and put back.

I’m a size 8 because periodically this greed catches up with me and I starve myself. Not eat for 3 days, then 500kcal a day until I’m slim again.

So am I not greedy because I’m a size 8?
Odd thread.

But its not healthy to eat your calories in bad foods even if you maintain a decent bmi , too much sugar and fat puts you at risk regardless of your weight

Of course you can be greedy and a healthy weight. Just as not people can be fat and not greedy. Greedy is not a nice word. It should not be used unless it’s really justified. But being thin or fact is no real indicator of whether you are greedy or not.

Depends on how you are defining greedy.

I tend to think of it as someone wanting more of something in a selfish way, like not worrying about depriving someone else of the thing. In that sense, a slim person absolutely can be greedy. If my husband and I agree to share a bag of crisps and I eat more than my share, I am being greedy. I am not overweight though, just fancied a load of crisps at that moment,

Greedy is a horribly emotive word which is always used judgementally of course. It was absolutely nothing to do with weight though - some people have a fast metabolic rate while young and make poor choices which cause them poor health despite not being overweight. If a 7 stone adult spends the day in on the sofa, too lazy to cook or prepare decent food and then eats 12 donuts and passes out in front of Netflix feeling sick, are they not greedy? Yet an overweight adult who eats too much of the healthier home cooked meal they cook after a 12 hour shift is greedy?

Its a nasty word, and of course its often misused towards growing teensout of spite or nastyness or exasperation at the fact their eating more than their share is thoughtless or selfish - those words are more appropriate when its about eating more than your fair share.

Its nothing to do with weight though.

But its not healthy to eat your calories in bad foods even if you maintain a decent bmi , too much sugar and fat puts you at risk regardless of your weight

That may not be healthy, but it is not greedy either.

Of course you can

I’ve always been greedy and was a comfort eater. I never ever put on weight but ate far more than I needed to

Now that habit is really hard to break and I do put on weight

It’s was a joke at how much I ate (and never exercised)

I don’t really like the term greedy. Surely it only implies taking something that isn’t yours. I’m fat and I eat what I like. I wouldn’t call it greedy. Nor would I call it greedy if a skinny person ate whatever they liked. Eating isn’t competitive and it’s a really unhealthy attitude to food all around.

That said eating loads of rubbish isn’t great for you if you’re thin either. I have a friend who, and I’m not joking here, at McDonald’s or KFC or similar at least two meals a day, every day. She was 6’1 and thin as a rail and a former model. She just loved fast food. She got cancer by the time she was 35 though!

My son ate 4 multi packs of 2 finger kit kats between Sunday and yesterday - what's that if it's not greedy? He's not overweight either

Greedy doesn't just mean eating more than your calorie requirements. There is an intrinsic selfishness to it.

My Dad isn't overweight (very tall and also active) but is very greedy. if for example my mum had bought four cupcakes for us each to have with afternoon tea and he liked the look of them, he would go and get them out of the cupboard before teatime, when no one else was around and plough through all four. This sort of thing happened a lot and he would always say "I was hungry, so what, I am not fat" and shrug. Even though he knew it was the sort of thing that was a "one each" treat and he had done it secretly so he couldn't be challenged about sharing until he'd already cheerfully wolfed the lot.

Oh yes, someone can be greedy with food and not be fat. Firstly, I don’t think you’ve had teen boys have you? They absolutely inhale an entire fridge full of food and not have an ounce of fat on them.

My DD will also eat so much out of our fridge, whole packets of things gone. She’s 25 and no fat on her

That may not be healthy, but it is not greedy either.

I didn't say it was, I was replying to OP comment re eating whole pack of mars bars being ok for a builder
When if they did that daily even if they maintained weight, it wouldn't be ideal
Greedy isn't even always related to food anyway

Oh yes you can! (I sometimes am!).

Weight and healthiness are not that closely correlated. It's very possible to be slim but to obtain an unhealthy proportion of calories as 'empty' junk-food calories. Greed (for cake, crisps, whatever) can form part of that. Or to binge then restrict but maintain a healthy weight.

Similarly, people can be overweight but malnourished.

IMO greed is about taking more than you need and preventing someone else from having something. With food it's people eating past the need to fill their hunger. So you can be skinny as a rake and still be greedy if you eat 10 chocolate bars if after 1 you are full therefore stopping anyone else from having 1. Being "greedy" with food has absolutely nothing to do with how much you weigh.

I think if you truly believed this OP then you wouldn't have felt the need to ask if you were being unreasonable on an internet forum. I think deep down you know your assumptions are ignorant but you're looking for validation from strangers to make yourself feel less of a dick.

Thin people can have greedy days, they just balance it out with days when they barely eat. But they can absolutely eat over their requirements and be greedy fuckers just like overweight people can. The difference is they don't do it on a regular basis.

Greed is also a behavioural thing, it's not just about the number of calories consumed and you know it. If I bring cakes in to the office and Slim Sharon scoffs the lot before any of us get a chance then she is greedy. She may not eat for the rest of the day so she might still be under her daily calorific needs, but her behaviour is still considered greedy in a societal context as she was selfish with the food and didn't share.

Turns out being slim doesn't make someone morally superior, who knew.

@FuckyouCovid21

My son ate 4 multi packs of 2 finger kit kats between Sunday and yesterday - what's that if it's not greedy? He's not overweight either

If the Kit Kats were for the whole family and he ate everyone’s share then yes, that’s greedy. It would be just as greedy for him to eat only two Kit Kats in a week, if those two Kit Kats were supposed to be shared with someone else.

The act of eating several multipacks of Kit Kats because you really like them might be unhealthy but it’s an otherwise victimless act.

Again I agree with others , greedy is more about taking more than you need and maybe leaving others without.
I would consider my friends son greedy as if we have a buffet style meal he will take all of one thing and leave nothing for anyone else as well as lots of other things, with no considerations of how many need to also eat that food.
He is like a rake but still greedy , he doesn't share his sweets but helps himself to other peoples , these behaviours I would term as greedy.

Yes, had multiple teen boys - they eat a lot

I am currently at the low end of a normal BMI and a size 8. I am exceptionally greedy and have to keep a lid on it all of the time.

I exercise to excess some would say and only allow myself the foods that are a trigger for my greed on a Friday or special occasions. I know many people who are overweight who are far less greedy than I am. It's a trait that I very much dislike in myself.

I think 'greedy' has negative connotations
Ah yes so of course skinny people couldn’t possibly be associated with a negative word.

You’re vile.