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

@LetItGoGo

Greedy is such a negative word.

I enjoy my food.

It's a form of body shaming and negging BS. I dumped people who monitored my eating at the get go. I've never been overweight. 'Oh, greedy are we?' 'Oh, cheating, are we?' Oh, dumped, are you!' If someone's raiding the cupboards and eating food meant for their kids they're just selfish fuckwit.

Some people can eat way more than they need to, or eat lots and lots of things that are not very good for their body without piling on weight. Across a population overeating reliably causes weight gain, but on an individual level how much weight you put on from the overeating you do is partly luck (well not exactly luck, more genetics, gut bacteria and a bunch of other things that you don't actively choose in the way we choose our diet and exercise).

I'd say I'm very greedy. I often end up preoccupied with eating rubbish food purely for the pleasure of it rather than for nutritional or hunger reasons. How likely I am to put on weight from that has increased as I've got older, but it would it would be illogical to say I've got more greedy because I now put on more weight. The greediness has been consistent, the weight gain hasn't!

My DH does a LOT of exercise, and so can eat and eat without gaining weight. This doesn't make him greedy.

What does make him greedy at times is that he will eat, for example, a full pack of hot cross buns, intended for the whole family, without stopping to think of others. That is greedy in that it's not about the impact on his waistline, but on other people.

To me someone who's greedy eats a lot or wants a lot. It doesn't just have to be food. Greedy could be money, possessions, anything really.

Even if it is about food, someone can be greedy but still be active and fit enough to not become overweight.

Also not all overweight people are greedy!

@MaliceOrgan

What a silly post. Is it yet another fat shaming one?

Yup of course it is, some people equate being slim with being morally superior.

No OP

Greedy is taking more than your fair share

If have 8 biscuits, and there’s 3 people and you quickly ate 6, leaving only 2 for the rest, that would be greedy, regardless of whet you’re slim

You can be greedy just not fat, it's very simple

YABU. I was thin as a child and sis was overweight. My dad would sometimes get a couple of chocolate bars from the shop, to share between me and sis.

By your logic, I would have been fine to eat both chocolate bars because I was thin and sis was fat.

We’re both greedy, neither of us are overweight.

My boyfriend who if anything could do with gaining a bit of weight is definitely greedy. Neither of us work on Friday so we had a cooked breakfast which was three fried eggs, 1/2 tin beans, mushrooms, hashbrowns, tomatoes, toast, veggie sausages and wilted spinach with roast peppers. His lunch was a large dominos veggie supreme and vegan combo (wedges and vegan nuggets). For dinner we’re having a Chinese and he’ll most likely have a tub of chow mein, spring rolls, garlic fried vegetables and seaweed. He also has a tub of vegan B&Js for pudding.

He eats more than me and he is less active than me, I’m 95kg and he is around 66-68kg. He can eat like a machine, he had to have investigations as a teen as he just didn’t gain weight. Hollow legs.

Also, being greedy isn’t a negative trait.

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

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.

PERFECTLY put @UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

Thank you!

Greedy and overweight are not synonyms, one just often leads to the other. Anyone can be greedy.

Of course a slim person can be greedy. Difference probably is that the slim person either exercises a lot too, is only greedy sometimes and not every day and/or has good metabolism (but then you can argue good metabolism is helped by exercise so..).

I'm greedy and not slim. Because I'm greedy every day rather than once a week or whatever. I noticed when I stopped snacking, stuck to 3 healthy meals a day and exercised, hey guess what, I lost weight. Its amazing what happens when you don't eat a whole packet of biscuits too.

To me being greedy wouldn’t be the amount you eat (unless it was vastly in excess), but more about your behaviour. Ie not sharing, eating more than your fair share

My DP is very thin with a BMI of around 17. He literally never stops eating during the day and eats a lot of junk too. He’s had blood tests and seems to be in good health but just has a very fast metabolism. I eat a lot less than he does and count calories but my BMI is 27. I can eat one unhealthy meal or big portion of carbs and gain weight. So frustrating!

But buying and eating too much of something by yourself or hogging 2 chairs at the pool in your own back yard is NOT greedy. You are depriving no one of nothing.

Interesting. And yes, you are correct.

I amend my statement: I am gluttonous.

Lol, my hubby is probably what someone would describe as greedy but he's fit and slim, I, on the other hand, am obese but I eat healthily and exercise. No logic but it doesn't always go as you'd expect

I'm a healthy weight and I am definitely greedy. I eat healthily most of the time, but can quite easily consume a very greedy amount of chocolate in one sitting when I fancy it.

my sister is anorexic, has been for 17 years, and whilst her BMI is only 14 she most certainly is "greedy". She spends £50+ per day on food that she eats and pukes up.

You're trying to make a modens tollens type argument (proof by contrapositive), but it's a logical fallacy, partly because "greedy" is such an imprecise, emotive and subjective term.

Someone can have a healthy (or low) BMI and still be "greedy" by virtue of the fact they eat more than they need, or more than their fair share.

I'm sure my weight (low end of healthy BMI) wouldn't have slipped dangerously low if I hadn't eaten that tub of Ben and Jerry's over a couple of evenings and then gone and bought another one. I didn't deprive anyone else, so was it greedy? Perhaps not, but it was quite piggish and certainly not necessary.

Wrong. I'm both greedy and lazy, I do no exercise and pig out regularly. I'm of a normal weight. Must be my metabolism.

I think I am greedy. I am lucky to have good genes and have a healthy weight and never put weight on. I eat a healthy diet during the day but the amount of crap I eat of an evening is nothing other than greedy.
Typically a glass of wine, two packets of crisps, a magnum and a bar of chocolate.
Or a very big bowl of ice cream (really enough for three people) and huge slice of cake. Then a biscuit or two.
Tell me that's not greedy.

I don't think eating too much makes you greedy. Unless other people are having to eat less because you are having more than your fair share.

@suspiria777

my sister is anorexic, has been for 17 years, and whilst her BMI is only 14 she most certainly is "greedy". She spends £50+ per day on food that she eats and pukes up.

That must be awful - both for your sister and for the people close to her.

I remember a girl at school with anorexia who would eat piles of cabbage and various other steamed veg, and someone commenting that, despite appearances, she was greedy. (This was expressed in such a way that it was clear they understood the complexity of the situation.)

I can be greedy sometimes, but I'm not overweight.