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Minniem2020 · 31/12/2022 23:01

Lying in bed mumsnetting and casually helping myself to chocolate seashells and I've just stuck my hand in to get another one and realised I've eaten the lot. I don't even feel that sick- I'm such a greedy cow.
I really tried hard before Christmas to lose weight after dc3 and I've just put it back on in the last week. Please make me feel better by telling me I'm not the only one as greedy as this

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Minniem2020 · 01/01/2023 04:39

Mybestyear · 01/01/2023 02:00

Once got a Chinese takeaway for myself - large portion of chips, curry sauce and fried rice. DS was out and phoned and asked “what’s for tea?” I said there’s left over from the Chinese - he says “great!”. I then eat it all but too embarrassed to say so need to go back to Chinese and order same again - wee guy serving looks at me like “eh!”. Then I ate half of new order so it wouldn’t look like another order!! Greedy 🐷

This may be the winner for me 😂.

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Greggsyumyumsmum · 01/01/2023 05:31

I'm so glad that this is anonymous.

So I had a gastric sleeve a few years ago.
restriction is lessening, but I hit a stop fairly quickly.

I was at my favourite steak restaurant.

DH says to me, we will share. I said, great, we did that last time. This time I'm not having bread, I'm not even nibbling a few bites from the starter. I'm so looking forward to the steak.

Babe, have at it, I'll busy myself with the macaroni cheese, I'll have some salad, ill have fries. You eat until you're full.

I ate the whole 18oz steak. I still feel guilty.

Dita73 · 01/01/2023 05:54

@Minniem2020 i swear I saw your post and wanted to hug you. I got two of the big boxes of chocolate shells when I did the Christmas chocolate shop. I thought everyone likes them,so they’ll go on the table and people can help themselves along with the Heroes,Forrero,etc.
Christmas Eve morning the trouble started. Had breakfast and just really needed a bit of chocolate so I opened the box. I’d eaten a massive bowl of cereal so it wasn’t like I was hungry but in literally a couple of minutes I’d inhaled half the box! This is first thing in the morning!
I was naturally disturbed by this once I regained rationality and swore I wouldn’t do it again. I didn’t feel sick or anything but just felt like a big pig. My good intentions didn’t last. By the evening I’d eaten some more! I couldn’t control it,it was like they were calling me from the kitchen and I was powerless to say no!
Since that day it has been an ongoing struggle. It happened again the day after Boxing Day. The same self loathing ensued but not to a point where it was useful as I started again yesterday morning! I had to take a step back and look at what I was doing.
My daughter,who also loves them,calls in most days and if she knows they’re there she will have a couple so I did the only thing I could do. I got a sharpie and wrote her a note inside the box lid saying “I am begging you,please take these bloody things home!!!”
I’m glad to say I’ve been shell free for about 32 hours. Having said that,I do miss them. My other daughter bought a box of chocolate brazils today and I had a few more of those than I should but they took the edge off. I admit though I can’t help thinking about them. There’s also chocolate seahorses out there I believe. I just hope an episode of blue planet doesn’t come on because I’ll be imagining every creature I see in chocolate form. Oh shit I need help!!!!!

Minniem2020 · 01/01/2023 06:28

Dita73 · 01/01/2023 05:54

@Minniem2020 i swear I saw your post and wanted to hug you. I got two of the big boxes of chocolate shells when I did the Christmas chocolate shop. I thought everyone likes them,so they’ll go on the table and people can help themselves along with the Heroes,Forrero,etc.
Christmas Eve morning the trouble started. Had breakfast and just really needed a bit of chocolate so I opened the box. I’d eaten a massive bowl of cereal so it wasn’t like I was hungry but in literally a couple of minutes I’d inhaled half the box! This is first thing in the morning!
I was naturally disturbed by this once I regained rationality and swore I wouldn’t do it again. I didn’t feel sick or anything but just felt like a big pig. My good intentions didn’t last. By the evening I’d eaten some more! I couldn’t control it,it was like they were calling me from the kitchen and I was powerless to say no!
Since that day it has been an ongoing struggle. It happened again the day after Boxing Day. The same self loathing ensued but not to a point where it was useful as I started again yesterday morning! I had to take a step back and look at what I was doing.
My daughter,who also loves them,calls in most days and if she knows they’re there she will have a couple so I did the only thing I could do. I got a sharpie and wrote her a note inside the box lid saying “I am begging you,please take these bloody things home!!!”
I’m glad to say I’ve been shell free for about 32 hours. Having said that,I do miss them. My other daughter bought a box of chocolate brazils today and I had a few more of those than I should but they took the edge off. I admit though I can’t help thinking about them. There’s also chocolate seahorses out there I believe. I just hope an episode of blue planet doesn’t come on because I’ll be imagining every creature I see in chocolate form. Oh shit I need help!!!!!

32 hours shell free is an achievement, you should be proud😂. I can confirm the chocolate seahorses do exist. DD got an extra large box of the mixed chocolates and apparently the biscuit and caramel seahorses are the best. I'm determined not to try them as fear I won't come back from it😁

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Minniem2020 · 01/01/2023 06:31

Greggsyumyumsmum · 01/01/2023 05:31

I'm so glad that this is anonymous.

So I had a gastric sleeve a few years ago.
restriction is lessening, but I hit a stop fairly quickly.

I was at my favourite steak restaurant.

DH says to me, we will share. I said, great, we did that last time. This time I'm not having bread, I'm not even nibbling a few bites from the starter. I'm so looking forward to the steak.

Babe, have at it, I'll busy myself with the macaroni cheese, I'll have some salad, ill have fries. You eat until you're full.

I ate the whole 18oz steak. I still feel guilty.

Ah no guilt needed. Your iron levels would have thanked you with all that red meat😂

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Mumoffairy · 01/01/2023 06:35

I have a favourite ice cream. My kids love it too and would always pick it over the others when we have it at home. It quite expensive, so when i buy it i hide it in the back of the freezer behind the spinach, so they dont see it! The. I eat it after they go to bed in front of the tv 😳

Doliveira · 01/01/2023 08:26

First experience of cake lunacy was eating an entire m&s carrot cake all to myself with pot after pot of tea over a two hour period. Then moved on to eating entire family size cakes all to myself, instead of dinner, Or as dessert!
eaten a entire box of chocolate cake rolls while walking the very short walk back from the shop.
many,many times, eaten an entire tub of ice cream sitting in my coat with unpacked shopping bags from the supermarket still around me..
Cake and Ice cream. I don’t buy them anymore! Can’t stop eating them till they’ve gone. Heavenly things.Sigh.

00100001 · 01/01/2023 08:34

I ate 2 Tesco meal deals one time for lunch. I'd bought one for a colleague who always had one each Friday (always the same, prawn mayo, ready salted crisps and orange juice) anyway, I not her the deal as every week. But for some unknown reason she'd brought in lunch that day.

I had both 🐽

Minniem2020 · 01/01/2023 09:23

@Mumoffairy I love that you use the spinach to conceal it😁, dm once hid a box of mini doughnuts from my brother but forgot about them and found them mouldy a few weeks later.
I'm with you on cake @Doliveira , carrot,lemon drizzle, coffee and walnut, I'll have them all.
Surely that's just you helping to reduce food waste @00100001 ?

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spuddel · 01/01/2023 11:59

I'm not a particularly big 'sweet' person but my weakness is anything with that fake cream in. Bought a box of six Tunnocks snowballs last week, stood at the kitchen island over the sink (to catch the coconut) and ate all six in two minutes. I swear it was better than an orgasm. Felt sick as a heck five minutes later.

Years ago, before I drove, went to visit Dh (dp then) in hospital after his knee op. Took a large M&S trifle from the shop to him. He didn't fancy it. I couldn't find a taxi and walked the five miles home, anxious about dh and mindlessly eating the entire family size trifle with my bare hands. 😳

OnlyYellowRoses · 01/01/2023 12:18

Currently still in bed, eating a mishmash of fried leftover veggies, roast pork, roast beef, bacon bits all with a couple of eggs cracked into it and sort of scrambled up. I've managed to fit it into a huge pasta bowl. I pan fried it whilst simultaneously setting up a weight loss App to use over the new year Blush Ah well. It's delicious. I regret nothing.

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