Lodger told me I eat too much. Do I??

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Obviously you’re not going to be able to tell me for sure without seeing my portions etc but I’m a bit annoyed.

She’s been wfh this week, normally we don’t really see each other. I’ve just been into the kitchen to get a coffee and opened the cupboard to get a snack to go with it (a dark chocolate rice cake if that’s relevant) and she said “you eat too much. Always eating eating eating. You will get fat when you eating like this all the time”

So Monday I had
2 cups of tea
porridge with mixed seeds
a peanut cereal bar &coffee
cheese and cucumber sandwich (granary bread, butter), cranberry juice, satsuma
2 sausages and veg (carrots, broccoli, leeks, swede, sprouts). cherry yoghurt.
Plus water and herbal tea (3 herbal teas, 2 water)

Tuesday
2 cups of tea
2 weetabix
standard size bag of maltesers and coffee
2 pieces granary toast with half an avocado and sunflower seeds. Greek yoghurt with mixed ground seeds. Bag of salt and vinegar squares. Cranberry juice
shakshuka with extra veg in (courgette, aubergine, kale as well as the peppers, onion and tomatoes), feta and hummus on top, flatbread on the side
water, herbal tea as Monday

Weds and Thurs basically as Tuesday except Wednesday I had toast and marmite with my coffee, no crisps either day. Dinner Wednesday was lentil and fennel stew with rice, had a digestive biscuit afterwards, last night pork casserole with mash, green beans and broccoli.

Putting aside the fact that she was rude, I don’t think I eat that much? Basically 3 meals and one snack. Would you consider this a lot of food?

Your motor-mouth lodger needs to wind her neck in OP because she's crossed a massive boundary.

You need to give her a piece of your mind because the food you eat, and the amount is none of her buisness and she needs to back off.

I'd wipe the floor with her.

I am presuming she's got issues with food and she's transfering her problens onto you.

If she says it again, this response is perfect!

How much or how little you eat is completely irrelevant, and none of her business.

Absolutely this

Shakshuka for dinner sounds delish!
And ever noticed how some people eat loads and are slin and other people eat less and are overweight? We don't all need the same so tell her to mind her own business!!

What did you do with the other avocado half?

No, I eat more than you do and I'm slim. She's just being incredibly rude. Who says that anyway?

It doesn’t matter if you’re the size of California and mainlining lard on an hourly basis. She was rude. It’s not her place to criticise you’re eating habits (unless you’ve left out some critical information like she’s your weight management doctor or personal trainer or something, but that’s not the case).

If she’s not British other countries simply don’t snack. It’s probably the elevensies, the crisps and the puddings perturbing her. Not that it’s remotely any of her business.

I'd make her an ex lodger.

How rude of her! I eat way more than that (and still thin)

ShandaLear · Today 14:25
It doesn’t matter if you’re the size of California and mainlining lard on an hourly basis.

😂😂👀👏😅

Tbh, I didn't even read what you ate, OP, because that's irrelevant. You could spend all day eating and it would be none of her business.

Someone this clueless is likely to frequently ask awkward questions or offer unsolicited advice, so I'd probably save myself future annoyance and tell her it's not working out.

I figure because of the treats and morning snacks, yes you are eating 'too much'.

I guess she sees you eating bags of Maltesers and Peanut bars in the mornings.

A peanut cereal bar and a cup of coffee could end up being around 300 calories depending on how much milk is in the coffee.
That's the same as another whole sandwich.

Like you say 'no crisps either day'. The Salt and Vinegar squares are a bag of crisps aren't they?

Unless you are doing a fair bit of physical exercise during the week, then no adult woman will get away with eating the additional foods of a bag of crisps and a bar or bag of chocolate sweets every day.

Depends on portion size I guess 🤷‍♀️

Only in the U.K. are crisps a legitimate foodstuff. In Europe it’s just what you eat at parties.

Dosnt matter. Ignore or tell her to fuck off.

That was my first thought too.

I’m with you. Absolutely Eastern European.

Your lodger has no business telling you that.
I didn't even read the op
I think the response should be a jokey ''you pay too little rent!''

Oh that’s rubbish. I have lived in Italy and the Netherlands and they also have crisps and snacks in at home! Plus cakes and chocolate and cheese etc etc etc. Maybe not the individual crisp portions we have - they tend to have the big bags.

She's is very rude to comment on what you eat. Is she wfh in the kitchen that she's sees everything you eat?
If so, tell her to work in her room. I wouldn't want anyone wfh in the kitchen.

Irrelevant. OP can eat what she likes, especially IN HER OWN BLOODY HOUSE! Lodger should mind her own business.

Well I had two big avocados so I ate half an avocado a day for four days lunches. The ones I’ve got now are tiny so I’ll probably have the whole one to cover the toast.

If YOU ever want to make some changes (not if someone else suggests them), you might have less processed carbs (maltesers, bread [honestly have alook at how many ingredients a standard loaf of bread includes] ). You evening meals look great. Don't eat any more fruit as a regular daily thing, that would only add to the sugar in your diet. If you are having fruit have whole fruit not juice.

I try to have veg early in the day (just in case I fancy fish and chips for dinner!). So maybe an omelette for breakfast with broccoli, green beans, onion; or poeached egg on spinach and ham; or shakshukka for breakfast.

A point I have already made if you read my posts.