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To have eaten 10 creme eggs today?

389 replies

timegoesbysoso · 23/03/2024 23:59

I don't know how it happened

Had one at 11am and liked it so much I had another.

One when walking the dog then another when I came back to warm me up with tea.

Two when watching a crap film, the repeat for Netflix

Then two must've jumped into my mouth

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OP posts:
BethDawn · 01/04/2024 09:22

I used to eat like that. I thought I was cool and ‘joyful’ and sticking it to the Man.

I wasn’t. It was actually quite disordered eating. Being stuck on sugar highs and lows, replacing actual food with shit like that.

I finally realised I had a problem and sorted it out ( took a long time and lot of effort). I now eat what I like but I just don’t feel like doing stuff like that anymore. I still eat chocolate and cake and whatever when I want, but I don’t do stuff like ten cream eggs a day, or replace meals with a bowl of cake, chocolate and ice cream. I was doing that because all the sugar I ate, had fucked over my body’s ability to regulate itself and know what it needed me to eat.

so that’s the lens I view this post through. My experience means I don’t find it cool or funny and phrases like ‘ food just pops into my mouth’ are warning signs for me.

The people who laughed and cheered me on when I was like that did me no favors, however well intentioned they were.

Newsenmum · 01/04/2024 09:31

BethDawn · 01/04/2024 09:22

I used to eat like that. I thought I was cool and ‘joyful’ and sticking it to the Man.

I wasn’t. It was actually quite disordered eating. Being stuck on sugar highs and lows, replacing actual food with shit like that.

I finally realised I had a problem and sorted it out ( took a long time and lot of effort). I now eat what I like but I just don’t feel like doing stuff like that anymore. I still eat chocolate and cake and whatever when I want, but I don’t do stuff like ten cream eggs a day, or replace meals with a bowl of cake, chocolate and ice cream. I was doing that because all the sugar I ate, had fucked over my body’s ability to regulate itself and know what it needed me to eat.

so that’s the lens I view this post through. My experience means I don’t find it cool or funny and phrases like ‘ food just pops into my mouth’ are warning signs for me.

The people who laughed and cheered me on when I was like that did me no favors, however well intentioned they were.

Since when do people laugh or cheer at things like that?

soupfiend · 01/04/2024 09:35

OP has a whole host of creme egg cheerers in her front garden right now, with bunting and banging on pots.

BigMandyHarris · 01/04/2024 09:59

@BethDawn was metaphorically speaking I believe, and I agree.

soupfiend · 01/04/2024 10:28

Unfortunately that is the problem with making everything about yourself and being so self absorbed that you apply your own circumstances to everyone else.

Its a shame and something to work on perhaps?

Kelly51 · 01/04/2024 10:54

@BethDawn
The OP was a light hearted post and not really the place for you to drag it down to be about your disordered eating, not everything is about you.

Holy fuck are you not crazy from all that sugar?! 😄
I'm as high as a fuckin kite

this made me snort 🤣🤣

StrawberryJellyBelly · 01/04/2024 11:05

My record was 9 in one sitting and when I had my baby a few months later my friend was surprised I didn’t deliver a crème egg instead.

Kelly51 · 01/04/2024 11:06

New baby name Cremeeggella???

StrawberryJellyBelly · 01/04/2024 11:09

BethDawn · 01/04/2024 09:22

I used to eat like that. I thought I was cool and ‘joyful’ and sticking it to the Man.

I wasn’t. It was actually quite disordered eating. Being stuck on sugar highs and lows, replacing actual food with shit like that.

I finally realised I had a problem and sorted it out ( took a long time and lot of effort). I now eat what I like but I just don’t feel like doing stuff like that anymore. I still eat chocolate and cake and whatever when I want, but I don’t do stuff like ten cream eggs a day, or replace meals with a bowl of cake, chocolate and ice cream. I was doing that because all the sugar I ate, had fucked over my body’s ability to regulate itself and know what it needed me to eat.

so that’s the lens I view this post through. My experience means I don’t find it cool or funny and phrases like ‘ food just pops into my mouth’ are warning signs for me.

The people who laughed and cheered me on when I was like that did me no favors, however well intentioned they were.

I hope you’ve now learned how to choose better friends if that’s what they were doing.

Not that they’d have been putting them in your mouth for you.

Callipygion · 01/04/2024 13:23

Cleaningupthemess · 01/04/2024 09:06

Is it not normal to eat a whole Terry’s chocolate orange in one go? Ooops! I always do! I found a mint one I’d hidden at Christmas (so no one else would eat it), and then forgotten about, just the other day and polished the whole thing off in one sitting. There’s no way you can just have a few segments, that’s not normal. The minty ones are delicious.

Well everyone I told after I’d eaten the whole thing, seemed shocked. Which is why I wondered. I had NO idea they did mint ones. That’s my other favourite chocolate combination - minty.

I hope everyone had a good chocolate input over Easter. I think age is starting to affect my chocolate capacity. I bought two of the Aldi chocolate bunnies (the biggest ones ), and couldn’t manage more than half in one sitting. I’m very shocked as I’d have got through the whole beast in one, a few years ago.

They were only around at Christmas, as far as I know, and as soon as they were in stock they were gone again, so you had to buy as soon as you saw them. I made that mistake the year before! I bought a few this time.

I can highly recommend them! Not at all orangey just minty, and very very smooth. Delicious! Impossible not to polish the whole thing off!

BethDawn · 01/04/2024 13:38

Newsenmum · 01/04/2024 09:31

Since when do people laugh or cheer at things like that?

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I refer you to Exhibit A. the many, many posts on this thread.

BethDawn · 01/04/2024 13:50

soupfiend · 01/04/2024 10:28

Unfortunately that is the problem with making everything about yourself and being so self absorbed that you apply your own circumstances to everyone else.

Its a shame and something to work on perhaps?

Mumsnet is almost entirely comprised of people using their own experiences to respond to others. You must be in a state of constant rage on here if that bothers you.

But it’s clear that someone saying, however politely by trying to refer back to themselves rather than directly target others, that actually eating like is not normal, or good or funny or cool, and if you are regularly finding food ‘pops into your mouth’ as you are walking by’ you might want to consider if you have a problem, is reallly challenging for some people to hear and they feel the need to respond with spiteful and attacking comments.

Well knock yourselves out. Lots of people stay in shit places because no-one says, ‘actually, that’s not great’.

All this thread of cheerleading is doing is normalizing really abnormal eating, by greeting it with whoops and cheering. No wonder we have such an obesity and diabetes type 2 problem in this country

soupfiend · 01/04/2024 14:00

Im not sure its me that sounds rageful

Im not 'bothered' by your post, its just irrelevant to the OP and about you.

BethDawn · 01/04/2024 14:34

soupfiend · 01/04/2024 14:00

Im not sure its me that sounds rageful

Im not 'bothered' by your post, its just irrelevant to the OP and about you.

Tell you what, why don’t you do you and I’ll do me.

I’d rather give my perspective and experience if there is even a chance it might resonate with someone else and help them. When I was telling my tales of ‘here’s what I ate, what am I like?!’ It was the people whose faces and responses reflected back to me that they were appalled, that finally helped me to see things for how they were.

I want to do that for someone else, if there is even a chance it’s the same. Your confidence that my experience is not relevant is just your opinion. You can’t possibly know this. It’s familiar enough to me to at least be possible it’s the same, and that’s why I posted. I’d rather get it wrong, than not post at all.

It’s clearly unbothered you enough to post several responses. But that’s not my responsibility. If someone posts on a public site like Mumsnet, others will reply with their perspective from their experience. That’s how this site works.

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