How can people eat this much at Christmas

[Mokel]

I had a large plate of my Christmas dinner with Christmas pudding then 5 cheese biscuits with cheese.

I was absolutely stuffed.

Yet hear people who have a large Xmas dinner then go or host a Christmas Day evening buffet. Wouldn’t be able to eat at all.

Think my appetite has reduced

Some might eat earlier, eat less than you, have a bigger appetite, eat a late buffet….I do think appetite can also reduce a bit as you get older.

You've really got to want it and put the work in. Your effort sounds feeble.

If people are used to overeating large ammounts their stomachs are used to being stretched and they feel less full faster?

How do the fat fat fatties manage it all!!

Not everyone is sneery the same as you.

Once saw BIL eat a full brie and a bid wedge of Stilton

Still don't know how he managed it

Sounds like you’ve eaten loads, to me!

One chestnut and one carrot does me nicely until new year 🐿

I can, without an issue.
I ate a cooked breakfast yesterday, evening Xmas meal and then buffet. Yesterday abd today. I’m a soldier. Maybe I’m just hungrier than you?
I have gone on a 6 mile walk both days though so maybe made a difference?

Eat what you want, just don't comment on what others eat. It's very rude.

Classic MN post.

I’m so happy for you that you have a teeny tiny ladylike appetite and barely need to eat a thing. How wonderful.

Well you had 3 courses for your Christmas dinner. I have one course for Christmas dinner and then have a buffet tea which is usually cheese and biscuits and a couple of other bits. So probably the same amount of food as you but spread over two meals.

They're just used to eating more than they need over a long period of time, their stomachs have stretched 🤷‍♂️

Surely on mumsnet everyone indulges in competitive undereating?

Because I'm a disgusting fatty.

Or maybe my large plate of Christmas dinner wasn't as large as yours. Or I ate earlier. Or I just have a larger appetite. Who knows, or cares!

You'd have both?

No wonder there's an obesity crisis...

I just inhale the steam from the three sprouts that the other 12 of us will share at Christmas dinner and I'm stuffed.

The whole point of a buffet is you can eat as much or as little as you want. We had an Xmas night buffet, I had 3 crackers with cheese and 2 grapes.

People have different sensitivities to their hunger hormones and sensation of fullness. I can eat carbs for hours without ever getting full but guve me something high fat and I run out of steam quickly. Everyone is different.

Were you really asking about how people can eat do much or wanting to judge those who do? Do you struggle with food yourself?

I don’t eat once the clocks go back. It’s so greedy to eat during the winter - no wonder people are so obese. You should have more self-restraint, OP, you don’t want to end up like those disgusting fatties!

This is us. I've never had a Christmas starter (or breakfast) in my life. Need space for evening cheese.

You've really got to want it and put the work in. Your effort sounds feeble
Absolutely this, can't be half hearted about it. Takes real dedication and stamina.

I was shocked at my son yesterday. he had already eaten a christmas dinner at his GF's families house earlier in the day then came to us around 4,30 and ate another Christmas dinner, at least 3 different puddings then started raving about a loaf of bread he had bought from M&S and proceeded to eat his way through most of a small loaf of said bread interspersed with chocolates, more cold meat etc.

I can’t believe you ate that much, OP! I was stuffed after one standard sized Christmas dinner.

Do you think that maybe you’re used to eat a lot and so you don’t appreciate just how gluttonous you were?

Head tilt

Yes, appetite does usually decrease as you get older because you usually become less active and less muscular.