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

DS(15) had 15 roast potatoes yesterday, beating his previous record of 12!

I didn't eat that many because I needed space for cheesecake and cheese and chocolate!

And this is why my mother, although is now becoming frail, is bloody good for her age ( 86 )

She can manage ( usually, shes been very poorly this past month ) to make herself tea and get her weetabix and a sandwich , but could she cook a nutritious balanced meal - no. So I do the cooking and she takes what she can of it

She was 999'd into hospital last week, and they were amazed at how healthy she was ( well obviously she had a problem but in general )

So I cook 3 veg at least, tasty meat or fish dishes and let her eat her fill. What she ate tonight DH would have put between two slices of bread and it would have been a snack, but she enjoyed what she had and then went for a pudding later in the evening. The one day a week I dont cook for the family, she will happily take a tin of soup, and if I didn't cook, thats what she would be living on. That and chocolate, she gets through shed loads of chocolate and biscuits that she hides in her living room and pretends shes had just 2 chocolates all week :)

Step dads last years, gave up trying to enforce nutrition and just gave him what he would eat. Luckily he did like fish but mostly he would move main course about his plate and then tuck into sponge and custard :)

All people on here care about is how much people eat, how much money they make, and how much they waste on leasing new cars that they can’t afford. Don’t you have any other values?

I can relate. I used to be slim and could eat anything I wanted. now my appetite has gone off a cliff, but I'm chubby. I don't worry too much about it, because it's not like I can't afford to lose some weight, but it takes a lot of pleasure out of food for me, which is something I've always loved.
so often I get half way through a small meal, and know that if I try and eat more, I'll be losing it again. it's so frustrating when you're eating something delicious, and you want to keep eating because it's so pleasurable. but your insides are screaming at you that any more and it won't be staying down.

I could have too! That's shit that you've gained weight and it really isn't fair!

I've had to completely replace my whole wardrobe - things I bought even 2 years ago are too big! I daren't gain any now; I can't afford to do all that again!!

I don't understand it either. Oldest DD is a size 12, 6ft. She can eat 3 times as much as my sorry ass size 16, 5 11 frame. Where does she put it?!

Tho she does sometimes lie on the floor and say ow ow my tummy hurts and I've not done that unless In labour. I guess she's just more dedicated than me.

And I'm not exaggerating, she ate 3 full portions yesterday. I barely managed one.
I think they have secret spare stomachs.

I’m a year-round fat bastard, but I think it must be because I graze (constantly) rather than whacking great big meals in a one-er. Can’t cope with a giant roast, but I’ll happily snaffle a cold stuffing ball from the fridge every time I go past it 😫

I had a roast potato eating contest once with my brother - I was 10-12 and he was 2 years younger. I won with 10! I'm well impressed with your DS lol!

Did anyone else get any?!

Reminds me of my DS when he was small - he used to only eat sausages. We used to threaten to write a guidebook called, 'Places I have eaten sausages'! His record was 9.5!

Why would anyone be proud that their son ate 15 roast potatoes, it’s hardly an achievement, and to openly encourage our children to over eat is not the way forward for a healthy and happy adult life.

Ooh a competitive under eating thread 😁

<eats the thread>

NEWSFLASH: Some people don't eat a lot, and guess what...? That's OK!

Exactly. Going on about it, contrasting your own food intake with that of others, starting a thread to say you can't understand how other people can be different from you? That's obnoxiously needy.

Santa puts a lot of effort into being jolly and fat each year, you could at least try to do the same.

I've swapped over to my elasticated waist bands for the next week

Performative undereating is really misogynistic tbh. It's fine for women to eat, undereating isn't a virtue, no one needs you to judge their food intake.

…and that’s why they’re overweight and unhappy

Careful u dont fall down a drain grate op you sound absolutely teeny tiny minuscule

I'm on Mounjaro and pre this I'd have been eating huge amounts of food my body didn't need - that's why I gained 5 stone, messed up my liver and blood pressure in the process!

What a boring post. Why on earth do you care what other people eat at Christmas?

Teenagers. especially boys, are walking stomachs. I remember my brother being able to eat obscene amounts of food at that age. It's nothing new. He is in his late 60s now and eats normally for a man of his age.

@suki1964 you sound such a lovely caring person making those nutritious meals for your Mum. I think you have really nailed the issue for a lot of older people who lose either the physical ability or motivation to cook for themselves.

Read the final line of the OP again???

🙄🙄🙄

What?

What if he ate 15 rocket leaves?

If it's that boring, why not just move on without posting?

I'm interested; other posters are interested??