Would you consider this “having stuffed yourself all day”

[ThatJolly]

I was talking to a friend and she accused me of competitive underrating, which i certainly was not doing! I referred to my eating as having stuffed my face all day and she told me to get a grip and she found what I said triggering!

What I ate:

• Scrambled eggs (2 eggs) with veggies toasted sarnie
• Beans on toast (2 slices)
• Half a carton of precut pineapple
• chicken wings and celery with hot sauce
• a child’s plate of ravioli and homemade cheese sauce (this was on top off my dinner and purely a craving, I was full so it was very much not needed)

I went to bed uncomfortably stuffed. So to me i did “stuff my face all day”

What do you think?

The 80g one which I'm sure used to be bigger! Not sure if I'd describe it as family size anymore?!

Oh for goodness sake. Her friend ASKED her what she’d eaten all day. Who does that? And why would you ask if you might be “triggered” by the answer?

I'm guess the OP must have been performative in the way she said, 'Im not eating, no so full, from what i had YESTERDAY'

Noone can be full from yesterday unless they have constipation. I imagine the friend was then curious about how someone can be full from yesterday. Then OP said her days food which was a normal persons food amount and the friend was shocked.

According to NHS and BDA guidelines it is nearly twice the recommended daily 3-4 starch portion for an adult, assuming there was about half a small bowl (6 tablespoons) of the pasta.

i think people have lost sight of healthy portion sizes.

You didn’t stuff yourself all day. You ate food 🤷‍♀️

Most people would associate your comments about stuffing yourself with fast/junk food such as large amounts of chocolate/crisp/pizza/biscuits/chips etc. None of which you ate.

Having read your comments you do seem a bit hung up on this along with food consumption/calorie counting. Either that or you are being dramatic.

Oh great, the ‘people have lost sight of what healthy eating is’ lettuce sniffers have arrived.

People have lost sight of how interested other people are in their moral judgement of food.

The stonking tone deafness to moralise on being ‘stuffed’ on anything or a child’s portion of pasta being gluttonous whilst more people than ever are in food poverty in this country, whilst children are going to school hungry and adults with full time jobs can’t feed their families would be impressive if it weren’t so foul. Chew on that you tedious people.

Everyone’s tolerance and appetite is different. I would be the size of a bus if I ate that every day! And very unhealthy 🤪

Try to be kinder to yourself - it may seem like a lot and you are stuffed but tomorrow is another day x

Here’s what I ate today:

• branflakes with banana and milk
• alpro soya milkshake
• an apple
• an orange
• kale and lentil soup with 2 pieces of sourdough bread
• grapes
• coconut collaborative chocolate pot
• mac & cheese with cauliflower and cabbage greens
• three cubes of chocolate
• three glasses of fruit juice throughout the day

My BMI is in the healthy range. I feel satisfied. I don’t remotely feel like I’ve “stuffed my face”.

It sounds like you have a problematic relationship with food. You might have a small appetite and have therefore felt full. That doesn’t mean you’d “stuffed your face” which suggests some weird moralistic value judgement on the act of eating and suggests you’ve eaten to huge excess when to most people you haven’t eaten much at all.

By saying eating that amount is “stuffing your face” you’re suggesting people who eat that amount every day are stuffing their faces daily which sounds like you think they’re greedy and overeating.

I am glad you posted that because it’s a bit of a kick up the arse that I needed to have said to me. People in the UK right now have gone to bed hungry because they don’t have access to decent food, that is absolutely horrible. Meanwhile wealthy women starve themselves so they can feel good about how they look - what the hell is that all about ??

A normal day for me.
Breakfast - 200g of plain Greek yogurt
Lunch - 1 plain croissant with about 12g of butter spread because they're too dry for me to swallow without it.
Tea time - 1 strawberry and white chocolate muffin.
Dinner - a sandwich consisting of two slices of an Aldi sliced bloomer with 14g of butter spread and 30g of plain roast chicken breast, ham or sliced beef. A 100g pot of plain yogurt or a small pot of strawberry mousse.

5 cups of tea with milk and quarter teaspoon of sugar. A can of half sugar cola to sip across the day when my mouth gets dry with just water. A Yakult. Sometimes 2 chocolates out of a tin of Celebrations or Heroes.

Some days just the yogurt and the croissant.

Fucked up? To many carbs?
Yes, certainly.
All I can get down.
Also yes.
Competitive undereating/ED?
No, seriously ill and on many many tablets.
Skinny Minny?
Unfortunately, very much not. I'm very overweight indeed.

If someone tells me they're stuffed, I don't judge or question. Equally, if they say, "stuffed my face all day", I would recognise every body is different and people's idea of a lot of food is linked to what they are used to or what they can manage.

I know the weights and nutritional info of what I eat because I'm attempting to force enough calories in to stop me ending up in hospital with life threatening anaemia again. I don't want to eat. Ever. Even the thought of food makes me green sometimes. I'm really unwell and a lot of it affects my digestive system badly. How does anyone know what is going on in someone else's digestive system to accuse them of any kind of disordered eating or bragging etc. How 2ould you know, for instance, if a friend had an undiagnosed condition that causes problems eating. These things often develop quite slowly and you don't notice how bad things are getting. The old frog in cold water thing.

If that's stuffing your face, what's a normal days eating for you?

Are you saying that without irony ha ha

It’s interesting that the small eaters aren’t lashing out but the big eaters have been insulting small eaters all day.

@LifeIsBadEnoughAlreadyWithoutThis do you ever have a cooked hot meal?
I was thinking earlier I would be happy with a nice sandwich for dinner every night!

Maybe it was the whole “child’s plate” thing?
It’s a bit of a weird thing to say

Seems like a normal amount of food to me tbh.

That is a lot of food. But what business is it of hers?

That's anywhere between 1500-2000 kcal, so it's definitely not stuffing yourself.

@TheHerboriste yes the big eaters are as lacking in decorum as they are in discipline I’m afraid. Being a small eater is not the only morally superior trait you share with OP.

Meanwhile those of us who are sick to the back teeth of tone deaf, competitive eating threads recognise we are lucky to have food, don’t assign a moral judgement to it or make judging people on their diet our main personality trait for lack of anything more worthwhile to do in life.

See, I’m overweight but quantity-wise, I couldn’t eat all that in one day (I’m not shaming you! I eat more when due on period too). However I could absolutely eat the calorie amount in chocolate! And then some….!

The only person being judged on their diet here is the OP.

That's only "stuffing your face all day" if you are a gerbil. Or a competitive under-eater.

For someone with a healthy appetite that's hardly anything. Very abstemious. I'm not surprised your friend reacted that way.

You went in strong with the first item (all that on top of the 2 eggs!) and then followed it up with another good sized meal. But I’d say it all evens out by the end of the day. So no, I wouldn’t say you stuffed your face. But you’re also not unreasonable to say you did if you usually eat much less. Some people can go with less.

You restrict yourself to one, singular strawberry?!? Can you not see how odd that is?

Given the costly and ever-worsening obesity epidemic that taxpayers are footing the bills for, perhaps we need more competitive under eating.

“The UK obesity epidemic is estimated to cost the country around £98 billion annually, equivalent to almost 4% of GDP, with rising costs to the NHS and wider society”