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?

And it’s speshul.

Human physiology hasn’t changed in 80 years. Appetites certainly have, however.

Another thing to note is the percentage of people nowadays whose physique and fitness level, or lack thereof, necessitates living in unstructured stretch garments vs the woven, unyielding tailoring of a mere generation or two ago.

The average height for a woman on the UK has gone up by 3 inches in 80 years. That alone has quite an impact on the calories the 'average' woman needs.
None of which, obviously, has anything to do with the OPs choice of language about an average, if carb heavy, day's eating.

Okay, now you’ve jumped the shark.

Honestly I normally try to say supportive things but here I agree with your friend. It does look like you’re claiming to have eaten a lot when it’s more of a humble brag about how little you eat.

People really don’t need to eat the massive portions that they do to survive. I tend to have quality over quantity.

my husband and I shared 2 mini fish and chips (and curry sauce) and I did count how many I had on my plate. I hate wasting food and I know that 6 decent, chip shop chips is generally plenty for me so why put more on my plate? It’s just the same as having sausages for instance, you know you’ll only eat 2 so why put 8 on your plate?
If I wanted more when I’d finished I’d have taken a few more, but the fish was delicious so I filled up on that. As you can see it was a decent sized fish and the chips were chunky.

Chicken wings are about 45% bone, so your calories for that are out by almost half.

It doesn't sound like your 'stuffed your face' all day. It sounds like you had breakfast, lunch and then a big-ish dinner (even if it was in two halves).

I don’t think it’s stuffing your face as you didn’t eat snacks / chocolate/ crisps but you did go a bit heavy on the bread 🍞 and have a 2nd dinner .
For me I’d maybe eat 2 eggs , half an avocado 🥑 and one slice toast .
That’d keep me full till lunch which might be one slice toast with beans and cheese maybe .
Then late afternoon some fruit and maybe one or 2 biscuits.
Dinner would be the small serve of pasta and sauce , maybe a side salad 🥗
I am definitely not an under eater 🤔

Ah so little like me and you genuinely need less food .
sometimes people comment that I’ve not had a big dinner , I couldn’t finish a big dinner my stomach isn’t big enough.
I am a healthy 55 kilos

5 ft 2 isn't "little," it's only 1.5-2 inches shorter than the average. Five-two is a good full-grown woman and a very regular height.

I have a colleague who I thought was about five-four and was amazed when she said she was five-two. I have an old friend who claimed to be five-two, and she was much shorter than my colleague. People only think that five-two is short because of all the people who are five feet claiming to be five-two! Under five foot is "little."

From your follow-up answers this definitely feels like a troll post!!

Yeah, where's the chips.

Have a medal.

ok 😉 I will 🏅 I was just illustrating that I am a healthy weight , not even on the lower side of the BMI charts , I’m not underweight.

If I eat a large quantity of food in one sitting I would feel very uncomfortable and have reflux 🙁 especially late evening.
At one point my reflux was pretty bad and I lost weight so had to be checked out at gastroenterology.
I gained the weight back by eating little and often and making some dietary changes .

Ok :-) ignore me I'm grumpy and jealous because I've piled on the lbs recently 😂

Ok. My BMI is in the 20-21 range. That's in the middle of the 'healthy' BMI range. I don't focus on BMI though, so much as what my body can do. My body can do what I want it to do in terms of activity and I don't have any health conditions relating to being either over or under weight. It seems a healthy BMI for me. It's in the middle of the 'healthy' BMI range so probably would be healthy for a lot of people. BMI isn't the only measure of 'healthy' though. I know people with higher than 'healthy' BMIs who are fit and healthy and people with 'healthy' BMIs who really aren't.

I'd feel uncomfortably full if I ate that much so I can get where the OP is coming from. For me, that would be more like 2 portions of breakfast, 2 portions of lunch and 2 dinners (based on the reported portion sizes). That's not being said as a judgement on anyone, it's just how I'd feel. And yes, I like eating spinach, kale, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc. I've had some kale this morning actually.

You did not stuff yourself. You keep saying you had two dinners but personally I can't see how chicken wings and celery are a dinner!

Sounds like multiple snacks, no actual meals? Maybe if you said you'd been snacking all day, it would have been accurate, at least.

That's NOT quite high calories. I think you have a very skewed view of what normal meals consist of. High calories is when you're eating 1400 just in the one meal. Go read the menu in a Hungry Horse pub, I think the shock might kill you.

I can confirm that I won’t.

I’m 35 now, and when I’m 65 I absolutely will not be punishing myself for wanting a panini. I won’t be calorie counting as a pensioner, even the idea of it makes me genuinely sad.

By the time I’m 65 I’ll have about 15 years left on earth probably, and I plan to spend them eating whatever I want.

There has to be more to life than food misery.

My BMI is 19.
It's healthy for me. I have always been slim.
I don't really know how many calories I eat, but I can categorically tell you it is way more than 1200.
I am post menopause.

I doubt you are 30 years older since I'm almost 51. Some people just really like eating bread 😆

That’s disgusting. I inhaled the steam off a jacket potato in 1997 and haven’t Eaten since. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Not sure why you’re being vaguely rude about this. According to various online calculators, yes, that’s what I would be able to eat in a day to maintain my weight. And in order for that to be the case, I have to be pretty active. If I did a regular amount of activity it would be around 1700. What is maintenance for me is a deficit for some other women. It’s really annoying.

I am saying that the standard 2000 calorie blanket statement isn’t really accurate, because for shorter women, that would be eating over maintenance calories and would therefore result in weight gain. Not rapid or excessive gain, but still.

If that is the most you have even eaten in a day, and you 'banged on about it' to me, I would prob not be too patient either. But well done and happy life, etc.