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?

Exactly this.

I didn't eat when meeting some people the other day because I'd had dinner at home. But I didn't feel the need to say Id "stuffed my face". I hadn't. I'd eaten dinner and now was not particlarly hungry.

And you're getting all these people telling you that while it might be a lot for you, it's not really in the bigger scheme of things but you're doubling down. So you clearly are a competitive undereater.

Btw on this day I had not exercised and I am only 5 ft 2

Ah- you’re supposed to leave the bones

TBF her friend said what did you eat, not please give me weight and portion sizes and a judgement.
"Oh I had scrambled eggs and toast for breakie, then toast and beans for lunch, then chicken wings and ravioli before I came to meet you. Think I had too many carbs for me" would be a normal acceptable answer

Yes, your friend is correct. It really does have the whiff of “Look how fat I am in my size six clothes, I’m enormous. What size do you wear?” about it.

Perhaps you do feel uncomfortable OP, but for the future, try to be more aware of how you come across.

This is clearly her issue not you then so don't know why you're giving it headspace.

Though you could have just said way more than I usual do and refused to get drawn in.

You are definitely coming across now as a competitive under eater - trying to justify why it was so so much because you are small and didn't exercise this day

One dinner - a child's dinner and some protein

I think it’s very telling that you specify a child’s portion of ravioli.

How's this relevant?

That’s not much. You just had three meals and a snack.

Sounds like a normal volume of food?

What was the dinner? Absolutely not stuffing your face, I'm with your friend on this one.

So not all day. You felt full at the end of the day after having the pasta

I just did the maths, the chicken wings (my planned dinner) were 800 calories (pretty much a McDonald’s).

I probably ate 1100 calories for dinner ALONE. Come on now, that is objectively high

What’s your normal daily diet like?

You not thinking it's necessary doesn't make it 'stuffing your face all day'
You clearly have issues around food and see it as a normal failing to eat

With spuds and a veg I hope or else this is just a large snack

A ‘massive’ KFC for lunch and no dinner?😉

Oh god, my ex SIL was like this. We would all go out for dinner and she’d share a meal with her four year old and declare herself stuffed after three spoons of rice and a bit of salad.

With accompanying tummy rubbing and “phew!”

Absolutely fucking tedious.

It’s a lot of calories because chicken wings are all skin and fat with very little meat and ravioli is just carbs and probably fat depending on the filling, but it’s not a lot of food volume wise. I certainly wouldn’t have felt over full or like I’d been eating all day as a result of that list of food.

But you said you didn’t eat because you were full up not because you didn’t want to go over your calorie allowance.

So tell us your weight OP. You do sound like you have an unhealthy relationship with food

i do not calorie count. But I lost weight after kids so know roughly what to estimate

Op had a lot more than a few bites of salad
depending on her height and activity she had more than enough calories for that day - wtf is stuffed if not more than enough food ?