Fri, Apr-12-19, 12:11
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Senior Member
Posts: 856
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Plan: Protein Power, IF
Stats: 238/204/145
BF:53.75%/46.6%/25%
Progress: 37%
Location: PNW
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Originally Posted by Bonnie OFS
The first course was olives and saltines. Second was a salad. Third was tomato soup that tasted like dishwater. (I once had some clam chowder that tasted the same.) Dessert was fruit & coffee. They ate a proper meal when they got home.
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This reminds me of my Mom. She would think this was a perfectly fine meal (maybe her actual content would be a little more upscale, but I've had that meal at her house).
She is obsessed with her weight, with other people's weight, and fat-shames people all the time. She eats tiny portions of things that she things are normal and adequate. We are constantly having to re-adjust what is served and add more at family gatherings. I often eat more when I come home. She'll serve salads that have a scattering of protein (like an ounce of shredded cheese or maybe an ounce or two of skinless chicken breast), sandwiches might have one slice of deli meat and one slice of cheese, or if she serves meat, she thinks that a serving of about 2-1/2 to 3 ounces is "plenty" (she claims they're more like 4 ounces, too). When all my nephews were teenagers, she'd be shocked and when we would double or triple that amount of meat for a family dinner. She never could believe that it would all get eaten and later would make snarky comments about how it was "gross."
Yeah, I was often hungry as a kid. Not because we couldn't afford to put food on the table (we struggled at times, but not that much), but because she wouldn't put enough food on the table and then wouldn't let us have snacks when we were starving, so we would sneak it. A lifetime of bad food habits were built right there.
Last edited by CityGirl8 : Fri, Apr-12-19 at 13:01.
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