Where does he put it all?!?

thunderbird

Don't buy the porridge pots they are horrendously expensive! I have a bowl of porridge for breakfast, about two mins in microwave and it is done.

BitterAndTwisted

It occurred to me that some people often confuse the feeling of hunger when they are actually thirsty. Could this be part of your OH's issue?

Baileys_Babe

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It occurred to me that some people often confuse the feeling of hunger when they are actually thirsty. Could this be part of your OH's issue?

OH does this, I'm gradually training him & the children to have a drink of water before having a snack.

bedpotato_2

He might be hypoglycaemic. You said he eats very quickly and craves things like crisps and carbs. Those are two warning signs.

I am hypoglycaemic and I get hungry far more often than normal people do, because my blood sugar drops more often. Also, if I haven't eaten for a while, I become RAVENOUSLY hungry.

Hypoglycaemic hunger is the kind of hunger that most people would only feel if they hadn't eaten for several days. Hence why hypoglycaemics eat quickly if they have not eaten for several hours.

You should get him checked out at the doctor's. If he does turn out to have hypoglycaemia you can manage it by telling him to eat frequent small meals, as opposed to just three large ones, and avoiding certain foods.

If he turns out to just be a bloke with a healthy appetite, then just let him carry on eating!

Cherry_Bomb

coinxoperated wrote: »

I have avoided assisting him with his meals, as I personally feel at the age of 27 he should take responsibility for whta he puts into his body himself I'm his partner, not his mother.

So stop acting it. Seriously I cannot believe you're actually trying to police what a grown man eats.


If this was a male OP writing about his female OH there would be outrage.

Double standards.

Mojisola

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

So stop acting it. Seriously I cannot believe you're actually trying to police what a grown man eats.

If this was a male OP writing about his female OH there would be outrage.

Double standards.

Not if you're a couple where what one does impacts on the other - in this case the finances and his health are issues.

She shouldn't be "policing" his food but they should be discussing it and working together to find a way food that fills him up without building up health problems in the future.

Cherry_Bomb

Mojisola wrote: »

Not if you're a couple where what one does impacts on the other - in this case the finances and his health are issues.

She shouldn't be "policing" his food but they should be discussing it and working together to find a way food that fills him up without building up health problems in the future.

What health issues? He's a young man with a very physical job. If he was a fat lazy slob I'd understand but as the OP has said he's healthy I don't know where these health issues have come from?

He's 27. Not quite at crisis point yet caused by poor diet.

I agree if its impacting so much on finances then yes it is a problem. But considering the OP went on to describe her shock at seeing what he'd put in his packed lunch for the day then what he ate when he came home for snacks and dinner I'd say finances come a close 2nd to wanting to police his diet. Especially considering the OP is now happy to UP the budget.

Going by some of the comments on here clearly OP isn't the only one who likes to exert some control over what their OHs are eating......

My OH is the same age as the OPs with a hugely physical job. If I tried to pack his lunch with nuts to snack on (aside from falling over at the fact I'd packed his lunch in the first place) he'd wonder what the hell was going on.

claire16c

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

What health issues? He's a young man with a very physical job. If he was a fat lazy slob I'd understand but as the OP has said he's healthy I don't know where these health issues have come from?

He's 27. Not quite at crisis point yet caused by poor diet.

I agree if its impacting so much on finances then yes it is a problem. But considering the OP went on to describe her shock at seeing what he'd put in his packed lunch for the day then what he ate when he came home for snacks and dinner I'd say finances come a close 2nd to wanting to police his diet. Especially considering the OP is now happy to UP the budget.

Going by some of the comments on here clearly OP isn't the only one who likes to exert some control over what their OHs are eating......

My OH is the same age as the OPs with a hugely physical job. If I tried to pack his lunch with nuts to snack on (aside from falling over at the fact I'd packed his lunch in the first place) he'd wonder what the hell was going on.

Why? My DH effectively works out for a huge part of his day & eats snacks like that,

The OPs partner might be ok now but at 27 it's a good time to start being healthy instead of storing up problems for the future. Eating more than one packet of crisps a day let alone 4 is really bad. Let alone all the pasties & biscuits. Just because he's not overweight doesn't mean it won't affect his insides. I'm naturally slim & hardly ever put on weight but it doesn't mean it's a good idea for me to say gorge on junk all day -just because I can.

If you're in a relationship you want to help your partner stay healthy.

Cherry_Bomb

claire16c wrote: »

Why? My DH effectively works out for a huge part of his day & eats snacks like that,

The OPs partner might be ok now but at 27 it's a good time to start being healthy instead of storing up problems for the future. Eating more than one packet of crisps a day let alone 4 is really bad. Let alone all the pasties & biscuits. Just because he's not overweight doesn't mean it won't affect his insides. I'm naturally slim & hardly ever put on weight but it doesn't mean it's a good idea for me to say gorge on junk all day -just because I can.

If you're in a relationship you want to help your partner stay healthy.

But you can't go from eating 4 bags of crisps to being fed on fruit and nuts. If you're so intent on improving your OHs diet then do it gradually and not make it so obvious!

In the last month I've cut out carbs and sugars. I've gone through what's called carb flu. It actually left me feeling like complete !!!!!!. My jobs physical and I barely made it through the withdrawals. If he's a typical bloke eating his body weight in junk daily then cutting out the crap is going to be very difficult and it will affect him which isn't fair unless he's actually agreed to this change.

Mojisola

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

What health issues? He's a young man with a very physical job. If he was a fat lazy slob I'd understand but as the OP has said he's healthy I don't know where these health issues have come from?

If he carries on eating the amount of junk he has at the moment, he will get health problems. It makes more sense to avoid them than to change habits after getting sick.

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

But you can't go from eating 4 bags of crisps to being fed on fruit and nuts. If you're so intent on improving your OHs diet then do it gradually and not make it so obvious!

Any really sudden change - stopping all alcohol, cutting out caffeine, stopping most carbs - will affect you. Changes are better done gradually and, of course, are impossible without the person wanting to change. I hope he will find that some of the suggested changes satisfy him more.