Just ate a whole bar of chocolate
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a chocolate bar or tea? hmmm u r kidding yourself.2
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.7 -
I just ate pork, chicken, rice, macaroni, potatoes, cake, chex mix, chocolate, halo top, and beer.
You're okay.
I'm not. lol.10 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
Quite an assumption. You'd probably be shocked at the number of MFP users who aren't in the US.16 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
Quite an assumption. You'd probably be shocked at the number of MFP users who aren't in the US.
Idk. Do a poll and we’ll know. Lol.
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I’d like to have been over at either of your houses. Minus the beer. I prefer wine. But the rest I’m all over.
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
Cream in your tea? Oh no. No no no no no. No. An entire nation gasps with horror.
And yes, many many of us are from all over the place but most in the US just automatically assume everyone is also from the US. I spend a lot of time pointing this out in threads where advice may be location specific and the OP is clearly not in the location assumed.14 -
@Mslmesq It seems rather parochial to expect the entire Web to speak English according to your local usage, and actually criticise them for not changing their way of speaking to suit you. It's a big world out here.11
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:8 -
TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
I guess technically it is true but it's actually more about being regional. Some would call it supper in some areas. Dinner could refer to lunch in others. Britain has a very diverse range of local dialects. I grew up in a working class Scottish/English hybrid home in Scotland and then later went to a very fancy school. I now live in London. I have friends spread all over the world and of course use international forums like this so transfer between colloquialisms and quirks all the time. I'm all kinds of linguistically confused. But it also makes me a pretty good person I think to adjust to my audience instead of expecting them to adjust to me.10 -
TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
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VintageFeline wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
I guess technically it is true but it's actually more about being regional. Some would call it supper in some areas. Dinner could refer to lunch in others. Britain has a very diverse range of local dialects. I grew up in a working class Scottish/English hybrid home in Scotland and then later went to a very fancy school. I now live in London. I have friends spread all over the world and of course use international forums like this so transfer between colloquialisms and quirks all the time. I'm all kinds of linguistically confused. But it also makes me a pretty good person I think to adjust to my audience instead of expecting them to adjust to me.
Yea, I disagree. If you are asking for advice and you want people to understand you. And you are using a colloquialism that the majority of people will not know, probably useful to not use it. Or use it, but don’t be surprised when some people are confused and ask for clarification. Or bite their head off for doing so.
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TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
You said cream. Milk I am on board with.7 -
VintageFeline wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
You said cream. Milk I am on board with.
Well I guess it was a slip of the tongue cause I also started craving Devonshire cream from this stupid post. But I couldn't get my hands on that as easily. I actually started looking up local places to have high tea cause I really want some.2 -
Nobody is upset about asking for clarification. People are upset because you actually *told someone off* for expressing themselves in a different way from what you are used to.
This is an international open forum. We all have to ask for clarification sometimes. What we don't do is lecture people for not using American vernacular. Your colloquialisms are not better than anybody else's.16 -
CattOfTheGarage wrote: »Nobody is upset about asking for clarification. People are upset because you actually *told someone off* for expressing themselves in a different way from what you are used to.
This is an international open forum. We all have to ask for clarification sometimes. What we don't do is lecture people for not using American vernacular. Your colloquialisms are not better than anybody else's.
Lmao. You want to quote me on where I told someone off? Like at all? I actually thought it was interesting to learn something I didn't know. I do wish the op had at least put in parentheses what it meant to begin with, but I absolutely did not tell anyone off. And if people took it that way, they were reading into it cause it's not what I wrote!
Eta: And also I never suggested that American vernacular or my local colloquialisms are better than others and acceptable! Specifically what I was trying to say was unless you are using something widely understood (meaning not a vernacular or colloquialism of anywhere), and if you want to be widely understood by others, you may want to either refrain from using any vernacular or colloquialism, or spend an extra few seconds defining it. And, to make it abundantly clear, I’m offering that as a suggestion, NOT a criticism as one can do what they want. It’s just so a wider variety of others will understand.
And the only one being told off in this post was you telling me off withyour assumptions that I think my word usage is better than others.11 -
TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
I'm from the US and have heard it many times. In books, movies, etc.6 -
TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
I'm from the US and have heard it many times. In books, movies, etc.
I had not. I did find it interesting to learn. I honestly was not trying to offend the original poster. And I’m sorry op if I did.
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Yes iam stressing i know I can keep the weight off once it's off as I know where I went wrong the last time I just have no bloody will power I was talking to a friend the other day saying how this chocolate says a serving size is 2 squares and who eats 2 squares and puts it back she was like I do that I wish I could do that or she was saying how she couldn't finish her tinned rice pudding she ate half last time and was still hungry but couldn't eat a whole tin why the f*** am I so greedy like I could easily eat a whole pizza but she can only eat half a one and she is around the same height & weight as me
Totally relate to how you feel. I have the same challenge when it comes to my friends who eat healthier, other times I am that person with two squares. I work as a cashier in a grocery store in the evenings. After 7:30 pm a third of my shoppers are buying junk food. While they range in all sizes, many more appear to be in the more reasonable size. I am jealous. How do they do it? My biggest challenge was not the type of food (don't get me wrong I was not an angel), but food portions. I see these people on a regular basis buying this stuff. It frustrates me that they can appear to get away with it, while I diligently log in that banana I ate late last night, noting that I went over my daily limit.
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rockyhi512 wrote: »Yes iam stressing i know I can keep the weight off once it's off as I know where I went wrong the last time I just have no bloody will power I was talking to a friend the other day saying how this chocolate says a serving size is 2 squares and who eats 2 squares and puts it back she was like I do that I wish I could do that or she was saying how she couldn't finish her tinned rice pudding she ate half last time and was still hungry but couldn't eat a whole tin why the f*** am I so greedy like I could easily eat a whole pizza but she can only eat half a one and she is around the same height & weight as me
Totally relate to how you feel. I have the same challenge when it comes to my friends who eat healthier, other times I am that person with two squares. I work as a cashier in a grocery store in the evenings. After 7:30 pm a third of my shoppers are buying junk food. While they range in all sizes, many more appear to be in the more reasonable size. I am jealous. How do they do it? My biggest challenge was not the type of food (don't get me wrong I was not an angel), but food portions. I see these people on a regular basis buying this stuff. It frustrates me that they can appear to get away with it, while I diligently log in that banana I ate late last night, noting that I went over my daily limit.
They do it because like you, they are not overeating. They aren't unicorns, it's just their food intake matches their energy needs. They might be more active than you. They might eat very lightly during the day for those snacks. They may only have a few bites. The point being, they're not special, they don't have some super duper metabolism and they may even be tracking every single morself like you are.9 -
TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
I'm from the US and have heard it many times. In books, movies, etc.
Me too.
And if you are used to using a particular colloquialism, you may not realize it won't be generally understood.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Wasn’t my words. If you have a problem with it, take it up with Wikipedia.
And for everyone getting their panties in a bunch... I know everyone here is not from the US. But the majority are. And I’ve never heard of tea used to denote supper. So geez, excuse me. I thought she was either referring to high tea or simply regular tea. Or even sweet tea. I didn’t know.
Oh, and yes I like milk in my darjeeling tea. Always have and always will. Too kitten bad!!!!
I'm from the US and have heard it many times. In books, movies, etc.
Me too.
And if you are used to using a particular colloquialism, you may not realize it won't be generally understood.
True true.0 -
I'm in the breakfast > lunch > dinner camp. And to be fair, those Oreo chocolate bars are made by the devil, they're just so damn good.3
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When I screw up and over eat, or drink to much beer, I just try to counteract it. On YouTube go do a 15 minute Walk Away the Pounds video. It’s easy and helps burn that candy bar to balance things out!1
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VintageFeline wrote: »I guess technically it is true but it's actually more about being regional. Some would call it supper in some areas. Dinner could refer to lunch in others. Britain has a very diverse range of local dialects.
Yeah, I grew up fairly working class (or "low middle class" at a push) in SE England. We had breakfast, dinner and tea, and sometimes "supper" was a late-evening snack. I knew of "high tea" as an afternoon snack of tea (the beverage) and little sandwiches and cakes, generally taken in posh hotels or by the children of high-class families. I was a teenager before I learned that some people called my dinner "lunch", and that my tea could be either "dinner" or "supper".
These days, and prompted in part by my emigration to Canada, I use "lunch" for the midday meal. The evening meal tends to be "supper" if eaten at home or a friend's house, since that's what most of the people I know in this part of Canada call it, and "dinner" if going out to eat at a restaurant, since that sounds more fancy!
My husband will sometimes still ask "what's for tea?", meaning what are we having for the evening meal, but we don't tend to use the word for anything other than the hot beverage outside our family because we know other people won't get what we mean.
Also, cream in tea is yuck. I know several people who drink it that way, and I did try it, but it's awful to me! I'd rather drink my tea black if there's no milk.
Back on topic, though - OP, you've been given a lot of good advice here, so please try to take it. It sounds to me like you should set your activity level as "lightly active" and aim for 1/2lb per week as a rate of loss. Add in a conservative estimate of calories burned for your additional purposeful exercise (going to the gym etc., not walking to/from school), and eat back at least half of those additional calories. Monitor your weight for at least 4-6 weeks before panicking that it's not working, and adjust your calorie allowance up or down a little after that time if you're losing more or less than expected.
Please understand that you most likely will not lose at a consistent rate from week to week, so monitoring the trend over time is very important. Also, take photos and measurements regularly for comparison. Sometimes the camera or the tape will show us what the scale doesn't.
Try to have patience, and try to understand that no one is perfect. We're all human, and we all slip up now and again. You'll be okay.3 -
VintageFeline wrote: »I may, or may not, have had a large chocolate bar for dinner on more than one occasion, whilst still losing weight.
#sorrynotsorry
^This.1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »I have to know, how many calories are in the chocolate? And how many calories are in your tea?
Also, now I want some tea.
I would assume OP means "tea" in the regional British and Irish sense of "evening meal", not just a particularly lardy cuppa.
OP, the thing about eating tea, even if it puts you over your goal, is this: the mistake is already made. Skipping tea will not undo the mistake, it will just make another mistake of disrupting your normal eating schedule and making yourself sad and hungry and, deep down, resentful. You have to accept the mistake and move on.
A takeaway is fine, just do some research in advance, choose something not too calorific, don't eat the whole portion (put half on a plate and half in the fridge for tomorrow) and don't go mad on the side dishes. There's a world of difference between a half portion of chicken cashew nut with a half portion of fried rice and 5 prawn crackers, versus the Hungry Dragon Lard-Bottom Sharing Banquet for 5.
We all have days where the wheels come off, you just need to not lose your head and keep trying. You'll get there in the end.
Lmao. You are right. I had to look it up. Having been to England numerous times, and having enjoyed high tea in England, Hong Kong, and here locally, I’ve never heard of it referred to as dinner. But apparently along the working class in certain areas, that’s the slang. Probably not useful on this mostly US board, but whatever.
I did start craving tea though. Op, thanks. I enjoyed my darjeeling tea with cream this afternoon thanks to you.
So if you're English and say 'tea' to refer to a meal time you're working class...
:huh: :noway:
Yep, it's the same here in Australia, us Ruffians call dinner "tea", and the uppercrusts call it dinner. I use dinner on here because it's a US site, and most everyone knows what it means.1
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