Anyone else possessive over food?

I get angry when I have weighed/measured/counting something out, and then someone will come along, "Can I have some?"
Absolutely not! I need every calorie I can get!

THIS IS ME LOL

I will share anything I buy, but I agree when you buy stuff for your snacks that are healthy and your husband gets his snacks that are not and they eat their stuff and then dip in yours

I only share some of my food. If it's my fancy food or any of my tea, no way.

I carry a gun and no one touches it.

I giggled just over the subject line.
We have to label our carryout/leftovers and there is threat of dire physical harm if anyone else touches it without permission!

Definetly not crazy. If I buy something special that is on my food plan and I save it to look forward to over time, I have to write on it with sharpie. I live in a house with my mother who is demented, my husband, 3 teenagers and a 9 year old.

It also irritates me NO END when they throw away items that I buy as part of a special recipe. Just because it is obscure, you don't know what it is or what is used for....that DOES NOT MAKE IT TRASH!!!!!!!!!

so no, not crazy. Just trying to take care of yourself and make sure you have choices available that you can live with while you get healthy.

Yes! I have to buy gluten free stuff and everyone else can eat regular stuff, which is usually cheaper. So, I always tell them to eat the regular stuff, not my more expensive stuff. Or if I measure out the right amount of something, then my kids keep wanting bites of it, and I have no idea how much I actually ate. So annoying.

OH YEA, and dont you DARE touch my 100 cal packs with out asking!! those are the most convient things EVER!!

You are NOT crazy. Mine started when I got pregnant. (There are 5 adults plus myself in this house). I would get cravings and by that food and put it in one spot in the fridge and it became well known DON'T TOUCH! Then I got Gestational Diabetes and it became an even bigger deal since there was only so much I could eat. I'm trying to get better about sharing but I think they are still scared of me. My husband has discovered my little peanut butter and honey cracker packs ... I swear he almost peed his pants when he saw the look I gave him when I went "Are those MY crackers?" Run boy run!

Haha I feel the same way.

I've started leaving food on the plate, First time ever. Obsessive not when eating but I love to cook for my friends and family and I've noticed I eat less when I cook.

I hide anything I dont want them to eat! It works, and I dont like to share...........so youre not crazy!

I don't get possessive of food because it's "mine" necessarily, but because I hate going to the grocery store and then a day later being out of stuff again.

Example: My husband LOVES grapes... and rather than eat a handful of grapes with something else for a snack when he's hungry, he will just sit down with a whole bag of grapes and eat them until he's sick. Which is usually the entire bag, or dang near close. Irritates the heck out of me!

Yes, I get like this too. For the most part my family has been great about my new eating habits--it's not actually something that was discussed very much; I just started eating differently, added more fruits and veggies and lower calorie meals to the shopping list, and that was that (although there is a remark every now and then how I'm always the last to sit down to eat nowadays since it takes so long for me to weigh out all my food, haha--but sometimes that's coming from me, and it's true anyway so it's not like it's a bothersome comment). But my family is made of a big group of snackers (myself included; I eat really slowly so it takes me ages to polish off a plate of food, but if I allow myself to I'll end up grazing all day long which is my main problem) and that has led to some issues in that, to help my portion control issues, there's usually at least some sort of low calorie snack foods in the house. I'm quite fond of the Snackwell's double chocolate fudge drizzled cookies (just typing that out makes me want to nom on some, heh) or the fiber one bars, granola bars, etc. The problem is that my brother keeps an even worse sleeping schedule than I do and snacks all through the night so sometimes I'll go downstairs looking for an afternoon or evening snack to curb my munching needs to find ... nothing (or, on a couple of occasions, a frustratingly empty box which is more irksome than an empty spot in the pantry). I've started keeping a box of low calorie snacks in my bedroom so that they're very clearly mine and so I know when I'm getting low and need to buy more. ...This does make me look like some out of control person who needs to have snacks within arm's reach in their room lol. But since I log consistently, it hasn't been a problem.

The other problem that cropped up quite a bit in the beginning but has thankfully become less frequent is that my brother or mum have a tendency to want to sample other people's foods. My mum in particular, because I often make something other than what the rest of my family eats (this is not a recent thing; my family eats a lot of steak which I don't like, so at least a couple of times a week I'll have something completely different than what they're having for dinner), so she's got this habit of turning down me making extra for her, but when I sit down with my food sort of looking over at it until I give her some off of my plate. It never bothered me before because I like cooking and always made quite large portions, but when I've already carefully measured out exactly how much I can have of x, y, and z... I'm suddenly much less of a sharer. XD This has gotten better mostly because lately if I'm making a different side dish, I'll just make a bunch and bring it over to the table on a separate plate, weighing out a portion for myself and leaving the rest there. Then any leftovers I package up and eat along with lunch during the rest of the week.

Omg I get soooo possessive over my food now. I think it's from calorie counting. Since I budget my calories so carefully, when I make a meal it is MY meal. I planned for it and I want every single bite.

The other night I had a couple hundred calories left over so I decided to make popcorn. I logged the popcorn and made it... my roommate came over and grabbed handful. I just glared at him and he was really confused, hahaha. But I had "budgeted" for all of that popcorn and I wanted it all!