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So has "skinny stealthing" officially been added to the lexicon?

JaneiR36 wrote: »

I'd say by being in public you're giving your consent to having other people eat the same food you are. How about when people order the same food you do at a restaurant, oh noozz!!

So it's also okay to watch them to the point you are literally eating, not just the same stuff, but the exact same bite sizes as them at the exact same time?

Do you really not find nothing wrong with this?

To the original OP - I used to go to 4 Christmas' in a day, and events on Christmas Eve. It was a food extravaganza.

For me, it was about pacing myself - because if I got full at the first Christmas then I would have to sit and watch all the other Christmas food pass me by the rest of the day. No bueno.

I developed a strategy. I put the bare minimum of the 'obligation' foods on my plate. (You know the quiche your aunt made and you have to eat because she will come up to you later and say, how was the quiche sweetie?) Sometimes, I could skip this with the pretense of leftovers.

Second. My main focus was on getting some of the 'standout' dish - uncle's barbeque baked beans with bacon or my sister's sweet potato souffle. Once I got a few bites of the standout dish, I could declare the meal a success and would typically stop eating at that point because I knew there was ANOTHER standout dish at the next place.

This strategy doesn't work so well for meals on different days. But I still sorta use it on Thanksgiving, or Pie-extravaganza day. I admit then when I go to fill my plate I think, is this worth it? Or will this make me too full for pie? Because, that's what I really care about. It means I have an average to small meal and just have a bigger dessert. Not much variation on my calorie intake.