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supshi
Joined 2017
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Declining Food

7 years ago

I'm not sure if it's just this family or not, but my girlfriend insists that this is normal in the Philippines.

Whenever I am at her parents' house, they eat a lot of food, typically having nine meals a day on average. I can't eat this much food and to make matters worse, they eat a LOT for each meal. Sometimes they will eat three entire platefuls and then eat again an hour or two later.

No matter what I say to them, her family think that the reason I am not getting through 9+ plates of food a day is because I don't like the food.

I have told them countless times:

'Thank you, but I am full'

'We don't have this many meals in the UK'

'I like it, but I am so full that I cannot manage another bite'

'I've just eaten'

etc.

Nothing I say to them will have them accept that the reason I can't eat as much as they do is because I am not hungry. They are adamant that it's because I do not like the food.

It's becoming incredibly silly because they're claiming that I hate foods they have seen me eat several times before. They're claiming that I hate 'Filipino' food when I don't eat things like hot dogs, doughnuts and burgers.

My girlfriend is finding the situation incredibly stressful as she is telling them herself that I like the food, but I don't eat as much as they do. However, no matter what either of us say to them, they are convinced that I hate almost every kind of food imaginable.

Has anybody else experienced anything similar and is there a way to make them realise that I genuinely cannot eat as much as they do?

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