Top 20 lies women tell about food

By
Tom Kelly

Last updated at 2:07 AM on 6th January 2012

Sneaky: Number five on the list - woman lie about how many biscuits they've eaten. Posed by model

Sneaky: Number five on the list – woman lie about how many biscuits they’ve eaten. Posed by model

Did you just have a healthy salad for lunch, then nothing more than the kids’ leftovers and one glass of wine in the evening? Yeah, right.

The average woman tells almost 500 lies a year about her eating and drinking habits, according to a survey.

That’s almost nine fibs every week about how much food she’s eaten, what she’s snacked on and how many drinks she’s had.

Favourite untruths include ‘It was only a small portion’ after eating a large meal, and ‘I’ll have a big lunch so I won’t eat much after this’ when they know they will have an afternoon of sugary treats and fatty foods.

Other classics are ‘I treat myself only once in a blue moon’ while munching on goodies all day, and ‘I always eat my five-a-day’ when the reality is quite the opposite.

Chocolate is the food that women are most likely to lie about,  followed by crisps and cake.

Fibs about their consumption of sweets, cheese, bread, chips and burgers are also among the top ten most common falsehoods, along with wine and beer.

‘I never touch fast food’ is another popular line, trotted out even by those who enjoy clandestine visits to McDonald’s or KFC when no one’s looking.

And ‘I didn’t touch any of the biscuits’ is a regular claim, despite the evidence of an empty packet in the kitchen bin.

Food: Denying eating crisps and snacks also made the list. Posed by model

Food: Denying eating crisps and snacks also made the list. Posed by model

For drinking, the ‘I had only one glass’ line is frequently served up after polishing off an entire bottle of wine.

And at weddings or parties the ‘I had a drink only because we were toasting an occasion’ claim is often used, when, in fact, the ‘toast’ went on all night.

Other popular lines include ‘I just finished off the kids’ left-overs’ without mentioning quite how much food the children left, and ‘I had only a salad so that’s healthy’, choosing to ignore the fatty dressings and extras.

Porkies: Top 20 food and drink lies told by women

Porkies: Top 20 food and drink lies told by women

In all, the survey of 3,000 Britons, commissioned by Timex, found that the average woman tells 474 of these lies every year.

Dr Cassandra Maximenko, a chiropractor and athlete, said that by lying to others, women were also lying to themselves and could easily see their weight creep up or damage their health.

She added: ‘This study proves we live in a nation of denial where image takes a higher priority than honesty and no one wants to be seen eating food they shouldn’t.’

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Cows have three stomachs.
– Slicer, The Devil’s Manor, Hell, 06/01/2012 03:43
And men are just ignorant pigs ?

And we care because????

I had toad-in-the-hole (2 sausages), potatoes mashed with butter, peas and onion gravy. Two large glasses of dry white wine and about four mugs of coffee. That’s all day. Not everybody lies.

Cows have three stomachs.

Hmm this article made me hungry… but I definitely did NOT just eat several left over christmas chocolates. Definitely not.

Leave the gals alone, I like food too!

A female neighbor from a nearby estate was in the habit of breaking into my back garden with two of her older kids for some reason, when I confronted her with a printout from the cctv I eventually bought she adamantly insisted it was not her in the picture in front of several other bemused people. I wonder sometimes if females don’t tell lies as such but actually believe what they are saying no matter what the reality of the situation.

That’s cute!

We ALWAYS lie about size, boys! Often, just to make you happy!

It’s usually best to tell the truth but I don’t blame women or men for telling little lies about their food habits. In modern society, a disease-preventative diet is bandied about with puritanical zeal. People want others to care about them, and the media suggests (wrongly IMO) that eating fried foods and carbs is akin to giving up on oneself. To reduce the risk of people not wanting to advise and help them, a person will lie about their diet. Dieting is a mistake–food is one of the great pleasures of life for many people, and it is a relatively harmless one to indulge in. Diets such as those advocated by most doctors will never catch on with most people, but that reflects people’s internal knowledge of their own self interest rather than a lack of willpower. Diets represent a poor value proposition for most because they entail giving up a critical mass of wellbeing in the prime of one’s life for an increase in the likelihood of living more years aged. Eat food that inspires you.

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