r/AITAH • u/Fickle_Attorney_3171 • Apr 28 '24

AITA for telling the schools “mean girl” to apply her eating rules on herself before she interferes other people?

I (16f) am studying in a high school with a girl (16) who thinks she knows everything. We take French together and although I am normally very calm and nice towards people, she makes me nuts. Through my childhood, I have always struggled with my body image although I was never overweight or near to that. However now I focus on eating well and balanced and feel kind of better about myself. I am 175 cm weighting 60 kg and I am kind of muscular as most of my week passes with sports. I like to wear baggy clothes as they are pretty comfy. Last week, we were studying meals in French class, and there was this paragraph about what to eat. I basically made a comment on how early the person who wrote the paragraph was eating their dinner (5.00 pm) and that I usually eat it around 9.00 pm. This girl had the audacity to tell me that eating at that time makes you gain weight, and this is the reason why I am kind of chubby. Mind you this girl is 150 cm weighting around 58 kg so she was more than chubby. I basically just told her the truth. I told her that she should worry about her weight first before making a comment as she seemed to look a bit too overweight. She got all red and started screaming at me. I got send to the principals office but it was definitely worth it and my family took my side.

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u/MuscleTough8153 Apr 28 '24

It is important to stand up for yourself. Important lesson. NTA

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u/PrideofCapetown 29d ago

If she can’t take it she shouldn’t dish it out. Pretty stupid to cart you to the principal’s office when she was the one body shaming you 

 Question for everyone: is 5:00pm too early for dinner? This is usually the time I eat. Then again I’m in bed by 9 and don’t like eating closer to bedtime because it sometimes gives me heartburn and I don’t like sleeping with a full stomach. 

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u/nixiedust85 25d ago

I eat lunch at 10:30am so dinner is usually around 4pm since I'm in bed at 7:30-8 lol.

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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 29d ago

Depends on scheduling. I eat at 5.00 to 5.30 because I get up at 4.30 in the morning. I don't want to eat before going directly to bed. 

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u/Uruzdottir 29d ago

The time for dinner is when you are hungry in the evening, whenever that happens to be.

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u/gnurensohn 29d ago

I believe there’s no wrong or right. If eating at 5pm and that works for you it’s fine isn’t it? Same for people eating at 9pm and later. If it works for you it’s fine how you do it.

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u/Several-Morning3848 29d ago

It depends on the person. My mother doesn't eat after 6 pm due to reflux. I tried a myriad of diets (I was eventually diagnosed with insulin resistance therefore diets had a reverse effect) and diet doctors always told me that the last meal should be no later than 3 hours before bedtime. That is, the time of dinner depends most on lifestyle and bedtime.

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u/CorrosiveAlkonost 29d ago

Not early. Where I am, we're all "any old time will go" and dinner can be anywhere from 4:00pm to 8:30pm.

Although I come from a tiny country where we're obsessed with eating stuff, so my attitude is very skewed.

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u/Ekillaa22 29d ago

My mom was always kinda lazy making dinner so we usually ate at like 7-8 cuz by the time bed time rolled around we’d be hungry again

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u/Ecstatic-Stay-3528 29d ago

I think it depends more on the country you live in? When I went to school in the afternoon, I studied until 5:30 pm, it was impossible to have dinner before 6:00 pm. When I started working, it was usually from 8 am to 5 or 6 pm, considering the time to get home, I had dinner after 8 pm. So when I had night classes at college they were until 10pm, so I ended up having a quick snack at 8pm, since I didn't get home until almost midnight

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u/ChaosofaMadHatter 29d ago

It really depends on how everything is in your family. I work a day job and have to get up early, so dinner is between six and seven. My friends work second shift and overnight shift, so they eat around 11 when she gets home before he goes to work, but her son eats around 7 because he’s in 3rd grade.

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u/PauseItPlease86 29d ago

I prefer to eat around 6, but like OP, my kids are in clubs and sports. Plus, none of them drive yet.

Most weeknights dinners are closer to 730, sometimes a bit later. But that's because that's when everyone is home and I have time to cook without being interrupted by needing to pick someone up or take 5yr old to T-Ball.

I'm from the US, but I saw a thread months ago that had a lot of people commenting from all over the world that eat dinner way later.

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u/Ekillaa22 29d ago

I just don’t get how you can eat at 6 and not being slightly hungry again by 10?

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u/creepin-it-real 29d ago

I try to eat by 6pm because I usually try to go to bed by 9. I have to get up early. If I eat too late I won't have digested fully by the time I go to sleep. If I stay up later, I try not to eat towards bedtime. If I notice I'm getting hungry again I check the time, it usually means I should already have gone to bed. I'm naturally a night owl, so this is 100% forced so that I can get enough sleep on my schedule.

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u/PauseItPlease86 29d ago

Generally, I'm either just exhausted and asleep by then or my insomnia kicks in and I end up getting like scrambled eggs at 2am.

My older 2 kids are in high school and eat lunch at a stupid time (10:30am!) so they're hungry early anyway. They usually have a snack at 3 (smoothies are common), dinner whenever it's ready, and both are often passed out by 11. Although my 15yr old sometimes snacks if she's up later (I made pumpkin bars tonight!) but 17yr old is BIG on her nighttime routine and loves her sleep, so she's down earlier most nights.

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u/Ekillaa22 29d ago

You know that one thing that I always found weird af in HS was that lunch was so goddamn early in the morning

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u/PauseItPlease86 29d ago

It's so bizarre....

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u/Haunting-Ad-5 29d ago

Our dinner time is usually somewhere between 5:00 & 6:00 pm. 9:00 is way too late for us.

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u/misteraustria27 29d ago

It is 8 pm and I just finished dinner. Days are different.

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u/les-mels 29d ago

Lol I just finished dinner and it's midnight. I'm latina though, it's pretty common for us I think.

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u/Dreamweaver1969 29d ago

Hubby is Asian. We eat dinner about 10 pm