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Keeps asking me if I want chocolate biscuits

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5t6y7u · 30/07/2023 17:28

I'm a secretary with 4 others in an office together. A few years ago I lost 4 stone and have managed to keep it off - although I eat healthier now, I never skip meals, and actually enjoy healthier food in general, but still have treats, albeit less. I put on the weight initially eating a lot of junk.

A woman in the office, who always brings chocolate biscuits in and usually just leaves them in the office, has started asking me if I've had some/ am I going to have some. Some days I say no, sometimes I'd have one but always comments now like "go mad and have two" etc, which is starting to annoy me. I'm a normal weight and actually prefer healthier snacks sometimes now.

Would this annoy anyone else?

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Vrisky · 30/07/2023 20:08

It's the constant undertone of, "you're weird if you don't eat this, or if you only eat a little of it," that would piss me off.

Some people are offended by anyone who doesn't share their eating habits. It's like they need constant reassurance that theirs is indeed the only way to eat.

People have the right to choose what to put in their mouths.

Dombasle · 30/07/2023 20:22

Take one and eat and within the hour rush to the toilets to be violently ill and then ask to go home.

Put your feet up at home and enjoy your time off and when you go back in suggest to management that you are concerned about food hygiene and snacks in the office and suggest that people eat their own food only when they are on a break.

If she approaches you again, declare loudly, "Brenda, the last time I ate one of your biscuits I nearly died! I'll pass, thanks!'

Songbird54321 · 30/07/2023 20:23

I feel after this long of saying no and it being ignored, 'will you give it a fucking rest??' or something along those lines may be called for.
Our office regularly orders breakfast, usually McDonald's or Greggs. Whenever they ask, I just reply no thanks I don't like them. End of conversation, no-one offended. Depending on who's making the list I don't even get offered cause they know my reply.
She sounds very OTT and would most definitely irritate me.

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Songbird54321 · 30/07/2023 20:24

Dombasle · 30/07/2023 20:22

Take one and eat and within the hour rush to the toilets to be violently ill and then ask to go home.

Put your feet up at home and enjoy your time off and when you go back in suggest to management that you are concerned about food hygiene and snacks in the office and suggest that people eat their own food only when they are on a break.

If she approaches you again, declare loudly, "Brenda, the last time I ate one of your biscuits I nearly died! I'll pass, thanks!'

Or do this

Hibiscrubbed · 30/07/2023 22:14

She’s pushing it because it makes her feel better for bingeing on chocolate biscuits. She thinks, as you were big/ger before, she can rely on you. She thinks if you’ll cave, as a formerly bigger person, she’ll still be superior to you. It’s a weird psychology people have around food. And alcohol, incidentally.

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