To demand that every time one says one is on a diet, this MUST be met with disbelief ?

[BearlyThere]

Not "oh right"

Huh?

Tip for OP: lay off the tequila at lunchtime

I get you op. YOU don't need to diet, don't be silly.

What about 'good idea chubster'

I know what you mean. No of course you don't need to go on a diet. You have a perfect figure. Now have a slice of this cake.

No Bearly I get it. Similarly when I tell people my age I want them to look fucking astounded, as though I have told them I am a space goat from Venus, before saying "I thought you were years younger!" each time. Every time.

Arf at Pagwatch.

I had the opposite. I had people telling me 'why are you on a diet, don't be silly'. Err, because I'm 15 stone, and you ae clearly blind, idiot. I make a noncommital noise if someone tells me they're on a diet. I'm just not that interested in stroking their ego and I know how false the protestations can sound. If anything, I might venture a 'good for you'.

Why are you telling people you're on a diet anyway? Isn't it the kind of information to keep to yourself, at least until the diet has time to work?

It is similar to that mental state I have when someone says 'ooh you have lost weight' and I immediately think 'you used to think I was a fat bastard didn't you DIDN'T YOU'

Oh I seeeee...

Had to read it 5 times to get it.

Surely the only point of announcing you're on a diet is to be told you don't need to be one.

YANBU

When I went to Weightwatchers for the first time i kind of expected them to say "What are you doing here? You are in the wrong place. You don't need to lose weight. The basket weaving class is over there." Not sure why i thought that as i was 12 stone and 5 foot 4.

Yes first rule of fight club is NEVER tell people you are on a diet because it will kick off the schadenfreude side of their nature and they will sabotage the diet with doughnuts and force feed you cornish pasties or similar.

The response I get from the lodger is that "oh I struggle to put on weight". Then repeatedly mentions, at what seems like every opportunity, what she weighs after that and how proud she is to have gone up 3 pounds. And trys to give me cake.

I do cats bum face.

Lol at space goat

Lol. I say it when people wanting me to mainline lardy cake

Everyone has a diet if they eat or drink.

I'm a former teacher and I had to make a point of defining the term because my pupils thought that a diet was something which should end in weight loss.

Points, blah, calories, blah, weigh-ins FFS - what a load of bollocks. You don't see men wasting as much mental energy on all this. They think, "clothes too tight. Walk more. Eat less" or they buy new clothes in a bigger size and that's the end of it.

Bearly! Diet? Don't be so silly.You don 't need to....

GetOrf is right about the schadenfreude - it's possible that the Germans have a specific word just for this - what's German for sabotage?

"Diätsabotage"

Yep. I know when I have gotten fat as people stop replying with "Don't be ridiculous" when I announce I am dieting or am getting porky.

It is my fat benchmark.

I had to tell people quite early on at work (new job) that i am low carbing and its a lifestyle choice. After i refused the biscuits, xmas choccies and birthday donuts, they dont even ask me if i want a baked potato fromt he shop at dinner any more.

I find it easier. I know this is a piss take thread, but tbh its really not easy, you announce it and people think you want ego stroking, you dont announce it and certainly for me, people think you are being weird or strange -" oh go on, have one
"no thanks"
"go on!"
" no really am ok"
"oh its xmas, just have one"
" thing is i'm low carbing, so i can't just have one actually it really does mess things up"

I sit next to someone who pronounces how large she is when she weighs herself, tells everyone she needs to go on a diet, suggests sponsored diet as a team ...then goes to macdonalds for lunch today...

so now i know its just bullshit, i shan;t listen

Angry feet
There is also the Kirsty allsop test( tm me)
If you are fattere than her. slits throat you need to eat Less
This works with adele now she is a 16