One of my colleagues wants to lose a few pounds and a few of us were chatting away giving her bits and pieces of advice from our own diet and exercise regimes. Then two people who are really really into fitness started butting in telling her it was no use simply cutting down on carbs she also had to do this, that and the other; spend half her life in the gym; walking was no use she needed to also join a gym and use weights and the exercise bike and weigh her food blah blah blah.
The girl' started to look more and more dispirited and I know in my heart and soul she had just lost any motivation and wasn't going to bother.
I've seen this before where the fitness experts come steaming in, turning their nose up at the idea of cutting down on sweet stuff and bread and going out for a walk every evening and start bossily instructing people "No, no. You must......." followed by a regime that would be fine if someone was training for a triatholon.
Why can some of these people not get that a lot of us just want to take a few simple steps to becoming fitter and slimmer, but are not planning to enter the London Marathon. I see it on some threads on here as well and by the time they're finished the original posters have long slinked quietly off the thread and are no doubt gloomily munching a cream cake and wondering why they thought it was worth bothering in the first place.
AIBU to wish that these fanatics would just tone it down sometimes and stop putting people off before they've even begun?