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to have told my work colleague that she isn't being healthy?

133 replies

KatyPurrey · 23/09/2013 18:52

My work colleague is going away for a weekend to Bristol for some music event. She made a big thing about how this week she is going to be really healthy in next for week.

She then gets out a massive salad drenched in sauce.

Was I unreasonable to point out that this is actually not very healthy and contains a lot of calories??

OP posts:
TidyDancer · 23/09/2013 19:29

Why on earth would you think it's your place to say anything?!

This is obviously aside from the fact that there are many many healthy ways to eat salad with dressing.

picnicbasketcase · 23/09/2013 19:30

None of your business. Don't try to put her off by implying she's fucked up her diet and may as well go straight to the nearest cake shop.

Laquitar · 23/09/2013 19:31

She said 'healthy' she didnt say 'low calorie' and she didnt mention weight loss.

usualsuspect · 23/09/2013 19:34

Yabu.

Skinheadmermaid · 23/09/2013 19:35

I wouldn't have commented but i would have laughed. There is a colleague of mine that makes a massive deal out of losing weight and being 'healthy'; her latest thing is juicing. She didn't eat for 7 days only had juices. She lost weight, then of course put it all back on again as soon as she started eating. Now how is that healthy?

Yama · 23/09/2013 19:37

So you think you have a monopoly on what is healthy?

IMO low calorie is not necessarily healthy.

Jeez, way to go to show your ignorance op.

XiCi · 23/09/2013 19:38

How rude and patronising of you.

How do you know what was in the dressing? It may have been very low calorie or she may have been low carbing and therefore able to eat mayo/caesar dressing with the salad.

Whatever the situation it was a bit twattish of you to comment at all

Fairylea · 23/09/2013 19:39

Yabu.

mrsjay · 23/09/2013 19:40

OP what would you consider a healthy tasty lunch

BrokenSunglasses · 23/09/2013 19:41

Healthy is not the same as low calorie.

A salad, even with sauce, is a healthy thing to eat for lunch.

It might not be the lowest calorie thing she could possibly have eaten, but that doesn't mean it isn't healthy.

TrucksAndDinosaurs · 23/09/2013 19:43

A great big multicoloured salad with some protein like egg, nuts, shrimp, cheese, canned fish or cold meat, a high fat dressing ie. olive oil and herbs, or full fat Greek yogurt cruising in at about 350-450 calories is a rockingly healthy lunch so there. I've lost 20 odd pounds noshing down one or two of those bad boys every single day since July.

You are being unreasonable and silly.

mrsjay · 23/09/2013 19:44

\oh i now want salad and range dressing now Grin

Mayqueene · 23/09/2013 19:44

You cared enough about this to feel the need to educate your colleague on healthy eating?!!! Without being asked for an opinion?!
Wow. Just ....wow.

Yorkieaddict · 23/09/2013 19:52

So does healthy have to mean low calorie? Has she actually said she wants to lose weight? I would say a salad is healthy, whatever you put on it. It doesn't remove all the nutrients!

JealousGF · 23/09/2013 19:53

I'd hate to think what you did when Bambi's mum got shot.

Sorry but this made me laugh :o

ethelb · 23/09/2013 19:55

Is anyone else desparate to know what this 'sauce' was? Unless it was caramel sauce I don't really think OP has much of a leg to stand on.

JealousGF · 23/09/2013 19:55

I would join the rest and say YABU but fuck it, I woulda said it too :o

SilverOldie · 23/09/2013 19:55

YABU None of your business and I would have told you where to stick your opinion, i.e where the sun don't shine.

magicturnip · 23/09/2013 19:56

You are being unreasonable and also assuming that healthy means low cal which is factually incorrect and one of my pet hates.

captainmummy · 23/09/2013 19:58

Low-calorie salad dressing is the very opposite of healthy. Mayo is made with egg and oil. Low-cal crap is made with emulsifiers, thickeners, colours, e numbers...
I low-carb and eat salad with mayo for lunch. I'm as healthy as anyone.

MrsOakenshield · 23/09/2013 19:58

if people are going to announcing things like this to the whole office and then do something which appears to completely contradict it then they are asking for others to pass comment!

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 23/09/2013 19:59

I had to inform my friend that her 2nd maccy d's caesar salad of the week had more fat and calories than a big mac when she was harping on about being "good" all week and tutting at me for having full fat coke with my happy meal. Normally I couldn't give a flying fuck who eats what. I'll bring the ice if you bring the burn. :o

gobbynorthernbird · 23/09/2013 20:00

Low calorie and low fat foods are unhealthy. Dressing on a salad makes it a balanced meal.

ArbitraryUsername · 23/09/2013 20:00

'Healthy' is determined in relation to an entire lifestyle, not a single meal. People do actually need to consume calories so as to live. Salad dressing, bread and other foods are not inherently 'bad'.

tethersend · 23/09/2013 20:02

Where do you work?

Is it a bit quiet at the moment?

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