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AIBU?

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??

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CoffeeTea103 · 23/09/2013 20:08

Who are you to make a comment about her lunch?? Even if she told the entire office it's still none of your business. People like you need to get a life seriously! What a rude person you are.

frogspoon · 23/09/2013 20:08

Unless she asked for your advice or opinion, it's not really any of your business.

You were a bit rude.

flowery · 23/09/2013 20:13

YABU and very rude, as well as wrong.

EST0106 · 23/09/2013 20:26

I would have said the same. In my office they are always on this diet or that diet...for about 5 mins and then wonder why it doesn't work. I once said ''the only way to lose weight is to burn off more calories than you put in, eat less and do more exercise', perhaps not my finest hour but it wears you down. I can be a bit blunt though! X

specialsubject · 23/09/2013 20:28

anybody who talks about being 'really healthy' one week in preparation for a guzzling weekend is probably not really getting it. Leave her in peace, it's not worth the effort.

and it is rather rude to comment on what people are eating!

mrsjay · 23/09/2013 20:29

I think if people are ALWAYS talking about diets and healthy eating it does get tiresome but the op was just bloody rude people who obsess about food and calories are a wee bit boring

mysticminstrel · 23/09/2013 20:31

I don't get why this is in AIBU?

Do you really want to know if yabu? Or did you just want to bitch about your colleague?

garlicbaguette · 23/09/2013 20:40

Yup, YABU on two counts - "healthy" is not a synonym for "low-calorie", and it's rude to criticise other people's food.

I'll take that back if you are, in fact, her dietician and her Instagram editor.

Pagwatch · 23/09/2013 20:43

Low calorie is a shit way to eat healthily.

TeacupTempest · 23/09/2013 20:46

Calories are healthy. As far as I know we don't do very well without them.

goodasitgets · 23/09/2013 20:46

Just leave her to eat what she wants
I get this at work "mayo is bad, chicken skin isn't healthy"
Now I just hear blah blah blah

Sinful1 · 23/09/2013 20:52

I feel a need to point out that just because something has a lot of calories doesn't make it unhealthy at all.

CoolaSchmoola · 23/09/2013 21:00

Every time I've read the word 'sauce' on this thread it's given me the rage.

It's a salad, so it's dressing, it's not bloody SAUCE!!!!

Oh and YABU, and wrong.

TrucksAndDinosaurs · 23/09/2013 21:00

I want to know what the OP had for lunch now so we can all nitpick about it

soverylucky · 23/09/2013 21:00

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maddening · 23/09/2013 21:01

it's not just the question - it's doing it in a work setting in front of colleagues - comes across as a bit of a dig which isn't nice really and a bit unnecessary

Pagwatch · 23/09/2013 21:02

Sauce. Saucy sauce.

DoJo · 23/09/2013 21:03

And if those others are poorly informed and judgy, then they deserve to be told where they are wrong and rude.

TrucksAndDinosaurs · 23/09/2013 21:03

It's dressing if it's on the leaves and shit but if it's, say, a piece of tandoori chicken with yogurt mint sauce it's not dressing. Actually I like dressing and sauce so I'd have the tandoori sauce chicken AND lemon and olive oil on the leaves and whathaveyou.

Mmmm yum.

DoJo · 23/09/2013 21:05

Oops - that was to Mrs Oakenshield

SPBisResisting · 23/09/2013 21:05

Coola, yes I keep imagining ketchup

KellyHopter · 23/09/2013 21:08

This has reminded me of some crappy nutrition column in som crappy slab mag I read at the weekend (at the hairdressers, honest!)

An alleged sleb details her food and drink intake over the course of a day, went something like porridge with blueberries and honey for breakfast, soup, salad and bread roll or lunch, steamed fish and green veg for dinner. A few coffees, some Percy pigs and a glass of wine.

They then get their resident dullard nutritionist to point out where this wretched creature is going wrong - no honey on porridge, no bread roll at lunch, seeds instead of Percy pigs, no wine etc.

Then compare the calories, alleged sleb: about 1800, dullard nutritionist about 1400.

Now at the start of this column it says this woman is 5.10 and a size 8-10. Picture shows she is athletic and healthy. So why the fuckles does she need to drop down to 1400 calories??

Pointless inane nitpicking, much like op.

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Binkyridesagain · 23/09/2013 21:12

What Salad and Sauce is unhealthy? What if its in a pitta bread with Donner meat?

TrucksAndDinosaurs · 23/09/2013 21:15

Has the OP gone?

mrsjay · 23/09/2013 21:20

can I just say i love the word fuckles you are right though kelly the womans daily food was fine until some boring health expert told her otherwise

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