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

[KatyPurrey]

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??

Ah, Coolaschmoola got there first but yes, a sauce is cooked, dressing is not. It's usual to eat dressing in salad and were I her, I might have responded by pointing out your culinary ignorance, which might by extension suggest you don't know much about food. You let yourself down there!

It is irritating though when people at work bang on about the healthiness, or not ('I'm being naughty today!' ) of their food. No one cares but them, except when it gets hypocritical. I once worked in an office full of smokers who all used to carp about how they didn't eat junk food, their body was a temple etc. Grr.

pictish I did put a disclaimer that I am pregnant.

I cried when dh got in from work last week lol.

and I have had to stop reading my book as I couldnt makr it through one chapter.

someone being unnecessarily snipey and a dick just because they can would have just set me off lol

i put thousand island dressing on.my salad. healthy innit, its got vegetables in.

much healthier than when i get a baguette, a can of coke and a bar of chocolate anyway

Trucksanddinosaurs I used to have an annoying colleague who would sit their joylessly chewing on the following:
A small pile of processed crisp bread things
Spread with a smear of diet sugar free jam
Some rice cake crisp things
And an instant choc-lite powdered drink thing
And a diet coke
Plus some grapes.
So.....Carbs, Carbs carbs and more carbs. In fact, only carbs.

A low-carb diet is full of fat, mayo, butter, cream - and it works. We lose weight. (also has veg/salald/protein )
FAT doesn't make you fat. CARBS do !!!

YANBU to find it annoying when people parade their food about in front of you.

YA also NBU to think that she probably meant "this is low calorie" and that she was probably wrong.

Yabu. Health does not start and end with calories. Fat in a dressing is important to help the gut absorb some vitamins (which are fat-soluble) in the salad (so leaving off dressings is actually less heathy).

Healthy eating is not about cutting out bad, but can be about putting IN good. Lay off your colleague.

If she was putting gravy on her lettuce then YANBU. Otherwise you were rude.

was the "sauce" made from cocaine? or vodka? or chocolate?

If not, you are being so obviously unreasonable that I cannot believe you do not know that already.

I eat Malaysian and similar food a lot, as I am vegan.

What "we" call dressing is called sauce in their cooking and can be used as a dipping sauce or poured over food.

So a stuff on a salad or veg can be a sauce, gravy or dressing, depending on the origin and how pedantic you are.

I am finding that I have to add dressings etc to get close to eating 1200 a day and I don't always make the fat and carb quota on My Fitness Pal, luckily it leaves room for alcohol, if you eat "fresh".

I like my cocktails by the pitcher, so I plan ahead and have a lean couple if weeks.

YABU.

Seriously, people need to stop getting 'healthy' mixed up with 'free of fat/calories'.
We need fat, carbs, protein, fibre and various other nutrients to be healthy. It's the amount of each that matters. So, she could have a salad with dressing every single day and still be healthy, depending on what else she is eating.
She could have salad with no dressing for breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day and that would not be healthy - quite the opposite in fact, as salad alone doesn't have enough nutrients in it.
A healthy diet is one that has the right amount of nutrients, vitamins and minerals in it.

My biggest pet hate when working was my colleagues looking at the contents of my lunch and counting up the calories and telling me I shouldn't buy my lunch from the supermarket and I should make it at home because its healthier. I told them to fuck off (in a nice way). I hope your colleague did the same.

OP you sounded smug. And for that, YABU.

A healthy diet is one that has the right amount of nutrients, vitamins and minerals in it.

that really, many women suffer bone damage from dieting as their nutrition is lacking

What was in the dressing OP?
Yabu.
That is the end of that!

I eat salad every day for lunch - loads of different veg, tuna, chicken, egg, whatever with a fair amount of low fat dressing. Ok so it isn't the healthiest ever because of the crap in the dressing but it's a huge change to eating sandwiches of white bread, butter and cheese every day. If I'd made a throwaway comment at work and later, you'd said that about my salad, I'd have flicked a pickled onion at you.

I posted about a year ago about unwanted comments on the contents of my lunchbox. I never talk about food in terms of what's healthy and what's not because I think it's really boring. If it's an ooh what's that you've got? How do you make it? type conversation then that's ok.

But I find people who go on and on about diets and healthy food incredibly tedious and I admire you for calling her on it, but as others have said, you don't know for sure what it was. So you are both NBU and BU.

I'm now going to remove the splinters from my arse.

No such thing as healthy/unhealthy food, it's the overall diet that matters.

And anyway I disagree with the OP that a salad coveredin dressing is "unhealthy". Say it was caesar dressing, this has a lot of fat, but fat fills you up and is an essential part of a healthy diet. Don't make the mistake that all fat is unhealthy.

You were not the least bit unreasonable and you should definitely monitor all your colleagues food choices. You should invite yourself 'round to their homes to do a 'fridge and store cupboard audit and publish the graded and annotated results so they can get the full benefit of your nutritional guidance.

Sorry, punctuation fail - colleagues'.

mind your own business is what I'd recommend.

Sounds to me like salad lady was humble bragging!!
Agree about the low carb weight loss thing though. And I guess the OP's comment was a bit blunt and uncalled for.

I detest all and any diet talk. I wish my ears had an automatic shut off so I wouldn't be subjected to it. Eat it, don't it, shut up about it, goes for adults as well as children IMHO.

YABU

It doesn't really matter what she had, its just you felt the need to comment on it out loud! I hope she just ignored you and munched away. How rude, op, are you going to apologise?

I think you are more annoyed by the endless talk of her going partying than a bit of dressed lettuce.

Can't you all go out for lunch? Give each other some space?