To hate the office lunch box police

[lastqueenofscotland]

Anyone else have these, the ones that disect the nutritional value of your lunch, the ones that hovver until you have given a full and detailed rundown of exactly what you're eating, or the worst the woman who comes and sticks her face in ot and smells it uninvited to do so?!

I can deal with lost office etiquette but this is driving me up the wall at the moment.

I would love to be one of those people who happily get away with commenting on what people eat. But oh no, I have to judge in my head now as apparently it's wrong to tell someone they can't lose weight due to all the chocolate and crisps they inhale....oops.

Yes, how strange it is that not everyone wants you to share their opinion on their weight and food consumption.

I feel glad I work from home hearing all this

I am back to work after ML and I had my first Greggs since I left (DD is at least 90% sausage roll and Tottenham cake!!)

I actually only had a roll and the bitch who went on about my weight when i was pregnant walked past and said "ha ha HF obviously isn't bothered about losing the baby weight as she is still on the Greggs"

Food shaming is nasty and mean!!

Some people are twats Hacker, that's horrid

Yes, I used to get the comments like "ooh check out your posh lunch, you're such a good girl". About a poxy salad or some soup and crackers!!!! wtf?

Everyone HAD to pass my desk on the way to the kitchen so I got all the comments and waffle about everybodys lunch and I didn't give a shiny shite. I just wanted to eat mine. Couldn't care less if someone had home made organic beef stew or caviar on toast or supernoodles. Not my business! Don't talk to me about it.

In the end I just said "hmm, nom nom nom" and deliberately let the lettuce hang from my mouth. This soon got rid of them.

The woman next to me ate 3 lunches. Must be why she looked as though she had 3 stomachs.

Then there was all the "I'm being good today......followed by loads of food" or the "Shall I be naughty today??" I would say "dunno, do what you like mate, you don't need my permission".

My workplace banned people from eating at desks - we have to go to the staff cafeteria or the games room (or outside of course, it's not a prison) and it's much better, no stinky food to put up with and actually have a proper break even if only for 10 minutes

Wtf? At my work place there might be some general recipe or idea swapping. None of us are sitting resenting food related small talk. What planet are you all from?

You can't do right for doing wrong.

You take in a salad, you're a martyr.

You have fish, chips, peas, a barm cake and a brownie, washed down with a Coke and you're a pig.

Why do people comment?!

MackerelOfFact and lastqueenofscotland I think I work with you both 🙋😀

I work in a s cool so we all sit down to the same school dinner (as each other and the kids). There's no choice. They cook one meal and a vegetarian option so everyone eats the same thing as each other every day. So we all get to discuss what we think about the same meal. It's usually pretty unanimous.

Luckily our school meals are generally pretty good. Apart from the memorable Borsch but made with red cabbage and beetroot that had figs in it (wtaf) served on the day of the Christmas concert where all the kids had been instructed to wear white tops

I wish I worked in a healthy office. Where I work there is junk food EVERYWHERE. It completely contradicts all the health notices on the wall.

for the whole thread but especially for Ernest!

OP YANBU. I especially dislike the 'that smells nice' comments when I've got a sandwich/something else cold. Just how close do you have to get to smell a sandwich?!

Back off!

Seriously though, does anyone understand the psychology of this? Maybe it's a non-work related thing so in the grand scheme of things someone eating lunch in an office is relatively interesting?

Mrs DeVere

I was once sitting at my desk at lunchtime eating a (post 4 mile run) sandwich when my boss walked past and said "Should you be eating that?!"

It's not too bad where I work, but I definitely found being pregnant with dd made people think they could comment. I was told off for eating chocolate by someone I barely knew on the basis I would find it hard to lose the weight post birth. I had actually lost a stone at this point due to sickness.

I then had someone tell me eating chocolate would make the baby addicted to sugar. This same person used to make 'eating for two' comments if I dared partake in having a bit of birthday cake, even if everyone else was having some too.

Those people don't work there anymore thankfully, as I'm currently pregnant and for quite a while was mainlining crisps, chocolate and coke. However there is one person who has commented that she has noticed I had been drinking a lot of coke. I have nothing to do with her day to day so am fairly bemused she took the time to notice

The skinniest carer I worked with used a open a big plastic lunch box his mum had packed which contained 3 chocolate bars and 2 bags of crisps. I used to wonder why he didn't want any actual food. But I never did ask him. I have a friend who juices and has green juice for her lunch. She's having tests because she keeps fainting. I'm soooo tempted to say, maybe you should have a sandwich? But I don't. Other people's lunch boxes are fascinating. But it's uncomfortable when people question your choices and really, nobody else has any idea what you eat the other 95% of the time.

We all eat in the staff canteen so it's not really an issue, but I HATE people commenting on my food. It's my food, I'm eating it not you, fuck off.

Yes! I changed my lunch because I was embarrassed by the comments.

Yadnbu. I have a colleague who is president of the wank diets and lunch fbi. I don't even see her every day, but since January the temptation to drown her in muller lite has become too strong to overcome much longer.

She's spent the 5yrs I've known her being extremely overweight and eating crap. I've spent my life being thin, exercising and eating a healthy but reasonably carby diet. (Think rationing type with more cheese and protein, rather than sugar and junk food). I've spent 5 years tolerating offensive comments on my size, and the 'unfairness' that 'you can eat all that pasta and still be a walking skeleton, yet a family pack few tiny cakes and I'm this big'. Since January she's started some dumbfuck diet combining all the more deranged ideas from Atkins and slimming world. And then has the nerve to lecture me on my 'unhealthy' diet and how 'I'll get fat eating it and should reduce my carbs'. Yes, because eating several chicken thighs, a mugshit, and 2 muller lites, before spending the afternoon eating some turds masquerading as sw chocolate bars, a dinner of half a deep fried pig and diet coke and then eating phoney sw cake, using your 'syns' to treat yourself to a Mars bar or 7, consuming your own body weight in (apparently carb free) sugary fruit is the perfect diet. Whereas eating bread, cheese, bananas, rice, veg, potatoes etc like a normal person is unhealthy, cos it's not zero carbs like hers.

I'm happy to say something, unfortunately she's pissed me off enough I can't say it diplomatically anymore, and I'm likely to rip her a new one if I open my mouth. A distinct possibility.

Lurked i have a slimming world idiot too, I can't believe the amount of processed food she eats cause it's "low sin" yeh it's also shite

The all day, gossipy food-talk ('good'/ 'bad'/ diets/ calories/ weight) is hell for somebody trying to recover from an eating disorder

The interruption and interrogation is so utterly rude.