Pissed off with colleagues comment about my food?

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Friday and colleagues decide to go buy breakfast from the canteen, ask if I want to go, I say no thanks I’m just going to have my shake.

Colleague replies “mmm nutritious”

Yes much more nutritious than the giant breakfast cob you’re going to stuff in your mouth.

I like a protein shake after the gym, I still eat 3 good meals each day.

There's a massive difference between your supposed counter example and reality. In the example where you are an overweight colleague eating a bacon butty the other person is more healthy than you so they probably are being more judgmental. in reality the person who made the comment sounds like they are probably less healthy than you. It's like the difference between judging someone for being an alcoholic and judging a person for giving up alcohol. The person giving up alcohol has the moral high ground so has no reason to be offended by other people's comments which are most likely jealous/ embarrassed comments from people who wish they could be that strong.

Stealth Boast Alert!

Cob? You’re definitely a Leicestershirean or at least an east midlander?

I think you could both use a good ol cup of Lyons tea.

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Stealth boast about what exactly?

Drinking something?

OP I don't think you deserve the amount of sniping directed at you here!

I get it, people judging you for your healthy lifestyle is really annoying. It happens to me too and is rather unfair as I wouldn't dream of commenting on somebody's unhealthy habits, but somehow I am fair game because I train regularly and eat healthy food.

I have learnt to ignore it though, it's just easier!

if it’s a juice plus shake, you are totally U.

So, you basically said "No thanks, because I'm going to be all healthy and virtuous"

It’s probably hard to believe, but not everything anyone ever says has a hidden meaning or agenda.

I find it strange that the OP is apparently being judgemental by mentioning her shake but her colleague making a snide comment isn’t.

OP I agree that if the post had been your hypothetical scenario, a lot more would agree with you.

I do think you’re being a bit sensitive.

One of my colleagues said to me the other week that I’m a health freak with an eating disorder, she was joking, not being nasty. I laughed.

Healthier? A shake? Hahahahahahaha

I’m a fellow ‘macro counter’. It’s difficult to hit protein goals without having a shake, yes we DO eat ‘proper’ food as well. I eat 2000 calories a day it’s just best to ignore in these situations. Just smile and let them walk away.

@Whatshallidonowpeople why are you so amused? A shake is a convenient way of consuming protein after a workout. (It definitely beats keeping chicken breasts in your gym bag!)

I can't imagine why on earth you gave this more than a fleeting thought.

I eat junk food. Once upon a time, a colleague made a negative comment about it. I was having a bad day so I didn’t just ignore it. I said ‘didn’t realise I shared an office with the food police’ and carried on with what I was doing. No further comments and a perfectly civil working relationship now. I’m really pleased I was grouchy that morning or I wouldn’t have said it and just let it fester.

If you are secure in your lifestyle choices, then you should smile and let this wash over you without a second thought (while hopefully, if you have a pulse, having a small pang of Mmmmm about their breakfast choices, before remembering that it's not a wise choice in the long term.) However, the fact that you are upset about their comments suggests that you are not secure right now- for whatever reason. You come across as feeling superior to them, but I suspect that masks a deeper thing. Have you examined your relationship with food/ body image/ health? I've tried to rewrite this to be less patronising and I can't say it any other way- however, I have felt like you OP. It was a few years ago and it was a period of my life that I look back on and realise I was addicted to a way of clean eating/ exercise, and actually a bit of self-loathing, that I projected onto people who even implicitly challenged my way of doing things. Apologies if I'm off beam- your responses just remind me of me then.

It depends how much you bore your colleagues about your Healthy Lifestyle. Also, all 'shakes and 'nutrient bars' and other wierd shit that isn't actually food is nowhere near as good for you as its marketing departments want you to believe.

If your workout is at 6am, what time are you taking your shake? I have mine in the car on the way to work, or while still at the gym.

You couldn’t further from the truth Cardinal. I’ve lost over 4 stone and my confidence went from literally staying at home by myself eating junk food to actually now having a life.

I’m not strict with my diet at all. I just think if you’ve been the overweight person then those feelings never really go away.

OP,

Ay up mi duck!

It’s good to see the term ‘breakfast cob’ on MN. There were no need to be mardy about it, though. Just have your shake and gerronwiit.

You sound like a laugh a minute. Seriously, move on.

BonnieF cheers ducky

Cherrysherbet and you sound very original

I don’t think you’re being unreasonable. People can be really funny about food, just look at all the packed lunch threads on here or the pile on when someone mentions veganism - suddenly everyone is a nutritionist. Maybe your colleague is one of those.

they were being friendly but you rejected their company, they were looking to treat themselves but you took the moral high ground, rather than joining in with the group.

She said mmm...nutritious to draw attention to the joyless nature of your choices.

If you're this touchy I'm not surprised your colleagues are fed up of you.

Are you a diet / fitness bore op? Are you?