Pissed off with colleagues comment about my food?

[LuxeLisbon]

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.

‘Helps me hit my macros’

I know it's been clarified, but my first mental image was of the colleague snarfing some corn on the cob and wondering what sort of canteen offers that for breakfast?!

Stick to 'thank, but I've already eaten' and just pull her up on it if she keeps commenting on what you eat.

So- overweight (according to you) colleague invites you for breakfast and doesn’t think much when you pull out shake. And then leaves for breakfast. Interaction takes less time than the post made.......

So your overweight colleague stuffs unhealthy food into her mouth when she should be following your marvelous example but you feel judged. You have my sympathies.

Colleague makes a little joke. You massively over-react to it on here, judge her for being overweight (don’t deny it, you wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise), you make snidey comments on here to anyone who dares to slightly disagree, you use a pretentious word like “macros”, you sound like an absolute delight / gym bore. I’m amazed she asked you to breakfast in the first place.

You need to ignore such comments and grew a pair, if so easily upset

MN is weird at times. OP I think you’re being flamed for no reason.

I have also said no thanks having a shake. There was no meaning just a fact.

Also, often if you say no thanks you get asked why, if you are sure.

Then you get told how bad shakes and smoothies are for you.

People are saying how the op’s colleague was being friendly, how the reverse is different. The reverse isn’t different, and the op wasn’t rude. The op isn’t obliged to go eat breakfast just because invited.

The colleague that made comment on nutritional values was the rude one.

Yes some people are exercise bores, bike bores, game of thrones bores etc. If I person likes something you’re not into it might seem boring.

All these 'shakes' and energy drinks and 'power bowls' are generally unhealthy crap, though. And, while I wouldn't necessarily comment on someone else's food choices, however fucking witless, I'd certainly think the person consuming that sort of muck was an idiot. And if they were the type who also bored on about just how much exercise they did, and felt free to comment on what other people were eating, then I probably would take the piss.

YABU and oversensitive. If someone said that to me, I’d just laugh along with them.

It would appear you have a chip on your shoulder about not being able to eat the food you want.

You're just the odd one out where you work I think OP. You should move to California (where I live), we all drink protein shakes after a training session and bring up macros and there will be an instant debate amongst my coworkers about prime protein/fat/carb sources

I do think this is a bit generational though, I have many more mature coworkers who are active/hit the gym/play sports but wouldn't know what a macro (or micro) nutrient was if it hit them in the face!

And for the record, a protein shake doesn't have to be unhealthy at all. I personally like organic pea protein powder mixed with pea milk or hemp milk and a teaspoon of high grade cocoa powder, not unhealthy at all. I'm vegetarian and I lift weights so I need an extra source of protein that is easy and quick to make.

OP, as soon as you get yourself a sense of humour and the ability to not take yourself so seriously, all will be well.

It's irritating when people comment on your food choices. I get it!

I don’t know why the op is getting a flaming. She was asked if she wanted to go for breakfast and she said no thanks as she already had something, there was no need for her colleagues to comment. Sometimes if you have to say no to something like that you need to say why or people will think you are being ‘off’ with them or something.

Can I ask how you time your breakfast and a shake? I never know quite how to fit food around 6am gym.

Also, "mmmm " is a Homer Simpson quote that I use quite a lot , might well have said that as a throwaway myself without really thinking

Likeacow
but she was also commenting on their food choices. Had she just said to them, thanks for the offer but not today, all good. But by saying, no I am going to have my shake the subtext is that while you stuff your face with that ‘cob’ I am going to sit here all virtuous with my lovely healthy post work out protein shake.

I think the colleagues comment was completely deserved, OP has taken officence at something fairly lighthearted, have you considered in a parallel universe the face stuffing cob lady is the OP of a thread called ‘judgy colleague made snippy remark about my weekly breakfast cob treat’

OP, I agree it is annoying when people make sarcastic comments about what you're eating.

I too had a picture of corn on the cob on my head. 😀

In fairness pretty much every protein shake or diet shake tastes like shit.

You could just google it.

You could just not be rude. The way your coming across here is actally telling every one why your collugues are getting snippy at you THEIR TALKING TO YOU THE WAY YOU TALK TO THEM.

I never used to eat at work, my collugues would every day stop and ask if i wanted them to fetch me any lunch, my reply was a polite no thank you, they just went oh ok well i'm going to fetch mine and did exactly that.

Your coming across as if your just parrotting whats on the shake container and you dont actually know how it helps you reach your macros or why you need too.

I was going to say maybe they thought it was one of these diet replacement shakes not a proetin shake.

But if OP said no thsnks, I had a cob earlier that would be fine I assume? People read too much into things when someone makes a simple comment.

And if the other person posted about a reverse situation she would probably get loads of sympathy

Do people really not know what macronutrients are?

Not a scooby. This thread has been a revelation.

Rudi44

I'm like a crow not a cow

Yeah cool, whatever. I just get people finding food comments annoying. That's all.

You’re a bit touchy about these subjects, food, fitness, weight. Maybe you feel better than your colleagues for having lost weight recently? That you’re proud that you’re actually doing it instead of your colleague complaining about it? You should feel proud, but don’t get annoyed at people for not making the same choice. Just let it go and give an answer that shows you don’t care about her opinion, e.g. ‘nutritious? It sure is!’

''Eat wtf you want, ignore all others. It may not be healthy but everyone must die sometime irrespective of eating habits''

yea teach that ethos to your kids and they might spend the last 20 years of their life as stroke victims stuck with disabilities or be battling diabetes with their limbs getting amputated or being laughed at cos they are grossly overweight...

You must watch what you eat, indulging and treats are fine.

We will get to the point where we aren't allowed to talk to eachother at work unless it's directly work related one day. The art of conversation will be completely lost in case someone takes offence at the slightest thing.

I said earlier in the thread that op is being over sensitive and I stand by that . I seem to recall being called a protien Shake wanker by my colleagues in the past 😂 But we generally take the piss a lot

However I think people are being a bit unfair on here I don't think saying "no thanks I have my shake" is op being judgey . It's just a fact and the reason why she didn't want to go buy breakfast .