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.

Absolutely classic MN thread. It has it all. You've taken this in very good humour OP.

Op I’m not sure why you’re getting such a hard time over this. I think sometimes people on here just can’t wait to have a go. It’s quite sad really.

I don’t think your comment was judgy and I can understand why it might get on your nerves if they are constantly making remarks about your shakes. If I were you I’d just try and ignore it, people can be very strange sometimes x

I think you're being a little over sensitive

But I don't think there was anything wrong with saying, 'no thanks, I've got my shake.' It's a breakfast choice. It's no different to saying, 'no thanks, I've got a cereal bar/banana/anything else you can eat at your desk. And, if you had it in your hand at the time, it's just as natural to say what it is - more natural than just a blunt no thanks in fact.

And it's much less weird to have a protein shake for breakfast than it is not to know what a macro is. How can so many people, not only not know that, but seem quite happy and proud not to know?! It's Year 3/4 Science!

She was drinking the shake at the time so of course she'd say I'm having my shake, the same way she'd say I'm having a banana or having my cereal if she was eating them at the time.

I've lost 7 stone and you wouldn't believe the amount of people who won't take no for an answer when i say no to a cake or a bacon butty. Or the classic "should you eating that?" if i have a bit of chocolate, or "I see you've fallen off the wagon".
It gets very tiresome and I'm very sensitive about it. I don't talk about my eating, it's obvious though that I've lost weight so people will ask how I've done it, so I just say by cutting back.

Well done on losing 4 stone OP, try to ignore the negative comments, it's hard i know

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

I’m able to eat absolutely anything I want. I enjoy eating healthy, I like how it makes me feel and I love the taste.

But I still had dominos during my weight loss.

I think what this thread has shown is people don’t like other people bettering themselves or being a certain size. I don’t talk about weight loss or fitness at work but obviously having lost a significant amount of weight people notice and comment.

This thread being the opposite away round with a colleague making a sarcastic comment about my greasy breakfast and if I were overweight then the responses on here would have been different.

I'm not sure I agree with you OP. When I lost a lot of weight, I didn't see it as 'bettering' myself. I don't think I was a worse person when I was heavier. My issues with my weight were mine and I sorted them, it didn't make me 'better'. I was still able to have a sense of humour and ignore what I considered twatty comments.

Well done with the weight loss. OP, I don't think you said anything wrong when you relied about the shake.

However, I do think you are being a bit sensitive about your food/fitness/weight loss, both to your colleague, and on this thread. When we are happy and secure in ourselves, comments like these are water off a ducks back (if we even notice them). Your comments about 'having a life' now and 'bettering yourself' make me wonder if you still have a few issues around food/body image etc. You might want to follow that up with someone at some point, to help you resolve them, and help you feel as good psychologically as you now do physically.

Oh my god ... do not start the therapy responses because I will eye roll for days at those. MN really does blow things so far out of proportion.

And also don’t put words in my mouth. I never said I was better than other people - I said bettering myself. If someone does something that risking their health and they correct that then they are bettering themselves.

Nothing like as rude as the comments I used to get when I was a vegan for 10 years (I'm not any more). Downright bloody rude uncalled for comments beyond belief even though I NEVER once mentioned veganism to anyone. Dickheads should mind there own bloody business like I do.

I get it OP. I have a colleague who has a very odd relationship with food and is constantly either on the Cambridge diet or massively overeating. I get that she has issues but when she then comments on how much or how little everyone else is eating, it's deeply irritating and it's relentless. Don't know why you're getting such a hard time.

She’s getting a hard time because SHE was commenting on what people ate and their weight. Not out loud. But here. But it still speaks to her attitude to others.

I said why her weight and what she was eating was relevant. But you carry on reading only what you want to see sister

It would massively annoy me to, unnecessary and irrelevant comment. I like to have a protein shake at my desk and always try to be discreet to avoid comments like this (usually from people having pure sugar for breakfast, which I never comment on). Not sure where the stigma came from - but of a first world problem but annoying!

*bit of a first world problem. Like autocorrect

There's nothing wrong with bettering yourself or trying to make improvements to your life, it just clearly makes some other people feel shit. That's their problem.

I went to the gym yesterday and got loads of sarky comments!

Why was her weight relevant though? Because she’s like to be thinner and continues stuffing her face instead of following your example? Because she’s fat she’s not allowed to say anything regarding food? If she was thinner than you the comment would have been acceptable?

People are rude. My sister actually left a job she loved because a guy kept commenting on every single thing she ate, whether she had McDonald's or fruit and it got so bad she had to start hiding her food and hiding when she ate. I personally would have done the same back to him!

You sound a little over defensive and like you think you're superior. You also are getting in a tizz about fuck all.

i sympathise actually - i chose to give up caffeine and sugar last year (and also realised i was intolerant to dairy) so now normally drink hot water. the number of people who feel the need to comment on that is UNBELIEVABLE!!! and it can get really wearing to have to discuss/defend your own choices.

so if this is a regular occurrence then i can see why you are "over-reacting". i've hit the point where someone saying "but would you not even like a slice of lemon?" makes me want to snarl...

You sound a tiny bit obsessed with food. I used to be in to fitness in an obsessive way too and I began to think everybody else was a revolting slob

I am healthier in my head now although I know I'm not as physically healthy but it's a price worth paying.

I work with a man now, plate full of seeds for breakfast, chopped up greens next, vitimin tablets, eggs for lunch, green tea. He cycles every where too. He does make the rest of us feel like we should be eating better but we never comment. I feel bad for him though, having been where he is once, I see it as a bit food-disorderish to be so relentlessly healthy. \

No she doesn't bunny not even a little bit

Sorry typo bummy.

And she doesn't sound obsessed either, it's bloody hard work losing weight so good on the OP for not wanting to put it back on

You sound a tiny bit obsessed with food

Explain and use what I’ve said on here to back up this claim

OP do you use this tone with your colleagues? Because seriously it's really annoying.

No, I’m actually really popular at work