...to be sick to the back teeth of diet chat?

[ThistleAmore]

I work in an office which is slightly removed from the main body, and most of my colleagues are women.

There is a LOT of chat about diets (please note - diets, not diet: I'd happily talk about food all day long), and quite frankly, I'm going to set myself on fire if I have to sit through one more dissection of 'syns' or why rice is a free food (I can't see how, personally).

I play a very physical, contact sport at a decent level and train hard, so I eat a lot to maintain my weight and physicality (being able to play well is more important to me than what I look like in a bikini), and this doesn't go unmentioned. God forbid I should feel happy in my strong, fit body than can run and smash for an hour and a half, it would appear.

And yes, I do have noise-cancelling headphones, thank heavens, but sometimes I have to take them off.

Is there anything more boring than listening to somebody talk about their diet? Apart from maybe their dreams?

Meh there’s so many boring topics of conversation in the office. Anything is boring if you have no interest. The list currently pissing. Me off is love island, running, chances for next season in football. Getting through the World Cup was painful. The mind numbing boringness of football and certain other sports (cricket and golf I’m looking at you) should be banned in the office. FWIW I find WW/sw way of dieting not good for me but it’s an interest for some people. I’d much rather listen to this than bloody football but I mainly work with men so little chance of this!

Goldenblue- I think your post demonstrates exactly what the OP is talking about!

How much time did it take for you to write all that down? Nobody gives a shit!! It's boring nonsense, especially if you're not on a diet! Like the OP.

One of my (otherwise totally lovely and interesting) friends has an instagram account where she posts about the gym and photos of her (quite standard tbh) meals. She is not particularly thin either. I just don't get the point! It makes me want to post photos of cakes

Incredibly dull. Dieting should be private or between select like-minded friends. The constant drivel about dieting is like pollution. Diet or don't but just shut up about it! And yes to the asking people 'how the diet's going'. It just encourages drivel and is such a loaded question.

Yes I used to work in an environment like this and it’s pretty wearing.

I realised it was designed to make you eat and eat and eat (free food) so when you stop following it you're still eating loads and of course gain the weight again so back you go

Yes I think this is exactly right. Eating 3 meals and then “reaching for” food in between isn’t going to work long term. Something like the 5:2 or 16:8 does work, but doesn’t spin much money and also isn’t attractive to people as it includes periods of not eating.

That said, @goldenblue - we’ll done on your weight loss, that’s really fantastic.

Well done! Not we’ll done (need more coffee!)

I’m currently doing SW and don’t talk about it unless it’s at group or with my family who are also doing SW
Most people didn’t notice until I’d lost a couple of stone
I actually get embarrassed when people comment on my weight
I went out for a meal with friends the other night and got ‘OMG you’re losing so much weight’
Well that’s sort of my aim so what do you say!
They then critiqued all my food choices
I don’t eat out v often so wasn’t restricting myself at all steak, chips, blue cheese sauce, starter and dessert
I just wish people would shut up about diets myself even though I’m on one
Lost nearly 5 stone this time but that’s nearly 7 in total as I lost 2 stone due to changing my eating habits to control my IBS before I joined SW

@twofloorsup

I left the slimming world cult about 3 years ago

That's an interesting choice of words: having been privy to (A LOT) of this chat, some the language they use does sound a bit...culty.

@ThistleAmore that's genuinely what it felt like after a while.
I was properly obsessed and got on the social team and everything.
It wasn't til I chatted with a member who was 26 stone , had been going ten years and was losing and gaining the same half a stone that I started to question the whole thing.

I too am sick of halfwits raving about their latest fad diet of three lentils and half a cabbage leaf per day. As if any other vast are on earth cares. Ugh, just get a grip, eat healthily and exercise, FFS.

*bastard, not vast are. Bloody autocorrect.