Sick sick sick sick SICk of fucking diet talk at work

[PrinceArchie]

All bloody day

What they had for breakfast
What they’re gonna have for lunch
What they want for dinner

The inspecting of food at lunchtime and comments thereof

The 5:2 diet, the 800 cal diet, the SW and WW bores, the bloody type diet, the “I can only eat every second Friday of the month” diet.

A woman on the Cambridge diet SHAT herself the other day. Not at work, at home, but we heard all about it.

AIBU to tell them all to fuck the fuck off talking about their diets at work. It’s unprofessional, they have no idea if others in the office have had eating disorders, it’s fucking boring and I don’t want to have to answer “oooo what ya having today then” every time I nip to the fucking canteen.

The day men start discussing shitting themselves because of some fad diet is the day I’ll say go ahead ladies

Start taking in LOADS of homemade cakes.

YANBU

You don’t need to listen to them taking an interest in their own health.

Shitting yourself because you’ve drunk nothing but flavoured water for days is not looking after your health

Ugh that would drive me mad. I used to work with a woman who dieted constantly and always commented on the calorie count of things people were eating. Once I bought a kit Kat chunky and she looked at me in horror and said ‘wow!! It’s not even Friday yet!!’

She eventually shut up when after a particular robust run down of how fatty our lunches were one of our colleagues shot back with ‘you know you can’t catch calories by looking at food right?’ and everyone laughed. Don’t mind if you’re on a diet just don’t want to hear about it 24/7, and certainly don’t want you to bring my lunch into it!

Not unreasonable at all. Fucking tedious.

YA definitely NBU. Some days I think if I have to listen to my colleague arguing out loud with herself about whether she's going to have another biscuit I think I'll scream 'We all know you're going to eat the fucking biscuit, Liz, and you're in good shape anyway, so PLEASE JUST SHUT IT!'

I stopped going to a baby group because of the same issue. All they could talk about was food and sourcing it and cooking it along with exercise. Dull, dull, dull

My SIL and I are dieting/trying to lose a bit of weight. But it's ok for us to talk about it because BIL is also on a diet (according to your rules).

Before I gained weight, I found people talking about diets tiresome. But they are pretty consuming and can be soul destroying so I imagine having people to talk to it about helps.

It's a bit rude to go on about it just because it's something your not interested in.

God yanbu. One woman in work drinks cider vinegar with pink salt in it 🤷‍♀️. It absolutely stinks the shared food cupboard and she pulls a face every time she takes a sip, but it's to replace her lost electrolytes apparently. As though she walks round losing them from her arse or something.

We are told every day that she has been the gym at 5.30am, fucking keto this that and the other. It's sooooooo bloody boring.

I am currently on a diet, but I certainly would not fucking bore my colleagues with such shit chat.

I am completely with you.People get obsessional about diets, I think the language used like 'sins' does not create a healthy relationship with food.
People get fixated and don't want to speak about anything else.
Its dull and irritating and the dieters often become very judgey to anyone that eats something different to them.

Wherever I've worked as a contractor, all the women talk food all day long. Not just diets, just all food, what they'll have for lunch, what they'll make for dinner. I found it odd after a while. There's so much other stuff to talk about. The men never did, which is why I found my male work colleagues more interesting: I love a let's put the world to rights or did you see Killing Eve/Hannibal chat.

I feel your pain, I am surrounded by slimming world devotees that constantly bang on about sins, free foods and weigh ins, it is both distracting and mind numbing. Anything eaten by anyone is commented on.

I've had people at my work doing a baby food diet. Where they eat baby foot for breakfast and lunch and then a normal meal for dinner.

Drives me bonkers too. A little chat about it maybe, but not hours on end or about every meal.
Bah humbug.
I feel your pain OP

A few years ago I started a new job and nearly quit less than a week later because all the women in the office were on and obsessed with and constantly talking about diets. Drove me fucking crazy. I nearly came to blows with their ringleader as they (and this is no word of exaggeration) had a weekly office weigh in where everyone lined up to be weighed and have it noted in a notebook, all under the ringleaders beady eye. They were up in arms when I categorically refused to have anything to do with it.

diet bore guardian

Yanbu.

No one wants to hear people waffle on about dieting. There’s is more to life than dieting - and I say that as someone who is on a diet!

Oh god this happens in a team that sits near me at work. One woman bangs on and on and on about her slimming world and her syns and where she went for dinner at the weekend and what she ate and how many biscuits she's having because of what she had for dinner last night etc etc

Another woman in the team has the driest, wickedest sense of humour and takes her apart but sadly dietzilla is too dense to get it half the time.

I sit as far away as possible to avoid having to listen. While i eat my snacks 😋

I was actually thinking about applying for other jobs partly to get way from this diet chat/food scrutiny so am not pleased to see that it is so common! I could end up with it even worse.

It's all slimming world at my work. Honestly, it's all they talk about - syns this and speed this and free the other. It's such a bore. Showing each other photos of horrible looking dinners on their phones and discussing the recipes to the nth degree.

And I hate to say it but every last one of them is still overweight, despite being on SW for eons, so I can't say it even seems to be working for any them.

I find it annoying. I am on a restricted diet anyway due to a medical problem and it is also so boring. It is annoying than people also go on about what they choose to eat, when others maybe don't have the choice. They don't realise how lucky they are!

Yadnbu. It s so boring! I used to have a crap relationship with food but am trying to just think of it as fuel along with a few treats.
I was having a coffee and a twix bar last week on tea break and got told how many calories were in it. 2 overweight women asked me if i knew how bad for me it was with it being the XTra version?
I m a size 12. I m afraid i got a bit grumpy and replied yes i do, i can read what it says on the wrapper!

Yanbu at all it is bloody tedious we also have a runner where i work and apparently food is just fuel