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

Oh my god chloe was is the coffee or the sweetners that caused the poonami

I fucking hate this. All everybody talks about is how many fucking sins is in every single thing they eat. And no one ever seems to lose any weight

Watch out the men are all on green smoothies and the 5:2 these days as well.

What I can’t understand is the level of committment and time the slim women put into dieting. I always think I could have got a phd in the time you dedicate to dieting. In fact I did.

Everyone should eat healthy, that I am interested in, not weight loss and diets.

Not an ounce cccameron worked beside the same person for 10 years she has been on every diet going she looks the same (fine to me) as she did 10 years ago.

YANBU. I’m trying to lose a bit of weight post baby but I’m just bloody getting on with it. I’ll talk about it on forums if I need to but otherwise work is not the place to drone on about food and weight loss.

Yanbu.
I mainly work in a team of men and a few women it is never discussed.
When I was recovering from an ED in my early twenties, I worked with ten women, I found it very difficult to listen to, plus the exclusion of slim people, I mean they couldn't join in without getting a catty comment.

I must be in the minority. Work in a team of mostly women and in all the years we've worked together, none of us have talked about diets. Thank goodness. Couldn't think of anything more dull.

It doesn't bother me too much at work but I find it really, really rude if we go out for a meal, it puts me off going out with work.

Just imagine what women could achieve if they weren't conditioned to think their value was tied up in their weight.

I'm paraphrasing, but I always think it when women get sucked in to weight chat

@Mrsjayy

The meal replacement caused me to become bunged up. So I took some laxatives and went to bed.

Woke up really tired, so had my usual black coffee with sweeteners. Then I made coffee 2 with more sweeteners.

At which point presumably the laxatives kicked in as well as the laxative effect of the coffee and sweeteners

I still have caffeine but I avoid sweeteners and haven't had an issue since. Although the sugar has made me gain weight 🤷🏻‍♀️

I always think I could have got a phd in the time you dedicate to dieting. In fact I did.

@EvaHarknessRose

Sorry bold fail!

Just imagine what women could achieve if they weren't conditioned to think their value was tied up in their weight

Or their appearance generally.

I mostly work with men so it's hardly ever a topic of conversation.

When we do have women in there's always some discussion about food. and if we have a meeting buffet there's always a woman 'being good' by not having anything.

My male colleague loves to talk about his latest diet gum regime etc. I find it quite refreshing. When I was 25 and size 6 I would constantly have my food monitored by my 40 something slightly overweight female boss. She called me selfish for having a muffin for breakfast.

Plenty of men in my office who like to be "health police" and comment on other people's food too. I wonder if it's partly because office life is so boring. I actually think it's rude to comment on other people's food habits, unless you're just saying something along the lines of "that looks nice". Virtue signalling about food and diets is one of my pet hates.

This sort of chat used to be really bad in my old workplace. So many women holding court at lunchtime about the virtues of slimming world/gluten free (not for any medical reason) doing calorie counting on their fitbits. They would occasionally cast a disparaging eye over my ordinary lunch and count the calories for me. I don’t own scales at home and tend to get more careful about what I eat if my jeans and trousers feel a bit tight.

In order of the most annoying 3 comments

1. oh what did you get for lunch (peering over shoulder). It’s as rude as reading over someone’s shoulder and makes me want to throat punch them

2. The inane bargaining with themselves that they can eat the biscuit if they don’t eat x for lunch. Then they eat x for lunch anyway and bargain with their dinner. Next Monday it’s another diet

3. How do you eat like that and stay slim?! Cue colleagues discussing my body size and the food I eat, beyond rude so again Fuck the fuck off.

I just adopted a “I don’t talk about diets” line now and repeat ad nauseum

I had to listen to a ten minute diatribe from a DOCTOR of all people about how she had cut out dairy, high fructose fruits, carbs, refined sugars and gluten the other day. A doctor ffs

My SIL is always on diets that mean she won’t allow us to eat in certain restaurants as the food options aren’t compatible with her diet! She loses loads of weights, puts it all over social media with lots of huge congrats/ you look amazing responses and then the diet fails, she stuffs her face and puts on loads of weight and the whole process starts all over again! Two decades of this have made me lose interest in her despite her possibly being one of the loveliest human beings alive!

YANBU. There’s a woman at my work who paces in circles around our desks and communal kitchen to get her daily step count up to 10,000. It makes me dizzy watching her.

I had something similar to this, and combined with a bad sports injury/a lot of pain I think it was partly what caused me to relapse with anorexia.

At the time I was training 5-6 times a week, involved in competitive sport, and I ate about 2500 calories a day - most of them in work as I'd get there at 8am and be ravenous from the training from the evening before. I was really healthy in the true sense of the word. And happy.

I shared an office with a lady who CONSTANTLY made comments about food and made me feel bad about eating - it got to the point she would snigger and I'd hear her making these silly little laughing noises when I went to the cafe and brought food back up and would open it. It was utterly nasty. She told me she had nothing for lunch and baked fish with tomatoes for her evening meal and nothing else so I don't know if it was jealously, but I do know it was none of her business and it started to affect me a lot and make me feel self conscious about food which I hadn't felt for over a decade. It got to the point I anticipated it each time. Or I'd be starting to eat a banana and a flapjack and I'd hear the stupid noises she would make and look across and she'd be pulling faces and laughing.

They shouldn't be commenting on what you eat, your body, or really anything about you. It's rude. It can also have serious consequences. Honestly, I'd be direct and have it out with them. I wish I had. I literally wish I'd asked her to stop making comments as it was constant, each day and making me uncomfortable. It's utterly horrible to start to feel like you can't have food you need when you feel hungry. Or to feel like you're doing something wrong. If it's all day every day you're immersed in it. They're fine to talk about themselves (even though it's boring) but commenting on you isn't on. I hope you do something about it. I wish I had.

It sounds to me like a group of people who've found a common interest, and as you don't share it you find their talk boring.

You're not wrong, but nor are they really. Apart from the woman who shat herself, that really is tmi and I would have to have had a word!

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