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

Yanbu. It is really boring but nowhere near as boring as going on about running all the time.

The was a couple of women discussing the calorie content of different flavor mugshots the other day while the rest of us sat eating a chippy.

Try working in a primary school, where there are precisely two male employees amongst a staff of 29. It’s CONSTANT.

It’s hilarious when cakes/cookies/biscuits appear in the staffroom as gifts. As a teacher I don’t often get chance to go up at breaktime, but when I do and I hear the TAs lusting after them I just think eat the bloody cake, you burn a gazillion calories a day running round after the children like blue arsed flies anyway 🤦🏽‍♀️

Yanbu, OP. It is tedious beyond belief.

Your points (1) and (3) - I take no prisoners with my responses, blunt and to the point. People don't like but tough, don't dish it out if you can't take it. They never comment again.

They are either eating or talking about eating, no wonder they have a weight problem.

I had a woman in my old office who announced every week she was 'off to fat club'. She would come back with a massive Costa coffee and never lost any weight. No idea how she got away with it.

They've all joined WeightWatchers in my office.

It's like AA or a cult.

We work weird shifts, so they follow particular leaders and can tell each other why they can't make Wednesday morning, but they can make Thursday evening this week, next week it's Tuesday afternoon, but they could make Wednesday morning the week after or Thursday evening.

What's for dinner, what sides they're having, how loose their clothing is.

It's non-stop.

Even the search history on the computer has "keto diet", "5:2 diet" and "Weightwatchers recipes" in between "handbags" "black clutch" and "eBay".

I home bake things and bring them into work. First time I did it at my new job, I hadn’t appreciated there were some women in the office who constantly obsess over food until they refused to have anything sweet. EVER. One of them in particular ALWAYS brings her stupid salads into meetings scheduled between the hours of 1200 and 1400 and proceeds to crunch noisily through them. She’s not just a food bore though: just a general bore and seems incompetent at her job to boot.

Not a good look.

The more they talk about it the less weight they lose imo. I listen to some of the chat and know that after a month of sins and points, and calorie counting I will be seeing them with a family sized pack of Doritos. There are two who are always banging on for a few months, but I heard them planning a visit to Cadbury's World so I am guessing their latest health kick has ended. And they are still overweight.

I hate the fact that sometimes talking about food or dieting is the only conversation some women have.

The dieter in my office puts chocolate bars on everyone's desks when she starts the merry go round of her latest failed diet, (small office) which I think is fantastic! For me, that is! I don't care to delve too deep into her psyche about why she does that!
We have Friday afternoon cake, and the bargaining to allow herself a cake starts on a Monday.
I don't think she's lost a pound - not being mean - and she's obviously miserable on all these mad diets. I've offered to go running/cycling/swimming with her, as she often says 'I don't know how you stay in shape' and that's how. I know if I ate what I wanted all the time, and didn't exercise, I'd be overweight.

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Thats makes me so sad. I know women like his. Are we really, on our death beds, going to say if only i had lost that extra stone. More likely we will say if only i just accepted myself and enjoyed what I had instead of forever wishing i had something more (i.e. beauty/a slim figure etc.)

I am determined to do everything i can to bring my daughters up to be happy with themselves. I wish i knew how to guarantee that!

YANBU, they need to get a life.

Thankfully i don't work in the kind of industry where women act like this. We work in a Mathematical industry and I am told our brains just aren't wired like that ( I dispute the science of this )I work with loads of women and not one is on a diet or obsessed with their weight despite being all shapes and sizes ( of course they might be dieting but they dont talk about it)

So maybe the answer is to get them interested in science and maths because none of us would judge (Or even really notice) if a woman was fat or wore shit clothes or forgot to wax her top lip

There are other reasons why getting involved with STEM subjects is great but I think i may have found a new one which is as appealling to women like me.

YANBU at all!
I'm quite proud of the fact that my colleagues say, 'shh, we're not allowed to talk about diets in front of Etino!'

YADNBU

absolute fucking tedium

I have been on tens of diets in my life. I almost never discuss them.at all. I like it even less if anyone mentions I have lost weight. This has not happened for many years as I have up dieting many years ago ( hence why I am now mobidly obese) but on the 4-5 diets in the past where I lost 5-6 stone each time, people would of course eventually notice. They always asked how I did it and I always said ' I ate less' and left it at that. This was not true as many of my diets involved being obsessive about what I ate ( weight watchers, Cambridge diet and slimming world all resulted in. Very big losses each time) but I had enough thinking about it and obsessing at home. I certainly did not want to talk about it at work. Also as each diet came and went, I knew there was a big chance I'd put the weight back on anyway so no point in talking about it really.

I loathe diet talk now. Not only is it boring but I cant stand the ' hope' . It is almost always fruitless.

The dieter in my office puts chocolate bars on everyone's desks when she starts the merry go round of her latest failed diet

I had a nightmare narcissist for a boss and she was continuously yo-yo dieting.

She would also bake cakes so loaded with grease, they felt slimy, soaked the napkins with fat and utterly tasteless.

She would insist everyone had a big slice while standing there smirking at us.

Women’s chat in an office environment is often very dull. Diets, kids, tv. I find men more interesting generally.

I used to work with someone who used to get cross when people talked (to each other, not her) about their diet, but she was just as boring about her bloody exercise regime.

My work is like this. Drives me insane.

YANBU. However I used to be one of those. All I used to go on about was getting to a size 10. God I was such an up tight boring bastard.I'll hold my hands up. I wouldnt have admitted or seen it at the time. Well bores don't know they're bores, do they.
However one day. Something just switched it me and I said.
'I'm not letting the scales rule my life", anymore, and life become a lot easier and fun. Love me for what I am or don't love me at all.

I just moved offices and fucking hell I feel your pain OP - here it is a CONSTANT. I'd quite like to get on with eating the contents of my snack drawer without judgement. Any time i offer anyone biscuits when I'm making tea they look at me as though I'm an alien

I am currently on a diet for the second time in my life.
However I only mention it when asked about my weight loss as others notice.I am following a plan for the discipline. but really adapting my existing diet .
I cannot do SW as I have a teen daughter and think calling food syns is not the way to go.She is still at the can eat a horse but not put on weight stage.
I might comment on so done else's lunch if it looked nice or I was curious about the recipe. In

It drove me potty when I worked in an office. When birthday cakes came around you'd get cries of 'I'm trying to be good' Good? Just eat the fucking eclair Sharon, the eclair isn't the fucking problem. Its the packet of hobnobs you eat daily that makes you fat. I'm on a 'diet' thanks to the menopause AND the 20 bars of chocolate I ate weekly. I still eat chocolate but only a small bar each day. I'm in uni now and if I'm eating anything sugary or fatty I get 'oh how can you eat that and stay so slim?' Because its just a bar of fucking chocolate not the humongous amount I used to eat. I gained a stone in 12 weeks but because I'm tall you couldn't see it.

Yanbu diet talk is one on room 101s. Work “chit chat” where I am varies between brexit, diet talk and trump in rotation 😫😫

I am amazed she shat herself

Most people eating dust sachets end up with severe constipation