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, and as boring as those who talk non-stop about their children/hobby/exercise/Masterchef.

I think the added pain is the inspection of your food when you're not part of the Kool-Aid drinking loons' hive.

I hear you.

The same woman at my work appears every time I get my lunch out. She will say ooo you are having a naughty day but more often will say I never eat carbs ever and shakes her head at my food. I normally take leftovers from dinner.

Said woman is larger than me (I am a 14 so not small)

I have so far resisted the urge to smack her one

Urgh being naughty eating dirty food gets right on my wick it is just food!

I’ve been known to say “there is nothing as boring as someone else’s diet” when regaled with how many points the dieter had at lunch.

Working in an office of ladies I notice that they always look at what everyone eats and comment on it. There's a weigh in once a week and a book is kept with all the details. I don't participate but always notice that they all eat biscuits and eat crappy food like microwaved diet dishes. They'll them for lunch but then have 3 or 4 biscuits at tea. It's mind numbing to put it mildly.

This drives me mad too. I exercise a lot (for fun/sport, not to lose weight) I also don't eat big portions and I'm naturally petite (translation -shortarse, no boobs)
My current office isn't too bad but I can still quote the calorie content of certain snacks, the red/green days and the point/syns score of many foods despite never intentionally learning about these diets. I'm all for people trying to be healthy, that's fine. But being surrounded by it made me really paranoid about my food intake, despite me needing to eat a fair amount more than the people around me (I was a lot younger as well as more active). The thing I did that most horrified people seemed to be having a hot meal for lunch - usually leftovers from the night before. Without fail I'd get comments along the line of 'that's not a lunch that's a dinner' 'id have to have a sleep after that' 'are you really going to eat a cooked meal again tonight?'
The lack of logic was bizarre, there seemed to be the assumption that because we shared the same office space for 8 hours that our food intake should be the same and any disparity was unfair. Except I didn't eat big portions, didn't eat to excess in the evenings, didn't drive to work. Also wasn't a big snacker. And of course all this came with passive aggressive comments about how I was 'lucky' not to be overweight. It gave me a real complex about food and made me really shy about eating at work.

I used to live with 5 girls. We were all constantly competing to be the thinnest and on various diets etc. Between us we did every so gle diet fad imaginable and looking back most of our time was spent either talking about food or stuffing our faces with chocolate and pizza. Not surprising I developed an eating disorder in that house. All fine now but this seems to be the way when groups of women get together. Very irritating