About colleague and their ridiculous diet

[lastqueenofscotland]

I don’t usually get involved with what other people eat but the lady I sit next to at work is doing a VLCD. Fair play to her I’d not have lasted 5 minutes. HOWEVER, she now just helps herself to other people’s food ad lib. I rarely snack at work but bought a bag of crisps yesterday and while I was on the phone she kept leaning over and helping herself to them when I got off the phone and said “do you mind” her response was “I wish I could eat crisps and stay skinny.”
I got to eat hardly any of my fucking crisps!!!!
She’s done it to a lot of colleagues, will just walk past and pick up whatever they’ve got and break off a bit, and most strangely when I was getting my lunch ready and had a bowl on the side and was washing some cutlery came and swiped the most enormous tablespoon full of it.

Aibu to say if you’re that fucking hungry on your ridiculous diet just get something else to fucking eat.
Queeny doesn’t share food.

The whole point of those diets is that you have to only have the shakes to stave off hunger. Apparently.

Totally misses point of thread.

Next time she does it, I’d say “it’s polite to ask before helping yourself to my food, I only bring enough for me so please don’t assume you can take what you like”. I’d also make sure I limited her access to what I was eating, so if she put her hand in my bag of crisps, I’d swiftly move them out of her reach etc.

whatever you do - don't refer to her diet because she'll use that as an opening to talk about 'how difficult it is' and so on and just generally avoid the actual issue - which is that she is bloody rude just taking food that isn't hers.

"So this diet of yours works by only eating other people's food?"

Perhaps eat away from the office. Bag food up or put a lid on it so she can't help her self. If she says, you don't mind do you?!" Just say, "not today, I'm too hungry to share."

Wtaf?
Dont tell her you only have enough for you,tell her TO STOP STEALING MY FOOD !

Calories still count if they come from someone else’s food!

I think you need to continue being firm with her and explain you only bring enough food for yourself so you can’t share

'Do you mind?'
'Yes, I do'
MinistryofTragic V funny. Not free calories because you haven't paid for them

There is a school of thought that calories off someone else’s plate don’t count because.
She’s clearly subscribing to that.

Her diet won’t work and she will blame you, OP.

i have real issues with people touching my food, i dont share, it, i dont share eating utensils, i dont even share with my children, never have
if she had touched my food i would have had to throw it away, and go hungry... so i would have told her firmly not to touch my food and told her how much she owed me to replace my lunch now that she has touched it

Cheeky fucker. I'd have slammed my hand down hard on top of hers the minute she began putting it into the crisp packet.

Tell her straight. Some of the suggested responses on here are good.

I am angry just reading that! I would have shout, Joey style “Shetland doesn’t share food!!!”

I’d probably ask her if she’s doing the ‘see food’ diet

I’ve said something jokingly a few times but I think if it happens again I’ll probably snap

Why don’t you have a backbone?

Most normal people, faced with this unbelievable behaviour would call it out. Certainly, in an office full of people this wouldn’t go unchallenged.

Did she really wail and bemoan the fact that she didnt lose any weight last week? When it happens again (and I am sure it will) I would use that as an opener and be deadly straight with her.
“Oh no, I haven’t lost any weight! Why? Why? Why? I am trying SO hard!”
“Well, Jane, are you really surprised? You may only be eating 500 calories per day through your diet but you are adding in another 800 easily by what you are stealing from me and our other colleagues!”

You can make your tone sympathetic or cross as the mood takes you!

Most normal people, faced with this unbelievable behaviour would call it out. Certainly, in an office full of people this wouldn’t go unchallenged.

Agreed. She's stealing from you and other members of staff, and all that's been said is a few jokey comments. I'm baffled. Why aren't you all telling her straight that she's stealing, and if it continues you'll be talking to her manager.

Next time she tries to grab some crisps or whatever just quickly move them and say “ these won’t help your diet @ and put them away or out of her reach.

YANBU.

I would probably say I don't share food. So rude!

I also don't understand why the comnents have been jokey.

I'm on a VLCD and I've had to have teflon willpower when in my DD's house babysitting. It's full of sweets etc. But you're wasting your money and going without for nothing, otherwise.

The jokes have got to stop and if it carries on it needs taking to your Manager.

This is the perfect occasion for the chippy slap.

"Next time she tries to grab some crisps or whatever just quickly move them and say “ these won’t help your diet "

Don't bring her diet into it. If a few of you pull her up in the same way, she'll play the victim.

The issue is that you don't take other people's food.

My mother used to do this
She’d either stare longingly at you while you where eating or just snatch it out of your hand

Thankfully no contact now but I wish I’d stabbed her with my fork

It’s gross

This is bizarre behaviour, even without the diet angle, like she’s forgotten that stealing is bad and handling other people’s food without being invited is gross.

I’d probably just try to keep food out of her reach (as ridiculous as it is to treat a colleague like a toddler). If she did come close to it again, I’d also be tempted to give an American cop-style “BACK AWAY FROM MY FOOD!”, but that’s my stupid humour in the face of strange situations.

Who does that?!