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.

Tell clatty cow to keep her greedy mitts to herself.
Seriously; spooning your lunch out for herself is rank.🤢

So you told her not to with your lunch and it worked, why the hell have you not done it with everything else?

"Stop eating my food, any of it, all of it, I am sick of your hand appearing when I have food. This is the last time I say it. It's incredibly rude"

Like it's that simple

Mousetrap in the crisp packet is the only way to address this. If she complains about having injured fingers, just explain that you're a harmless eccentric and setting mousetraps in food packets is one of your special interests.

A condom filled with glue might also be a fun plant.

Fake cough all over your desk and all your food.

Just tell her it's your food, not hers. If that doesn't work say "you'll get fat" every time she reaches for it. Yes, I know that's mean and bitchy, I know it's fat shaming. But I have the same attitude to this as Joey. You nick my food, you pay the consequences.

I used to work in an open plan office and as soon as I opened a packet of crisps the same woman would shoot over to my desk, start talking and then help herself to my crisps. Every single time.

Well I think it's obvious to us all why she's overweight in the first place. Perhaps you could share this gem with her. If she weren't snaffling everyone else's food then perhaps she wouldn't need to be on a diet in the first place.

I would start with taking her aside and having a short but clear word, then get louder and ruder if she continued.

Love this from Catzpyjamas

"Is this diet of yours to lose weight or save money? "

What do your colleagues have to say about it? What do they say to her?

I clearly have not worked in an office for a long time (work from home) - If she did that to me she would have had a hand slap first time, and a 'dont be so f*cking rude' second time.

As someone who has never worked in an office, the thought of all this crunching and EATING in the workplace is grossing me out.

Do people really eat crisps at their desks?? Why aren't there designated rooms for eating? Aren't the keyboards absolutely disgusting?

Do people really eat crisps at their desks??

Yes.

Why aren't there designated rooms for eating?

Because some employers are shit. Some do give designated space, others don't. Then they wonder why there isn't a clear separation between work and breaks.

Aren't the keyboards absolutely disgusting?

Yes.

I had a colleague like this. Groups of us would often eat lunch together at local restaurants/cafes and she would always sit next to me and offer me a bit of her dish knowing I would always say no thanks (because I'm vegetarian and I never want to sample other people's food anyway). However, she would decide that because she offered to me (knowing full well I would decline) that she now had permission to take a heaping serve of my dish. She did this to others as well not just me.

It would happen in the blink of an eye and it infuriated me but I'd always remind myself that there's a reason that I'm slim and a reason that she was overweight and goodness knows I'm grateful that I wasn't like her, unable to control herself around food to the point where she would compulsively steal other people's food.

Tel her that stolen food has twice as many calories

Why all the drama? Just tell her to STOP EATING YOUR FOOD.

she wont be able to sustain it(already prven)like most low calories or actually ny diet so she will soon stop.
say to her "sorry i have to keep to a very strict normal diet so need to keep to my exact calories to liv and be happy so you cant have any."
or start knicking off her measly portions!

There's only one way I could deal with this and I would have to leaving the hottest crisps I could find in a bowl on the table or in the usual crisp flavored packet! Would have to linger close by to see the reaction.

She can't complain she shouldn't be eating them! and if she does it's the perfect time to say well they are for me and I had no intention of sharing! If they were that bad she surely wouldn't risk trying anything you have again

My mum came around and helped herself to my lunch, even though there were loads of others available for her, she didn't know it had wasabi on it, it was labeled for us, not her! She hasn't been allowed to forget the time she stole my lunch & had wasabi! because of her reaction, it was funny but not funny. Lesson learned she knows not to risk eating the labeled ones they are labeled for a reason!

It must be that fairytale diet where the only calories that count are the ones she s bought herself.
Other people's food is obviously calorie free.
It would seriously piss me off to have someone else mauling at my lunch.
Yanbu to stab her hard with a fork

A big loud “HANDS OFF MY FOOD” should do it!

Next time, trap her hand in the bag of crisps and say, 'I'm doing this for your own good. Step away from the crisp packet. It doesn't fit in your VLCD plan.'

'Don't you realise why your diet's not working?' might help. She sounds a bit like my OH, he makes a big deal of not eating many carbs, says he's cutting down sugar yet drinks a lot of wine and eats tons of cheese, he seems to think that food eaten straight from the fridge, standing up, doesn't count!

Wow. I would have snapped by now.

Wasabi cupcakes anyone? Now the recipe says to use a minuscule amount of Wasabi. But I’m sure her could be tweaked.....

Replace:
"Do you mind?"
With:
"Get your fucking fingers off my crisps or I'll break the fuckers"

Stop letting people upset you because you're terrified of upsetting them.

“Most normal people, faced with this unbelievable behaviour would call it out. ”

No they wouldn’t. Most normal people would be too taken aback and feel awkward.

Challenging it completely lose-lose. The other person feels like shit and you end up feeling bad.

I would just avoid eating near this person.

Is have to have a quiet word .. no on ....

Wow, was a greedy cow.