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.

I don’t care if she’s on a diet or not - tell the b to stay out of your stuff. End of.

If that’s too hard here’s some burn:

1. At this rate I’m the one doing the diet as you keep eating all my food....
2. Are you tracking calories because with the crisps and whatever else I’ve seen you eat so far, that’s at least 300 calories?
3. Do we have a timeframe for this diet so I know how long I’ll be feeding you for?
4. You’re doing so well but why don’t you keep a water bottle handy to sip from so you don’t keep on PILFERING MY FOOD?

Etc.

I would just tell her not to eat my food - no ‘passive aggressive ‘ / humorous comments to deflect her from eating your food, just an instruction not to do so!

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,

Cheese is very low carb, you shouldn’t comment on his diet as you clearly don’t understand it. (Wine is fine in moderation too)

OP hopefully you feel empowered enough to deal with this now!?

I’m a bit funny with food/utensils - I’m happy to share with some people but not others. If she’s out the spoon back in my lunch after gibbing all over it she’d have been told very clearly that I thought it was disgusting and I didn’t appreciate her doing so. Sounds like your comment worked. Now be as firm about snacks!

I think you’ve read he’d ghe pijnt where if she doesn’t take it in biard next time you’re st liberty to bring her failing diet into it!

As you can see if low carbing and I’d probably be drooling over your crisis, but at s hygienic distance!

And given I’m an actual adult, I know that YOUR food doesn’t have any fewer carbs in it than if I’d bought it, so I’d know exactly why the VKC(arb) Diet wasn’t working 🙄🙄

Let us know how goes next week!

Cover some sprouts in chocolate and let her help herself to them!

You're deffo not unreasonable!

All of you who would call this out are obviously the “popular girls” where you work. Anywhere I’ve worked, if I’d snapped at someone not to eat my food, I’d have been a “miserable bitch” or a “tight arse who can’t share”.

That's odd behaviour. And no-one should be on a vlcd these days unless they're preparing for bariatric surgery.

Who’s talking about snapping? and there is a difference between a one off and a repeat offender!

I have a colleague on the Cambridge Diet and while she doesn't steal food, she asks to smell it. Like 'Lou, can I sniff your Pot Noodle? It smells amazing!' and 'Colleague X, can I inhale the smell of your chicken nuggets?' etc etc
It's a bit creepy and off putting but she reckons she will lose 4 stone in 10 weeks by eating one cereal bar, one milkshake and one cuppa soup per day (and inhaling the aroma of 25+ workmate's lunches, presumably) so I guess it will all be worth it in the end.

pink - VLCD can reverse type 2 diabetes!

She’s not really doing a ‘VLCD’ is she if she’s binging on other people’s food 😂

Oh the irony, no doubt she feels like this is because as a society we put pressure on women to look a certain way, we judge them and put them down. Here you are putting her down. Just ignore her snd stop using her issies to help yourself feel superior.

Loving the suggestions on here!

I would food shame her...

I would just say: how can you be on a diet when you constantly steal other people's food all the time? So much for your VLCD!

And give her a tinkling laugh like Dolores Uxbridge. 😁

umbridge

Why don't your u get some chocolate covered bugs and decant them into a plain bag. After she's helped herself ask her what they're like, as you haven't managed to pluck up the courage yet.

I had a colleague like this (doing low calorie diet) and one day he snapped and we found him in the fridge opening colleagues Tupperwares and eating it cold after he had raided a teams "snack stash". Most people laughed it off but he had to buy everyone lunch who he stole from and was given a formal warning for 'unfriendly conduct'.

He didn't do it again but also quit the diet soon after.

Just say "please don't do that".
If she does it again, say "I asked you not to do that. Why are you taking my food when I asked you not to?"

Make it awkward for her.

She does realise that calories still count when it comes off of someone else’s plate??

Just tell her to up her bloody calories 😂

I can't see a VLCD helping Type 2 diabetes as you could risk burning fat and developing ketoacidosis which is deadly.

I'd be tempted to 'eat' high calorie weight gaining foods visibly and avoid eating normal foods around her. Cashew nuts perhaps. Or body building stuff. Alternatively if she makes the ' you can eat what you line's comments, agree wholeheartedly and point out its a shame she's on a diet so she mustnt have any.

Just tell her "if I wanted to share my food I'd offer it out, quit helping yourself."

She's on a seefood diet. Sees food then eats it.

pollymere - there have been various controlled trials on this - various medical websites have published studies in this regard!

Just bloody tell her . She’s continued to do it because you’ve joked with her (why??) so far instead of telling her to stop.

Ask her if she's having money difficulties. Because you see her stealing food all the time, not buying any and the diet could be a cover. Possibly with a concerned head tilt.

ONLY if you're sure she's just being a cf and that isn't true but it might shame her into stopping.

"PAWS OFF!!" works for me.
Her diet & body size issues sound like a pile of crap for her, but not your problem.