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To have laughed at her Slimming World advice?

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Pikaso · 18/01/2022 13:04

Woman at work has been doing Slimming World. She’s obsessed with it and goes on about it constantly armed with her books and Muller Lights at every meal.
I told her last week I was going to give it a go. I didn’t buy Muller Lights but instead bought some asda own yogurts which had almost identical calorie, fat and sugar content. Sat down to eat lunch yesterday and she came in and said “I thought you were doing slimming world?”. I said “I am” so she said “how many syns in those yogurts?” So I said “none, they’re the same as muller lights”. She replied “no, you’re meant to eat Muller lights!” And looked really concerned and worried!! I did owl noises in her face and told her the calories, sugar and fat etc were exactly the same so why would it matter??! She actually left the room muttering about how it won’t work if you don’t do it properly.

I did slimming world a few years back and stopped because of the cult like behaviour of the members and leaders. I thought I’d give it another go but she has totally put me off again! Nothing has changed!!
She’s been off with me ever since. WIBU to have laughed at her muller light concerns?? Common sense tells you it’s the calories etc that matter, not the bloody name on the pot!!

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Chely · 18/01/2022 14:30

Diet plans make folk a bit nuts.
Could have made your point in a better way though.

Somethingsnappy · 18/01/2022 14:30

@Beowulfthethurd GrinGrin

Booboobibles · 18/01/2022 14:31

It sounds a bit like when my dogs are barking and I shout “Beep beep beep” very loudly to distract them. You could try that next - it might be more effective.

I would also find this type of thing irritating but I’m very pedantic! I try hard to reign myself in these days.

ClawedButler · 18/01/2022 14:32

Interrogator: Names, dammit, I need names! You will talk, I will MAKE you talk
Suspect:
Interrogator: Oh yes I see, right you are

fromdownwest · 18/01/2022 14:32

Owl noises are odd.

However, ignoring the calorific content of food in favour of a made up syn's programme as a healthy way to lose weight is also odd.

EmmaH2022 · 18/01/2022 14:32

@eurochick

I'm guessing you both work at Special Branch?

(I'll get my coat)

It's okay, I tittered ...geddit 😂
Crimesean · 18/01/2022 14:33

@DerektheGoose

0/10 Must try harder to get your "funny" thread into Classics Hmm
Ah sod off, fun-sponge, the rest of us are enjoying this immensely!

OP next time you feel peckish, keep away from your colleague, we don't want fowl play to ensue. She probably thinks you're stark raven mad!

NannaMcPhoo · 18/01/2022 14:33

Should not be eating daily yogurts anyway. Full of sugar and minimal vitamins or minerals.

Crimesean · 18/01/2022 14:34

Nobody likes a know-it-owl

Rudeppl · 18/01/2022 14:35

You sound worse than slimming world members. What a creep.

MrsColon · 18/01/2022 14:36

I think you ought to call time on the yoghurts and take her out for mice-cream instead to apologise.

MilduraS · 18/01/2022 14:36

Well this gave me a laugh. I haven't tried slimming world but I've heard lots of stories of the cult like obsession with certain processed products like mueller light.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 18/01/2022 14:36

I wonder if The Prince is reading.

Chatting shit in owl would be an interesting strategy.

because pizzahut and perspiration didn’t work

strawberrymilk7 · 18/01/2022 14:37

@Pikaso

“ Every time you post it sounds even more weird.

Do you do this a lot?

How do people generally react?”

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People normally just stop talking

They stop talking because they probably think you have lost the plot!

Yes your colleague does sound annoying though. Store brand ones are the same.

cakewench · 18/01/2022 14:37

OP, if you make 'cuckoo' noises at people and they generally stop speaking, that's because they think you're insane. Whether or not THEY are as well is completely invalidated by your behaviour.

A sane adult would let this person's Muller speech run its course before responding. If you both 1) are unable to allow a person to finish speaking and 2) think that making animal noises is the correct tactic in the course of any non-zoological conversation, then I'm not sure you're in the position to judge her as the one not being professional.

(but FWIW you're not wrong, store brand is pretty much the same as the name brand if the calories fit into your syns or however SW works)

Laiste · 18/01/2022 14:38

This.
This is why i've been a MNer for 15 years.

Because every once in a while threads like this are born

GrinGrin

MagicKit · 18/01/2022 14:39

@Pikaso

She was banging on and on about how it had to be muller lights and I couldn’t get a word in edgeways so I did owl noises to get her to take a breath so I could speak
Please phonetically type out the owl noises.
MrsWinters · 18/01/2022 14:39

Did you use a bird caller to make the noise, or just your mouth?

MaudieandMe · 18/01/2022 14:40

Brilliant strategy OP. I’ll have to remember that one.

You’re not wrong either. SW is a bizarre cult that encourages extremely faddy and unhealthy eating.

MagicKit · 18/01/2022 14:41

Surely, if you're trying to get people to stop talking and pay attention to you, a pterodactyl screech would be way more effective than a gentle "cooo cooo"

Saucery · 18/01/2022 14:41

Next time, cover the yoghurt pot with a TeatOwl, so she can’t see they aren’t Muller Lights. The Teat Owl is the most common owl in the UK.

morrisy · 18/01/2022 14:41

@Pikaso

I wasn’t saying cuckoo. It was literally a gentle “coooo coooo … “ just to break her train of thought
Wait do you mean it as in ‘’coucou’’ in French?
Donotgogentle · 18/01/2022 14:42

@eurochick

I'm guessing you both work at Special Branch?

(I'll get my coat)

On fire!
StaplesCorner · 18/01/2022 14:42

Im so late to this party but I wondered if the OP had a repertoire of bird noises? Depending on how unpleasant she wanted to be? If just a minor irritation do you do a robin, per chance? And then some sort of eagle if they're really fucking out of order? Or go full seagull - snatch their chips and shit on their shoulder?

TillyTopper · 18/01/2022 14:43

You sound a bit nasty towards her. Please remember that some of us try to lose weight so we should all be kind, however we try to do it. I think YABVU.

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