Why do people think it is fine to comment on what you are eating?

[babloogirl]

I am starting to get really annoyed (at work mainly), about people commenting on my food...

today it was about the thickness of my cheese in my cheese sandwich... the slices where not the thinnest one but come on it was no more than 4mm...

then I get comment whenever I eat chocolate (which I tend to have daily but in small amount.

I know this is not the healthiest food ever but I do also eat fruits (pear, apple and raspberries as well as green beans with my dinner), only eat plain cornflakes with milk in the morning and fish or meat in the evening.

It does feel as if they are spying on my food intake...

Am I the only one getting annoyed on the comments?

i bet all these comments are made through a mouthfull of macdonalds or other vile processed foods. ignore them, they are vile and ignorant. it does seem that being pregnant gives people the (perceived, not actual) right to comment on every choice you make.

my MIL is my favourite. i am apparently depriving my baby by being vegetarian (despite every single blood test having perfect results) even tho i eat a very fresh and healthy diet with an abundance of vitamins and minerals, i apparently also 'do too much' (just because im not a fat lazy cow like her who has given herself type 2 diabetes by being a giant, immobile, donut guzzling monster). she also worries that i will pass on my diabetes (type 1, far better controlled than hers and not self-inflicted by poor lifestyle) to my baby and is constantly recounting loads of ignorant stories rather than actually asking outright what the risk is "distant friend x had kids and they were born with diabetes but it was all gone again by the time they were a year old" [i had to explain to her that in poorly controlled diabetics the baby can be born with severe hypoglycaemia and how this occurs, and how it is NOT being born with diabetes and it subsequently vanishing FFS].

ignore them. seriously. and if you cant help but react, make sure it is aggressive and puts them in their place....

While having MS I kept getting comments along the lines of "surely you need to eat something" and people kept worrying about my weight (lost over a stone). Now that I am eating again (what I think are quite normal portions most of the time) I'm getting the opposite. Why do people not just mind their own problems? I am 27weeks and only just back to my pre-pregnancy weight so surely I am allowed a little chocolate.

Well today I fancied cherries (and not the Haribo sour ones... ), well as I was eating my cherries I had a little "god you're healthy today" which I ignored.

I think whatever I will eat will bring comments from people so I will from now on pretend I didn't hear when people make comments!

I know about the belly patting, the ladies in the office all know that with me it is a massive No Way, get your hands away from my belly...Well someone from another department doesn't quite get the message, she clearly thinks it is fine to stroke my belly like she would stroke a puppy...but whenever I see her coming I go and hide

If I had to say what my baby is made of I would say 25% sweets, 25% cheese and 50% of other food :)

Hate to tell you, that if any of you plan to breastfeed, the comments continue... I really would love to know which school all of these 'dieticians' go to!

Just keep smiling, ladies. You'll only be "fat" for 9 months, they will for ever be ignorant.

I got face at work drinks the other night because I was drinking bottled beer - it was Becks Blue (the non-alcoholic one)! In the end I got so bored of telling everyone "don't worry, it's non-alcoholic beer" I ended up switching to sparking water to save the hassle

OMG I can't eat enough cheese. My baby is half cheese half haribo

God, don't get me started on breastfeeding. I plan on breastfeeding my child, and one of the few things in life that is guaranteed to irritate me is ignorance about it. I've even started defending other mothers who are yelled at for "public indecency". You wouldn't scream obscenities at a woman bottle-feeding her child, so why does breastfeeding make such a difference? People should think sometimes, because otherwise it's just plain rude!

sod them ur pregnant fgs! eat wat u want and do wat u want, wen i was pregnant with dd i ate a full block of pilgrims cheese and loved it

it wont harm the baby jus make them cute and fat lol xx

Not food related but when I walked into work today in a green dress my colleague shouted out 'look, here comes the jolly green giant!'

Yes, I know I'm bloated and waddling, thanks for that cherry on top of my grumpy morning.

what you're eating, what you're drinking, how much of it you're consuming, what you're wearing, what you're carrying.... it's all of it... it's all just crap

and these same people will let a door go in my face when they walk through it and expect me to hoof it up and down the stairs for meetings so they don't have to come to me

(not that I want the door opening for me particularly, but if you're going to have mock concern for mine and my baby's welfare, at least extend it to the stuff that actually benefits me, thanks)

Just tell them whatever it is you are eating helps with the chronic constipation and horrific flatulence. That should shut them up

I am sick of people trying to encourage me to eat/drink things I have chosen to cut out due to being pregnant.

"Oh go on, have a drink of wine"
"I ate liver when I was pregnant and my baby was fine" (I don't even eat liver when not pg!)
"Avoiding MSGs? Well that's just silly so I have booked us a table at an all you can eat chinese".

I don't go on about what I have chosen to avoid, but people (especially the inlaws) seem hell bent on finding out what those things are, and then trying to encourage me to eat them!