Comments in the staff room......

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  • maria0104
    maria0104 Posts: 64 Member
    If someone noticed my healthy lunch, in a weird way regardless of how they were saying it, it would spur me on. Often I find one of the hardest hurdles is to tell people you are changing your lifestyle, and if they are actively noticing it saves me a job and spurs me on like, good, it's out there, and they know now so don't let yourself down.
  • fivethreeone
    fivethreeone Posts: 8,196 Member
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.
  • Holla4mom
    Holla4mom Posts: 587 Member
    Lol. I did see a new, full-figured co-worker with a HUGE bag of stuff making a salad in the kitchen and I did think to myself that she's committed to losing weight in the New Year. She also had on knits like she had just went for a walk, so I was thinking "Good for her!" However, I work in family therapy. I get paid to think about people's motivations and overanalyze everything. I don't think most people would have given it a second thought.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    So today as I was chopping up my salad in the staff room I must have got about 15 people comment "ooo, that looks nice and healthy""wow, that looks healthy""that looks really tasty""thats a colourful salad"etc etc etc

    I wondered how many people genuinely thought yeah that does look yum and how many were thinking look at the silly fat girl eating salad, i bet thats her new yeas reso, i bet it wont last more than 2 weeks.

    I guess i can just use it as motivation to show them nope fat girl really did stick to it and is now fit girl, that will show em, hehe.

    Do your coworkers know you have such a low opinion of them? Because I'm betting they have a higher opinion of you than you have of them.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

    You look great today
  • fivethreeone
    fivethreeone Posts: 8,196 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

    You look great today

    HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

    You look great today

    HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
    I like your abs.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,347 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

    You look great today

    HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
    I like your abs.

    HARRASSMENT!!
  • fivethreeone
    fivethreeone Posts: 8,196 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

    You look great today

    HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
    I like your abs.

    You must mean that sarcastically.


    I just can't take all this judgment.
  • jjejjtu
    jjejjtu Posts: 1,324 Member
    I'm sure your salad looked wonderful. In fact, just imagining a salad right now is making me want to make one for dinner. Romaine, tomatoes, cucumbers, sunflower seeds, avocado, some cheese, and some hard boiled egg. Mmmm......

    If you believe in what you are doing, just do it. If they are all secretly wishing you harm, who cares? This is your deal. If they are all supporting you, it still won't change a thing you do. You are not doing it for them, you are doing it for you. And unless you ask them whether they are in some way making fun of you or whether they really mean it, you will never know. So assume the best, do what you need to do for yourself, and let it go, let it go....

    In the famous words of Elsa from Frozen, "I don't care what they're going to say."
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.

    You look great today

    HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
    I like your abs.

    You must mean that sarcastically.


    I just can't take all this judgment.

    I really, really, really like everything about you. EVERYTHING.
  • Holla4mom
    Holla4mom Posts: 587 Member
    All jokes aside, I think you may have been feeling self-conscious and that's completely okay and understandable. Good for you for taking and making a healthy lunch. Keep it up!!
  • Daiako
    Daiako Posts: 12,545 Member
    This is the craziest stuff I've read all day.
  • CorlissaEats
    CorlissaEats Posts: 493 Member
    edited January 2015
    yoovie wrote: »
    1. That is not a sustainable diet. Its too few calories that will likely lead to night binge eating. Causing further self-despair and self-loathing. I wonder if I can say something and have it come out right? depends on what is in the salad actually. My salads are about 6-700 calories.
    2. I bet you that's 400 calories in dressing and they just ruined their efforts at dieting. some people use things other than dressing. like plain yogurt or olive oil or nothing.
    3. Lettuce and a few limp veggies is not healthier than my homemade _{insert lunch for the day}__. that's actually pretty elitest to decide that a salad is only those things or that any salad is less nutritious than what you are eating.
    4. Without a fat source their body is going to have trouble absorbing the nutrients in that salad. What a shame. What a waste. my salads includes walnuts, olive oil, cheese, avocado... plenty of healthy fats.
    5. There is a crazy amount of sugar in that "low-fat" dressing! They are better off drizzling a TBSP of olive oil and balsamic than that crap. Im starting to be scared of the 'salads' you encounter?
    6. I bet you they have a bag of chips in the their desk drawer to go with that publicly eaten miniature salad. now i know why people think everyone is judging them LOL!
    7. Where is the protein? Your body needs a balance of protein, carbs and fat, people! points to the ham and hard boiled egg....
    8. I wonder if they even like salad? you cant pry it from my cold dead goal weight fingers
    9. Oy. They would have been better off calorie-wise by ordering the burger and fries than that salad monstrosity! i hope you realize what you are starting to sound like. Im getting worried.
    10. And very occasionally: Wow that salad looks good! (I'm just not a salad person..)

    obviously... LMAO!


    LOL. These observations are more about the shocking salads I've seen than the awesome ones, sorry. Luckily for me thinking thoughts isn't the same as feeling them. :) Thoughts do pop up that I might not always be able to control. And there certainly are some salads I respect! And many people who eat them regularly that I respect even more.

    Type is a horrible medium for humour, unfortunately...
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    I dont care 95% of what people say. :|
  • lakhena
    lakhena Posts: 57 Member
    When I have salad, people sniff and wonder what died in the kitchen.
    But I love my homemade papaya salad with fermented fish. So tasty. And so healthy.
    If only others appreciated it as much as I do.

    Be happy you don't get the nose wrinkles I do, even when my food isn't stinky.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,347 Member
    lakhena wrote: »
    When I have salad, people sniff and wonder what died in the kitchen.
    But I love my homemade papaya salad with fermented fish. So tasty. And so healthy.
    If only others appreciated it as much as I do.

    Be happy you don't get the nose wrinkles I do, even when my food isn't stinky.

    I'd be totally jealous of your salad!
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Maybe your salad just looked good?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,347 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Maybe your salad just looked good?

    Now you're just being ridiculous! ;)
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