Comments in the staff room......
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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.0
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Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.0
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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.0
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Magic_Chicken wrote: »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.0 -
fivethreeone wrote: »Today I learned that a truly amazing number of people can turn even a compliment into an offensive comment.
You look great today0 -
fivethreeone 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!0 -
I like your abs.fivethreeone wrote: »fivethreeone 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!
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Cranquistador wrote: »
I like your abs.fivethreeone wrote: »fivethreeone 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!
HARRASSMENT!!0 -
Cranquistador wrote: »
I like your abs.fivethreeone wrote: »fivethreeone 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!
You must mean that sarcastically.
I just can't take all this judgment.0 -
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."0 -
fivethreeone wrote: »Cranquistador wrote: »
I like your abs.fivethreeone wrote: »fivethreeone 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!
You must mean that sarcastically.
I just can't take all this judgment.
I really, really, really like everything about you. EVERYTHING.0 -
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!!0
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This is the craziest stuff I've read all day.0
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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...
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I dont care 95% of what people say.
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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.0 -
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!0 -
Maybe your salad just looked good?0
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