Saboteurs

ReenieHJ

Life seems to center SO much around celebrations, sharing, friendships, gifts, and SO much of that centers around food, of course. What's up with that? People want to feed other people, they want their food to be accepted and liked. Some don't have a clue what else to do when others need something so they make food. Food is the essence of life in many more ways than merely sustenance. It shows others we care.

But some people don't accept no, thanks very easily. Depending on your relationship with that person is how you get your point across. Most of the time I'll just tell them no thanks, I *REALLY* don't want any right now. It usually shuts them up. Although my sister will keep offering stuff to me and she, of all people, knows better because we're so much alike. If we eat one, it's really hard for us to stop without eating the whole box.
It's definitely irritating.

vampirequeen1959

I cracked it with one person this weekend. When cake was mentioned I said that I'd lost 34lbs up to now and I felt that I was on on a roll. I wasn't missing cakes etc. at all but that I knew that if I ate one piece I'd want more. This particular person has the same problem...one is never enough....so understood and stopped pushing me. I said that it wouldn't bother me if she had some but she chose not to.

gothchiq

Yeah. There may be some diabetic person out there who can eat their protein first and then have just three bites of cake. I do not work like that. I go bananas and shove things into my face like a possessed woman and then OOPS my blood sugar is sky high so I find it easier to just not go there in the first place. It's less painful to cut those things out than to tease the craving which strengthens it.

Urun4me

"That doesn't look like something I want to eat" or "I don't want to eat something that smells like that." Try variations to those depending on what kind of person you are, what kind of person the other person is, how many times you've already said no, and how mean you want to be.

I've found that commenting on the smell is the best way to stop the food pushers. But I'm a lot more blunt than most, and a lot of people would consider that too mean.

gremloBBPT

Don't worry about what people say or them understanding you. This applies in all areas of life. It's nice to be understood, but it doesn't always happen.