Lady at work is NOT helping my diet

Jdismybug1

Lol, my office is right down the hall from the break room, so I smell food being made ALL day. Sometimes it makes me hungry, and others it doesn't because I hate the smell of seafood, especially when it's brought as left overs for lunch. So some of the time it's a turn off for me and makes me feel sick.
When it makes me hungry I just start thinking about how hard I have worked, and how far I have come.

maloryanne

is it bad that now i want a hashbrown from mcdonalds?? eekkkk no bueno! :noway:

Lol they are delicious but so are fresh strawberries, yummmmm

oh so true!! yummy strawberries and blueberries!!

Happy_endings

I luckily work in the lab which we arent allowed food/drinks in work area. But we have food in the lounge and I had a coworker who was thin that would bring in chips n dip, pies,cookies, candy ALL the time!! She was getting kinda old too so she would forget what she would bring from the previous day and bring in another bag of chips and dip the next day. Around thanksgiving she brought in a pumpkin pie almost every other day....I of course munched on all the stuff she would bring in! I love the lady and she is a dear friend but Im really really glad she got another job!! Its much easier to stay under the 400 calories I allow myself to eat during work.

Micheller1210

Talk to HR, see if there are nutrition groups, a biggest loser contest, walk across america teams, adopt a womens shelter and donate healthy nutrition fund raiser, get sponsers to dnate prizes for being healthy,perhaps positive peer pressure where it is safe for her she get on board, if she is new could be food is friend and she is nervous eating, coming off rejecting before she is rejected.

Debkam

Maybe you could make a comment like "gosh...that smells so good. I didn't realize just how much of a trigger it would be smelling it. I use to eat that kind of stuff but now I eat healthier. I found a fantastic website called my fitness pal. It's changed my life". This might result in a couple of things. If she is at all concerned about being thoughtful of others she might try to avoid eating this stuff around you. Maybe not all the time but maybe sometimes. Second, you never know if someone has tried in the past and has thrown in the towel and given in. Or if she is even slightly interested in getting healthy but doesn't know how. Of course I do not know the personality or character of this person. So a lot would depend on that. IDK...just a thought.

PlanetVelma

OMG i thought i was alone!! i totally have a girl who does that to me but even worse she BUYS me food and gets mad if i dont eat it!!! But stay strong dont give in!! hopefully she will get the hint and try to start eating better..

Oohh maybe you should be like wow ever since i started eating healthy i have so much energy and go on and on about the benefits and maybe she will trade her bad food for good stuff

There's someone at my work that does that - thankfully i've turned down their offers for lunch enough times they don't bring me lunch anymore. I was even called a "Nazi" for not trying a cupcake, wth?! It was around christmas time and I was avoiding all the goodies that everyone brings in. Sheesh!

Frankenbarbie01

Bottom line this is about your choices, not your co-workers. Agreed that I find it rude and quite unappealing to have someone eating fast/junk food I can smell in my general location. Not to mention there is prob a policy speaking to no food at your work station. The calorie count look up is an excellent idea!
What got me off McDonalds, burger King and other fast food places?? *****Sensative stomachs stop reading NOW********
Walk up to the fast food places dumpsters...........take a deep breath........smells exacally like their FOOD!!!
How scary is that??? Another thing you could do is Google 3 yr old cheeseburger & fries!!! EEEEK!!!! Youwont want this ever again!

PS-I have had McDonalds (used to be an addict 3-5x week!) ONCE in the past two years. DD brought me through the drive through after a night of Tequila...I thought I was invincible!!! LOL

Hodar

This is how I got where I am today (as in fat). I had no idea how many calories a day I was consuming - and I didn't care, because I had no clue as to how many calories I really needed. So I ate what I wanted, whenever I wanted - and then wondered why my waist kept getting bigger and bigger.

It comes on slowly - just a pound a month or so, over a decade - can be major.

Now, I look at EVERYTHING I eat; and I make concessions. Skip chips with my Subway sandwich; and I can have a WHOLE bag of Orville Redenbacher's CARMEL popcorn tonight with my movie and Dt. Coke. Sure, I can have pretty much whatever I want, it just means that I have to compensate later on that day.

Being armed with the information is all the help I need.

Suziq2you

I am in charge of our monthly safety meetings at the office. The first meeting we had after I joined MFP, I bought a huge fruit tray for the meeting and was kind of surprised at the *****ing and moaning. The next month I compromised and brought in a fruit tray and croissants. More *****ing and complaining. Finally on the third month I said screw it and brought in a huge tray of fat laden, sugar crusted pastries. And I brought me an apple and some yogurt. When someone asked me why I wasn't having a pastry I simply said I looked up how much fat and sugar and other garbage in is there and I'll stick to my apple. Half the room stopped mid-bite and pushed their plates away. Haven't had a compaint about the fruit trays again.