critiqued for eathing healthy

kimmae17

my coworkers always make comments like that when i turn down desserts and such in the office. or just take a small slice. They will comment how I should have more becuase I'm skinny. NO Im SKINNY because i only take a bite, or avoid the fatty stuff altogether. Its not that complicated. I make an amazing carrot cake, and brought it to work and several people stated that they cant believe I can bake because im skinny. really?

bcattoes

"Life will be longer and the dessert sweeter if I eat dessert when I really want it, not every time it's offered."

bcattoes

It's not the short I'm worried about, it's the wide.

I like that one!!

bcattoes

My husband's parents are TRULY OFFENDED by my not eating their fattening foods. They literally feel that when I reject their food that I am rejecting them. It is sad and makes me not want to be around them.

I get the same thing. Even though they both have heart disease and he has diabetes. They not only try to make me eat fatty, salty foods and dessert, but then want me to take some home. Sometimes I take it and just throw it away just so it won't be there for them to eat.

lhoppe

my coworkers always make comments like that when i turn down desserts and such in the office. or just take a small slice. They will comment how I should have more becuase I'm skinny. NO Im SKINNY because i only take a bite, or avoid the fatty stuff altogether. Its not that complicated. I make an amazing carrot cake, and brought it to work and several people stated that they cant believe I can bake because im skinny. really?

I get that too, since people call me skinny. Or I get comments if I do eat a dessert "you are so lucky you can get away with eating that and stay skinny like you do....." I just tell them it's my active lifestyle that affords me to indulge occassionally.

circusmom

I tell people who give me grief that sweets give me diarheera (right at the table) and they never give me grief again.

hahahahah...rotflmao...hahahahahaha

tmt2003

"who says I'm not enjoying myself? I've never enjoyed life more now that I have started getting healthy"

"There are things in life more enjoyable than food, and I want to enjoy those for a LONG time!"

2fabulous2Bunfit

"And thats the reason America is obese!"
"Life is too short to be unhealthy"
"Life it too short to waste time eating dessert"
"you can be happy and fat, and I will be happy and skinny" LOL

lhoppe

"And thats the reason America is obese!"
"Life is too short to be unhealthy"
"Life it too short to waste time eating dessert"
"you can be happy and fat, and I will be happy and skinny" LOL

REALLY like the last quote.

LorinaLynn

I avoid this entirely by never turning down dessert when offered.

I hate the phrase "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

I've been skinny. I've been overweight. I've been (now) healthy and fit. There's loads of things that taste better than skinny felt. I don't care if I have to work harder. I'm having the cake, dammit! :laugh:

unmitigatedbadassery

"And thats the reason America is obese!"
"Life is too short to be unhealthy"
"Life it too short to waste time eating dessert"
"you can be happy and fat, and I will be happy and skinny" LOL

^this... or just give them the finger and move on...

MrBrown72

I avoid this entirely by never turning down dessert when offered.

I hate the phrase "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

I've been skinny. I've been overweight. I've been (now) healthy and fit. There's loads of things that taste better than skinny felt. I don't care if I have to work harder. I'm having the cake, dammit! :laugh:

Brilliant!
Whoever originally said "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." has obviously never tasted good chocolate.

Determined1980

These type of people make me SICK!!!!! I have a mutual friend that goes out of the way to tell me all the time, how unhealthy it is for me to run and is always making comments when I order. I know why she does it though, she is the overweight, unhealthy and UNHAPPY!

I like the previous comment , "it's the wide that I am worried about!" and

And thats the reason America is obese!"
"Life is too short to be unhealthy"
"Life it too short to waste time eating dessert"
"you can be happy and fat, and I will be happy and skinny" LOL

Great come backs!!!!!!!!

tigersword

I just want to say, there is NO SUCH THING as a "fattening food." No food, when eaten as part of a balanced diet, will automatically make you fat. That's not how it works.

Ladydi1982

I avoid this entirely by never turning down dessert when offered.

I hate the phrase "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

I've been skinny. I've been overweight. I've been (now) healthy and fit. There's loads of things that taste better than skinny felt. I don't care if I have to work harder. I'm having the cake, dammit! :laugh:

Brilliant!
Whoever originally said "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." has obviously never tasted good chocolate.

This was first said by Kate Moss... Anorexics never taste much of anything, so to them nothing literally tastes as good. Ha!

KayteeBear

I don't usually get it real hard but if I say I really want some ice cream but really shouldn't have any then I get people who look at me weird and tell me just to eat it so I have to fight my own craving along with them saying I should eat it.

chocolateandvodka

Ok I am so happy to read that other inlaws put your food choices down! I thought I was the only one that has to deal with this ****!! We go to my inlaws just about every Sunday and my husbands mom makes dinner. I am not just talking dinner I am talking like a 20 course meal with anything you can think of, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, ect, ect. The list goes on and on. It is SOOO hard for me to go out there and hardly eat anything. She makes nothing healthy! In fact I watched her make a ceasar salad once and she dumped the full fat dressing on, then put SUGAR on it. (who does that!?) I was like way to make a salad super unhealthy!!!!!! That is when I made my decision to not eat when I go out there. I make it a point to eat before and politely decline their food. Also it drives me crazy because my husband has been working on his health to and when he goes out there he totally goes out of control with his eating. It is so gross.

Ok that was my vent. Now on to more positives!
Dont let people remarks get to you. You are doing the best thing for your body. I just think of how horrible I feel after I eat like ****. I think of how all I want to do is take a nap and who wants to nap their life away? I love how I feel after I have eaten healthy and worked out, and that is what makes me keep going!
Stay strong!!

The sugar on the salad got me... omg! *gag*

lhoppe

I tried for years to teach my mom about healthy eating; she was disabled from uncontrolled diabetes, so I did most her grocery shopping. Never forget the time I served her up some low-fat cottage cheese and she asked me to get the "salad dressing." I said "salad dressing???, on your cottage cheese?" She proceeded to wheel her chair to the fridge and put a big blob of MAYONAISE on top of her healthy serving. Somehow she managed to turn everything healthy into a very un-healthy meal. Pizza delivery was her favorite meal. One large pizza in one sitting. Now that is depressing....All I can do is change my outcome and help my own kids to make healthy choices.

katkins3

I lie and tell them I had donuts at breakfast and I'm full or some other bu***kitten*..

chauncyrenayCHANGED

Silence works most of the time.

If I am at a table with friends and one of them makes a comment like that. Or says,"I don't have time to log all my food."

I just don't say anything and let their comment linger for a second. It makes them really think about what they said or why they said it. Even if they don't act like it.