RANT!

SageGoddess320

I work with a woman that has blueberry muffins & Pepsi every morning for breakfast and greasy fast-food every day for lunch. She also gets potato chips and candybars out of the vending machine daily. Don't get me wrong....I could care less what the scag puts in her mouth. What drives me nuts is the fact that she constantly whines to me about how she can't lose any weight. I'd love to punch her right in her discusting face :explode: :explode: :explode:

dipsl19

id just tell her that she obviously has a terrible diet and thats why she isnt losing any weight.. DUH

RachelSRoach1

Sometimes I feel really bad for disliking fat people like that.. I'm not a bad person.. I just know what l don't want for myself anymore.

ckdub428

oh this made me giggle, but I do feel your pain. I work with someone similar.
Just keep working out and doing great and get healty and make her jealous!!!

microwoman999

Um I really HATE THAT!! You can't see what you are putting into your body!!! I really can't stand that not to mention it would be hard to see someone eating all the junk and wanting to eat it too! Don't you wish you could just tell her how you feel! Always easier said than done....."Hey have you noticed you eat candy bars and fast food all day and oh drink pepsi which is just empty calories!!"

wickedcricket

I'd be a little snarkier than that and say 'as long as you're eating crap and empty calories, I don't want to hear you complain about your fat *kitten*' or something to that effect
(that's why I'm WICKED cricket)

MB_Positif

Ok, just snorted out loud laughing because you said "scag," haven't heard anyone say that in years! Love it! That said, maybe you could try to invite her to lunch and show her what you eat?

RhonndaJ

Next time she whines to you about not being able to lose weight you could suggest that you'd be willing to help her the next time she's ready to make and effort.

skinnylove00

this is actually very mean. you dont have know what kind of thing this woman might be going through at home. maybe she needs a friend or someone to gently show her how the choices she is making could hurt her health in the long run. but she definitely doesnt need judgmental coworkers who look down on her and call her a `scag` behind her back on the internet.

Behavior_Modification

Oh I hear you girl! :noway:

Not sure what her exact misinformation is, but she obviously doesn't realize how many calories she's consuming and not burning back off. My sister is like this. She is absolutely clueless when it comes to calorie count. She goes to Arby's for a 'snack' and will get 2 or 3 - 99cent items that probably add up to over 500 calories. :huh:

I work w/ a woman who had gastric bypass many years ago and she eats very similarly to your coworker - lots of fried and fatty foods. It bothers me. It shouldn't, but it does. I do, however, take some pleasure in the fact that I am now thinner than she is (and our body shapes are very different). Gosh that sounds terrible of me. Oh well, my thoughts are not always innocent. :devil:

inotnew

a couple months ago, I didn't care at all about what other people were eating. Now I see someone eat a lot, I get grossed out. My point of view has changed drastically. I just focus on my own habits.

That person probably figures you have found the magic pill and if it were easy, let her know. Other wise she just wants you to feel sorry for her.

cedarhurst2006

Introduce her to this forum for support and information! Sometimes it's about education oneself and knowing how/when/where to start, right?

PoeRaven

OMG, I love, love, love this post!

I know a few people that do the same exact thing. Then they proceed to tell me how "lucky" I am to be small. :noway:
LUCKY??? :huh:
Getting my buns out of bed at 4:00 a.m. 5 days a week, hard work, dedication and being very conscious what goes into my mouth.
Yeah, luck is all it takes...
I just want to smack these folks up-side the head and scream...WAKE UP!!!! Come join me for an hour run tomorrow morning. 4 a.m. sharp. We'll talk about luck...:explode:

Thanks for posting...
I also really love your profile picture. It says sooo much!
Keep on keepin' on...

frostiegurl

this is actually very mean. you dont have know what kind of thing this woman might be going through at home. maybe she needs a friend or someone to gently show her how the choices she is making could hurt her health in the long run. but she definitely doesnt need judgmental coworkers who look down on her and call her a `scag` behind her back on the internet.

^^^

This. Getting healthy and losing unwanted fat isn't really as simple as changing what you eat. It's actually an extremely difficult process of changing how you think about food and nutrition. It took me ages to get to the point in my life when I was emotionally ready to make those changes and I can't even fathom that someone I might know would have been slagging me in such a hurtful manner on a forum with a group of strangers. To think that someone could be so mean and hurtful pains me incredibly.

SageGoddess320

this is actually very mean. you dont have know what kind of thing this woman might be going through at home. maybe she needs a friend or someone to gently show her how the choices she is making could hurt her health in the long run. but she definitely doesnt need judgmental coworkers who look down on her and call her a `scag` behind her back on the internet.

Maybe my choice of words is a little mean but I've known her my whole life and I don't hold back how I feel about her poor eating choices. Just because I posted this it doesn't mean I haven't told her what I think. She makes those choices because they are easy. She'll tell ya that straight up. She's not depressed, she's just down right lazy.

PantalaNagaPampa

I think you hit it right on the head,, you said it was a rant. I love that you used the word scag. You just dont see that used enough in everyday vocabulary.

audram420

I work with people like this too...they whine and complain that they can't lose weight, they blame it on their thyroid or their large breasts that keep them from working out...but they walk in with 3 biscuits with gravy, 6 pieces of bacon and sausage...followed by a extremely large SOBI drink with 300 cals alone.

I don't say anything, but in my head I would love to tell them that it's not your big breasts, not your thyroid, but it's your horrible eating habits...and then I want to say..."been there done that" because I was like that at one time, too!! So I don't feel so bad posting this because it took me looking at myself and what I was doing to change my habits!

audram420

BTW, we all need to rant and vent...I'm sure the very lady you are speaking of does the same...sometimes by letting your negative feelings out here in this forum where she doesn't get her feeling hurt, can help the OP relieve her negative feelings so she can be positive next time she sees her.

PantalaNagaPampa

I think we all have the co-worker or friend.

I work with a guy who is always telling me about the latest diet or workout craz that he started. It lasts about 2 weeks then I see him eating a whole can of pringles or mound of chili fries and a 44oz pepsi, and when I question him, he tells me he is either having a cheat day or just says "whatever". His cheat days last for a few weeks until the next diet comes along.

I am a big guy, I know I have earned every pound I have through over eating and poor food choices, but I have lst 40 pounds since March and it is through porper diet and exercise. I just wish he could see that.

audram420

I love the cheat day people. Same people I talk about have a cheat day EVERYDAY. I work 5 days a week, but many of my co-workers don't so they don't realize that I see MORE of the cheat days which happen quite often.

MrsTomkins

LOL I love that you used the word scag!

audram420

I've never heard the word "scag" ... is it like "skank"?? hehe...

dipsl19

this is actually very mean. you dont have know what kind of thing this woman might be going through at home. maybe she needs a friend or someone to gently show her how the choices she is making could hurt her health in the long run. but she definitely doesnt need judgmental coworkers who look down on her and call her a `scag` behind her back on the internet.

disagree. if youre eating fast food and muffins and all that bad ****, and you dont know thats why youre overweight, youre not JUST misinformed, youre somewhat of a fool.
its just common sense. and at least she isnt talking about her at work. the woman clearly NEVER has been on MFP, so its not going to hurt her feelings.

dad106

I have friends like this.. and it's crazy because they bash me for doing good for my body, yet they can't seem to grasp the concept and I'm suddenly a bad person for it.

UHH NEWSFLASH! This flat stomach, toned legs and arms didn't just show up one day.. I worked my *kitten* off for them and yes I will show it off!

Suggest MFP to your co-worker.. you never know what will happen when she sees it in black and white.

PantalaNagaPampa

I've never heard the word "scag" ... is it like "skank"?? hehe...

HMMM... Scag vs Skank... Scag just sounds dirty, where at least with skank, you feel you might get lucky... that is a guys point of view... there is a great new thread topic, Scag vs Skank, I bet that one would be locked in about 2 miunutes.

PantalaNagaPampa

Suggest MFP to your co-worker.. you never know what will happen when she sees it in black and white.

That is a good idea, just make sure you delete the thread where you called her a Scag

Johnnyswife

I work with a woman that has blueberry muffins & Pepsi every morning for breakfast and greasy fast-food every day for lunch. She also gets potato chips and candybars out of the vending machine daily. Don't get me wrong....I could care less what the scag puts in her mouth. What drives me nuts is the fact that she constantly whines to me about how she can't lose any weight. I'd love to punch her right in her discusting face :explode: :explode: :explode:

Yeah...being mean is the right way to handle it. Maybe you might want to take a bat to her head and put her out of her misery?

How about a little paitence? Either ignore her, tell her what you do to lose weight, or tell her to stop eating the stuff she's eating. (nicely, not mean.)

Magic_Girl

That is really sad. She probably feels hopeless and just doesn't care anymore about what she puts in her mouth then feels the regret later. I know how that felt. When you eat crap because you feel like crap and you know everybody already thinks you look like crap so you just don't care about anything anymore. If she is whining to you then maybe she is trying to reach out. Maybe she does want somebody to give her REAL advice, maybe she wants YOU to give her advice. Tell her everything you know about nutrition, tell her about the dangers of soda, tell her about empty calories, tell her about simple easy to do exercises she can start out with, tell her about MFP! If you lost a whole bunch of weight then tell her everything you did to get where you are today.

Instead of watching other people fail, why can't you reach out to help them. And if you do all this and she doesn't accept your help and doesn't take in anything you say to her then you can truly write a rant about how you tried to help someone, but they didn't have the will to change.

I wasn't able to lose weight alone and I didn't have the will to change until I learned about nutrition from my teacher!

Qarol

I have a friend like this, who goes on and on about being addicted to food and how she can't lose weight. Yet a year ago, she lost 25 pounds. Now she's gained back those 25 plus 10. It doesn't annoy me when she complains about gaining weight, as I know how hard it is.

But what bothers me is when she tells me I'm no fun anymore because I won't go out eating and drinking with her. Then she also complains that I won't cheat with her. It's not for me to make her feel bad for "falling off the diet wagon," but I'm certainly not going to let her pull me down with her.

PantalaNagaPampa

I have a friend like this, who goes on and on about being addicted to food and how she can't lose weight. Yet a year ago, she lost 25 pounds. Now she's gained back those 25 plus 10. It doesn't annoy me when she complains about gaining weight, as I know how hard it is.

But what bothers me is when she tells me I'm no fun anymore because I won't go out eating and drinking with her. Then she also complains that I won't cheat with her. It's not for me to make her feel bad for "falling off the diet wagon," but I'm certainly not going to let her pull me down with her.

That's why they say misery loves company. My co-worker is always trying to get me to go to lunch with him at some fast food joint or buffett. It's bad enough my wife and I are co-enablers but at least we try to help each other.

SageGoddess320

Gimmie a break. She's not even overweight.