What foods do your co-workers eat?

gchutson

My co-workers are lawyers. [insert bottom-feeder joke here]

caraiselite

My co-worker has been on "the atkins" for years. For lunch he eats approximately a 1/2 pound of cheese, 1/2 pound of lunchmeat, and a couple celery sticks. His weight loss is currently on hold.

yep, dairy and processed meats will get you every time! ew.

i don't have co-workers

MommaKit79

I work with a bunch of guys so, they are always going to the local pizzaria or "take-out" place. I SMELL the food and get hungry. I have 1 woman that I lunch with often in the office and, she tells me how GOOD I am being when we go to lunch and that she shoudl do the same thing. It is rough too when everyone brings in the "leftovers" from parties and puts on the counter for everyone to eat.

My husband tries to eat healthy but, his boss CONSTANTLY gets on him about his food, GOOD OR BAD!!! He'll comment on his eating when he helps polish off a pizza (he could eat half of it and everyone else eats the other half) or when he brings a lunchmeat & cheese sandwich on wheat bread or even a salad! He cant win for lossing and he gets discouraged. I told him to sit out in his office and eat his lunch and he is doing great!! Sometimes I want to got o his office and slap his boss...and mind you, his boss doesnt really have a "body" issue...HE'S A TWIG!

amybrauch

Pizza, Pop-tarts, Chinese, Mexican, Fried chicken fingers & fries. It all always smells so good & drives me crazy. She is like a size 2, though & eats as much as a man can. Not fair! LOL

twinoakbob

Only two of us in the office here and we take turns making lunch. So half the time she eats what I eat. The other half of the time I eat what she eats. She is super supportive and we eat fairly well and fairly healthy. I introduced her to caprese salad the other day. Yesterday she fixed caprese salad sandwich with two incredibly thin slices of hard salami. So nummy . . .

BrawlerBella

Took a stroll by the lunch room. Cheese enchiladas, tamales, flour tortillas, rice, beans, various meats in gravy. This is South Texas! Calories what are those?! lol

Meaganandcheese

Am I the only person that doesn't really notice what other people are eating? I must be too busy with my own food.

MILFdoesabodyGd

I work part time so I only go in a few times a week, but one girl talks about how she needs to lose weight. She seems like she knows what she needs to eat when we talk about it together. And she says she needs to cut out pop/soda because she usually drinks it every day..

...almost every time I work with her she's drinking a liter of Pepsi and eating pizza.

However, I will keep supporting her to get healthy. And I will never criticize her choices when I see her eating/drinking crap.

MrsPong

I work in a small office, about 5 people. I eat super healthy, veggies and fruit for snacks all day and a healthy sandwhich and veggies for lunch, maybe a fiber one low calorie treat. But thats it...my whole day. I have one co-workers that eats EVERYTHING or NOTHING. It will be mentioned that he/she needs to lose weight, but eats those frozen breakfast sandwhiches twice a day, with other unhealty snacks during the day.... I just stare for a min, tell myself I dont wanna be like that....and eat another apple. :ohwell:

fdixie

I usually don't pay any attention either, but when they buy fries and you smell it throughout the office it becomes hard not to notice.

SyntonicGarden

I don't really pay too much attention to what the people around me choose to eat. Now...working at a pizza place, I see them eat plenty of pizza. I've yet to eat the stuff I'm making and selling. :P

In college, I worked at a bakery. Couldn't eat danish or donuts after that. Worked at Wendy's too. Having had to clean the Frosty machine and being way to familiar with "sanitizer" as the final rinse, the only thing I can really stomach to eat there is the occasional french fry...

Coworkers in my office vary. My neighbors go out to eat every day, but they're both really skinny guys with high metabolisms. The girl two desks down had a box of tomato, cucumber, nectarine, and apple salad. Neighbor over the wall typically has a can of Progresso soup. My boss only eats when one of is going out and asks to bring himback something. (He pays for it, but if no one asks, he's so busy, he doesn't eat.)

EmCarroll1990

I'm not sure. I've never seen them eat.

fdixie

My office just had an ice-cream social yesterday. People were filling their bowls with 2-3 cups of ice-cream and then adding m&ms and hot fudge and jimmies and whipped cream and walnuts to theirs. Some even went back for seconds. One co-worker ahead of me tried to take a plain scoop of ice-cream for herself and everyone started pressuring her to take more -- while all eyes were on her, I took a 1/2 cup of ice-cream w/ a small sprinkle of walnuts, and then I ran off quickly to eat it before anyone could pressure me to take more too! Because, of course, I used to eat like them. It took every ounce of willpower not to go back and get more - willpower is 100x easier when others aren't pressuring. And so I had a small NSV yesterday, I didn't go back for more

Good for you! Great job!

vim_n_vigor

I don't pay attention to what my co-workers eat just as I hope they are not watching every bite I eat.

Bronx_Montgomery

Sometimes it just looks like they are just sticking their heads in a pigs trough

thetrishwarp

I work for a super health-conscious office (I work in the tech industry, not in fitness). Mostly they eat leftovers from their dinner the night before (usually a lunch-sized portion of pasta, chicken, rice, burger, whatever)...occasionally pizza...occasionally microwave dinners. Lots of fruit, granola bars, yogurts..

There are some people that eat out a lot. Some people really only eat salads and yogurt. Most people are in good shape.

JmeJinxx

Some of the most sickening things..
a guy brought in a bag of fritos scoops and was using them on a tub of philly cream cheese
a woman ate both hot pockets, a 99c bag of funyuns and a 20oz coke.

I work at a big box store so a lot of the employees buy things that we sell.
There's also a fried fish & chicken place nearby that many get food from.

I'll just sit in my corner with my chicken-topped salad and yogurt. xP

MILFdoesabodyGd

I really offended a lady once, at a former job, we had an ice cream social and she had a HUGE bowl of it (so did I, if not more. I had a brownie, fudge, the works....this was before I started in on MFP) ...I made a comment to her like "wow that's a lot of stuff on your ice cream that looks good"

...she took it as me calling her a fatty I guess. Went and told the supervisor that I had offended her.

I never make comments on what people eat (out loud) now.

tnshahud

I work in a small office...only 3 of us.
My bosses (one male and one female) eat Mcdonald or Burger King for Breakfast EVERY day
Lunch is either Wendy's Arby's or KFC...
they are all over me when I don't order anything and just drink my shake, and eat my fruit and veggies
then I have to listen to my female boss the rest of the day complain about how she needs to start watching what she eats and needs to to start walking, not even finishing her complaining, she askes the other boss to go get frosty's, or Turn-overs!!!
This happens EVERYDAY!!!!!

Erica27511

I have no idea what my co-workers eat because I'm too busy worrying about my own life.

That's too bad. I care about the garbage they are eating and want them to be healthy. I work in a small office with just 2 other girls and we actually like each other.

HauteP1nk

I work in an office full of health concious people.... They are the ones that often make me feel bad about what I am eating. Helps me stay on track.

lchovet

My co-worker has been on "the atkins" for years. For lunch he eats approximately a 1/2 pound of cheese, 1/2 pound of lunchmeat, and a couple celery sticks. His weight loss is currently on hold.

Hey we have one of those too. But its a she. Almost 10yrs she still looks the same.

dasaucywench

Mixed bag of lunches here, some healthy, some not so much. The one that gets me the most it the one who brings decent quality foods but a ton of it. She will sit and eat for her entire lunch HOUR...60minutes of eating! Just when I think she has finished, she is pulling something else out of the bottomless bag! Crazy!!

pallypunch

This is such an interesting question . . . . a solid percentage of my coworkers eat pretty healthy (they bring their lunches, actively use our kitchen, etc.). And when there are meetings over lunch, salads & sandwiches from Specialty's or someplace local are common. . . . (full disclosure- I live in the San Francisco Bay Area so overall people tend to be healthier & more active- I also work at a nonprofit so people are extremely aware of food issues & social issues- and some tend to be budget conscious).

I tend to be the biggest offender (and am one the larger people in the office). I am always pushing Chinese food or pizza (we do get pizza for all-staff events though, it's from Whole Foods, not sure that makes a difference though) at group meetings- and tend to go to Panda, Popeye's, Jamba or Taco Bell for lunch. . . .and am a fan of getting a snack in the mid-day.

I have to stop this though, my weight is an issue now and I need to lose weight.

jacque930

Most of our office contain healthy eaters... We are an office of about 15.
4 of us in our office are trying something new. We take one day each week and make something healthy and share with the other members of the group. I am tracking with MFP and the others are using WW. We are all supporting each other and have so far been successful in making better choices. We all have our days where a bad snack is eaten or do not have enough of the right food, but each day is a new day. Supporting each other has so far been very good for all of us in the office.

Also, the cooking for others once a week has provided us with new food choices! New Recipes!

LisaKunz

Ugh! Don't get me started!! Fried chicken, pies, fancy desserts, take-out, vending machine snacks, potlucks, froo-froo coffee drinks with whipped cream and chocolate, excessive alcohol (after work)... And then they complain that they can't lose weight. The thing that really gets me, though, is when they try to be the boss of what I eat, and announce to others that "Lisa had a big breakfast so she won't be having lunch." Really? Because my "big" breakfast was carefully planned and had less than 300 calories, but WAY more nutrients than YOU'RE getting all day. Don't tell me what I can and can't and should and shouldn't eat. I'm doing just fine, thank you. Isn't that obvious yet? I hate eating in our breakroom now. I'm sad to miss the socializing, but it ends up being a negative experience. Just as well. Leaves me plenty of time to squeeze in a walk!

junejadesky

I went to a work "happy hour" the other day and I work with a couple who is dating. They shared an app (biggest nachos I've ever seen) then they each had a burger and fries. On top of that they each had 3 tall beers (about 20 oz each). I was shocked at how much they ate and then complained that they didn't feel good after and had to go home early. Isn't it amazing how much we can put into our bodies and not think twice about it? I felt great having a grilled chicken sandwich with no bun and fruit on the side. I stuck to vodka and cranberry which is also low in calories. It did make me feel good about myself and a bit sick when I saw how much people put in to their bodies!!

sarahharmintx

My co-worker has been on "the atkins" for years. For lunch he eats approximately a 1/2 pound of cheese, 1/2 pound of lunchmeat, and a couple celery sticks. His weight loss is currently on hold.

Change "he" to "she" and this is it. "Take 7lbs of sausage and beef, wrap that in bacon and cheese then put it on the grill." And vomit. Now she is swearing she wont go over 1000 calories a day but works out for at least an hour.

Oh and my other neighbor- chain smokes, regular coke and take out every day. He is now slinging vitamins to improve his "healthy" lifestyle.

Other chick is "no sugar/low carb" but not atkins. Suzanne Summers I think. She has had some results but it still baffles me at the amount of calories I estimate her eating.

junejadesky

Good for you staying strong!!

daffodilsoup

I don't really pay attention to what my co-workers eat, but I am the only vegan in the office, so generally they comment a lot more on my lunch than I do on theirs.