Does anyone else get made fun of?

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  • stessierere
    stessierere Posts: 11
    This occasionally happens to me; I have a work friend who is heavy. She has yet to compliment me ONCE on my weight loss. Not ONCE. However, she DOES encourage me to eat things I'm not eating anymore. I think the gentleman above hit the nail on the head when he said that some people enjoy the camaraderie of not being the only heavy person at work - so they will secretly sabotage you if you aren't careful. Others will secretly sabotage you so that they can maintain what they see as some sort of advantage over you (being thinner than you are). I'm not losing weight to get compliments from people or to gain their approval; I am losing weight for me. Don't worry about what people say. Continue to eat responsibly! You can absolutely reach your goal.
  • lyttlewon
    lyttlewon Posts: 1,118 Member
    No, but I don't take *kitten* from people.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    get used to it. Lol. it doesn't stop. They are trying to make themselves feel better about not being healthy.

    It doesn't bother me. I think being healthy is something to be proud of.
  • chelsealeigha
    chelsealeigha Posts: 4 Member
    Yes! This is part of my gage that is telling me that I am doing something right. I get that all the time. I work with 4 other women. Two of them were making comments at first. Next thing I know, one of them is going on a diet a month later. :bigsmile:
  • msafunk
    msafunk Posts: 163 Member
    Luckily, the office I work in is pretty small, and we're all pretty tight-knit. We have 3 vegetarians, and several people who just generally try to watch what they eat. The most I've gotten was a 'Aww... that looks so good and healthy! I feel bad about the hamburger I had today"

    The people I get it from the most are my boyfriend's brothers and friends. We say "No" more often to invites to get junk food or high-calorie dinners, so they're really starting to dig into us about not hanging out anymore. And when we do go out with them, and I order a low-calorie meal (especially the ones that have some sort of gimicky name like "No-blame veggie tacos"), they poke fun.

    Jokes really on them, though. I'm losing weight, and they've all gained a lot of weight this year. They keep trying to do things like the HRM diets, but as soon as they're done with the program, they balloon right back up.

    I just keep reminding myself of the quote
    "Right now, they'll ask why you're doing it, but when you're done, they'll ask how you did it"
  • RealWomenLovePitbulls
    RealWomenLovePitbulls Posts: 729 Member
    they are jealous and rude.
    i usually bring leftovers from whatever we had for dinner the night before, but i keep some quick things like frozen bean and cheese burritos in the freezer for days when we don't have leftovers or we went out or whatever and one day a girl at work told me i'm so skinny cuz i don't eat (as i was microwaving my dinner, chicken, rice and veggies- that's food to me, i eat lunch at work every single day, it just doesnt come out of the vending machine and i don't eat the junk they offer on certain occasions like cookies or cake, i don't like cake and i'm picky about my cookies, if it was something i wanted, i would eat it though)
    ANYWAY
    same girl who said i don't eat, then had to shut up when she saw my lunch was in the breakroom another day when i had a bean and cheese burrito and a fruit cup and she was like "it makes me so mad that you eat junk and lose weight" a bean burrito is not junk and neither is fruit... what is wrong with this girl??? and she says this as she's sitting there eating a candy bar and drinking a mountain dew... i told her, i don't eat junk, and when i do eat something like candy or ice-cream, i don't eat a lot of it at one time and I WORK OUT!!!
    she also made fun of the fact that my scrub pants are too big and sag in the butt... they did that before i lost any weight, thats just how scrubs are!
  • RainHoward
    RainHoward Posts: 1,599 Member
    No, but I don't take *kitten* from people.

    This, so so much this. Every time I read these threads (and there have been many ) I wonder two things; do you work with 12 year old girls and do you (generally speaking you) not have any cahones? Someone questions my food choices like that and I tell the to get stuffed. What I eat is my business and no one elses.
  • bluechip777
    bluechip777 Posts: 160 Member
    No, but I don't take *kitten* from people.

    me either! i can't believe people have to go through this BS!
  • Cassie8877
    Cassie8877 Posts: 177
    Yes. Reminds me of something I saw earlier today:

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    I'm a college student and a lot of people can be super judgmental about others who are trying to live a healthier lifestyle.


    I LOVE THIS!!!!!
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    On 9-14, our facility is throwing a BBQ for two hours. They sent a list around for people to sign up to bring in a dish to go with the BBQ - but the management team is grilling up hot-dogs and hamburgers.... Im talking the salt-lick-from-hell, box of hotdogs that you could melt the ice off of your car in the middle of winter.... And the burgers are the boxed variety, 12/1 ratio, cook'em up in 3 minutes flat or otherwise you have a sandpapery-hockey puck for a food-like item.

    I wrote on the sign up list that I would not be participating. One of the managers asked me why and I was brutally honest: We work for a large hospital/provider network and you are going to get the bottom-rung junk food items for a company BBQ that everyone is going to contribute nothing but junk-food and garbage food items... Any reason we couldnt cook fresh chicken breasts for those that dont want to eat chemically enhanced boxed product? They were stunned hearing that but, damnit its the truth! I said to them its better that I dont participate because of too many allergies and sensitivities that I am medically dealing with and I would much rather eat healthy, than become a patient that day.

    The last potluck we did last month, I could not participate except for the large vegetable platter I made along with a fresh-made roasted onion garden vegetable dip... it wasnt even a popular item and I work with nothing but women! I brought in 10# of fresh cut vegetables and I took home 9# remaining... just sad.
  • WVprankster
    WVprankster Posts: 430 Member
    Most of my co-workers are supportive of my choices since they've seen the entire process of changing myself. I can remember, though, the one- and I mean one- time the "new guy" derided me about my diced chicken breast tortilla wrap lunch. I told him that his wife preferred men who had the dedication and devotion to try to change themselves to better thier family and thier...relationship...*deliberate wink* to stick to a fitness regimen. He kept his trap shut after that.

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