My coworkers are making fun of my healthy eating habits

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

Similar. Some think i'm weird for eating cottage cheese and hard boiled egg lol and others are super impressed with the commitment i've made to eating healthy!

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

Not weird at all. In fact, it sounds delicious

I used to work at a fruit stand and we would eat whole tomatoes like they were apples when there were breaks in between customers. I miss that job.

I get the peppers. I like them, too. But wouldn't the tomatoes be....squishy? Like, how do you bite into that without getting tomato all over your chin?

Very carefully. I suck out all the juice first.

That would work, now that I think about it.

My work is the opposite. Everyone is on a crash diet of some sort - mainly the Ideal Protein Diet. If they aren't talking about what they can't eat they are watching what everyone else/each other eats. It drives me crazy. God forbid you have a "treat" or something they think isn't healthy. Ugh. Over Christmas the chocolates etc. that clients would bring in would be set in the main office. You know that every time you took a biscuit or a chocolate that they were watching and would comment. I helped myself anyway and I guess it kept me on track but I refuse to feel guilty for eating anything (I spent too many years depriving myself).

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Very carefully. I suck out all the juice first.

Vampire! (That reminds me of the Bunnicula books when I was a kid.)

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

Mine tease me too.. they shut up when they realized how much thinner I am.. and how much more awake and happy I am than them. LOL

don't worry about it.. just smile and tell them to enjoy their twizzlers and m&ms. (that's what mine eat LOL)

lol i bring shelled nuts and a nutcracker to my desk.. I also eat grape tomatoes and berries straight out of the container at my desk. LOL I get that spring mix and add feta and tomatoes to it and eat it too sans dressing. Talk about looks. LOL

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

lool dried orange peels, thats pretty bizarre, its like the rubbish part of a fruit.

I'd have to say if I saw someone bite into a tomato/green pepper like its an apple I would probably be like lol wtf.

maybe take a knife, so you can cut up your tomato, or its there when you finally snap and need something to decapitate people with.

stay strong. :P

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

lool dried orange peels, thats pretty bizarre, its like the rubbish part of a fruit.

I'd have to say if I saw someone bite into a tomato/green pepper like its an apple I would probably be like lol wtf.

maybe take a knife, so you can cut up your tomato, or its there when you finally snap and need something to decapitate people with.

stay strong. :P

haha.. I eat peppers and tomatoes like they are apples. LOL too funny. lol

Vampire! (That reminds me of the Bunnicula books when I was a kid.)

I LOVED those books!!! I probably still have them at moms! I think it was a cartoon too.. and what was that vegetarian vampire duck cartoon?? oh gosh.. that cartoon was soo funny too! Count Duckula right?? LOLOL


EDIT:

.You should put a sign up on your door at work proclaiming your name to be Bunnicula!! LOL or Count Duckula! Laugh at yourself right along with them! LOLOL I would totally do that.. LOL

Yeah, I get the same thing at my work. haha. I'm definitely the "weird" one. I'm vegan and I eat extremely healthy like 80% of the time and people even think my stir-fry with tofu is weird, or meals with a large variety of veggies in it. Little do they know, I eat WAY weirder at home... like green smoothies with swiss chard, spinach, spirulina, flax, and fruit blended together. Dates, raw seeds, nutritional yeast, maca powder, hemp protein powder, etc. Now that's the kind of stuff I keep within my home so people don't make fun of me. I really shouldn't care, since everyone knows I eat healthy and have lost a large amount of weight.. but I still feel embarrassed when people talk about it as if I'm crazy.

Just keep doing your thing! You're better off with your healthy habits!

@Herbivore- Have you always been vegetarian or did you switch to a vegetarian lifestyle to get healthy?

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

lool dried orange peels, thats pretty bizarre, its like the rubbish part of a fruit.

I'd have to say if I saw someone bite into a tomato/green pepper like its an apple I would probably be like lol wtf.

maybe take a knife, so you can cut up your tomato, or its there when you finally snap and need something to decapitate people with.

stay strong. :P

haha.. I eat peppers and tomatoes like they are apples. LOL too funny. lol

Vampire! (That reminds me of the Bunnicula books when I was a kid.)

I LOVED those books!!! I probably still have them at moms! I think it was a cartoon too.. and what was that vegetarian vampire duck cartoon?? oh gosh.. that cartoon was soo funny too! Count Duckula right?? LOLOL

LOVED Bunnicula!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha

People need to mind their own business. What you do is YOUR business and not theirs. I hate that. Honestly, knowing myself, I would say JUST THAT! It's MY BUSINESS what I eat, you pay attention to YOU. That should really get them to be quiet. People ARE jealous -it's only the unhealthy ppl who will find the way you eat as weird.

What I have always found as odd is when someone is healthy they are called a "health nut" - why does the word, "nut" have to be there for that. And when they workout, they are referred to as "workout freaks". And when they have a clean and in order home or office desk they are referred to as, "clean freak". Why are they, "freaks"? What's odd is when people do what they are suppose to do, they are called, "nuts or freaks". When people are lazy, sloppy, eat badly and don't work out, no one says anything. It seems the "the way you SHOULDN'T be", is now the norm with people today. Here is what i get a lot, I smile often (I don't know why, habit I guess) and sometimes when I talk I smile out loud, meaning I throw in a laugh with it (like when I say hi to people). People always have to comment on "why are you so happy?" or "What's so funny?". I say, nothing, I'm just happy. I mean aren't we suppose to be happy, do I need an excuse to be happy? It is just that I am HAPPY! But when I am sad, or not smiling, no one asks why I am not smiling.

We need to regroup on what is good and stop thinking of it as, "weird".

I get the peppers. I like them, too. But wouldn't the tomatoes be....squishy? Like, how do you bite into that without getting tomato all over your chin?

I buy cherry tomatoes - gorgeous and sweet - and one bite at a time ;-)

i love cherry tomatoes... I can eat the whole box in one afternoon