Co-workers Offering Food...

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  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    plain and simple, you say, nope, i am on a healthkick.
  • My0WNinspiration
    My0WNinspiration Posts: 1,146 Member
    LOOK Bishhh, I said NO....walk away
  • mandy_lee86
    mandy_lee86 Posts: 103 Member
    I'm in the same boat.... It makes it hard when you're brain is saying you're hungry.
  • Fredrigo
    Fredrigo Posts: 134 Member
    There will always be some people who just don't understand some people need to watch what they eat but if your consistent you do get help.

    More than once now I've been out with friends and while one doesn't understand why I keep declining the appetizer he ordered another friend just jumped in and told him to stop asking because I was just being polite and it was obvious I just couldn't eat what he was offering.
  • kacowgill99
    kacowgill99 Posts: 43 Member
    Ha, this made me laugh because I am always the one on the other side of this situation. I work in an office of 4 people and I am usually the one to make a lunch run. So in order to be polite (from my perspective) I always ask everyone if they would like something from the place I go pick up lunch. The participation is in spurts...sometimes everyone wants something for a long period of time, and other times one or two people go on a long streak of "No, thank you."

    So (from past experience), I always continue to ask because the one time I thought I was doing them a favor by not "tempting" them, I get a dirty look followed by "Hey! Why didn't you ask me what I wanted??!?!?!"

    So now it is kind of a routine around lunch time to pass around a list and if someone doesn't want it they just pass it on.

    On a side note, this only applies occasionally at breakfast and each day at lunch time. I agree it is annoying (but, delicious) when someone brings in cookies, brownies, or cake and leaves it in the common area all day long. Also there is a HUGE candy bowl on our reception desk that is always full of little no-no's...gotta steer clear of that!
  • MsCarlalalala
    MsCarlalalala Posts: 90
    Happens to me everyday. Funny how the minute people found out I was trying to lose weight they started pushing food at me. The person I share an office with has the worst eating habits and now makes fun of what I eat for lunch, calling it rabbit food, or announcing to others that " Carla's on a diet" even though I never said a word to him about it. People just leave food on my desk without even asking. I pick it up and ask my co worker if he wants it, if not it goes in the trash. The person I go to lunch with will ask if I want something she has not once or twice, but three or four times until I get exasperated loudly declare NO I don't want any.
    I don't know what makes people do this, but I will not allow them to sabotage my plan.
  • BamBam125
    BamBam125 Posts: 229 Member
    Just keep saying no.


    Eventually they'll get it.

    No, they won't! ;) I keep saying no. I get all kinds of, "Come on, it's just one cupcake!" "Ohhh, Jen's being goooooooood." (Sarcastically.) "You're so skinny, you need to eat!" Ad nauseum. It's annoying. It sucks. In the past year, all of a sudden my weight and eating habits are apparently for public consumption. But, I keep saying no. Sometimes, I do let myself have a treat here and there, although sometimes that starts a bad backslide.

    I think there is an important difference between asking politely and pushing. The former is considerate, but what you describe is rude and possibly creating a hostile work environment (especially the comments on your body). Have you mentioned it to your supervisor and let him/her know how it makes you uncomfortable? Management should not allow this sort of negative pushy culture to develop if they care for their employees.

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