Any strange looks/comments about your healthy habits?

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  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    I've had checkers at markets tell me that I buy a lot of fruits and veggies and ask me if I'm vegetarian despite the top round roast and giant packages of chicken breasts and thighs that they scanned first.

    haha! ok. this has happened to me too! I forgot about it.

    One time a friend of mine came over and opened my fridge to get a beer. The precariously stacked vegetables that were hiding the beer decided to attack him upon opening the door. He asked me if I had enough vegetables as we rinsed and put back in the fridge (after fishing out beer of course) I told him the guard vegetables have been trained to attack anyone looking for beer and that was my master plan to avoid the avoid alcohol and eat healthier. LOL
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,121 Member
    My roommate today as watching me weigh my chicken tenders. She said it wasn't enough food. I told her it was enough for me that it was a full serving. (I think she missed me weighing my fries. You barely get any of those! :laugh: )
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Oh yeah check out cashiers. Some of them look visibly stressed when I show up with a bunch of fruit and veg that they have to weigh and enter garbage codes for. Don't even think of the more exotic ones that it takes them five minutes to find. Well *I* don't want to do it either so don't look at me - I ain't going to the self checkout. I mean come on, isn't this how we're supposed to be eating :ohwell:
  • KimberlyinMN
    KimberlyinMN Posts: 302 Member
    Most of my coworkers don't say anything, but for those that have, it has just been a very polite observation. Like "You are so disciplined with what you eat!" That was when a big group of us had gone to Olive Garden and I ordered a little plate of something from a placard on the table. It was only $3.50 (and it came with salad and bread sticks). I gave my salad plate and bread stick plate to someone else who ordered an appetizer as I didn't want need them. Anyhow, I ended up taking HALF of my little meal back to the office for the next day. It was good, but I just don't eat much.

    One of our grocery stores has a really nice salad bar... and sometimes my salad container, including the salad dressing, only costs me about $1.65. The person who weighs it typically asks me if I even have anything in the container! :) I just say "Oh yeah, I just don't eat much." A little lettuce, a lot of grilled chicken, ham, etc, cheese, nuts, etc.

    We go to bed around 9 pm as the alarm goes off right before 5 am. Even on the weekends, I'm typically up around 6 am. (We consider that sleeping in.
  • Tontoterra
    Tontoterra Posts: 2
    Daily, as I opt-out of the common middle Tennessee breakfast fare of a Sundrop and a Honeybun.
    More when I reach for my device to log my food intake during breaks instead of Zantac, Nexium, cigarettes, and more Sundrop.
  • pita7317
    pita7317 Posts: 1,437 Member
    Bread. I am VERY picky with it.
    Prefer not to eat it at all but if I do...it must be perfect.
    People cannot believe my "no thanks" option.
    Everyone thinks bigger is better these days.
  • kaaaaylee
    kaaaaylee Posts: 398
    I am a management consultant with a large national bank as my client. Their health insurance requires that they undergo a screening and if any of their stats are out of the healthy category they are not entitled to their full health insurance discount. They can do other activities that allows them to "gain points" to get their full discount like walking with a pedometer, etc. So every time the health assessment time rolls around, I have to kind of chuckle. There's a fairly large woman who wears shape-ups and complains she needs to lose 20 pounds to get her discount as she heads over to the candy bowl 20 times a day. There have been others who have asked me to wear their pedometers out on a run so they can get their step points. And people who make the "you're just naturally skinny" comments to me. And I hear myself repeating all the time, " Damnit, I worked hard for this body! I count everything I eat and workout, there is nothing natural about this!" They usually just won't hear any of it. On the flip side, I have had numerous people ask that I start a blog on my lunches and cooking for the young, single 20 something in the big corporate world.

    I'm a young, single 20 something in the big corporate world and would LOVE to read a food blog catered at me. But really.

    Wanna be MFP friends?
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Oh yeah check out cashiers. Some of them look visibly stressed when I show up with a bunch of fruit and veg that they have to weigh and enter garbage codes for. Don't even think of the more exotic ones that it takes them five minutes to find. Well *I* don't want to do it either so don't look at me - I ain't going to the self checkout. I mean come on, isn't this how we're supposed to be eating :ohwell:

    haha I know, I have seen the same thing a zillion times. I'm actually puzzled though because my first couple years of college I was a supermarket cashier and within about a month I was really used to all of the produce codes...and it was probably 1 in 10 shoppers who had a crapload of produce and fresh herbs and so on...but not THAT rare! This was back in the mid 90s too...so I don't know what is going on with cashiers today.
  • Rokoye83
    Rokoye83 Posts: 15 Member
    My coworkers tease me all the time for weighing and logging my food. However, I have gotten one of them to start juicing! Yay for small victories :)
  • lsorci919
    lsorci919 Posts: 772 Member
    I did at first from my husband and his friends but now they are all used to it. although I do get the comments now like "did you measure and log that?"

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