Food Sabotage At Work
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Love the reference to Beastie Boys.
Several songs can be added to this thread: Fight for your right, Lighten up, So What’cha Want.0 -
“I’m as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce.”0
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Bring your own healthy snacks, chew gum, suck on sugar-free hard candy & drink lots of water!
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That's not sabotage. People do sometimes try to sabotage a dieter, but that's just do-workers bringing in treats, which is nice and thoughtful, IMO.
Don't look at is not being able to have it. Look at it as your choice. You have chosen not to eat the junk. Be proud of that choice. Think about how you're being good to your body. Feel lucky that you no longer eat things that aren't good for you.
After a while, it gets easier to turn these things down. You may even get to a point where you're honestly glad and proud of yourself. 0 -
I bring grapes, an apple and a Quest bar to work with me everyday. I try to eat that. If there's something else here that's equally as delicious and I really want, I eat it. So I go a little over 1 day, or I spend a little extra time at the gym. No biggie. Don't make it an everyday thing and you'll be fine.0
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lauraripson wrote: »I bring grapes, an apple and a Quest bar to work with me everyday. I try to eat that. If there's something else here that's equally as delicious and I really want, I eat it. So I go a little over 1 day, or I spend a little extra time at the gym. No biggie. Don't make it an everyday thing and you'll be fine.
Please let me know how the Quest bars taste. You can send me a message. Are they cardboard like, gritty etc?
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I SO feel your pain on this. Mostly everyone in my office is overweight and out of shape. I mostly just look at my coworkers themselves, and I think to myself "I want to look better and feel healthy". This was how I won the battle today. The office event had tons of pizza, but I didn't eat a bite. I opted for the lunch I'd brought in today, and I sought out the healthy snacks to munch on.0
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OP: Sometimes I just visualize that the plate of cookies / box of donuts had something really gross happen to it before it was put out on the counter. Or I imagine that it has bugs. Somehow I just make it unappetizing in my mind... then it's easier to resist the temptation.0
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I think i used to be one of the evil saboteurs! My kids love to bake with me, but i'll eat way too much if its sat around at home so once they've eaten all they want i offload the excess at work/on family/send it home with the kids friends if they're round
I sympathise with you OP. I had to leave the office job to avoid everyone else's contributions to my spare tyre...i have v little willpower when someones fab home baking is sat within 6ft of my desk..........and i was bored.............and ooooh there are brownies left! go on then
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You just don't eat it. Simple.
I used to bring all of my food in my 6pack bag which keeps it all cold at my desk. I never needed to walk into the kitchen unless I needed to use the microwave.
If people were offering food and I couldn't swing it would just turn them down. Most days I couldnt because I'd prelog all of my food for that day.
Many of the women in the office would be b*^%chy about it, because I'd say no. They eventually just stopped offering it all together. Many a time were they setting out trays of brownies, cupcakes, cookies, etc. And offering them while giving me a mean stare from across the room as I stared at my monitor, you know, working.
The only thing that sucks with this method is you will probably receive nasty comments "oh, you know she won't eat that!", or "Don't ask her if she wants to order out for lunch. She's on some diet". Etc. There will be days when you wish they would ask if you wanted to chip in for pizza.
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It sure was hard resisting those goodies when I first started this a couple years ago. I hardly even notice them now. Once you start just saying no thanks, it gets easier and easier over time. Having healthy snacks on hand helped a lot in those early days. I still keep snacks in my desk, but I no longer feel like I must eat something just because I saw a glazed doughnut (my old nemesis). And, if someone brings something in that I feel is worth the calories, I have a some and make it fit. It's all about choice and personal accountability for me.0
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If they fit your macros, consume at will, if not don't. Either way don't use it as an excuse because it is not a good one.0
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It's NOT sabotage unless they are telling you it's less calories than it really is. It can be "enticing" to eat, but overall YOU make the decision to eat the food or not.
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Food sabotage implies that they are messing with your food to make it worse for you. Other people have lives too. They can bring in and eat whatever they want. You have to be the big girl and not eat it if it conflicts with your goals. What's next, credit card sabotage because someone brings in a purse from Saks that you can't afford?!0
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jearehart30 wrote: »Tell yourself "I will let them all eat their pieces first". Then decide if you still want a piece. Most likely you will not. I myself work in an office and this is what I do. Usually after the junk is ate by my coworkers they are complaining about how they wish they didn't. Guess what I am always glad I didn't!! You will be too!! Hang in there and get pass the moment. Sometimes I think we say "yes" only to not be left out. I don't know about you, but I will be glad when weigh in time comes that I said "no".....The time of the weigh in will be my "YESSSSS" time!!!
I just started doing that, letting everyone get what they want first. If there still something left at the end of my shift, then maybe I'll have it. I work at a long term care facility, so families will be starting to bring in "goodies" for us for the holidays. It would be nice if we'd get a fruit basket instead of cookies.0 -
It is so difficult to eat healthy at my office. Someone is always bringing in fresh homebaked goods, leftover halloween candy, birthday cake, etcetera. What are some ways that you've successfully navigated healthy eating while at work?
I dont eat it....
They all know I dont eat that stuff but they bring it in anyway. Today, they brought in Starbucks coffee and pastries....I only had the coffee.0 -
I've spent 3 years in an office with 130 staff. There's a morning tea with cakes etc every time someone has a baby, a birthday, is leaving, has just started, got a promotion, or found the photocopying room. You get the idea. Not to mention the social club lunches once a month, the last one was pizza.
You know what I call this? LIFE. It's up to you what you put in your body, and what your end result will be. I bring my lunch every day. I grab a coffee and go talk to people at the morning tea's. I don't touch the food, ever. There are others who don't as well, it's fine. It's no different to going to family's place for afternoon tea for someones birthday. Yes thank you to a coffee, and ignore the food. Simples.0 -
So far today I've been offered a muffin, some lemon slice and a latte. I've said no to each. This isn't sabotage, it's life. Just because we decide to make a change doesn't mean we can expect others to change or that them doing the same thing they've always done is sabotage.
Keeping snacks in your desk, working a treat into your calories or simply saying no are all strategies to deal with the temptations. The one thing you can't do is expect others to change to suit you.0 -
Just say no0
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It is so difficult to eat healthy at my office. Someone is always bringing in fresh homebaked goods, leftover halloween candy, birthday cake, etcetera. What are some ways that you've successfully navigated healthy eating while at work?
By flexing my discipline and ignoring the stuff brought in.0 -
I'd fire anyone who did that.BrianSharpe wrote: »I "accidentally" trip and knock the cake on the floor so that no one can eat it
I seriously hope that you're joking, it would take a special kind of jerk to ruin other people's enjoyment because he or she lacked willpower.......
To the OP....it's just a matter planning your food and sticking to the plan (your plan should allow you to have a little treat now and again, depriving yourself only makes things harder than they need to be)
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0somuchbetter0 wrote: »It is so difficult to eat healthy at my office. Someone is always bringing in fresh homebaked goods, leftover halloween candy, birthday cake, etcetera. What are some ways that you've successfully navigated healthy eating while at work?
All those things can be incorporated into a healthy diet. I don't understand the question.
For some people, unhealthy treats can be trigger foods. Speaking for myself, if I start nibbling on our receptionists' bowl of chocolates (mentioned above), I'll end up buying Oreos and Snickers from the vending machine.
What is unhealthy about chocolate?
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It is so difficult to eat healthy at my office. Someone is always bringing in fresh homebaked goods, leftover halloween candy, birthday cake, etcetera. What are some ways that you've successfully navigated healthy eating while at work?
I feel lucky - I work with all women who are relatively conscious of calories and treats, thus my office doesn't have that many. We have a bowl of candy up front that we all try to avoid to varying degrees of success.
So, beyond feeling happy about my office situation - advice wound be, avoid the break room like the plague, pretend the food from other peoples homes is contaminated, bring plenty of your own treats.
In the end, if you really want it, have it, but then really think about the flavor, texture, nutrient factors and decide if it is worth it the next time. Most the time if I do indulge, I am really picky, it has to be worth either the workout, the upset stomach, not eating something later. I love rich foods, but most the time I can't stomach them. If it's baked goods, I love those too, but most the office goodies are dry, over done, or just the run of the mill cookie. Meh, if I want a baked treat, it had better be awesome, fresh, buttery, and an existence. Candy is fine, but is it the really good stuff? If it's just the normal everyday candy, I will pass so I can have Belgian chocolate at a later date.
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This is why for my next job, I'm going to just lie and say that too many carbs cause abdominal pain and frequent trips to the toilet. I just can't be bothered with all of the junk food in offices and subtle/non-subtle pressure to eat someone's home baked cooking.0
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Yeah, it's hard to say no thanks, I guess.0
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