Do People Get Annoyed With You Because You Count Calories?

My sister was most unimpressed with the iPhone app; "When you can take a photo of your plate of food, and have the phone work out the calories in it, THEN I'll be impressed!" she said.

that is actually hilarious! I think when that day comes, I might actually consider buying an iPhone!

Actually, it kind of bugs me when others do it and that's because I should be doing it. I'm pretty sure that's the real reason behind most of the issues people have with those that count calories and use websites and apps and stuff to stay on track. It's a reminder that I'm not doing enough.

Planning has always been the hardest part for me to accept and carry through on. It just has to be done and I have to keep on doing it. In detail. Otherwise, I'm off the rails. That's all there is to it.

There's an old quote that you hear all the time in WW: If you don't plan to succeed, plan to fail. Well...I've failed enough diets that I'm willing to concede the point. As soon as I stop planning, the diet stops and so does my weight loss.

I'm pretty much done with other people's opinions about my body, which is one of the main reasons, paradoxically, that I'm back at it again. Really tired of the looks, the comments, the veiled disapproval. Just want to be normal. I realize that on the inside, I never will be normal. I'll always have to track and plan. That's just my reality. If someone else doesn't like it? Tough. I'm almost 50. I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks. I knit too. So sue me.

Maybe something like, "haha ok, so I'm addicted to staying healthy, at least it's not as bad as other addictions. I appreciate you looking out for me. Now I know that you won't hold back if I decide to take up a crack habit." Lol. Something like that. They're probably just worried about you getting "too obsessed" or something but they just don't understand that this is now a part of your (healthy) lifestyle.

...That... is GENIUS!

I get the speach oh ' no you can't eat that, because you are on a diet'
I tell them I'm not on a diet, I'm on a healthy eating plan and I choose what I eat wisely

Nope, cause I never talk about it, I just do it! The only people I mention it to are those who I know are also on a healthy eating plan like me.

Yep.... and I'm SICK of it. Yes. I am counting calories. Get over it already.

I am amazed at all of the responses about negative reactions people have experienced!

When I get my phone out at a restaurant or in the car on the way to the restaurant, I'll usually explain to whomever I'm with that I'm counting calories, so I'm going to figure out what I can eat before I order, and I've gotten nothing but positive responses: "Oh, that's great!" "I should probably start doing that!" "It's amazing how many calories some of the meals at this restaurant have", etc.

I'm sorry that so many of y'all have had bad experiences. Keep on truckin'... Or come out to lunch with me!

I have a couple of people who do that . My reply to them is this "Its my life I will live it the way I want so please don't tell me how to live it. I don't tell you how to live yours" Enough said.

... I ate a cookie and grabbed my phone to enter the calories in the app...

This is what got me motivated to stay on track - tracking my intake. I try not to be obvious - I turn away for a minute while I enter the food - but I try to do it as soon as I can either before, during, or after.

Just tracking that cookie (at 370 calories!) made me stop eating cookies as a snack.

And tracking my other intake and seeing the sodium and cholesterol levels has been helping me make better choices.

I don't think I'm obnoxious in how I'm tracking my food, and I don't announce it to anyone. If people want to get annoyed - let them. They're not the ones that made me overweight, and they're not the ones who will help me lose weight.

My guy is getting a little frustrated with it. He loves the results, he would rather not hear about how it's done though. I have just been keeping quiet about it the last week or so. I haven't talked about the weight loss stuff to many people, just to those who asked. I will just let my success speak for itself.

Yeah. It's so ****ing annoying.

No body knows that I do but I have this one friend is is tall and slim so she can eat whatever she wants and has called me fat before and if I eat something around her, she goes oh you will get fat if you eat that, it does hurt, my boy friend thinks that I don't eat so he doesn't know that I count calories otherwise he would get very pissed off because he thinks that I'm to skinny.

No, they get annoyed/upset with me when I go on about how much I love whole foods & clean eating

I'm always on my BlackBerry so most people probably haven't noticed... But a couple people I've told have scoffed at either my calorie intake (insinuating I'm starving myself - I am NEVER hungry. I have over 1600 cals a day) or the fact I'm trying to get fit at all.

People need to mind their own business. If it's what's healthy for you you're going to do whatever you need to

Sometimes I am asked, how can you do this? They would say they couldn't do it. Which either way I know I have to if I ever want to be a healthy weight.

I must thank you for your comment about being thin and still tracking. I unfortunately, have to admit that my husband, bless his heart, tracks his food too because I showed him the app and he was doing it out of support for me and to trim down a little. When he has a bad food day, I just tell him he is thin anyway and that he doesn't have to worry.... I think I say it because I am jealous that he weighs less then I do and that it is embarrassing to not only be older than him, but also wider. I think I need to be more sensitive to his needs as well. He had lost a lot of weight before and he too needs to make sure it doesn't come back.