Do People Get Annoyed With You Because You Count Calories?

Yes.

Christmas Eve 2009, to name one, my Mom...after several glasses of vino... called me the loving name, "Calorie Ho", Lmao. I guess Santa & Calorie inspired?! We joke to this day about it. But I'm fine with being a Calorie Ho. :laugh:

After two years of doing this, everyone is pretty used to my calorie preoccupations. I mean, I sure didn't get to this size by eating without knowing caloric values, that's for certain!!!

Yes I am OCD about counting everything... how many calories carbs etc... and then to top it off I count other ppls also...lol without them knowing it of course.... I do that because of wanting to see what other ppl are putting in their mouths and if its something i COULD possibly eat......but to me it keeps me going daily and keeps me on track.....

My boyfriend gets frustrated, and says I just need to relax, or he thinks that I don't want to spend time with him or something because I stop and count my calories after we go out.

Besides...you'd think people would be happy for you because your making healthy choices? But no... instead they get angry for some reason. I have no idea why. I think they believe they can eat whatever and lose weight solely through exercise. Though that may be the case for a few of my friends... I am not so blessed with a high metabolism so I have to work extra hard when it comes to eating better.

One friend, who is tiny, criticized it a lot until I told her that I didn't HAVE to track my food -- I could just go back to estimating things like I was doing when I gained about a hundred pounds. I straight out addressed it with her --telling her that with my thyroid disorder, I just don't have a margin of error anymore so estimating doesn't work for me. I told her that she's fortunate that she doesn't have to track so closely, but that for me, it's either track and stay healthy or not track and see all of my hard work fly out the window, a few pounds at a time. She stopped hassling me.

Most folks though, who've seen me shrink by almost a hundred pounds, comment something like, "I wish I had the discipline to do that. I know I need to .... btw, what app are you using?"

I'm more than comfortable with it all though. For me, its an advertisement for successfully transforming oneself from obese to healthy.

People get annoyed because I count THEIR calories. :devil:

I'm saddened by all the negative responses/reactions people get...I've only had one so far...when I first discovered MFP I mentioned it to a coworker (who is quite overweight and was most recently doing "nutrisystem")...she was a little intrigued but then a few days later told me I was too obsessed with counting calories, when I told her I had skipped my usual Friday AM Starbucks latte because I didn't want to drink 400 calories. Hm. Whatever. I just don't talk about it or log my foods when she's around.

Not everyone in my life knows that I'm calorie counting, but I've lost 20 lbs and it's become obvious, so sometimes people ask me about what I'm doing to get healthy, but I usually just say I'm eating healthy and exercising...it really doesn't come up that often, I don't eat out with friends alot and I just try to plan ahead for it. My immediate family (mom, grandmother, brother) has been super supportive--my brother comments and encourages my running program and my mother went to all the trouble of calculating how many calories were in the muffins she baked last weekend when I went to her place for lunch, she was worried I wouldn't want to eat it if it was "too much"...she also asked me if her choice for Mother's Day lunch (Gunther Toody's) would be somewhere that I could eat...I keep explaining that I can eat anything I want, within reason, and within healthy portions. Eventually people will see and understand that it's a lifestyle choice, not a diet.

I don't get too much grief, so far.... but I do have a few enablers that I have to deal with constantly who seem disappointed when I'm not stuffing my face. I think most people who are condescending toward people who count calories are really just insecure about their own eating habits.... its actually quite obviously true. The only people I see who have issues with my eating habits are people with bad habits, or too skinny to understand what it is like to have to monitor your food intake.

The worst thing that drives me nuts is the lack of understanding that a 1.5lb per week loss rate does not mean I am starving myself. Anytime I eat something that wouldn't be on a traditional diet (a couple slices of pizza or a small hamburger and fries.... bad stuff) I get a lot of grief by people who don't understand that it is perfectly reasonable for me to eat these things if I keep under my calorie limit.... they won't be able to argue with results.

I have had a few people tell me that I am obsessed. My response has become "Obsessed is just the word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated!" The person who usually tells me that I am obsessed is also trying to lose weight and always asks me how I have been losing weight regularly. I just figure that they just say I'm obsessed because they don't have the motivation to do it themselves. But I also have people who make comments like "are you ALLOWED to eat that?" when I decide to splurge and eat something that isn't 'healthy'. But I'm doing this for me so I really don't let those comments bother me.

an ex coworker used to get annoyed when he saw me counting the almonds I would eat, he would always tell me to stop lol

Yep, I am so meticulous about how many calories i am eating and the things i buy in the store and when talking about it to other people, they tend to get really annoyed with me...oh well...I'm losing weight and they're not! so there....lol!

funny you should write a post about this, i have noticed this a lot!

I haven't told anyone really, my kids know and my older sister but i haven't seen her since starting (different city) I think my kids are sometimes a little exasperated when I check the calories before deciding on how much I really want that biscuit but they know how unhappy the weight had made me so won't say anything. I'm brushing off on them tho, none of them have a weight problem (quite the opposite in fact) but they're now checking or asking about the calories in this that or the other. my 19 year old wants to maintain her weight (bmi 19) but tone up, my 16 year old (bmi below 17) wants to bulk up but nothing seems to be working and my 13 year old is trying to build up his biceps and a 6 pack so I'd say its a good thing. When anyone else notices (or admits they've noticed!) I may tell them but the way they've ignored mentioning my loss so far I may just keep schtum and keep them guessing as to how i'm doing it!

Well, I don't make it the center or focus of conversation. If I'm eating with friends, I mentally do some rough calculations in my head, make the best choices I can, and then add things in later. Nobody wants to hear about anyone else's diet. That's rule #1.

same. I dont do it from my phone, i wait till i get home to log stuff, but i can make rough calculations in my head if im out, or check the options online first if i know im going somewhere specific.
I think pointing out other peoples calorie intake is a bit rude, even if you think youre being helpful, and noones really interested in other peoples diets in real life

I suppose I'm lucky in that the girls I live with also want to lose weight, so we do it together, it makes eating out with them a lot more enjoyable because I'm not the only one choosing healthily or checking the calorie content on every item when we go food shopping

However, my best friend is a dancer and naturally very thin. She doesn't have to track calories at all and doesn't understand when I try to explain to her why I'm doing it. She gets mad if we're out and I'll search the menu for the lowest calorie option. She can eat anything she likes and not have to worry about it, I'm not sure she understands not everyone's body works that way. It can be very frustrating!

I am kinda obsessed with logging, but I see it as a VERY positive thing.....Like someone mentiond earlier, Im accountable for everything that goes in my mouth and more aware of the consequences.........