Who do they think they are

I have worked on committing myself to being healthy for the last 6 months. For the first time in 28 years I started working out and eating right. Yes, obviously I count my calories. Yes, obviously I am very conscious of what I put in my body. Not because I'm a nut but because I care. But what sucks is when people make me out to be a nut.

My work likes to have food days as often as possible. This is the second one this month and I decided that this time I wasn't going to participate. I have had to refuse going to lunch with people in the past and now I've had to stop participating in food days. Not because I'm a jerk, I try to make my intentions clear, but because I simply don't want to eat those things. There's nothing wrong with that.

But today, they crossed the line. They asked if I was going to be eating since I hadn't brought anything and I said no. Well everyone just became completely appauled and explained all the ingredients they used in their food was low fat, non fat, low carb, etc, etc. When I declined again one of the girls said, are we going to have to have an intervention about your eating disorder. (insert record skipping here).............................and rant approaching.

Just because I don't want to shove everything in my mouth that's available to me and just because I've been refusing to eat fast food and take out doesn't mean I have an eating disorder. It took me 6 months to lose 16 pounds. 6 months. And it's been really hard for me. But I got here by cleaning up my diet and working my *kitten* off and it hurts my feelings equally as much as it makes me mad that they have the gull to judge me.

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