The diet sabatogers
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yeah we work our booties off and did our research youd think people would listen when they ask what we do and we tell them, Vs the infamous eyes glazing over and topic changes.
Guess some people dont want it half as bad as they claim.
I do find it funny when she slaps "bad food" out of my hands when we shop, after she had just finished putting butter in my coffee....0 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »My co worker probably only seen me once in a while and if she did see me eating it was probably something she put on her "bad foods" list
If someone says something like "oh you probably don't eat stuff like this..." I will take some every time just because I'm contrary that way.
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I think some people are unintentionally sabotagers. They want you to enjoy and partake, and generally mean well but just have no real clue. Prove them wrong, silently, and do what you know works.3
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kommodevaran wrote: »Take control over your own food intake. No foods are "fattening" or "unhealthy", diets are more or less healthy, and you gain weight by consistently eating more than you burn. Understanding these simple things made me immune to "sabotage".
THIS.
Excess calories are fattening. A piece of candy won't cause anyone to immediately pack on weight.
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I'm going to England to visit my family for 3 weeks and I am worried that my mum will 'gently push' fast food on us every night while we are there, thinking it's a nice treat for us! It's going to be hard being a guest in someone's home and still trying to have control over my food choices. I had it in my mind that she might try to 'sabotage' me, but reading this thread makes me realise I can only sabotage myself.
So I'm hoping to go grocery shopping while we're there and fill her fridge with foods/snacks we like, and if she wants to 'treat us to dinner', I will look up healthier options that I can suggest instead of Pizza Hut and McDonald's (though I am planning to eat those too, just not every other day). I think Subway delivers in England, I'll have to check.5 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »yeah we work our booties off and did our research youd think people would listen when they ask what we do and we tell them, Vs the infamous eyes glazing over and topic changes.
Guess some people dont want it half as bad as they claim.
I do find it funny when she slaps "bad food" out of my hands when we shop, after she had just finished putting butter in my coffee....
LOL..
I always enjoy the whole bad food mentality... like.. i will eat a cookie or whatever and ill hear all the hens clucking at work going "I cant believe she lost all that weight and still eats cookies"
... well duh... Cookie is only 150 Calories
It's not like im spooning 4000 calories worth of pure lard into my mouth and then bathing in the remainder like some crazy fat gaining ritual..
Those same hens tell me they can't lose weight cause they work nights and eating at night makes you fat...
...Right... okay... cause i forgot the moons gravitational pull with the earth is total fat storage mode
When the moon is out, the body stores fat.. does a fuller moon mean more fat gain? i should ask them
Youve quickly become one of my favorite people in the forums 0 -
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I work for a small company. 11 employees and that includes the owners. Only 3 of us in the office on a day to day basis. The other 2 have seen me lose the weight, and both have commented after routine doctor visits about how they need to lose weight. They know I walk every day. They know I use the food scale. I don't offer any info/advice unless asked, as a general rule, and they don't ask. One does get out and walk sometimes at lunch. I am constantly in the kitchen. They probably get the impression that I eat all day. (Well, sort of true.)
I can imagine it might perplex them lol. But if they ask, I will point them to MFP and explain the whole CICO theory.
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I get candy from a man in my work he is a good man.6
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[quote=".....how do you handle the diet sabatogers in your life? [/quote] the only sabotager is me. I chose what i eat, no one forces me to eat it. I take responsibilities for my actions. Sure it can't help when people tempt you or fill the cupboards full of junk in the weekly shopping but at the end of the day it's us that decide to eat it
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If it's your wifeor SO who cooks for you, then talk tothem. If it's someone around who doesn't prepare your food, be polite and decline. "No, thanks" really works. So does, it's ok, not now, or I eat already, or I'm not hungry. Use your imagination. No one is literally forcing it down your throat. So it's still your choice.0
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JaydedMiss wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I think labeling people as sabotagers is kind of pointless... Just because you've made it a point to announce weight loss goals and plans doesn't mean everyone has to not offer you things or keep their mouth shut on opinions they have no matter how wrong we think they are. Thats life, you're going to find those traits anywhere, any choice you choose to make with your own body, someone else is going to think you should do it differently.
In the end you just say "oh okay" to what they say and carry on doing what youre doing.
They dont need to know if you actually took their advice, you don't need to try and convince them of different, you also don't need to eat what they offer you. Most times i say no to things and say im not hungry and maybe if i am hungry later i will come and ask them for some.. or just say maybe another time.. its all choice at this point right, i could have people knocking on my door offering me chocolates at valentines day, i could take those boxes, doesn't mean i have to open them and eat them, or i could say thank you for thinking of me but no thanks all the same.
My aunt truely is a sabotager XD i asked for a black coffee-went to pee- she got me a triple triple...They exist xD
My team is in the middle of a health kick. We started taking walking meetings and workout ~30 mins/day. We sill bring in donuts and snacks, but it's all in moderation and in good spirits. This is part of having a healthy relationship with food and having long term success in health and weight management.
Luckily I don't have @JaydedMiss aunt who is truly acting as a saboteur....seriously you should film and post this behavior. That is some crazy stuff.0 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I think labeling people as sabotagers is kind of pointless... Just because you've made it a point to announce weight loss goals and plans doesn't mean everyone has to not offer you things or keep their mouth shut on opinions they have no matter how wrong we think they are. Thats life, you're going to find those traits anywhere, any choice you choose to make with your own body, someone else is going to think you should do it differently.
In the end you just say "oh okay" to what they say and carry on doing what youre doing.
They dont need to know if you actually took their advice, you don't need to try and convince them of different, you also don't need to eat what they offer you. Most times i say no to things and say im not hungry and maybe if i am hungry later i will come and ask them for some.. or just say maybe another time.. its all choice at this point right, i could have people knocking on my door offering me chocolates at valentines day, i could take those boxes, doesn't mean i have to open them and eat them, or i could say thank you for thinking of me but no thanks all the same.
My aunt truely is a sabotager XD i asked for a black coffee-went to pee- she got me a triple triple...They exist xD
My team is in the middle of a health kick. We started taking walking meetings and workout ~30 mins/day. We sill bring in donuts and snacks, but it's all in moderation and in good spirits. This is part of having a healthy relationship with food and having long term success in health and weight management.
Luckily I don't have @JaydedMiss aunt who is truly acting as a saboteur....seriously you should film and post this behavior. That is some crazy stuff.
honestly i may just slip my phone audio recorder on and video one of her rants ....its pretty messed up that shes in charge of the school lunch program for hundreds of kids if she thinks the way she does about food truely XD it just has to be a jealousy thing...3 -
My work is grazing central. Kitchen was full of donut holes this morning. Yesterday, PBJ sandwiches. Fortunately my coworkers aren't pushers. Practice, practice, practice saying 'Aww, thanks but not right now.' Don't even waver in their presence. Solidly in my head, the food I make and bring myself is the only food that exists. Everything else tastes like ashes and worms. Ashes and worms.
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My work is grazing central. Kitchen was full of donut holes this morning. Yesterday, PBJ sandwiches. Fortunately my coworkers aren't pushers. Practice, practice, practice saying 'Aww, thanks but not right now.' Don't even waver in their presence. Solidly in my head, the food I make and bring myself is the only food that exists. Everything else tastes like ashes and worms. Ashes and worms.
My office is the same way, but I have said no on so many occasions that most of the peeps don't even bother asking me anymore. My wife is almost to the same point, but sometimes she will nudge me and try to get me to eat something that I have declined (she does it just to tease me/test my resolve and not out of an attempt to 'sabotage' my eating choices).1 -
I choose not to surround myself with ridiculousness and negativity. That goes for family too. Works for me.4
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JaydedMiss wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »yeah we work our booties off and did our research youd think people would listen when they ask what we do and we tell them, Vs the infamous eyes glazing over and topic changes.
Guess some people dont want it half as bad as they claim.
I do find it funny when she slaps "bad food" out of my hands when we shop, after she had just finished putting butter in my coffee....
LOL..
I always enjoy the whole bad food mentality... like.. i will eat a cookie or whatever and ill hear all the hens clucking at work going "I cant believe she lost all that weight and still eats cookies"
... well duh... Cookie is only 150 Calories
It's not like im spooning 4000 calories worth of pure lard into my mouth and then bathing in the remainder like some crazy fat gaining ritual..
Those same hens tell me they can't lose weight cause they work nights and eating at night makes you fat...
...Right... okay... cause i forgot the moons gravitational pull with the earth is total fat storage mode
When the moon is out, the body stores fat.. does a fuller moon mean more fat gain? i should ask them
Youve quickly become one of my favorite people in the forums
Haha mine too! Love the no nonsense!1 -
If it's your wifeor SO who cooks for you, then talk tothem. If it's someone around who doesn't prepare your food, be polite and decline. "No, thanks" really works. So does, it's ok, not now, or I ate already[, or I'm not hungry. Use your imagination. No one is literally forcing it down your throat. So it's still your choice.
Oh I forgot that one -- "I ate already" is a good choice of words too.0 -
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No one can tank my diet but me.
I mean, they can try, but it might take 3-4 people to hold me down and force feed me.
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JaydedMiss wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I think labeling people as sabotagers is kind of pointless... Just because you've made it a point to announce weight loss goals and plans doesn't mean everyone has to not offer you things or keep their mouth shut on opinions they have no matter how wrong we think they are. Thats life, you're going to find those traits anywhere, any choice you choose to make with your own body, someone else is going to think you should do it differently.
In the end you just say "oh okay" to what they say and carry on doing what youre doing.
They dont need to know if you actually took their advice, you don't need to try and convince them of different, you also don't need to eat what they offer you. Most times i say no to things and say im not hungry and maybe if i am hungry later i will come and ask them for some.. or just say maybe another time.. its all choice at this point right, i could have people knocking on my door offering me chocolates at valentines day, i could take those boxes, doesn't mean i have to open them and eat them, or i could say thank you for thinking of me but no thanks all the same.
My aunt truely is a sabotager XD i asked for a black coffee-went to pee- she got me a triple triple...They exist xD
My team is in the middle of a health kick. We started taking walking meetings and workout ~30 mins/day. We sill bring in donuts and snacks, but it's all in moderation and in good spirits. This is part of having a healthy relationship with food and having long term success in health and weight management.
Luckily I don't have @JaydedMiss aunt who is truly acting as a saboteur....seriously you should film and post this behavior. That is some crazy stuff.
honestly i may just slip my phone audio recorder on and video one of her rants ....its pretty messed up that shes in charge of the school lunch program for hundreds of kids if she thinks the way she does about food truely XD it just has to be a jealousy thing...
I would like to think an aunt would be happy for your success! She must believe she is helping you in some twisted way? It is quite unfortunate if she is jealous. Maybe you could get her to join you in losing weight.0 -
My work is grazing central. Kitchen was full of donut holes this morning. Yesterday, PBJ sandwiches. Fortunately my coworkers aren't pushers. Practice, practice, practice saying 'Aww, thanks but not right now.' Don't even waver in their presence. Solidly in my head, the food I make and bring myself is the only food that exists. Everything else tastes like ashes and worms. Ashes and worms.
Lol. ashes and worms and doodoo
I tell myself, "That. Is not my food. It belongs to someone else."0 -
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yeah shes definatly something.... LOL2
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If someone was tampering with my food behind my back or knowingly lying about what they were feeding me, I don't think I could ever eat in their presence again. I don't even give my kids probiotics in their milk without telling them (assuming they have some shred of understanding, my older one does).3
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Loving the ongoing story of @JaydedMiss and her crazy aunt. Every new revelation has the audience gasping. The latest discovery that she's an actual school dinner lady is the best yet.
I've been lucky, all of my family are supportive. I don't tell work colleagues that I'm losing weight, or even most of my friends, and nobody seems to have noticed yet. If people spout nutritional woo I just listen blandly and wonder vaguely if I should say anything, but I never do.8 -
FreyasRebirth wrote: »If someone was tampering with my food behind my back or knowingly lying about what they were feeding me, I don't think I could ever eat in their presence again. I don't even give my kids probiotics in their milk without telling them (assuming they have some shred of understanding, my older one does).
That's fantastic that you're empowering your children to have control and understanding over what they eat 0 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »yeah shes definatly something.... LOL
Your aunt is a character for sure.0
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