If you don't want my advice...don't ask me!!

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  • swordsmith
    swordsmith Posts: 599 Member
    Same here- luckily my co-workers are actually very supportive of my efforts but they look at me cross eyed when they ask what diet I am on. I always say the "eat less/exercise more" diet and their jaws drop when I tell them about an hour at the gym every morning, the walk at lunch, the walk/jog at home and the 4 nights of krav maga combined with the willpower to resist a lot of the crap I used to eat (i.e. I think Burger Kings quarterly profits flatlined becuase I stopped eating there...)

    Like others have said I get thinsg like "Oh... I thought you were one a real diet..." meaning a fad diet, etc. And the excuses for not exercising! I'm too old/too heavy/too tired and the number one is "I dont have enough time" to which my reply is you make the time. God knows I am not a morning person but to get my weight to drop I now get up at 5 AM every day, in the gym by 6 to be showered and at work by 7:30- I have not missed a single day since April 11- I hate it but I do it because I need to.

    But eh- I've learned to be very quick and generic in what I say. If they really truly want more info they can come seek me out.
  • I know what you mean. but as stated, some people really don't want to hear the truth. They sometimes need to try all the wrong ways to find the right one. :)
  • quichebradford
    quichebradford Posts: 327 Member
    I must have missed something, but I don't see anywhere in that post that anyone asked your advice.

    There was more to the conversation than what I typed....this was also not about that one incident. I've had a few other people ask questions but don't take the suggestions I give.
  • My1985Freckles
    My1985Freckles Posts: 1,039 Member
    or you could say "im smoking crack" that usually shuts people up.

    OMG! I was totally going to post this!!! I am so beyond sarcastic that I could do it with a straight face too! LOL

    Or how about this one.... Anytime I feel like eating a cookie, I light a cigarette instead. ;-)
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    or you could say "im smoking crack" that usually shuts people up.

    OMG! I was totally going to post this!!! I am so beyond sarcastic that I could do it with a straight face too! LOL

    Or how about this one.... Anytime I feel like eating a cookie, I light a cigarette instead. ;-)

    i am horrible but people are just dumb sometimes. I mean they dont want to hear that she is working her *kitten* off LITERALLY! So forget them!
    P.S. without sarcasm im nothing! lol i know i know, its mean but dang!
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    Now I just want Popeye's.


    mmmmmmmmm biscuits

    ooohhhh, hot...buttered...bottom biscuits...mmmm
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    I must have missed something, but I don't see anywhere in that post that anyone asked your advice.

    If Kesha says they asked for her advice, but didn't specifically quote it, I still understood what she was saying and I figured they did ask for advice somewhere in there. Good grief. Aren't we all on here to support each other? The point Kesha was making was that people want to know how you lose weight, but don't really want to follow what you're doing if it takes work. This is totally unsolicited, but my advice to forum people is: If you don't have a constructive answer to a post, then don't respond.
  • quichebradford
    quichebradford Posts: 327 Member
    I must have missed something, but I don't see anywhere in that post that anyone asked your advice.

    If Kesha says they asked for her advice, but didn't specifically quote it, I still understood what she was saying and I figured they did ask for advice somewhere in there. Good grief. Aren't we all on here to support each other? The point Kesha was making was that people want to know how you lose weight, but don't really want to follow what you're doing if it takes work. This is totally unsolicited, but my advice to forum people is: If you don't have a constructive answer to a post, then don't respond.

    And that's why I love me some Patti!!
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