Are you annoying?

Initially my wife was very annoyed by my insistence on using a food scale though now it's just part of the routine.

People come around it takes time, it’s change people resist. But sometimes we are just so excited we have to share with someone it’s not always the right people tho. Like when holidays came I just brought my own food it was weird but they knew I was on my diet. The next year they changed to suit me. Kinda cool. I felt sometimes like it was annoying for him bc I wanted to go on walks or exercise without kids so I’d have him left w them. He made it very hard on me even fights, but eventually I had to talk with him and explain how hard it is to mentally fight every day all day myself I don’t need to fight him as well I needed his support. He began not to buy the temptation foods I asked him not to buy and to ask me if I wanted to go walk so it took a long time but progress was made!

Yes.

I'm definitely annoying, but not because of my eating. I'm just annoying by nature.

I do feel guilty about my (lack of) progress when I was living with two partners. I'd proudly say "I've lost half a kilogram", with a "that's great" reply. Of course I said that many, many times. It must have been frustrating at least to some degree. I'm expecting to live with my long distance girlfriend in the next 6 months, I've promised myself to not talk about my weight loss unless necessary.

...like right now...my 11y.o. son is telling me so many details about his minecraft game that I couldn't care less about 😰...I'll listen because I love him. 💙

I try not to talk about weight/food stuff too much because I find anything that is over discussed can drive people crazy. I have a couple friends who sell Rodan and Fields skin care stuff and it is ALL they can talk about. I have stopped following them on social media b/c it drives me nuts. Another couple friends are super into essential oils and sell Young Living and they are way overboard with it. I think no matter what it is, when people can only talk about one thing and it is constant it gets old quickly. I try hard not to be that person.

I am extremely annoying but not because of dieting.

I think it’s like anything else, when something is important to you, you want to talk about it, but we have to remember that what’s important to us as an individual, is not always what’s important to the people around us. In most cases friends a s family want to be supportive, but they also don’t want someone else’s diet to dominate the conversation or relationship. Frankly I don’t want that either and I would find it annoying if I had someone in my life who was so ruled by their diet that it was all we talked about and that it dictated their decisions about socializing with me. Most restaurants have something that fits in a balanced diet, and if you know ahead of time you can research the menu and have a plan going in.

I also get annoyed when I am out to eat with people who have a million questions about how the food is prepared and ask for 10 different substitutes essentially making up their own menu. I think it’s hard on the employees of the establishment. If I know I am going out ahead of time I research the menu and I may call at an off time if I have questions about preparation, then when I go, I just order like a normal person lol. I already know what fits and what doesn’t. If it’s a spur of the moment the. I fall back on a grilled protein and veggie with a side salad, eat half and take half home.

I think it’s fair to expect support, but I can’t expect my friends and family to be as invested in it as me and make it the center of their world.

I have found in most cases that when people are annoyed it’s because I’ve strayed past that line.

Yep. Noone wants to hear about my workout routine as much as I want to talk about it.