Do People Get Annoyed With You Because You Count Calories?

I got to thinking today that maybe I'm talking about my calorie intake, excercise and weight loss a little too much. My husband gave me this look over the dinner table tonight like, "Really, are you seriously telling me about how many calories you ate today and planning to eat tomorrow?" K Point taken. I'll shut up now and keep it to myself.

I will let the results speak for themselves...

As for pointing out other's meal mistakes, I don't. I know that I only started recording my diet when I was good and ready to do it. Not a moment sooner or later. If I wanted advice, I asked for it. I believe most people are the same. While I wouldn't have told someone criticizing my old diet to, um, go fly a kite shall we say, it's just because I'm far too polite for that.

lol...i read your post and had to check to if you were a fellow Canadian...yup...virtual neighbours, I'm just west of Hamilton. cheers

Definitely! People tell me I am wasting my time logging on my phone and to just let my clothes tell me if I am losing weight. No...I want to do this in a healthy way and learn to keep it off.

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I do notice that people get very weird when someone who is not "big" starts to look at what they eat. I am not overweight but use this app/site to maintain my weight and eat healthier. I can not tell you how many lectures I have gotten for counting calories and refusing to eat certain foods because of how unhealthy they are.

Everyone I work with has been less than supportive of this healthy change and I think a lot of it has to do with their lack of commitment to do it for themselves. Don't let it get you down. You do this for you because it is healthy and because you care about yourself and let them worry about themselves.

No one has said anything to me about it. When my husband asks what I am doing, I tell him that I am tracking my calories. I am encouraging him to join this site and do the same thing, because he really wants to lose weight, but has medical limitations. I figure this would be one of the healthiest ways for him to go about losing weight, but he doesn't want to try it out right now.

Last night at the bar. Counting every drink and didn't want to eat the greasy bar food. I got yelled at and told to relax! Love my friends but sometimes they can be a little less than supportive.

Yes, but they've learned not to say much because I will not back down! This is my life & I'm sick to death of being sick!!! "If you don't like it, don't talk to me. If I don't do this I won't be around for you to talk to anyway!!!"

yes my coworkers

Yes. I live in Seattle and I was at Pike Place Market getting a few provisions with a friend. We were walking by one of the produce stalls and this girl was slicing an apple and offering samples. I politely declined and she asked why I didn't want it. So I told her I am pretty strict about knowing the caloric value of something that goes into my body(plus I wasn't about to eat something just because it was offered). She and another employee started harassing me about being too thin. She tells me that I could eat the apple slice and go down the way to the bathroom to throw it up. THEN she proceeds to make barfing sounds at me.

I'm pretty sure this girl thought I was a tourist. But that is the rudest example I have for how others have behaved. My mom and sister have accused me of having an eating disorder. I eat as many calories as are allotted to me and many days go over. I think people are just dumbfounded that eating healthy and exercising can work.

I do notice that people get very weird when someone who is not "big" starts to look at what they eat. I am not overweight but use this app/site to maintain my weight and eat healthier. I can not tell you how many lectures I have gotten for counting calories and refusing to eat certain foods because of how unhealthy they are.

Everyone I work with has been less than supportive of this healthy change and I think a lot of it has to do with their lack of commitment to do it for themselves. Don't let it get you down. You do this for you because it is healthy and because you care about yourself and let them worry about themselves.

Yes, exactly.

I lost 45 pounds and now everyone is all, "OK! You're done, now stop counting calories, stop being "obsessed" with what you eat. You can eat "normally" again!"

But I try to explain that's how I got fat in the first place. They just don't get it.

I think because they feel they could never do something like this for themselves, they get very annoyed at my for being strict with myself.

I've found this to be the case. Tracking food for me through MFP has really helped me curb my snacking because I'm accountable for every calorie I put in my mouth. Therefore, I track EVERYTHING. I ate a cookie and grabbed my phone to enter the calories in the app. A few friends told me I was neurotic and didn't need to be so nuts about calorie counting. I also get that I'm already thin, so why am I counting calories? As if once I lose 25 pounds, I can go back to not tracking and just eat whatever I want. For me, this is going to be a lifelong thing.

So, just curious if other people have had this happen. I just brush it off and add my food, but I have trouble knowing how to respond to people who are critical that I track everything down, or who tell me that I'm already in shape so I don't need to keep track of my food.

-Jake-

Oh yeah -- my husband used to roll his eyes at me if he gave me a bite of his food and I'd whip out my phone to enter the data in. 61lbs [lighter] later, he isn't rolling his eyes anymore.

my grandma. all the time. shes like :pshhh, you and your damn calorie countin i'll never cook fer yer again!!

but my grandma has an eating disorder. shes annorexic. literally. so messed up. rofl

Yup. My Aunt would told me in a way it was sorta compulsive. Funny thing is how she joined and lost 10 pounds herself...counting Calories...

When I explained to a friend what I was doing and that I hoped to stay on track this time, he said you are obsessed enough so you should be fine......I was really upset as it felt like a criticism of me trying to change my life, not begin aware of what I put in my mouth is what got me in this mess in the first place so trying to be conscious of what I eat is a good thing I think