My Job is Ruining my weightloss...

Start using a catheter at your desk.

Just start peeing in your chair.

That was my first thought.... (and I'd do it)

Your job is not ruining your weightloss...only you are responsible for that. You would be better served to take responsibility for your choices than to blame them on others. You can still drink water at work, but maybe drink less there and buy a filter for your tap at home. You can say no to people and let them have hurt feelings...only you know what your limits are and if you've eaten all you should for the day, and only you can say no thank you.

find out what your company policy is and if needed and you have personal physician tell them what is going on and maybe they can write a medical note in case the company tries something again. You have to have water and a way to eliminate it. not everyone has a bladder the size of an elephant. as for the lunches, tell your friends and co workers(even the super) that you are either trying to lose weight or maintain what you have and thank them for the lunches but politely tell them you are trying to eat more healthy and start bringing your own lunch and snack to work. As for the chemical taste of water at home, get a filter for the sink or filtered pitcher to keep in the fridge, it works i have one at home myself. You can also for about $40 at walmart buy one that has about 6 water bottles attached to it and pour water through the top to fill the bottles with filtered water to keep in the fridge as well. hope this helps. I have a problem with work hours not the bathroom breaks esp as most diets are designed for day shift workers and not 2nd or 3rd shift workers.

I second this - we have a Brita pitcher and it is in constant use. My husband has always had a large cup of water at his side; now that I have a Soda Stream and can drink unlimited seltzer, my water intake has gone way up.

The bathroom break thing is insane. Def. check your HR dept. I "go" often at my office and no one has said anything to me about productivity. If they did I'd say "I can't concentrate with a full bladder."

On the office food, when my boss buys lunches, they are usually really greasy (pizza, wings, fried foods) and I just can't eat them. Between the grease pooling on the top and my Lactose Intolerance I'm scared to touch that stuff. Usually when I say "Lactose Intolerant" people leave me alone and say nothing else. Even if you're not, I suggest saying it because it gets people of your case without a bunch of questions.

Good Luck!

Just start peeing in your chair.

Haha. Thread winner!
That'll teach 'em.

Lol...yep, that was my favorite advice, as well!!!

While bathrooms breaks are by law allowed, excessive use with without a doubt annoy any supervisor, on the eating badly at work point, i work for McDonalds and the temptation is always there to eat it on my break as i am entitled to a free meal per shift, but you could always take your own ready prepared meal and subtly let it be known you have done so, on the tap water front, in most supermarkets you can buy 5L bottles for around 99p (in the UK) why not just buy two of these when you do your weekly shop and then you have enough mineral water to hand?

I was like that at one job. I worked as a case manager in a not so nice part of town so I would want to limit my bathroom visits and I would stop drinking water or fluids period and then once I got home I wouldn't want to drink because I would be up peeing all night and not sleeping. Have that come to Jesus moment with your boss and hope for the best.

On the other end of the spectrum (management). We allowed bathroom breaks at the employee's discretion. When the person's other team members started complaining about people being gone more than 5 minutes on a bathroom break, I had to look into it. The bathroom was pretty close to the production floor. At first I timed some of the offenders. Some were taking, 10 minutes or more, breaks every hour besides their regular scheduled 15 minute morning, lunch time, and afternoon breaks. So I find out some of the girls were re-applying their make-up and doing their hair, or making personal phone calls while on the "I can't wait until break time" bathroom break. There are not too many people who can't comfortably wait 1 hour and 45 minutes between bathroom breaks. And.. morning and afternoon 15 minute breaks are not a person's "free" time and potty breaks are a separate issue. These 10-15 minute (depending on which state you live in) breaks were specifically provided by law so people could work their shift comfortably without causing down time for their employer. You'd be surprised how few people had to take a non-break time potty break after I required them to let me know when they left the production floor. It may seem trivial to some people, but when 8-10 people are taking, say.. 2 extra 5 minute breaks a day it cost a lot of money for the company. Not only is one of these people getting paid nearly an hour a week or if they work a full time job (2080 hours per year) that would be 43 (or so) hours per year. That's being paid for an extra week for work not performed. Several of those people could break a small company. You wouldn't believe some of the things I saw. People playing computer games on the production line, personal phone calls, helping themselves in the office supply room when school was starting (to the point of the entire room having to be restocked every night for about 2 weeks before school started), people buying major home appliances on their credit card meant for work expenses, people on work permits from foreign countries using their cubicle phones to "call home" (Asia, Europe, etc). How do people justify it or how do they feel entitled to this type of behavior? So, maybe a quick bathroom break may not seem like a big deal, but sometimes it's the straw that broke the camel's back. Check out the big picture. Would you want to pay an employee for an extra week every year.. for nothing? Believe me, if you ever make it to management, you will see this issue differently.

Just to be clear; nobody was ever refused permission to take a potty break.