My rant about people being in cakes/biscuits to work!!

Sometimes people/co-workers are just trying to be nice by bringing in sweets. I know it's hard to avoid when it's at work and you have to see it but try your best to resist.

She's probably super skinny because she brings the cakes to work instead of eating them

I bring sweets and baked goods to work on occasion. I'm not holding a gun to anyone's head forcing them to eat it. I do understand the frustration though. I swear every time I try to get back on the healthy eating bandwagon someone brings sticky buns or cheesecake or something to work. Agh!

I don't even like cake that much but I feel compelled to it at work!!

Really now. Feeling compelled to eat food you don't like just because it's there is a problem that you seriously need to deal with. You will never be successful if you don't learn some self-control.

I HATE IT when people bring in cakes and biscuits to work - I've put a stone on in biscuits and cake (oh and the occasional staff buffet at the end of term). I don't even like cake that much but I feel compelled to it at work!! I've avoided the staff room all day today because its someones bday and they've bought in a ton of cakes. Shes super skinny as well!!

No one said you HAVE to eat them.

I'm sure it's frustrating, but people aren't doing it to torture you personally. We live in a food-centered culture.
As I see it, you have a few options:
1. If you have uber will power, avoid it altogether and keep on the path you're on. (Flavored coffees with a little bit of skim milk can be a tasty alternative.)
2. Another willpower option: Have a tiny piece to celebrate with everyone else and work it into your calories. Ask yourself: Is it really worth spending my calories on this? If yes, then work it in. If it's just a run-of-the-mill cookie or sheet cake, it may not be worth bothering (a lesson I have to learn this week after indulging on a ho-hum piece of cake at a banquet.)
3. If you want a treat, but don't have the willpower to just stop at a small piece, bring along a tasty treat of your own (or a piece of fruit)
Good luck for continued success.

Our work is having a total theme day on the Sunday - a street party where the whole corridor will be wallpaper paste tables groaning with buffet food that has been brought in - but everyone in my area knows that I will be the one that brings in something healthy and its like a long standing joke now that they know I will be ignoring the unhealthy crap - work is just like everywhere else - we still make the choice of what we choose to eat

My very small office does pizza parties and then literally peer pressures you into eating. If I say "o I brought my lunch, I am just going to eat that" even my BOSS will say "what? no, save it for tomorrow. Eat your pizza." and I just get BADGERED...I hate it. Apparently today is a pizza party day...and I brought delicious quinoa mac n cheese for lunch =(

I would develop an "allergy" to a major component of pizza Maybe you could develop a yeast allergy or lactose intolerance ( for all they know the cheese you bring from home is soy cheese...)

I don't even like cake that much but I feel compelled to it at work!!

Really now. Feeling compelled to eat food you don't like just because it's there is a problem that you seriously need to deal with. You will never be successful if you don't learn some self-control.

Sums up my thoughts