I just love my co-workers *eye roll*
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All of my co-workers know my lifestyle...I try to eat "cleaner" foods, I workout several times a week, etc.
Well, apparently a couple of the other guys in the office are on a mission to make me eat what they think I shouldn't. One even says that he's going to get me to eat lunch with him one day and take a picture. :grumble:
I made the mistake of eating pizza at our team lunch last month because that gets brought up ALL the time. They just don't seem to get that I knew my dinner was going to be light and in reality I eat anything I want, just in smaller portions and I compensate the calorie content in my other meals.
Why do people find it fun to try to make me fail?!
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I'm done...thanks for listening.
Well, apparently a couple of the other guys in the office are on a mission to make me eat what they think I shouldn't. One even says that he's going to get me to eat lunch with him one day and take a picture. :grumble:
I made the mistake of eating pizza at our team lunch last month because that gets brought up ALL the time. They just don't seem to get that I knew my dinner was going to be light and in reality I eat anything I want, just in smaller portions and I compensate the calorie content in my other meals.
Why do people find it fun to try to make me fail?!
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I'm done...thanks for listening.
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Make a video yourself... eat a slice of pizza right before you turn around and squat 300 pounds or so. Then invite them to try it.0
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Because people who make other people fail think they are Bigger or more successful I guess. Happens to me too :frown:0
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Make a video yourself... eat a slice of pizza right before you turn around and squat 300 pounds or so. Then invite them to try it.
I like that idea!Because people who make other people fail think they are Bigger or more successful I guess. Happens to me too
Exactly. The guy that brings up the pizza actually told me a couple weeks ago that he needs to change (after consuming a 1500 calorie fast food meal and feeling terrible) and asked me how. I explained everything that I do, showed him MFP and he hasn't logged in for over a week now.0 -
Tell em off. What chumps.0
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Your co-workers are made of total fail.0
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It makes them feel better about their lousy choices. They KNOW that what they're eating is wrong, and that they should watch their food intake. My best friend does that to me...but if I want a beer, everyone is quick to tell me how bad beer is for carbs and what not...as if I don't know0
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In the end, only you are responsible for your choices and for what you do with your body... so the rest of it doesn't really matter, right?0
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They are obviously jealous and trying to sabotage you.0
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i think they are just jealous and it doesn't actually have anything to do with you. if someone is miserable, they wouldn't want to see someone who is succeeding. i would try to just not worry about it and let them continue with their high calorie lifesytles. it will catch up with them if it hasn't already. also they might look healthy but not really be very fit.0
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Your co-workers sound jealous to me, because they're the opposite of what you are, both physically and mentally. Pay them no mind!0
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Wow, I'm sorry you have to deal with people like that. Mine have been pretty supportive. Sometimes people try to sabotage your efforts because they always fail by sabotaging their own. They (consciously or subconsciously) believe, "If I can't succeed, no one can."0
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Don't let that bother you after all they are just wishing they could have self control like you do.0
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Tell em off. What chumps.
Alas, office politics prevent this. I would love to tho. :-/Your co-workers are made of total fail.It makes them feel better about their lousy choices. They KNOW that what they're eating is wrong, and that they should watch their food intake. My best friend does that to me...but if I want a beer, everyone is quick to tell me how bad beer is for carbs and what not...as if I don't knowIn the end, only you are responsible for your choices and for what you do with your body... so the rest of it doesn't really matter, right?
Agreed. I don't even talk to them about what I'm doing anymore, just go about my business.They are obviously jealous and trying to sabotage you.0 -
Ever wonder why people get mad when something wonderful happens for you and you allow yourself to be happy? How about when you are crazy in love and there is always that person that has to make some horrible comment about how it won't last, they will cheat, blah, blah, blah?
These people are usually the ones that blame everyone and everything else. They aren't fat because they couldn't stop eating, it's their husband/wife's fault. They bought the ice cream so OF COURSE they had to eat it! They arrived late to work and you took their spot, so OF COURSE it's your fault!!
God forbid you demonstrate and prove that only 5 percent of the bad things that happen in life are not really caused by us. People hate having the mirror shoved in front of them and having a reminder that their unhappiness is a direct cause of their choices and actions. Just in the fact alone that you are dedicated and committed, they are trying to prove to themselves that you are flawed and therefor just like them. They will do it by any means necessary, including trying to sabotage you and use every little thing you do as that one example.
Don't play the game, don't even entertain. The more you do anything other than nothing, the more they will try. The only cure for this is to let them do what they are going to do and not let it be important enough to bother you. I'm not saying that will make it stop, but it will make you feel better about it.0 -
Because they want your willpower. So if they see your willpower waver, they can feel better about themselves.
It's funny how eating good, clean foods is considered bizarre these days.0 -
In the end, only you are responsible for your choices and for what you do with your body... so the rest of it doesn't really matter, right?
Eggxactly!!! There will always be bad food around and there will always be that want to eat it vs what we know is right. We can't hide from food, we have to learn to overcome that want.0 -
In the beginning, I had friends who would try to "help" me cheat. When I'd eat out, they'd be like, "have a chip! Just one!" But (especially in the beginning) my willpower was very strong. It really took educating my friends that this lifestyle change was/is very important to me.
Now, I avoid the weekly donuts at my office and the "brought in" food (usually pizza, though a healthy variety of pizza using low-fat, organic ingredients is usually too much per slice for my meager allotted calories), and everyone praises me on being strong.
I've since really learned what I can and can't do on this change, too, so I am not as strict with myself for fear of not having enough calories for dinner. (I used to hoard my calories until the end of the day, then try to eat them all up, which I slowly grew out of). So I might have one chip, or one nibble of something, now. But rarely do I splurge and rare is it that my friends will try to push me into failing.
So keep up the good work! And maybe try to educate your co-workers!0 -
Because they are jealous of you.0
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Ever wonder why people get mad when something wonderful happens for you and you allow yourself to be happy? How about when you are crazy in love and there is always that person that has to make some horrible comment about how it won't last, they will cheat, blah, blah, blah?
These people are usually the ones that blame everyone and everything else. They aren't fat because they couldn't stop eating, it's their husband/wife's fault. They bought the ice cream so OF COURSE they had to eat it! They arrived late to work and you took their spot, so OF COURSE it's your fault!!
God forbid you demonstrate and prove that only 5 percent of the bad things that happen in life are not really caused by us. People hate having the mirror shoved in front of them and having a reminder that their unhappiness is a direct cause of their choices and actions. Just in the fact alone that you are dedicated and committed, they are trying to prove to themselves that you are flawed and therefor just like them. They will do it by any means necessary, including trying to sabotage you and use every little thing you do as that one example.
Don't play the game, don't even entertain. The more you do anything other than nothing, the more they will try. The only cure for this is to let them do what they are going to do and not let it be important enough to bother you. I'm not saying that will make it stop, but it will make you feel better about it.
This!Because they want your willpower. So if they see your willpower waver, they can feel better about themselves.
It's funny how eating good, clean foods is considered bizarre these days.
Exactly. I was reading an article a couple weeks ago from a trainer and former body builder and he mentioned how today it's abnormal to be fit and muscled men/women are looked at as weird a lot of times. We are a completely backwards society.0 -
Because they wish they could be like you and since they can't they are trying to make you like them. Lazy and eating crap!0
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