This is mostly just a ranting post, but how many of you get crap for not wanting to eat the pizza that the bosses brought in for lunch…or ordering the chicken grilled instead of fried at dinner…or having the diet soda.
This morning at work I forewent the company supplied bagels and creamcheese because I already had my oatmeal and Grow! at my desk.
So yeah…people here at the firm aren’t in the greatest shape and to them it doesn’t look like I need to worry about my weight…but how the hell do they think I stay in this shape??? From avoiding the crap they always eat.
I am not planning on changing my ways and I could care less what they think…it just always cracks me up.
[quote]cca wrote:
This is mostly just a ranting post, but how many of you get crap for not wanting to eat the pizza that the bosses brought in for lunch…or ordering the chicken grilled instead of fried at dinner…or having the diet soda.
This morning at work I forewent the company supplied bagels and creamcheese because I already had my oatmeal and Grow! at my desk.
So yeah…people here at the firm aren’t in the greatest shape and to them it doesn’t look like I need to worry about my weight…but how the hell do they think I stay in this shape??? From avoiding the crap they always eat.
I am not planning on changing my ways and I could care less what they think…it just always cracks me up.[/quote]
Being a student I get it all the time…
I love the…
“How come you never get sick?”
These people are so piss poor nutritionally that it takes them a month and a half to fight off a head cold. Pathetic.
Specifically in any exercise physiology based classes everyone comments my “crazy diet”. Ever two months it’s: “Are you still on that crazy diet?” “Yes, are you still panting from the stairs you climbed last week?”
It all comes back in glory when I step off the tredmill on a gas analysis VO2.
Pardon me? Am I supposed to be choking back on jelly filled donuts simply because some fat whale thinks I can get away with it?
The reason I don’t need to diet is because I am paying attention to my health and eating well. Eating well isn’t something we are supposed to do for short periods of time in response to a magic episode of fatness.
Oh look, somebody stuffed 50 lbs of fat into my body overnight. Heck, I’d better diet for a week or two so I can dump whatever muscle I have remaining and chub up quicker next time.
Pardon me? Am I supposed to be choking back on jelly filled donuts simply because some fat whale thinks I can get away with it?
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One of my favorite topics (and favorite rant).
Had a late-night (8pm-9pm) office party Saturday…greasy ribs, oily chicken fingers, hot dogs, potato salad, cookies, cake and ice cream. I was practically shunned because I had a plate of broccoli florets and cucumber slices with mustard as dipping sauce (only one other person touched the veggie tray and she drowned her celery in blue cheese dressing).
All the fatties: “come on, EAT, you don’t want this to go to waste.” True, but I don’t want it to go to my love handles either you fat piece of shit."
And for some reason, all the fatties that ate the greasy food, cake and ice cream (and washed it down with two or three cans of Coke) were viewed as “normal.”
Yeah I hear ya.
Situtation is a little different for me as I live in Japan. People think the Japanese eat healthy…maybe a 50 years ago but not now. In my companys canteen all you can eat is high GI white rice and bread fried pork or chicken and some type of noodles. Conversation goes like this.
Me: Brown rice is better for you, why can’t you serve it here.
Typical Japanese 30 something: No, white is best.
Me: Brown rice is healthier.
Them: People used to eat that during the war, it’s for poor people.
Me: Ok, then how about sweetpotatoes.
Them: Yeah, we used to only eat those during the war too.
Me:
There is a stigma attached to brown rice and sweetpotato here but luckily you can still friggin buy them. I’ve started taking my own lunches in even though the canteen is dirt cheap. I guess you get what you pay for.
I feel you on this.
I’m active in my church and they are always having “hot dog suppers” for fellowship. I keep asking when we can have a “grilled chicken supper”, but apparently chicken costs more than “lips and assholes” on a bun. I usually eat before hand and go just to be social, but I always get the “why don’t you eat? there’s plenty” speeches.
It’s kind of like the old Head & Shoulders ad from TV. Girl sees guy with H&S and says
“I didn’t know you had dandruff!” and the guy replies
“I don’t.”
