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I started my weight loss journey earlier this year, around the same time my colleague started at my work. At first she was nice and very willing to help with any tasks given to her but now she has settled in she is always trying to get out of jobs, especially if they require you to actually get up out your chair and move around the building, but that’s another story.
Anyway after a couple of months of CICO I finally started seeing a real difference (I swear the weight must have come off my insides only those first few months. I felt a shit ton better internally but looked the same on the outside!) My colleague noticed this and asked if I was dieting. I’m quite a shy person and would never want to go around loudly announcing “I’m on a diet!!” to everyone but she asked when it was just me and her in the room so I told her about CICO and how I felt a lot better in myself (she’s a large lady so thought she might have been interested for herself) it was the best weight loss method I had ever used because I could eat what I felt like within reason so wasn’t miserable. She listened, shaking her head and I assumed, like from reading similar stories here, that she was thinking “counting calories?? Hmph… there must be some other secret!”
A couple of days later she comes sauntering up to me brandishing her phone with some before and after pictures of some random woman on it and starts gushing about this soup diet that REALLY WORKS!. She’s telling me this very loudly in front of the whole office. It’s one of those “lose 100 pounds in sixty seconds!” style of website she’s showing everyone, telling me I should do this diet instead. I’m sitting there feeling embarrassed and in the spot light while she’s scoffing about starving yourself counting calories and how you can eat ANY type of soup you want!
“I’m happy with what I’m doing..”
“WELL! We’ll see, I bet in a few weeks I’ll have lost a lot more than you!”
Fucking. Fuming.
Over the next couple of weeks she would come skipping into work and would tell people what kind of soup she had brought in that day and would loudly ask me what I had for lunch. I always have the same, low calorie bread and filling with whatever veg I had left over from the night befores dinner. Usually is about 200-300 calories so I can eat more for dinner which is when I’m hungrier. It was really frigging irritating, she was so adamant that her diet was far superior and I should do that instead. Luckily it was summer so I went on holiday for 3 weeks not long after that.
Man holidays are haaaard to keep to CICO but I tried to keep to maintenance and only put on ½ a pound which was quickly lost after coming home so I was very happy! Anyway back to my colleague, after I had come back to work things were thankfully quiet. No mention of what I was having for lunch or what she had brought in to eat that day so I was glad the “diet war” seemed to be over, when out of the blue another colleague happened to ask her how she was getting on with the soup (this is exactly why I didn’t want my diet to be common knowledge in the office, I didn’t want anyone asking about it) She was quiet for a few minutes and then said all exasperated that it was TOO HOT to eat soup all the time and she would be starting again when the weather cooled but that she had lost soooooooo much already. I tried desperately to not look in her direction or acknowledge she had spoken but she definitely looked over at me.
After that all of a sudden she starts bringing in boxes of sweets, cakes, muffins, biscuits etc, which then prompted other people into bringing stuff in >_< not too often but every fortnight or so a box would appear. My will power isn’t amazing, I just don’t buy that kind of stuff because I know what my sweet tooth is like. So when people would bring stuff in I would be polite and take one and take it home with me for an after dinner treat, which I always had anyway and hey if I’m not having to buy an actual tempting bag of sweet things and there’s only one in the house then it works out alright! At lunch I normally also have a low calorie toffee to sate my sweet tooth.
But then she would start to loudly ask if I liked what was brought in “Raptor did you like the muffins? OH you haven’t even touched it, you must think it’s horrible!” and I would stupidly take a nibble of it and say it was nice to whoever brought it in. But we all know where a nibble can get you… and sometimes I’d end up having eaten the whole thing at lunch and feeling pissed off with myself, so I stopped taking stuff. Then somehow the table in front of my desk turned into the “Sweets table”! FFS! So I tried again with the taking stuff home which was going well as long as I had my toffee at lunch. She got into the habit of coming up to me with the box of whatever and rattling it in my face and saying “Take! No, not one! Take a few! You’re not getting your fair share!” By this point I was much better at taking one and saying no, no thanks and turning away from her, even though she made it massively awkward by standing beside me for ages afterward with the tub still held out. She seemed to have calmed down a lot after that and the past few weeks have been quiet.
Obviously with it being so close to Christmas people have been bringing in biscuits and we have been gifted boxes of sweets from other departments/our manager etc (as if winter wasn’t hard enough with the dark nights and just wanting to stuff your face and hibernate!) but she wasn’t trying to force them on me so all was good until yesterday when she turned to face me and loudly said out of the blue at lunch time
“Raptor, what is that you eating?”
“Um.. my usual? A sandwich and veg”
she hmphs “Raptor is putting us to shame and making us all feel guilty”
That is what prompted me to write this (sorry about the rant!) but it just pissed me off. As if I haven’t struggled with my weight and it’s all been a breeze. Bugger off!
Anyway thanks for letting me vent! I’ve found this community to be very helpful, even with me just lurking. So far I am almost 50lb down with about 10lb to go to be a higher healthy weight for my 5ft 1 short arse but with about 25lb to go overall.
Thanks for letting me vent
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