Thread: The office ice cream social <rant>

clearly your coworkers fear you are a spy or an alien.

I absolutely hate when people over offer to help out my diet. I'm like.. If I wanted it I would be eating it!

In our office, they give everyone 2 coupons so that everyone gets an icecream and people dont eat others share. Then there is me who gives away his coupons, to the surprise of others.

Originally Posted by nikegurl

clearly your coworkers fear you are a spy or an alien.

Well clearly I am not from this planet.


The best is when they ask me how I stay so thin when I eat so many meals.

funny you should mention that. i USED to hear variations of "you're not fat. you can eat it" (it always being something really bad for you and usually not even appealing)

(as if not being fat is a reason to eat sh*t)

lately people are telling me i eat so often it's amazing i'm not fat. guess they don't look too hard at WHAT i'm eating

people annoy the crap out of me when the topic is anything food related. seriously.

Originally Posted by nikegurl

funny you should mention that. i USED to hear variations of "you're not fat. you can eat it" (it always being something really bad for you and usually not even appealing)

(as if not being fat is a reason to eat sh*t)

lately people are telling me i eat so often it's amazing i'm not fat. guess they don't look too hard at WHAT i'm eating

people annoy the crap out of me when the topic is anything food related. seriously.

I'm so with you on this.

When i first started losing weight last year, everyone HAD to comment on it At first it was nice to hear when someone actually noticed, but soon it as just like, "hey so how is that diet going..." or "Hey you're still going to the gym?" or "hey... we're goign to wendy's but i guess you dont' wanna go huh? You still workin' out..."

And if I brought my own food (which now i do, every day but at first I'd only do it once in a while), people would come by my desk CONSTANTLY to "inspect" my lunch. To see what I was eating, as if I have some magic food that makes people lose weight and they wanted in on the secret.

And THEN, the comments changed, a few months down the line, especially from the heavier folks who pay no mind to the crap they put in their mouths all day long: "Hey, you're getting too skinny!" "You're gonna disappear!" " you need to stop that diet of yours..."

It's a lifestyle, not a diet....

Roll my eyes...

Half-chuckle...

walk away.

It's pathetic how concerned everyone else is with what someone in the office eats or doesn't eat. jeez.

We have pastries and cuban bread and donuts and all sorts of treats coming in and out of this office on an almost-daily basis. At this point, people have stopped talking to me about food altogether, but once in a while, I get that offer, "Hey there's donuts up front. you want one? oh yeah, i forgot, you're on a diet."

I give up.

Anyway, sorry to steal the stage here... this compelled me to rant, too. haha!

Originally Posted by GoalGetter

Anyway, sorry to steal the stage here... this compelled me to rant, too. haha!

Rant away, sister!

unless you're dieting for a show or something why can't you eat some ice cream?

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

unless you're dieting for a show or something why can't you eat some ice cream?

I don't know how it is for some people, but all it takes is one spoonful of ice cream to send me spiraling down the road to my old ways. I prefer to not have the "forbidden" foods ever, than to have "just a taste" and then lose control. It's taken way too much work and discipline to get to where I am today, with regards to fitness and eating healthy. I'm terrified of falling back into my old habits.

I have issues, I know. But at least until i can figure out how to deal with the occasional treat, without binging like it's going out of style, I eat clean. The worst I eat is a bar here or there (like trioplex, which now i just ran out and am not buying anymore), or a red bull (sugar free of course) here or there.

sort of like an alcoholic, heh?

all or none!

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

sort of like an alcoholic, heh?

all or none!

Bingo!

What irritates me about this process are the managers and other personal who will go and spend 60-100 dollars on donuts and cookies and pastries for these meetings/socials/feel good days and never once think about bringing in a fruit platter, or veggie tray. Many of us dont eat sweets because they really dont like sweet foods. Whats so wrong about supplying a healthy "treat/reward" to the employees instead of the ice cream or kripsy kremes?

Originally Posted by GoalGetter

I'm terrified of falling back into my old habits.

I was like that for a long time.. wouldn't touch any junk food at all. I've lightened up & now maybe once a week or every other week I'll indulge... but nothing too bad.

I haven't gotten fat, and haven't turned back to the dark side. i take it for what its worth.. a little earned indulgence & go right back to my normal diet.

Of course you can't do it all the time, but I highly doubt you would fall back into your old habits. From your posts you sound way too dedicated for that to happen. Enjoy it once in a while!

I remember feeling like that, though. After the first time I cheated, I realized it wasn't as big of a deal as I was making it out to be.

Originally Posted by busyLivin

I was like that for a long time.. wouldn't touch any junk food at all. I've lightened up & now maybe once a week or every other week I'll indulge... but nothing too bad.

I haven't gotten fat, and haven't turned back to the dark side. i take it for what its worth.. a little earned indulgence & go right back to my normal diet.

Of course you can't do it all the time, but I highly doubt you would fall back into your old habits. From your posts you sound way too dedicated for that to happen. Enjoy it once in a while!

I remember feeling like that, though. After the first time I cheated, I realized it wasn't as big of a deal as I was making it out to be.

I'll reach that point of enlightenment some day. For now, something that happened a few weeks ago made me realize I'm not ready for treats. I was craving ice cream in the worst way. So I went to the supermarket in search of the healthiest ice cream treat i coudl find. I settled on a Klondike Slim-A-Bear ice cream sandwich after scrutinizing every single box in that freezer for over 30 minutes. I promised myself i would eat one and throw away the other five.

I ate one on the way home from the supermarket, and by teh time I got home, I don't even know who i was anymore. I ripped at that box and ate the other five like they were the only food left on the planet. And then I sat around for the next two hours totally hating myself and feeling like a total failure. I even considered trying to make myself puke it all out, something I've never done in my life. I felt even worse after thinking of that

I seriously don't know how i lost control like that. It just HAPPENED. I couldnt' stop myself. I'm just glad it wasn't ben and jerry's. My only consolation was that it was sortof diet ice cream as opposed to full-on, full-fat, not-a-damn-thing-good-for-you-in-it ice cream.

The mental anguish I went through after that slim-a-bear binge is not worth it. :-( sad but true.

And just saying "slim-a-bear" makes me giggle for some reason. Like it should be a seinfeld or friends episode or something. "The one with the slim-a-bears" hahaha!

Man this is sounding like AA hahahahaa! Well... I'm not gonna pretend I'm perfect and infallible. There you have it.

I get the same shit every month when they do the monthly B-Day's.

Originally Posted by Jodi

I get the same shit every month when they do the monthly B-Day's.

Arrrgh- the dreaded "cake time" at the office.

I don't know how it is for some people, but all it takes is one spoonful of ice cream to send me spiraling down the road to my old ways. I prefer to not have the "forbidden" foods ever, than to have "just a taste" and then lose control. It's taken way too much work and discipline to get to where I am today, with regards to fitness and eating healthy. I'm terrified of falling back into my old habits.

ha ha, scared to relapse huh..! I guess food can qualify as an addiction to certain people thou. juts the way you put it was humerous

According to everyone at work I am considered weird cause I do not eat there shit.

Originally Posted by donescobar2000

According to everyone at work I am considered weird cause I do not eat there shit.

This is one of the reasons I like this website. We are not "weird" here, to each other. We can all respect each other's dietary habits and understand why some people eat the way/things they eat.

Eggsactly

I have to deal with krispey creme donuts and cakes every saturday morning!

Originally Posted by gr81

ha ha, scared to relapse huh..! I guess food can qualify as an addiction to certain people thou. juts the way you put it was humerous

Terrified. As humorous as I made it, dude I'm so serious that frankly, it's embarassing to admit! But I figure there are other people dealing with issues like mine, and they might feel better knowing someone else is going through this "food detox" so to speak.

Don't make me tell you about the cheetos and wine dinners (feasts, really) I used to have in my previous life! haha!

Originally Posted by sara

I have to deal with krispey creme donuts and cakes every saturday morning!

Oh how cruel. I'm so sorry...

(mmmmm ... donuts)

That's ok! as long as they don't have nuts and protein bars around

I eat whatever I want. Pizza, icecream, brownies, krispy kreme's, hot fudge sundays, and even the occasional beer.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

You know, just because the ice cream social is there today, that doesn't mean you have to eat it.

"You're not having any ice cream!?"

"You don't want any? Why not!???"

"There's ice cream downstairs you know!"

"If you're too busy, I'll bring you back some!"


Look, I DON'T WANT ANY F#CKING ICE CREAM!!!!

I would have eaten all the icecream.. then told them to shove off.

Originally Posted by PreMier

I eat whatever I want. Pizza, icecream, brownies, krispy kreme's, hot fudge sundays, and even the occasional beer.

rolling my eyes again

everyone in my office and all my friends know me as a "healthy food crusader" LOL, and it's quite fun actaully, the moment they see me they start making excuses for those fried noodles they're eating, for having that ciggie, etc.....I actaully notice that after 20 min in my company, people start telling me how they plan to start the gym/quit smoking/quit eating junk...LOL

So although I am one and They are many, they kinda back off the moment they see me. Now when someone I don't know well offers me junk to eat, they chip in " do you think she'd look this good if she ate that junk?" even before I have a chance to do so. LOL ( to clarify "looking this good" for them means simply being slim, I reckon I have a looooong road ahead with my friends weights to say that for myself!