Sounds like most of my coworkers these days!dalila said:
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The office ice cream social <rant>
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i have probably the biggest sweet tooth in the world! i'm like addicted to sweet food n candy etc..etc..! so i try to stay away from it .. if i have a bite .. i'm gonna want the rest ... so i try my hardest to not even try stuff bc then it's REALLY hard for me to walk away ... so it's all or nothing for me! ... and shit work doesnt help at all! we have like all these pies n cakes n ice creams n stuff that we can take home and omg it's soooo tempting! i usually bring it home for my dad or lil sister ... but still u no i want a lil bite ... but i never take one (well i have once lol)
Robert DiMaggio said:unless you're dieting for a show or something why can't you eat some ice cream?
Because......I didn't.....WANT ANY.
You see, the fatties in the office will eat junk food if it's there, no matter what. Doesn't matter how full they are, if the junk food is there, they will eat it.
Because i dont want the crappy ones served in the office when i have a tub of Hagen Daas at homeRobert DiMaggio said:
Yep! I have noticed those helping themselves to the largest quantities are 'large' themselves ...... i wonder why??????I Are Baboon said:Because......I didn't.....WANT ANY.
You see, the fatties in the office will eat junk food if it's there, no matter what. Doesn't matter how full they are, if the junk food is there, they will eat it.
On a bulk, i can walk past without batting an eye. But on a cut its a bit tough, as most of you would agree.PreMier said:
In addition to doughnuts and cake every friday morning we also get Tim Bits (doughnut holes) several varieties of bagels and assortments of dips and spreads!!!sara said:
All this from the same company that also offers a fitness subsidy to its employees!
Boy do they ever. It's food, it's free, they won't pass it up. You'd think we're heading toward a famine or something that they have to stock up!I Are Baboon said:
We have quarterly breakfast meetings where all employees (450 + whoever is in from other offices) attend. They serve bagels, danish, donuts, fruit, juice, etc. You should see these people (many who've already had breakfast before the meeting) piling stuff high on their plates, and taking it back to their desks, covered in napkins, and then RETURNING to the meeting, and grabing a smaller plate with just one or two items to eat during the meeting. And it's never FRUIT. There is always a bunch of left over fruit.
Insane.
Good luck. If your office is anything like mine, your efforts will go under-appreciated (or UNappreciated, rather).sara said:I'm going to start taking healthy snacks for people at work to eat and maybe they can change their eating habit.. well, maybe just at work
OR, someone will say, "Oh wow! Healthy snacks! Someone should do this more often!" And then it never happens again until the next time YOU bring in healthy snacks again.
But good for you, fighting the good fight. Try it. Let's see what they do.
Sounds noble. But not likely to work, IMO. Most only talk about eating healthy and get a good body but dont want to put the time and effort required. I remind them it is like saying 'I wish i could win the lottery, but i couldnt be bothered to buy a ticket!'sara said:I'm going to start taking healthy snacks for people at work to eat and maybe they can change their eating habit.. well, maybe just at work
Like GoalGetter said, you are likely to attract a bunch of freeloaders, the type who will eat anything and everything so long as it is free!! the others are likely to throw their chairs at you!
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Agreed, I wouldn't waste the money on them.
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Unfortunately this is just another example of the way people make excuses for how they are. I say if you want to eat like that, go ahead and do it - just don't complain that you're overweight or unhappy with your body when I'm around.
I can't tell you how many times when I was running a corporate gym people would come in for a "workout" in the morning - walking on a treadmill for 20 minutes - and then I'd see them getting "breakfast" - bacon and cheese on an english muffin with deep fried hash browns and a coffee. Mmm. Good thing that workout is going to good use. And then they come to you and wonder why they aren't seeing any results.
I can't tell you how many times when I was running a corporate gym people would come in for a "workout" in the morning - walking on a treadmill for 20 minutes - and then I'd see them getting "breakfast" - bacon and cheese on an english muffin with deep fried hash browns and a coffee. Mmm. Good thing that workout is going to good use. And then they come to you and wonder why they aren't seeing any results.
Most people KNOW what they have to do, but they don't apply it. Every piece of bacon, every extra serving of greasy hash browns, every scoop of ice cream is "well, this one time won't hurt..."ponyboy said:
Bt it's "this one time" every time, sometimes multiple times a day.
They're fooling themselves.
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What's going to happen is that the healthy snacks Sara brings in will get eaten, but all the usual shitty food will get eaten as well. All Sara will be doing is providing extra calories to the already bad diets.
I wanted a snack a min' ago. So I ate a stick of gum ... sugerfree. I think I relate.GoalGetter said:Terrified. As humorous as I made it, dude I'm so serious that frankly, it's embarassing to admit!
Don't make me tell you about the cheetos and wine dinners (feasts, really) I used to have in my previous life! haha!
i've gotten to the point where i won't even discuss nutrition w/people. for the longest time i would try to be "helpful" but it gets old taking time to explain and teach and answer questions once you know full well that they aren't really listening (even though they brought it up) and aren't going to change a single thing. (if anyone were sincere i'd be completely willing to help)
i swear my rant is nearly done....really
during the olympics there was a group of fatties going on and on about how great the gymnasts legs were (it lasted for DAYS) and they seemed to conclude that their legs would be like that too if they were that age and had all day to spend at the gym.
(open mouth, insert candy and doughnut)
as if.
during the olympics there was a group of fatties going on and on about how great the gymnasts legs were (it lasted for DAYS) and they seemed to conclude that their legs would be like that too if they were that age and had all day to spend at the gym.
(open mouth, insert candy and doughnut)
as if.
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I completely agree. I never discuss my workouts or diet with anyone at work. It's simply a waste of breath.
I'd love to videotape these types of people for a few days, edit the footage to point out everything they SAY and everything they DO in contradiction, and then force them to sit through the hours of footage.nikegurl said:i swear my rant is nearly done....really
during the olympics there was a group of fatties going on and on about how great the gymnasts legs were (it lasted for DAYS) and they seemed to conclude that their legs would be like that too if they were that age and had all day to spend at the gym.
(open mouth, insert candy and doughnut)
as if.
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The one about having more time just really gets me going. You have 168 hours in a freaking week. Most people probably spend about 30 hours of that watching TV, smoking, surfing the internet (I know I do), etc...
"Oh, work is so busy right now" is my favourite one. Bunch of BS.
People who tell me they can't free up 3-5 hours a week for exercise I tell them to honestly look at all the crap they do every day and MAKE TIME.
"Oh, work is so busy right now" is my favourite one. Bunch of BS.
People who tell me they can't free up 3-5 hours a week for exercise I tell them to honestly look at all the crap they do every day and MAKE TIME.
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I think we'd get a good laugh but I bet most of the people on tape would watch it and still blame genetics ("big bones") or lack of time (who ISN'T pressed for time?) instead of the Super Size McDonald's meal they ate for lunch.
I try not to, but then someone always asks. And it's usually the people who are least likely to even really apply any of it to themselves.I Are Baboon said:
There's this one little old guy who eats a can of chef boyardee for lunch every day. He always sees me with my gym bag, and never fails to make a comment. "So are you going to the gym today?" Yeah. "So tell me, what is it that you do there, exactly? Like what exercises?"
Does this guy honestly think I'm gonna take the time to explain what I do at the gym? NO WAY.
I made that mistake once last year, when I was doing pilates pretty regularly and lost a lot of weight. He asked me what I was doing to lose weight. I said, 'eating right and doing pilates a few times a week..."
"what's pilates?"
I innocently took the time to explain what it was, and how i'd gotten into it, and blah blah blah pilates blah. He didn't really seem to pay attention, and I kinda just let the subject die off.
That was in NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR.
We are what, in September, now? This guys still asks me, "hey so let me ask you about pilates... is good for your joints? Let me ask you about pilates... you still do it? You do a lot of pilates? pilates? pilates? blah blah blah pilates blah?"
I noticed it was more of a way for him to do small talk, than to really ask for and receive and process information. He can't just say, "Hey Ivy, how was your weekend..." No. He says, "Hey ivy, So did you do pilates this weekend?"
Now every time I see him coming, or hear him nearby, I busy myself to just avoid yet another pilates conversation vacuum. Can you imagine how much of my time would be sucked up by more pointless questioning if I told him what I do at the gym?
*I don't even do pilates much anymore, in case anyone cares! haha!
