A funny observation about my food-pushing coworkers

(Jen) #1

So my office went out to a bbq restaurant for lunch together today for a co-worker’s birthday. This restaurant serves amazing buttermilk biscuits and honey butter while you wait for your food. As much as I loved biscuits in my former non-keto life, they really weren’t a temptation for me and I happily sipped on my lemon water while everyone else started devouring them.

Once they noticed I wasn’t having biscuits, the food-pushing began:
Them: Have some of these biscuits!
Me: No thanks, I’m good.
Them: Oh come on! They’re so good! Look at these! yummmmm
On and on and on for about five minutes, telling me I’m really missing out, why don’t I just have one, etc…

Then after our entree’s are done (smoked quarter chicken and veggies with butter for me!), the dessert menu came. And don’t you know it… the pushing started again when I said I didn’t want any dessert:
Them: Aww COME ON these desserts are so good!
Me: No thanks, I’m good.
Them: Come on, you can at least split one! I’ll order one for you. Have one! etc…

Of course I resisted, but it’s pretty annoying that they do this every time we go out. I don’t know why people feel like they need to push food on others. JUST LET ME BE!

But anyway, the funny observation…
We are all back at the office now and every single one of them is complaining about how tired they are now, how their tummies hurt, they need to take a nap, they can’t focus on their work, etc. Not kidding, for ten minutes now it’s all they can talk about.

And I’m just sitting here with my perfectly satisfied (but not overly full) tummy, feeling great and smiling.

:slight_smile:

(Keto in Katy) #2

You win. :+1:

It’s great to not get that afternoon sinker. I wish I had known about keto years earlier, I could have avoided so much of that misery.

(Hillary ) #3

A lady at work kept trying to force her brownies on me. I don’t understand why she can’t understand that no means no. I can’t understand her motive. I can’t help but wonder if she is not trying to sabotage me. And it wasn’t once or twice, it was to the point that I was starting to get pissed.

(Gale Dacalio) #4

My people at work finally gave up on me. LOL. But before that I just told them I’d be in the bathroom all day and it wouldn’t be nice for whoever went behind me… LOL :scream: Next I would go into detail telling them how bad that crap is and naming symptoms it caused ( That I knew they all had.) Can’t help myself I’m a nurse.) Now if we have a get together at work they say oh there is ham or chicken… maybe you can eat that. But I do have to chuckle when they are all falling out after lunch and I am perky as can be.

(Jen) #5

I don’t understand food pushers either. I have a couple very intense ones in my life as well… including my dad. He actually seems to get ANGRY when I don’t eat the junk food he eats. Why is it so important?

(Jen) #6

Ha!! Guess I need to start doing the bathroom warning. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

(Chris) #7

Coworker: Dread, come on have some cake

Dread: I gotta go take dump

leaves

Easiest convo ever haha

(Liz ) #8

My theory is they want to indulge in food they know is not good for them & if you don’t go along it highlights their own guilt. Like you abstaining is somehow a judgement on their choices, which it’s not! It has nothing to do with them. These are the real pushers those 80s commercials told us would be pressuring us to try drugs, except it’s carbs instead of pot! Ugh.

(Donna ) #9

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

#10

I struggle with this at my job. They look at me like I’m the weird one cause I wana be healthy. It’s annoying and very disrespectful because I’m not on their case for their own eating choices ugh !

#11

My response now is “No thanks, I don’t want diabetes, and right now I enjoy seeing my toes”. I refuse to play games anymore. I just tell them how I feel.

#12

Its exactly the same as the druggies. They think you will judge or be morally superior. They are doing it and want you to do it too

(Doodler for @KetoKailey) #13

@lostinyonkers, the struggle is real. Suffered the pushing last week, my birthday week. Like you, the “treats” were not tempting me.

Oh, and yeah…I’m never tired after lunch either.

(Keto Travels) #14

Yeah that is my observation as well. They want to feel normal and justified in their choices and you are introducing some sort of cognitive dissonance - something we humans seem programmed to loathe and do anything to avoid. Also: Misery loves company :wink:

(Keto Travels) #15

On another note, you persist in mentioning that you are doing this for your health, you may find a little tribe of colleagues who want to be and eat healthy too. I am having lunch today with 3 of those weird kind of humans. Not all keto, but a basic understanding that people have to figure out what works for them and voila, choosing a keto friendly place was a non event. Bun less burger with guacamole, here I come!

(Allan L) #16

I simply say “I am hypersensitive to carbohydrates and will be violently ill if I eat that. No thanks” And it shuts people up. And its true!

(netposer) #17

For the past 4.5 years I’ve opted out of all the parties and celebrations here at work. It’s 90% carbage and the rest is questionable. I stopped engaging is nutrition talk unless someone is genuinely interested. Nutrition is like politics and religion. Nobody even wants facts and it’s mostly beliefs. Which are perfectly fine but no need to push your beliefs on others. If I want info and facts I have places like this.

And let us not forget about the Blue Cross Blue Shield “health” experts that give presentations here every now and then. They put out Nature Valley granola bars, fruit, and soda. ugh.

(Arlene) #18

I would have had a VERY difficult time refraining from badgering them, just as they badgered you during the meal. I’m impressed you were able to just sit there and smile. That’s self restraint!

(Dawn) #19

I agree 100% Some people feel “judged” by you not eating as they do.

Back to food pushers, I realize that I also am a food pusher. If I cook a really nice meal and my kids or my husband tell me they aren’t hungry, I get very angry and offended. (Mostly because I don’t like to waste food and they should have told me they weren’t hungry before I cooked)
I start ranting and raving about how they need to eat…blah blah. Usually until they feel forced to eat something. That is food pushing. I make them eat seconds when they don’t want it and I always offer a dessert. This is tale tale obesity inducing behavior. It wasn’t until I started keto that I realized that I was doing this.

Even my six year old is capable of knowing when he is hungry and when he isn’t. I am learning restraint and learning to stop forcing my family to eat.

#20

I feel you, I have a coworker and friend who always hands out candy, including some excellent dark chocolate, and no matter how many times I refuse he still offers. I know he’s trying to be friendly/polite, but it does get old.
My 14-year-old son is pretty bad too, always encouraging me to “take a break” from my “diet.” I tell him that the word “diet” implies that it’s temporary, and I don’t plan on ever going back to eating as I did before.

Sadly this is the world we live in, and groupthink is so difficult to overcome.