A funny observation about my food-pushing coworkers

(Arlene) #41

I’ve never enjoyed the taste of alcohol, so it never seemed odd to me when I wasn’t holding a drink at a party. At social events I would just mingle. Isn’t that why we were there? Nope! I learned that these parties were mostly about the foods, alcohol, drugs, etc. The socializing was only included to ease everyone’s guilt. Crazy, crazy world!

(Ethan) #42

If you are diabetic, you can file that with your HR department. Since physical disability is a legally protected class, if you tell your HR department that eating a ketogenic diet is treatment for your disability, them pushing foods like this becomes a hostile workplace environment, which gives you specific legal protections.

(Tim) #43

And the great thing about keto is that this IS very likely the case, regardless of when it’s offered.

#44

Yikes! That sounds like Communism. Part of being an adult is choices, and getting others to respect them. Being blunt is the only way forward.

My husband is an alcoholic, and he’s been clean for 25 years, but he’s still an alcoholic. Food pushers are vile little creeps who would happily put a glass of vodka into an alcoholics hands. Everyone here has a food issue, and we need to own it, and to let the food pushers know they are no different to drug dealers in their behavior.

(Ethan) #45

That hardly sounds like Communism. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with communal (direct or by proxy via government) ownership of the means of production at all.

Declaring the disability is actually a big deal. It can mean companies have to provide you a lunch you can eat instead of a damn sandwich on a work outing. One of the reasons I lost my ketogenic diet was that I didn’t declare diabetes as a disability when I worked for one company. I had to travel frequently and had work-provided meals, especially on a multiday retreat. I ate what they provided. Declaring a disability would have meant they would take it seriously that I need to be ketogenic.

Moreover, being pushed food is a form of harassment. You cannot do much to stop the harassment if the company doesn’t want to take action against coworkers who push food constantly on you. If its a disability, you get legal recourse and can easily stop harassment. I am not saying to declare a hostile workplace environment when a person offers you a piece of cake! I am saying that if there is a person or group of people at your office who harass you or demean you for not eating what they eat, then you can take proper action. I used to work at once place where people purposefully cooked bacon in the microwave during Ramadan to harass fasting Muslims. It’s not communism to provide religious protection. The solution isn’t to say the people cannot eat bacon, but it is appropriate to take action when they are targeting and harassing for religious beliefs.

#46

Exactly! :slight_smile: Who can argue with someone else’s statement on their appetite, right?

(What The Fast?!) #47

I tell people I can’t have gluten, that shuts them up and technically, it’s true.

(Ethan) #48

That works. Everybody at my office knows I fast and eat keto. We have a lot of people now eating keto though, but not because they are diabetic like me. They do OMAD, but no other fasting. They always ask if I am on that crazy diet still, which is asking if I am fasting. Then they complain that I am dropping weight so well and they can’t seem to–while eating some goldfish crackers after coming back from a 1-hour gym workout.

(Jane Reed) #49

I love these food harassment threads because now I get to offer my favorite comeback to the pusher:. “My doctor says I can’t eat that”. Your doctor is, of course, Dr. Atkins, Dr. Fung, Dr. Gerber…take your pick.

(Thomasina Tijerina) #50

Such a great response to this post. I, too, have to endure the regular luncheon meals. I’ve just opted to tell them that at my doctor’s request I am fasting during the day until 6PM. That is both true and gets me out of the insistence that I eat with them.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #51

A dodge I learned about in early sobriety is that you can survive a party by starting off saying, “Oh, not yet, thanks,” and switching to “Oh, no more, thanks,” halfway through.

(Renee Williams) #52

LOL love it!! Will do! Thanks ; )

(Candy Lind) #53

Ooh, I love it! Name-dropping! LOL I would MUCH rather have Dr. Fung than my current traditionalist doctor.

(Keto in Katy) #54

Get in food pusher’s chubby face and tell them to fuck off. Even better if you are spitting pieces of bacon and avocado while saying it.

(Linda Culbreth) #55

Love it, love it, love it!

(Candice) #56

Nice!

(Luke Patrick) #57

My co-workers are terrible about this as well. I try to be gracious and just say “no thanks”. If they keep pushing then the gloves come off and I’ll say “I don’t eat cake because I’m not a toddler” or “I’d rather not die young like my obese male relatives”

When it’s family or friends that are pushing carbage I’m always nice about it. I take the time to explain the why’s and how’s of an LCHF diet and ask them if they would help me get healthier by not trying to push carbs on me. For the most part they have been supportive but my mom just doesn’t get it. She has always expressed her love through baked goods and candies. When she pushes her baked goods on me I just say “Mom, I know you love me and thanks for the thought but I’m not eating that crap” and then I give her a big hug. That seems to work.

(Candy Lind) #58

Print off some keto baking recipes and chocolate/PB/whatever fat bombs and give them to her - “Mom, you want to bake for me? Would you make me these?” I bet she will!

(Dawn) #59

I am looking back at this post and laughing at myself. This was posted about 1 month after starting keto. I am now 6 months in and I can’t believe how much has changed. I no longer force my kids to eat. The idea that I ever did seems ridiculous to me now. In fact, i don’t even push snacking any more. The kids have shifted to a natural IF pattern. Since I stopped buying snacks, there is not really anything naughty to entice them to eat between meals. So now, they eat 2/3 pretty big square meals a day but not much between that. My son will even skip dinner if he isn’t hungry. He really seems to be in tune with when he is hungry vs. not hungry. Reducing the carbs really helped with their hunger signals.

And desserts have almost been completely eliminated. I used to make sure they had a dessert after every meal. Now we only have a dessert if there is a special occasion. Lastly, I am doing a “teen low-carb plan” with my daughter.

I’m a totally different person now than I was back then. Amazing changes made in my life and my family’s life thanks to what i have learned on this forum

(Dean Riley) #60

Misery loves company. I think it helps some people justify their own bad eating. I just say: I can’t eat that for health reasons. or Don’t mind me, enjoy, I don’t need it.