Tempting Baked Goods at Work

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[quote]debraD wrote:

To that I say suck it up, don’t have cake if you’re on a diet. But I think the constant supply of goodies might be a bit unfair.

So what’s the consensus?[/quote]

I say suck it up. If you’re not tempted at work, you’ll be tempted elsewhere.

I have the same setup at my job. There’s a table full of junk food and bagels in the morning between the cubicles. The slight difference is sometimes people bake the stuff at home and take alot of pride in it. If you don’t eat their cake, they get offended. Especially if I don’t eat it since I don’t look like a guy who diets. They can’t understand the difference between me stuffing my face with meat or stuffing my face with cake. It’s a bit annoying at times.

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I’m definitely in the self-restraint camp. What the hell ever happened to personal responsibility?

The only time that there is crap like that in my office is around the winter holidays. We get inundated. Particularly in recent years with the economy slumping, ALL of our patients bake stuff or buy boxes of fancy chocolates. A few bring us Whole Foods fruit baskets. Nice tokens of their appreciation for our service. We all just suck it up and deal with it. Nobody forces you to eat that stuff. And honestly, I can only tolerate so much of it before it makes me feel sick.

A related thing that I do take issue with is when WE put candies or other junk on our reception desk. I’m sorry, I know that its just a little piece of refined sugar. But seriously, we are holistic healthcare professionals who advocate limiting your intake of that crap. I agree that people need to make their own choices about what they put in their mouth, but they shouldn’t have to make one when they walk in to get adjusted. Our office should be a haven from stress-- that includes food stress. One time someone at the office bought some little bags of cookies to put on the desk. As an admitted compulsive label reader, I looked and saw trans-fats. Yikes. Felt like we were poisoning our patients (at least to me.)

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For those on the self-restraint side of the fence, let’s look at it step by step in Debs office:

I’m assuming Deb doesn’t work in some sort of day-care rugrats running around all crazy like. I’m assuming she works in an office with reasonable adults who lead reasonable adult lives. I’m also assuming these reasonable adults have reasonable adult responsibilities that they’ve accumulated through their own choice processes, one way or the other. And in that process of choice there must’ve been a fork where they chose to go the route to where they now stand struggling with making a simple fucking decision of whether or not to eat the goddamn cookie.

Now, you and I have made choices where we would look at the fucking cookie and evaluate whehter that 150 cal cookie fits into our goal structure. But not these fucking snivveling bags of personal failure. No, they struggle with a simple choice of whether or not to eat a fucking cookie. Honestly, if this choice is one of the hardest choices they have to make then why the FUCK do banks loan these fucking people money for purchases?

Seriously, these people are stuggling with a decision my 6 year old niece makes on a daily basis with nary a thought about it. Does she want the cookie or no. And she makes the right choice every fucking time. There’s no struggle.

I know I know, my niece isn’t an adult and will probably feel no consequence to eating a cookie. Shit, she’ll probably eat thousands of cookies between now and when she gets to be a neurotic 30 something standing in an office under the judging eyes of her co-workers struggling with the self awareness of a choice that could reverberate throughout the entire solar system!! DO I EAT THE FUCKING COOKIE OR DON’T I?

With such decisions that have generations of life hanging in the balance how does one sleep at night? I’m actually surprised these people don’t have trouble deciding when it’s appropriate to inhale and/or exhale. I’m surprised Deb’s office isn’t littered with unconscious bodies of people who couldn’t decided when it’s prudent to breathe.

It’s amazing that people have made it as far as we have with all these weighty decisions like when it’s ok to eat cookies and did I breathe too much yesterday and if i did, do I cut down on my breathing today? And I’m not apologizing for the rant. I’m bored in between classes. I’m about to go to my Inter. Macro class and just aced my Financial Acct. exam so I’m all fired up on caffeine and cocaine. Anarchy, I don’t know what it is but I like it.

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[quote]SkyNett wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
All I have to do is grab a hold of my hip fat and I can show some restraint. [/quote]

What hip fat??! I don’t see any… : ) [/quote]

hahahaha maybe my next avatar will be a pic of my cellulite … then you’ll see

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:

[quote]SkyNett wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
All I have to do is grab a hold of my hip fat and I can show some restraint. [/quote]

What hip fat??! I don’t see any… : ) [/quote]

hahahaha maybe my next avatar will be a pic of my cellulite … then you’ll see [/quote]

Isn’t that just ‘bending’ flesh?

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This is extremely stupid, because it’s not even a debate.

If you don’t have enough goddamn self-control to stop yourself from eating shit food, you don’t deserve to look good nekked.

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[quote]Stern wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:

[quote]SkyNett wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
All I have to do is grab a hold of my hip fat and I can show some restraint. [/quote]

What hip fat??! I don’t see any… : ) [/quote]

hahahaha maybe my next avatar will be a pic of my cellulite … then you’ll see [/quote]

Isn’t that just ‘bending’ flesh? [/quote]

I don’t know

Whatever it is, it’s ruining my ass

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lol this thread sounds like it’s more suited for another board. OP try the weightwatcher’s forum.

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Listen, my dad has lost 30+ pounds in the last year, and his office has tons of sweets out. I mean, like a bowl at every corner. And at his position, he has tons of board meetings and etc that provide cake and donuts and bagels and anything else you can name.

In spite of this, he has lost the weight he has because of self control, and that’s after several years of eating very badly. If my dad can avoid a donut, anyone can.

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[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
I don’t work in an office though so I don’t really have to deal with this. The daily treats would be a bitch to have around especially if they are free and you were trying to diet. The birthday cakes are for a special occasion so they would be okay.[/quote]

Yeah I’m kind of torn. On the one hand I think if you’re going to kick your eating problem you have to learn some discipline and take responsibility for what you eat. On the other hand it is hard and maybe we should make it harder. But some people really love the treats and are fit, healthy and have no reason for not having them. [/quote]

I usually don’t diet, right now my thing is getting enough protein in my diet.

Why are people baking treats all the time? Are people really this nice? Is it possible I’m not as nice as I think I am? Hmmmmmm Because personally I do not feel the need to bake for the people I work for. Does this make me a bitch?

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If someone at the office is, out of the kindness of their hearts, offering free food to co-workers just because then yeah they don’t need to put your feelings into consideration simply because you’re trying to avoid those foods.

That being said my roommate is the type of person who lives to cook for other people and that is how she shows her love. Her favorite thing to make is, of course, my favorite food (white chocolate cookies) and when she makes them it is very, very hard to not eat them; especially when I’m hungry, which is pretty much always, so I can sympathize with the people who’d rather not have them.

Things that also don’t help: My roommate plus our mutual friends constantly tell me that I am too skinny and ALWAYS try to guilt me into eating food. I’m pretty chunky when compared to the lovely ladies on here, I don’t know if they genuinely think I’m too skinny or want to make themselves feel better. I hear this is pretty common 'round the office workplace too.

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[quote]Physicality wrote:
If someone at the office is, out of the kindness of their hearts, offering free food to co-workers just because then yeah they don’t need to put your feelings into consideration simply because you’re trying to avoid those foods.

That being said my roommate is the type of person who lives to cook for other people and that is how she shows her love. Her favorite thing to make is, of course, my favorite food (white chocolate cookies) and when she makes them it is very, very hard to not eat them; especially when I’m hungry, which is pretty much always, so I can sympathize with the people who’d rather not have them.

Things that also don’t help: My roommate plus our mutual friends constantly tell me that I am too skinny and ALWAYS try to guilt me into eating food. I’m pretty chunky when compared to the lovely ladies on here, I don’t know if they genuinely think I’m too skinny or want to make themselves feel better. I hear this is pretty common 'round the office workplace too.[/quote]

Hope I’m not out of line by telling you, that by the time they try emotional blackmail to get you to eat food that damages your goal, which they know, it is not a “way to show love”. I’d confront her, and simply ask if she’s trying to sabotage you, maybe she is not aware of it?

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:
it’s ruining my ass[/quote]

Doubtful… : )

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Tell fatty to suck it up, I work in a grocery store but you don’t see me eating pie all day (damn I wish I could).

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its not up to other people to help you achieve your goals…

if your on a diet you have to learn to say no… as others pointed out, brining in healthy snacks would greatly help these people but thats on them. I keep tahini, peanut butter, splenda jam, veggies, and other misc food in a fridge at work so i have healthy snacks…

as for the cake, 1 piece of cake wont ruin anyone… that said, I imagine you know a day or so in advance its someones b-day… so stop at a grocery store and get yourself a fruit cup to celebrate with no sugar whip topping !! or just bring something and be happy for your co-worker…

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its not up to other people to help you achieve your goals…

if your on a diet you have to learn to say no… as others pointed out, brining in healthy snacks would greatly help these people but thats on them. I keep tahini, peanut butter, splenda jam, veggies, and other misc food in a fridge at work so i have healthy snacks…

as for the cake, 1 piece of cake wont ruin anyone… that said, I imagine you know a day or so in advance its someones b-day… so stop at a grocery store and get yourself a fruit cup to celebrate with no sugar whip topping !! or just bring something and be happy for your co-worker…

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I bring my own food and I don’t share it.

I’m uptight about it too, I don’t like eating things that I haven’t peeled, taken out of packaging, or cooked myself. I’m in Southern California, so there’s always chips and salsa in the break room, out on a table just sitting there. Who knows where the hell or who the hell that stuff came from. Same goes for processed stuff like cookies and whatnot.

If a food item has been preserved to the point of being able to have a shelf life of months, I really don’t want to put it in my body.

So I guess my self control is a little bit OCD based, but it works for me in what I’m trying to accomplish with food intake.

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[quote]xilinx wrote:

[quote]Physicality wrote:
If someone at the office is, out of the kindness of their hearts, offering free food to co-workers just because then yeah they don’t need to put your feelings into consideration simply because you’re trying to avoid those foods.

That being said my roommate is the type of person who lives to cook for other people and that is how she shows her love. Her favorite thing to make is, of course, my favorite food (white chocolate cookies) and when she makes them it is very, very hard to not eat them; especially when I’m hungry, which is pretty much always, so I can sympathize with the people who’d rather not have them.

Things that also don’t help: My roommate plus our mutual friends constantly tell me that I am too skinny and ALWAYS try to guilt me into eating food. I’m pretty chunky when compared to the lovely ladies on here, I don’t know if they genuinely think I’m too skinny or want to make themselves feel better. I hear this is pretty common 'round the office workplace too.[/quote]

Hope I’m not out of line by telling you, that by the time they try emotional blackmail to get you to eat food that damages your goal, which they know, it is not a “way to show love”. I’d confront her, and simply ask if she’s trying to sabotage you, maybe she is not aware of it?[/quote]

I don’t think she is doing it on purpose (at least I hope not!), I think it’s just that’s what she’s always done. Is it someone’s birthday? Make them cookies. Is it a holiday? It’s cookie-baking time. Am I having a rough month? She’s gonna make me some cookies. It’s just what she does.

It’s when I turn them down or turn down any other offers of food that she, or our other friends, gets offended, rolls her eyes at me and says I need to relax a little; then I feel like shit. I still don’t eat them, but it makes turning them down harder.

I mention this because I know from other forums that people have had similar issues in the workplace or at home when they turn down offerings of food. I think it is the way a lot of people show they care, and get offended when you turn them down.

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[quote]Physicality wrote:

I mention this because I know from other forums that people have had similar issues in the workplace or at home when they turn down offerings of food. I think it is the way a lot of people show they care, and get offended when you turn them down.[/quote]

sorry but fuck 'em.
if I don’t want to eat something, I’m not going to no matter how butt hurt someone gets.

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[quote]Physicality wrote:
I don’t think she is doing it on purpose (at least I hope not!), I think it’s just that’s what she’s always done. Is it someone’s birthday? Make them cookies. Is it a holiday? It’s cookie-baking time. Am I having a rough month? She’s gonna make me some cookies. It’s just what she does.

It’s when I turn them down or turn down any other offers of food that she, or our other friends, gets offended, rolls her eyes at me and says I need to relax a little; then I feel like shit. I still don’t eat them, but it makes turning them down harder.

I mention this because I know from other forums that people have had similar issues in the workplace or at home when they turn down offerings of food. I think it is the way a lot of people show they care, and get offended when you turn them down.[/quote]

No offense, but fuck 'em. I cut people like that out of my life if they’re not willing to respect me and my goals. They don’t have to understand them or agree with them, but they have to respect my decision. If not… why keep around negative influences?

It holds true for many things in life, but they say that you are who you associate with and that you look like your five closest friends. So… I guess choose your friends carefully eh?