Hmmmm….a satisfied client or a disgruntled client? I’m always suspicious of food brought in by customers. Never know their intentions. Too many psychopaths.
Looks tempting, though. 
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I find the supply of unnecessary sweet treats seems to be a common standard at most work places. I have lost count of the number of training days I have gone to where the catering seems to be a mix of cakes biscuits and at best some sort of white bread sandwiches filled with processed meats and sauces full of sugar. Then to just keep everyone pre diabetic they put bowls of lollies (candy) on the tables and a selection of canned soft drinks. I usually just take my chilli and ask where the nearest microwave is, or just eat it cold.
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I always bring my own food to lunch. I work at a hospital. I’m pretty sure they want us all to be lifelong clients based on the food they provide.
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They are a dentist…I think the intentions are clear.…bring sweets…wait for cavities…profit!! 
This makes me mad lol but I guess I could just have stronger will power, which I do most days but some days are toughhhh to resist.
This challenge literally saved me today from indulging lol
Same here! It’s actually funny how many people think it’s SOO strange to not buy a lunch. Save money and stay healthier seems like a no-brainer.
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I’m certainly a guilty party, as my wife makes a batch of cookies every Sunday for me to bring into work on Monday, but I also take solace in knowing that they’re homemade with high quality ingredients. Meanwhile, by Tuesday, I see the bowls of leftover Halloween candy, Walmart’s “Great Value” iced oatmeal cookies and cakes and whatever else lands on the “wheel of junk”.
And it blows my mind how people will just absent mindedly grab these sugar bombs and completely blow away their diet in a manner of seconds. My co-worker just walked by and grabbed 2 cookies on his way to recycle is plastic salad container, which I’m sure he bought at the work cafeteria thinking he was making “the right choice”.
One of many reasons I gave up lunch.
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I am less annoyed by people bring in home baked goods or food. Once a month at my work we have a lunch where everyone makes something from their culture and we share food. Mostly it is savory but some will also bring desert. I usually bring some sort of meat and there is always plenty of other tasty meat and vegetable dishes to try.
I totally agree with you regarding this
Those same people are the ones who also ask ‘how do you not get fat, you always seem to be eating’ These days I usually just say ‘I must be just lucky’. It is just too hard to explain that my 200 grams of chilli has less calories than the chocolate muffin and giant late they had for morning tea
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giant late
T-Nation used to have a great meme that was something like “I’d like 3 slices of birthday cake blended with caffeine” as a reference to what most people order for “coffee”. That’s another amazing thing in our culture: liquid calories “don’t count”, but meanwhile people will freak out if they see you eat a 16oz steak.
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That is straight up evil is what that is.
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I used to be very guilty of this. Took me a while to figure out that the giant iced “coffee” that I was drinking had something like 750 calories in it. And I usually had two a day at work.
Agreed. At least that is most likely actual food. And usually they are way yummier.
Also, our diabetic nurses keep bowls of candy (lollies) in their offices for employees. I used to be terrible about that. Probably eat like 10 a day. I haven’t indulged in those since I started logging on here.
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This is one of the reasons I do like advising folks to just count their calories and make no changes for a couple weeks. It can be pretty eye opening what you’re actually taking down (and how much you’re just plain drinking) if you’ve just paid no attention
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The thing that gets me is when people get annoyed that you don’t eat their cakes or donuts they bring in. Acting like I’m being rude by not eating a shed load of sugar.
Same people that ask ‘how do you stay so healthy’. It’s not rocket science Karen!
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This is something deeply baked into our DNA. We’d eat together as a tribe as an indication of the safety of the food we were eating. Abstaining from it was an indication that you knew something the tribe didn’t, or you simply were a pariah and didn’t belong. It’s hard to get people to shake those lizard brain parts.
My way to avoid that is, when someone asks “Would you like a donut?” Answer honestly. “Oh yeah, I really WOULD like a donut, but I’m going to turn it down today.” You’re acknowledging that the donut is, in fact, yummy, rather than telling them “that thing you’re eating is poison!”, and then by throwing in the “today” part at the end, you open the door to potential future donut opportunities. That latter bit was something I learned regarding turning down sidewalk salesmen. Saying “no” means they need to double up their efforts to get the sale TODAY. Saying “not today” means they have another chance sometime.
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I don’t have a sweet tooth so I’m completely honest when I say I totally don’t want that candy/cake thingie.
Fried oysters or Calamari on the other hand…….
I’m all there!
I actually ate some raw oysters and Calamari last Saturday post lifting. Was great and I’d do it again, post lifting!
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Agreed….I had 3 separate people at work pretty much follow me around for half the day asking when I’m going to have some of the sweets because it seemed like they felt guilty themselves for already eating a bunch of them.
I have always had a sweet tooth so it is an actual struggle for me to resist ahaha but it was done! There are some stale leftovers today for people to polish off!
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I like this technique and it definitely works. I also find telling them that ‘you are going to abstain today because they look so good if you have one you will not be able to stop eating them’ also works pretty well. Most people understand this feeling and seem to sympathize with it.
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I like “I might have one/some later, thanks!” It doesn’t give a yes or a no or a reason for eating or not eating it right now. Just very vague.
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I must be an asshole. I don’t even have to say anything. Other people that I work with will say " Beth doesn’t eat shitty food. "
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I keep telling people that if they bring in a cheese board or a meat platter i’ll have some but not cakes.
Hopefully no one calls my bluff as i have no intention of eating either of those on top of my meal prep food!
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They do figure it out after a while. When I get comments like “Oh it’s just one donut. One slice of pizza won’t kill you.” I always hit them with “Do you know how hard I have to work to look this average?”
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I really don’t have an issue with just letting people know that I’m obsessed with muscles. But keeping that as a happy good thing for me, not a I’m better than anyone thing.
I tell people my vice is lifting weight addiction and I ain’t stopping and plan to till I die.
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