Comments on: Peer Pressure to Eat Unhealthily

By: sfordinarygirl

sfordinarygirl — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:02:43 +0000

Chocolate (dark chocolate at least!), cookies, cake, donuts and bagels/cream cheese are often brought into the office. Even though I bring a healthy lunch and snacks it’s hard to resist someone dangling lavender cookies or a piece of dark chocolate! So I opt for a very small piece of the sweets and make sure I eat a lighter dinner or fewer snacks. I try to compensate in the rest of my eating if I decide to have sweets.

By: Israel

Israel — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:43:06 +0000

this is so right. i have noticed that it is not just at work, family also pressures you.. i guess it depends on how you handle it.

By: guinness416

guinness416 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:09:14 +0000

Oh lord, where I work they buy doughnuts and muffins every week, pizza for everyone once a month, pub junk food in the evenings every so often …. it never stops! But in my experience once you’ve stood your ground a few times any colleagues with a shred of sense and tact will stop bothering you. Especially if you grab your glass of water and go toast the new parent/birthday person/etc in the conference room with an appropriately cheery corporate grin. There is the more clueless few in every office, who deserve a little more sarcasm.

And, as I’m constantly evangelizing, try working out in the morning. Multiple benefits (energy, extra qualiddy time with the spouse, early morning weather, quiet gyms), not least the sense of achievement of getting it out of the way early. It’s so tough for us office workers to shake the fatigue & summon the energy in the evening.

(PS, re beer, come work in my office …. I’ve been loudly asked if I’m pregnant for refusing another round!)

By: Skinny Guy

Skinny Guy — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:32:42 +0000

When I had to face those situations, I needed to get quite assertive and let the food pushers know that they were crossing the line. If I caved into their “pushing” I knew that they would have won and they would never stop hounding me.

Remember that if you eat whatever it is that they’re pushing on you, you’re the one that will have to deal with the calories, not them!

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:14:36 +0000

I make it easy on myself by making it clear from the get-go that I don’t like those sorts of foods. Since I actually do not care for sweet foods in general and cake/cupcakes in particular, it is very easy for me to not have any.

I still eat about twice as much as anyone else in my office, though.