"But I'm On A Diiiiieeeet!"

[blas87]

So for my birthday, I invited some friends to a local pizza buffet.

Of course, none of the girls want to come, because they made those lovely New Year's Resolutions to lose weight, and they are on "strict diets", and they've been doing sooo good, they can't cheat. Not just for one meal.

Oh shut up. I've put on over 20 pounds in the last year, and while I've been doing my best to eat right, it's my fricken birthday weekend, I'm eating whatever the hell I want and I'll worry about exercising later, just like they can.

It'd be one thing if it was about the cost. It'd be one thing if one or more of them had a medical condition. But just because they are worried about eating pizza? Oh jesus fucking christ are you kidding me?! One single meal of pigging out is not going to break you and make you fat. Get over it already.

Oh, the best part is, for their birthdays, even though I don't like to drink, if I don't show up and drink, they get butt-hurt and tell me that I won't break out in cystic acne if I "just have one", or it won't hurt me just to have a few drinks. Yeah, for that friend's bday, I had a few drinks and the next day I had 5 pimples on my face. But it was her birthday and I did it for her, because I knew she'd hate me if I didn't come out.

Seriously, you bully me into drinking whenever you can, all I ask is you come EAT PIZZA with me and you won't do it because you're worried you'll get fat?

Oh yeah.....if you're on a diet, you shouldn't be drinking a lot of booze. That's why you don't lose weight, by the way, not because you eat pizza. Give up the 24 pack of beer a week, and I guarantee you can eat all the pizza you want.

[Ginger Tea]

Diets as new years resolutions always end in tears
It would be nice if all your friends boyfriends were your friends too, sure they don't go but you have an army of their guys with you instead of feeling billy no mates.

[Boozy]

I wonder what kind of draconian diet plan your friends are on that they can't have pizza even one night out of the week.

I keep track of what I eat too, but I have pizza once in a while. Especially for a special occasion. It's not like I have to eat an entire large pie on my own. I have two pieces, and call it dinner. Maybe I'll just have a salad for lunch if I know I'm going to indulge later on.

Besides, it's a buffet, right? There must be lots of other choices for someone who is really hell-bent on avoiding pizza.

[AdminAssistant]

Ooooh, I hate that. A week before Thanksgiving, a friend hosted a *huge* potluck with turkey and all the fixings, and multiple desserts. I was chowing down when a heard a few friends at the other end of the table talking about the different diets they were trying, what exercise plans, how many points do you think this is? etc. And they were also barely picking at their plates. I felt like *such* a Fatty McFatFat for daring to enjoy a holiday party.

[Ginger Tea]

At least you ate the food cooked and prepared for you, imagine the host's view seeing all that uneaten food at the end of the meal.

Myself I can have one big meal a week and survive on scraps, mostly due to never having anything left at the staff lunch after the vultures decend upon the bell, a few days ago I had all but one and a half saussages from a £10 mixed grill, at that kinda money I ain't leaving much, the saussges I left due to them going colder quicker, the chicken was still nice to eat when luke warm and the steak was the first to go
But the rest of the week, I can't remember yesterday, but today all I had was a packet of ginger buiscuits dunked in coffee as I never went to the shops to buy food.

[the_std]

I dunno, what rankles me about this is the underlying attitude that I'm seeing. They can't come and hang out but not eat or else you'll be mad/you can't go and hang out and not drink or else they'll be mad? I know that different friendships have different dynamics, but an all-or-nothing approach like that doesn't seem terribly healthy. I would think that the company provided is more important than the food and beverages consumed.

But then, your posts constantly demonstrate how immature your social circle seems to be, especially in regards to alcohol, so I'm not sure why I'm surprised.

[Andara Bledin]

They can't come and hang out but not eat or else you'll be mad/you can't go and hang out and not drink or else they'll be mad?

Not quite. She has no problems with them coming and hanging out and not eating, but since it's at a food place, they won't come just to hang out and are using the excuse that it's at a pizza buffet place and they're on diets.

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[McDreidel09]

Pizza can be healthy if one only has one or two pieces. Most pizza buffets offer the service of requesting a type of pizza. They could have all split a veggie pizza and dabbed the grease.

Btw, strict diets are really terrible. If one can, splurging once in a while won't kill the diet.

[the_std]

Not quite. She has no problems with them coming and hanging out and not eating, but since it's at a food place, they won't come just to hang out and are using the excuse that it's at a pizza buffet place and they're on diets.

Seriously, you bully me into drinking whenever you can, all I ask is you come EAT PIZZA with me and you won't do it because you're worried you'll get fat?

I'm not so sure about that. I didn't see "come and hang out, you don't have to eat" anywhere in the post, and the quoted bit was the piece that made me say that. Especially since the words "eat pizza" are bolded.

[kibbles]

I agree blas. Friends should be more than willing and able to make small sacrifices (i.e. cheating on a diet) at times for a friend..especially a friend's birthday.

[tabbyblack13]

I never go to a Buffet because of the amount of food present. I am very prone to over indulging. If there is food out I will eat it. this is very true around buffet. They are a bane of my dinning experience. A normal buffet is hard enough but a pizza buffet is even harder for me. A healthy pizza is hard to come by in a restaurant. A veggie pizza is a healthier pizza but the cheese can really make it unhealthy.

If the diet your friends are on that are really strict then being surrounded by all of that temptation can spell disaster for them. If they go outside of that diet then they may start felling really bad about themselves. Some of these friends might be emotional eaters too. If an emotional eater becomes upset then they tend to binge. After that it's a vicious cycle.

[Eisa]

Wow. I'm on a fairly strict medical diet and lactose intolerant...

And there's still no way in hell I would pass up pizza.

Seriously. You can have like one piece. Or a salad. Or pasta. Or a sandwich. Or whatever else they have.

Or is it just that your friends have no self-control whatsoever?

[Ipecac Drano]

As a general rule, when dieting, one must cheat every once and a while. The party could have been that time. If they were still adamant about sticking to their diets, I'm sure that the restaurant would also serve salads.

[blas87]

I don't want it to be an all or nothing frienship, I was merely pointing out that it's completely unfair that if I don't want to go out drinking, I get harrassed and my phone bombarded and my friends act butt-hurt, but all I ask is for them to come eat pizza with me and I get the dumb diet excuse. If they are so adament about losing weight, they can give up beer for a few months.

That always amuses me how no matter what diets these dumb girls go on, they always have a few stubborn pounds that won't let up....duh, quit putting back an entire case of beer every weekend and I guarantee you'll shed the pounds.

It's not like there isn't salad at this buffet, if they want to nibble on rabbit food.

Oh, and we have bigger problems. In the past day, my friend and her husband have cancelled, re-RSVP'ed, cancelled, and re-RSVP'ed several times for the other activities for tonight because they won't quit fighting. Bf doesn't even understand and he just keeps telling me to quit bitching and be happy that they let me know what's going on. Know what, this is MY party, it's about ME, god dammit, not my stupid friends and their marital problems. I didn't even want to invite them after the way they acted last week (see my post from last week) but bf guilted me into it and reminded me how they'd treat me if I didn't invite them. Now I don't know if they are coming or not at any given moment! Look, I'm sorry for being selfish and thinking of myself and my party, but you don't just do that to people....keep changing your fucking minds. UGH. And my friend can't even let me know, it's her husband who keeps texting my bf and telling him. NICE.

And of course, they are all going to fight over who gets my "free" drinks at the bowling alley because I won't want to drink alcohol.

[Andara Bledin]

You definitely are at odds with your friends as regards maturity levels.

As for the 'free' drinks at the bowling alley, give them all to your boyfriend and make him deal with it. Or, if they'll do it, get things that are non-alcoholic and have them yourself. when I was still with my ex, and we'd go out to the local bars to play darts with friends, I'd often get things like virgin pina coladas 'cause I liked the taste, but didn't like the alcohol and was usually the designated driver.

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