Food buzzkills

[Xanthina]

I am overweight, and was on a careful diet. I had a cookie with me one lunch while at work, and my stick skinny coworker started makeing passive agressive comments about it. EGADS... I've been good all week, I've been saveing my points, I can have one freaking cookie. She didn't care that I still like a cookie now and then. "If I was doing it right, I would want an apple not a cookie"

I hate it when people judge by a 30 second glance.

Yes, I like fast food when I go to the mall. Only time really that I get it. But the people who sneer at me when they pass don't know that I only go to the mall twice a year.

[Greenday]

"If I was doing it right, I would want an apple not a cookie"

Why would anyone EVER want an apple over a cookie?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Exactly.

I also tend to give in to time of the month cravings; like junk food and cake. Hell, I should at least have something nice when I'm bloated, having terrible stomach cramps and feeling like shit. Oh yeah, and anyone bleating, "You should exercise and drink water and eat apples!" is likely to end up seriously injured. -.-

[Flyndaran]

I'm definitely under 40. I said "elderly person" faciously (sp?) Could have been toddler, middle aged, young or whatever person, I just don't see why I should have been offered a flu jab just cuz I happen to have a weak chest.

I've never had the flu in my life, so my opinions may not matter much. But from what I've heard it can be quite horrible even for otherwise healthy individuals. Even healthy people die from it every year. Not many, I'll give you, but a few.
If you are at risk, even of a form that you consider inconsequential, doesn't make it silly for medical professionals to at least offer it.
My grandparents never get it, and they never get the flu, so the finite supply of shots isn't automatically earmarked for senior citizens only.
There's no little need to be a martyr. I'm sure the medical professionals will mention if their supply is really that limiited.

[Flyndaran]

Exactly.

I also tend to give in to time of the month cravings; like junk food and cake. Hell, I should at least have something nice when I'm bloated, having terrible stomach cramps and feeling like shit. Oh yeah, and anyone bleating, "You should exercise and drink water and eat apples!" is likely to end up seriously injured. -.-

All the apples comments really make me laugh. Without my medication, my strange reactions to any form of sugar makes even fruit dangerous. No, not diabetes as everyone asks. A strange family issue that I caught the brunt of.
I was stuck to the most stringent diet imaginable. Chicken, rice, tomatoes, and raw green vegetables without any sugars even those undetectable by human taste... so no carrots.
I lost so much weight some relatives thought that I might be anorexic. I ate as much as I could, but I still dropped to 155 pounds. At 5'11.5" and my large frame, I looked like Ichabod Crane's ganglier brother.
Now, I'm at a pleasantly plump 260. Fat, not as much as you'ld think and I certainly don't look my weight, but so much happier, stronger, and darn right, healthier than I ever was as a junkfood free stick.

[Lace Neil Singer]

For your information, I have only ever had flu TWICE. Once in childhood, and once about 10 years ago. I am NOT at risk, therefore am not being a martyr by refusing the jab. As I have already stated in previous posts, despite my weak chest and various unhealthy lifestyle choices, I am a fairly healthy person who doesn't go down with many illnesses, bar the odd minor cold.

So please don't make assumptions based on a general view; if you want to go down the doctors and have a needle stuck in you for no real reason, feel free. I however don't see the point when I and my weak chest are surviving quite well without the flu jab.

[AFPheonix]

Why would anyone EVER want an apple over a cookie?

With an awful cook like my mom who is more likely to burn a batch than not (not to mention not mix it up good enough to make sure that there's unmixed flour in the batter, or leave it out so ants or somesuch get into it), there are many times I'll take a big, sweet, juicy Fuji or Jazz apple over a cookie. I'm also too damn lazy to bake for myself
But apples have a lot of sugar and carbs in them, too, so it's not too hard to overdo them and take in more calories than you intended.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, it makes me crazy. Considering the fact that I am in better shape, look better in jeans, am overall healthier and more athletic than not only most of my peers but half of people way younger than I am, and am usually being busted on by someone with weight problems, health problems, metabolic disorders, etc, it makes me want to put my fork in their eye.

I'm pretty fed up and arrogant about it, too. "Aren't you worried about all that fat? "don't you know how many calories is in that?"

Uh, yeah, the fact that I am WELL aware ought to be readily obvious, dumbass.

Look, I am not busting on overweight folks. But don't stand there and complain that you are unhappy with your weight, unhealthy, out of control, whatever, while telling ME I ought to adopt YOUR heath plan. I'm going to say something you won't like if you do that.

My rule is that if your weight is out of control and your health is in the toilet, you got nothing to say to me, so
STFU.

EDIT:What Lace said about the flu shot.

[powerboy]

I recently bought myself a Rice Cooker. So everynight I cook some rice and then take it to work. Plus, I drink a lot of water at work. With me, I am just mostly bloated. So I mix fiber with my food and drinks. It has been working. Plus, I am going to get an old bike and keep it at work, so I can ride that through out the day, when I get the chance. Plus, I am doing a lot more walking

[Fire_on_High]

That, and flu shots are not really available to children under the age of 16, so the elderly it is!

Err? I've read reports that a lot of daycares and nursery schools, even some normal schools are starting to require flu shots for the kidlets.

Not an idea I'm entirely crazy about, but since I'm childfree it's none of my business.

[AFPheonix]

You're right, I misspoke. We in the pharmacy are not licensed or insured to vaccinate persons under the age of 16.

[ArcticChicken]

"If I was doing it right, I would want an apple not a cookie"

That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. As I know from personal experience, all the dieting in the world is not going to change the fact that the cookie is fucking tasty. And while apples are also tasty, they still can't kill the craving for a cookie. Besides, it's nearly impossible to find really tasty apples outside of a few months in the fall. In fact it really hard to find apples that meet my exacting standards around here at all. (I grew up withing half an hour of two truly excellent apple orchards, so my standards for apple based food is higher than most peoples.)