the crazy things people do

Today when I was at work I had to keep myself from calling my coworker an idiot. She told me she was a diet and watching her carbs so she ate a whole tub of cool whip with a packet of peanuts mixed in. Thats like at least 800 cals. If only she knew how bad that is for her espcially since cool whip is all hydrogonated oils. Anyone have someone they know do something stupid like this?

Ahhaa. My friends still think ceasar salads are low-cal. PFT. Yup. Bacon, croutons, and dressing have 0 calories! =P

A friend of mine is on the "cabbage soup diet." She said that the diet allows her to eat whatever she wants as long as she eats cabbage soup at some point during the day. How that could possibly help you lose weight I don't know. Maybe it's just me but I don't see the common sense in that...

Who gave your coworker the idea that eating a bucket of cool whip would be healthier than eating say, an apple. :P

"I'm on a diet, so, .. I'll have the chicken nuggets, a slice of cheesecake, and the SMALL waffle fries. And a regular coke. I don't like the taste of that, ah... diet stuff."

At Chick-fil-A. Ugh.

Original Post by llama4u447:

Today when I was at work I had to keep myself from calling my coworker an idiot. She told me she was a diet and watching her carbs so she ate a whole tub of cool whip with a packet of peanuts mixed in. Thats like at least 800 cals. If only she knew how bad that is for her espcially since cool whip is all hydrogonated oils. Anyone have someone they know do something stupid like this?

 

 oh my gosh, that is so gross! you need to help her and bring her some good food... key word being food....

Recently I went to Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet (mom's idea, apparently I haven't had enough pizza yet) and while waiting patiently for someone to move so I could get cottage cheese, another customer had their plate loaded with pizza, put a pinch of salad mix on it and a bit of all the toppings, then smothered the ENTIRE plate in Ranch dressing, announcing proudly to their friend that "because it has Ranch on it it's technically a salad and you can put anything in it!  It'll still be healthy!"

..  No frickin' way, lady.  It took every last ounce of strength I had to not beat her down with a breadstick.

its funny how dumb people can be. For the calories my coworker had I could have had a very nice big breakfast and a nice snack. Thats even with the fact that I eat some sort of nut butter every day for lunch. 

I wonder if she knew the lady I overhead last week at work when I was heating up my lunch. She was bragging to her friends that she had lost a 'ton' of weight last year by eating an ice cream sandwich and an entire 2 liter of Mt. Dew every day for lunch. Yeah. I was a bit disgusted.

My favorite is the people who go to McDick's and order a meal thing with a diet coke, I mean really at that point why bother trying to save calories!

Someone told me once they heard of someone who said she had a "zero-calorie breakfast" because she'd just had fruit - several pounds of it.

Haha - Feanor - I love chick-fil-a but I am the opposite girl who orders the chargrilled chicken sandwich, not the meal, just the sandwich, with no butter.  No sides please.  And a diet dr. pepper.  People look at me like I am so lame, but I love their chicken sandwiches.

One of my friends apparently thinks chicken wings are an OK diet food because they have protein and are "low carb."  Dude...it's a deep fried, fat-laden nightmare.

But hey, maybe I can deep fry my protein bars.  IT'S STILL PROTEIN, RIGHT?!

A friend of mine thinks she's being healthy when she eats a can of beans for lunch. The whole can. For lunch. And a lot of the time, she'll chop up a whole onion into it, and then toss it with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The whole thing. It boggles the mind, really.

Then again, we had this conversation the other day:

*phone rings, I pick up*
Her: OMG! I just got back from lunch and I looked up the nutritionals for my lunch at corner bakery and I'm flipping out.
Me: Why?
Her: It's like, 900 calories.
Me: Well, what'd you get?
Her: The chop salad! It's a salad! A SALAD FOR 900 CALORIES! This can't be right.
Me: Well, did it have bacon in it?
Her: Yes
Me: Blue Cheese?
Her: Yes
Me: Salad dressing on the side?
Her: No.
Me: Well, that sounds about right.
Her: Oh.

Or... she would go to Chipotle for lunch every day, and she'd get the vegetarian burrito bol without sour cream and cheese and she was being "good". I told her she really should log it, and see how much it really was. She was shocked to find out that it was almost 1000 calories and had 3 times her daily recommended sodium. I asked her why she would think she was doing so well and she said "because it didn't have meat in it". LOL. Hello! You cut out the only real protein! Now you're just getting a big dish of carbs covered in fat! (She started that one after reading "Skinny Bitch" -- she also started wearing heavy sweaters to work out so she'd sweat more, because, apparently, dehydrating yourself is good for you.)

I've told this story before, but once when our department ordered out to Quizno's, everyone ordered sandwiches except one guy.  This guy had the chop house flat bread caesar salad, which clocks in at over 1000 cals according to the Quizno's website.  As he poured the fatty caesar dressing all over his salad, he said "Am I the only one who decided to go healthy today with a salad?"

Oh, and when I was in college my room mate, who said she wanted to lose weight, ate a 1 lb bag of jelly beans for dinner claiming "It's fat free, so it's okay."

My in-laws are greek. The other day they were "forcing" me to eat "galactobourecko" (a greek dessert made out of philo, custard, milk, eggs and sugar and honey!).

They were telling me that they saw on the greek channel that a good diet included 2 galactobourecko a day! So, I ate it. Checked on the internet AFTER eating it: turns out it was about 800 calories!!!! How could I be that stupid? philo, honey, milk, eggs, sugar????? Sometimes, we just WANT to believe something that good can be healthy! 

a co worker ordered a CHICKEN cheese steak because the beef one isn't good for him...still got cheesy fries though.  Oy VEY! 

Original Post by cellulitedelight:

Recently I went to Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet (mom's idea, apparently I haven't had enough pizza yet) and while waiting patiently for someone to move so I could get cottage cheese, another customer had their plate loaded with pizza, put a pinch of salad mix on it and a bit of all the toppings, then smothered the ENTIRE plate in Ranch dressing, announcing proudly to their friend that "because it has Ranch on it it's technically a salad and you can put anything in it! It'll still be healthy!"

.. No frickin' way, lady. It took every last ounce of strength I had to not beat her down with a breadstick.

HAHAHA!!!! O my goodness, thats funny! Not so much what she said but your reaction!! lol

I would probably say the same thing if I was eating at a Pizza Hut buffet. I reckon the person was kidding, but I am a big smart ass

That is funny how some people think they are doing good and they eat horribly!

But I kinda did that, well this is what I did.

I went shopping for food and was hungrey for liver, so I got a package of beef liver. I came home and this morning I decided to see how much calories it had, it's like 700 to 900 and I almost flipped out! I will still eat it, (I'll work it in) but I likely wouldn't have bought it if I had checked it out before. Oh well, I know now!

Edited:  I just looked again and it may not be that terrible bad, it says a piece, but for 3 oz. it's only 100 some calories and the pieces that I have is likely like 4 oz., so maybe it's not too aweful bad.

Yeah, whenever me and my friends go to Pizza Hut we always joke about the food...like once we were at a takeaway fish and chip shop and one portion of chips is like a LB in weight or summat ridiculous but then my friends like 'oh cool! This is like, more than one of our 5-a-day!' Imao. she was kidding, so I laughed. and then another time, we bought blueberry muffins after buying a loooad of junk food like chocolate ice cream and easter eggs for a sleepover she was like, "Should we get chocolate muffins...Or blueberry muffins? Ah! Blueberries. One of our 5-a-day." Haha.

There's probably ONE BLUEBERRY under all the butter, flour and sugar.

Original Post by hunneebee550:

My favorite is the people who go to McDick's and order a meal thing with a diet coke, I mean really at that point why bother trying to save calories!

I used to work at McDonald's in the front drive threw.  Those of use who worked drive threw would try and guess the weight of the person ordering.  I am dead serious when I say when ever someone order a Super Size big mac meal with diet coke, it was also a seriously obese person. 

So many times I wanted to ask them WTF?? they were thinking.  Yet, I always gave them their bag of food and diet coke with a smile.