Jealousy hokey

Why is it that anytime someone loses weight and some other person doesn`t care,  its deemed as jealousy. Some people just don`t care. I personally don`t to be around people that talk about their `journey`all the time or those that think going out is going to sabotoge their diet. Anyone else find those people boring?

LOL!   Oh yes... There is nothing more boring than the dieter that wants to 'share' all the time.   Which is why websites like this are useful.  We can chat diet to our hearts' content and not have to plague those around us.

My particular pet hate are the ones that ruin a meal out, reading menus out loud and whining about how they can't eat this or that, how they'd love some (insert dish) but they'd better not....  And - even worse - criticising your choice because 'if I ate that I'd be enormous'.... but eyeing it up greedily nevertheless when it arrives.  Or ordering a green salad but stealing chips off your plate!!  What's that about?

One of my customers is a serial yo-yo dieter ... boiled eggs it was one month (parp!)... and I think it would be bad for business if I told her I couldn't give a monkey's.   One day I'll snap.

gi-jane is perfectly right. This applies to dieting as well as anything else. I`m sure nobody would appreciate the company of a professional golfer if all he ever talked about was his swinging technique and tournaments history.

Besides, from a selfish point of view, constantly talking about your eating habits in a social situations means your mind is preoccupied only with that. And how in the world are you supposed to enjoy yourself then? When going out, all the time I am allowing myself to waste on thinking about calories is the couple minutes it takes me to decide what I am going to order.

Yah so agree! Nothing as boring as someone that has to tell everybody all the time how 'well' they are doing on their diet and seem to have to anounce every good decision they make.
I don't necessary think of someone that is not interested as being jealous though, as you say, they just don't care, so what.

The people that have to make comments on your losing weight without you talking about it, those are the ones mostly that I think of as being jealous, why else would they see the need to make comments EVERY time.

gi-jane, you so crack me up......serial yo-yo dieter...hahahahahaaaaaaaa.

You listen b/c it's polite.  Everybody's life outside/and inside of work is boring.  It's not just diet stories, its everybodies life story.  You think I care about the stories told by the women in my office about being pregnant, just had a baby, raising a child, or children, planning a wedding?  Why would I?  I don't know them outside of work.  I listen and smile b/c it's the right thing to do to show an interest in the lives of the people around you, whether you care or not, whatever the topic.

Just my opinion.

I completely agree, and I have no problem being polite as long as there is at least /some/ variation of the topic.

Say I went to a club with my friends and they picked the place. It only plays house music, which I am not very fond of. Still I can grin and bear it because of the company. But if they played the same song over and over and over for the whole duration of the night, I think at some point I would just go insane.