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Shelbygirl

Cathlete
You know what I'm really secretive about? Not my exercise habits, but my occaisional dirty treat at work. I just smuggled a package of M&M's up from the company store, hid behind my extra computer monitor as I ate them and then buried the wrapper at the bottom of the trash where only the cleaning person might see it. Are these signs of someone in need of serious help or what?

Shelbygirl
 
when I worked outside the home I used to do the same thing! If I didn't I had to hear it from everyone...."I thought you were a health nut!" "Look, she's falling off the wagon." On and on. It was just easier to enjoy my occasional treats in the bathroom sometimes!

Sparrow
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I just try hard to remember ,that if I hide what I eat . It still has calories ,Even if I got away with hiding it .... LOL ..No but thats true .. I went to a little kids B-day party and said "no thank you" to cake . A friend annonced to everyone "She doesnt ever cheat , come on Mary eat some like a normal person ". Oh gees if they only knew .... I do cheat ... But on that note I've actually been being really good these days !! Ps .. Now if you really do hide it like an alcholic hides booze ...I might worry .
 
Normally I would say "Phooey" to hiding the occasional inevitable snack from the vending machine. I happen to LOVE Peanut M&M's and indulge myself on occasion. However, the last time I got a bag, one of my male coworkers said "She's going to weigh 200 lbs if she doesn't stop eating those M&M's". Let me tell you I am shortish on a small frame and hover between a buck 5 and a buck 10. Naturally this comment got me wrapped around the axle so now I go and buy 5 bags of M&M's at a time and parade them by him as I return. Some people bug the sh** out of me with their comments!
 
I sort of started this post because when I caught myself hiding my afternoon sweet treat, I found my actions to be silly. I think the reason I hid it today was because I finally got my co-workers to the point where they stopped bugging me about sharing in the office snacks. After months of comments like "one piece of birthday cake won't kill you", they finally recognized that I really would prefer not to participate. I guess I figured if they saw me today with my little snack, I'd be back to square one and have to "train" them all over again. (The part about needing help was really just my sad attempt at humor).

Shelbygirl
 
Well, I would say your actions are probably not completely unheard of, but definitely bordering on worrisome. I believe this is a sign of disordered eating. BTW, I think 99% of females fit the description of disordered eating, so I'm not sure how significant that is.

I think it's easier on yourself when you can enjoy a treat out in the open. It's very liberating to feel that you have the right to eat what you want, within reason, and you CHOOSE to do so, in public. Plus, once the secretiveness of it is taken away, it tends to lose some of it's attraction, kwim?
 
Shelbygirl ,I so hear ya !! I so hate that training in process . I do it with my family . They think I'm strange !!:) :) :) LOL
 
I understand this as well. While working in an office setting I felt like once people found out I was "healthy" they started looking for signs that I "fell of the wagon", or started being normal. I think they were amazed that I could eat a cookie and turn around and eat some carrot sticks. It was either all or nothing with them, no moderation.
They eventually got used to me but I was the butt of more than a few jokes (a la my thread on my secretiveness). I couldn't hide my eating habits from them though because I eat so often I would have been hiding all day!
Carolyn
 
My mother does this, she’ll stand behind the breakfast bar so all you see, is her chest and waist the potato chip bag and the hand going up and down out of it. Like a speeded up cartoon hand, and she about takes out a whole big bag of potato chips. But her cholesterol, is getting lower because she is using herbs for it. And she doesn’t eat junk food anymore, only my father does, and those are his potato chips.

I just shake my head, and wonder what it'll take to wake her up. And to get her to realize that she has to eat more then a balance bar in 10 hours and potato chips.

Kit
 
Shelbygirl I know what you mean about office parties. There is always an occasion to celebrate, always somebody's birthday. They no longer are *celebrations*, they are a weekly occurence. So one has to set limits.

On particularly stressful days at work, I used to scarf a candybar in the elevator. :)

Lori
 
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