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**varbo** · March 3rd, 2008, 08:50 AM

Thanks for the input everybody. Good points were brought up.

Overnight I thought of more stuff that is pissing me off about nutrition and people.

First is the what I call the "Diet Coke people." OK, I'll admit it. Sometimes you'll see me eating a piece of sugarry cake or pie with a diet coke. but there is a reason. I will have a sugarry caffinated drink a couple times a week. This is something that I allow myself because there are days that I need a boost to get finish off my day and I do have the metabolism to handle it. so on days you see me with the diet coke is because the cafeteria lady made something that I just didn't want to pass up and I decided that my sugar would come from the cake and not the pop. Its a substitution and the reason I don't have defined abs. OK I'm not perfect. But the "Diet Coke people" I speak of are different. These are the people that are eating a completely unheathly, gourging meal with a diet coke. Honestly, I was at a seafood place the other day and saw a very large woman eating all you can eat battered fish and fries and asked for a Diet coke. SHE HAD 4 PLATES OF HEAVILY BATTERED FISH!!!! I also see this at buffets. people get a diet coke and them go up to the bufet and fill their plate 4 times. I can see going to an unhealthy restaurant and ordering a diet drink with your meal because you're trying to take the edge off but these people just piss me off.

Then there's the people you decide to eat healthy and don't have a clue how. There is the "I'm eating nothing but salads people," the "no more sugar people", the "no more meat people" and the "no more carb people." These people hear things in conversation or on TV and change their diet based on partial information. I know so many people like this. Get the information, research on the web, find out whats good for you, go on forums like this, ask questions to people who know what their talking about, not your fat friend who just lost a pound last week. The frustration with this just gets to me. my female friends sit around talking about their new diets that they're going to do and when I put my 2 cents in because I research this stuff, I get a snotty glare as if I'm the idiot. I won't call myself an expert but I do research and probably know more than your friend who has a friend who "tried this diet that went something like this." When it comes to anything fitness or nutrition related I've resigned myself not to say anything anymore around these people.

March 3rd, 2008, 08:50 AM	#7 (permalink)
varbo EF Top Dog now online Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: in Canada, eh? Posts: 759 Thanks given: 366 1,774 thanks in 574 posts Rep Power: 12	Thanks for the input everybody. Good points were brought up. Overnight I thought of more stuff that is pissing me off about nutrition and people. First is the what I call the "Diet Coke people." OK, I'll admit it. Sometimes you'll see me eating a piece of sugarry cake or pie with a diet coke. but there is a reason. I will have a sugarry caffinated drink a couple times a week. This is something that I allow myself because there are days that I need a boost to get finish off my day and I do have the metabolism to handle it. so on days you see me with the diet coke is because the cafeteria lady made something that I just didn't want to pass up and I decided that my sugar would come from the cake and not the pop. Its a substitution and the reason I don't have defined abs. OK I'm not perfect. But the "Diet Coke people" I speak of are different. These are the people that are eating a completely unheathly, gourging meal with a diet coke. Honestly, I was at a seafood place the other day and saw a very large woman eating all you can eat battered fish and fries and asked for a Diet coke. SHE HAD 4 PLATES OF HEAVILY BATTERED FISH!!!! I also see this at buffets. people get a diet coke and them go up to the bufet and fill their plate 4 times. I can see going to an unhealthy restaurant and ordering a diet drink with your meal because you're trying to take the edge off but these people just piss me off. Then there's the people you decide to eat healthy and don't have a clue how. There is the "I'm eating nothing but salads people," the "no more sugar people", the "no more meat people" and the "no more carb people." These people hear things in conversation or on TV and change their diet based on partial information. I know so many people like this. Get the information, research on the web, find out whats good for you, go on forums like this, ask questions to people who know what their talking about, not your fat friend who just lost a pound last week. The frustration with this just gets to me. my female friends sit around talking about their new diets that they're going to do and when I put my 2 cents in because I research this stuff, I get a snotty glare as if I'm the idiot. I won't call myself an expert but I do research and probably know more than your friend who has a friend who "tried this diet that went something like this." When it comes to anything fitness or nutrition related I've resigned myself not to say anything anymore around these people.