Dont force your diet on me!

[Taleigh21]

My story.

I decided it was time to meet my friends new girl so a bunch of us met up at the local (pub) to have some wings or whatever...(I was planning to eat a salad with chicken). Anyways, we get there and are all discussing what to order and she says "If the wings are breaded, I cant eat them" , puzzled, I look at her and ask if she is allergic to the breading or whatever...she tells me "no I just cant eat carbs" . Ok great. Well either she is allergic to certain carbs or just doesnt want to eat them but not wanting to eat them is different from just can't eat them.

"I cant eat them on my diet" she tells, me. So I ask if shes on the diet that I heard a bunch of people were on at this particular fitness facility. She tells me she is, five days no carbs, then one cheat day...reapeat. So basicly she goes into telling me everything I already know about carbs and dieting and how carbs are bad, so on and so forth. Then when we all order (three of us order plain salads with chicken) she picks apart what we are each eating and how there are so many carbs in every food we all have eaten in the past week. Meanwhile she eats a greek salad, side dressing and uses just about the entire side of dressing.

Then we get into talking about how we had great summers, cheated here and there (after working 12 hour back and forth between two jobs) and how some of us would just eat anything in sight cause we were so hungry. Of course, she starts telling us how "disgusting" that is and how bad for you it is to eat pizza before going to bed after 12 hours on your feet. I just felt like telling her to take a look at herself, she isnt the perfect model of fitness. Whatever. It just pisses me off when people try to knock my way of eating, just because they're on some diet that a particular trainer put all his clients on, that is almost too hard to follow for the average person.

Has anyone experienced this?

[sana]

bah - that's why i haven't gone out to eat in ages :p

but really - i usually just nod and let them talk b/c if they want to talk and talk - let them. the results from your diet and your training will show themselves and you don't have to prove anything to her

[flexygrl]

Although I thought what she said was bad, her diet was not. It sounds like she's on a CKD. You eat 6 days high fat, high protiein and one day is a carb up day, not a cheat day. It's basically an Atkins diet for people who train. The premise behind it is that you restore the glycogen to your muscles on your carb up so that you can continue training without burning away your precious muscle as well as fat. If that's what she is doing a greek salad with lots of dressing is perfectly fine. When I was on that diet I felt horrible the first week, but awesome after that! I went off of it, because I know it's not realistic.

[Taleigh21]

Well the thing is, I checked out this "diet" with someother people who are also doing it and they told me it was a low fat, no carb, high protein diet??!! Like what the...

I know all about Atkins, I tried it a few years ago and its all about eating under 20g carbs/day, high fat and therefore high protein (mostly from meats) intake. Your body then goes into a stage called Ketosis, which basicly burns the fat you have for energy because your not consuming carbs.

Most of all, this diet clearly isnt realistic in someones life who is involved in school and coaching (as this girl is). And I know that because I tried to stick with Atkins, but I found it really draining on my body and I got sick of eating fatty foods.

But seriously, I wish that girls wouldnt try to tell ME about dieting as if I dont know a thing. Whoever tells me their diet advice generally is in poor shape to begin with.

[flexygrl]

it was a low fat, no carb, high protein diet??!!

Wow, okay! Not a good diet at all!!!! I don't like people who do that either. To each their own, I guess!!! I've finally found that clean eating and treating yourself once in a while is the only way to go.

[dreamgirl]

this is my sister! she has gotten so bad about CARBS, I watched her order a chicken sandwich from arbys, and eat ONLY the chicken and of course the DIET PEPSI! She won't eat anything but salads, chicken and veggies. She now has stopped eating all red meat. She went from this normal person to an eating FREAK! I can't eat with her anymore. You'd think at least she'd be super skinny, she's thinner than me, but only by about 12 pounds - 5'3 maybe 117. It's absolutely horrible to watch her eat at a restaurant! I can't take it!

[rubberduckyo]

I'll briefly echo what Sana said by saying this.......... Sit back, grin and nod. Let her spew away if she wants. I wouldn't waste breath to argue with her. If she was receptive to advice or was debating one diet over another that would be one thing. Basically what she did was say, "This is how it should be done and you are wrong".

In the end, YOU know what your goals are. YOU know how to achieve them. YOU will achieve them. Let your success be your sweet revenge.