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Suggs

efrieze wrote: »

I have a meeting tomorrow over lunchtime and I really want to take in my own salad rather than have to eat horrid full fat sandwiches but my DH says it is both weird and rude. I am not being given lunch as hospitality but simply as a way to be able to continue the meeting into the afternoon. Anyone else have an opinion about taking one's own food into a business meeting? I think it is more weird to eat nothing than to just pull out your own stuff. I have done it before years ago but just wanted to ask what you thought....

Hi Efrieze, I have had the same problem, the last few weeks with meetings and Decided to bite to bullet and take the salad, I pack it in a little coolbag and with an icepack, I tend to leave it in the car and gauge the meeting, then either fetch it in or eat it afterwards, either way still fresh and cool All I say is that I am eating healthy now and that as much as the sandwiches look great, they would not do me any good. Only once have I had a poor response and that particular person didn't know me from Adam. :mad: So did the usual 'fat bloke is eating a salad, so he must have started yesterday' routine!!

So good on you for wanting to take control, its hardly rude, it shows your trying to look after yourself. :T

ajaxgeezer

efrieze wrote: »

Ajax - Been away from the computer but I am back now and I am happy to do you a weight loss chart on excel if you PM me your info or PM me for my email address to send it to. Likewise, if anyone else wants me to produce you a graph of your weightloss journey I am happy to do so. Petrichor's graph took about 30 seconds to produce so it is no bother at all...

.. thank you efrieze :T I just want the skeleton graph if that's ok, and will input the data myself. I will have to dig through my old SW books for the weights. I'd make the spreadsheet myself but as I say, I have no idea how to produce a base-14 format

efrieze wrote: »

I have a meeting tomorrow over lunchtime and I really want to take in my own salad rather than have to eat horrid full fat sandwiches but my DH says it is both weird and rude. I am not being given lunch as hospitality but simply as a way to be able to continue the meeting into the afternoon. Anyone else have an opinion about taking one's own food into a business meeting? I think it is more weird to eat nothing than to just pull out your own stuff. I have done it before years ago but just wanted to ask what you thought....

... along with Suggs I don't think it's weird at all. If I ate salad I'd happily do it. In my experience, everyone else will be chuffed at the prospect of more sandwiches for them. If the people know you then they will know you are following a plan anyway and will respect that.

ajaxgeezer

dellybelly wrote: »

Ajax as far as I remember, all food has a calorie value, so if you're calorie counting then you need to count the cal in vegetables as well. WW decided for healthy eating purposes and to encourage their members to eat more vegetables to make them a "free" food. It's highly unlikely that members would binge on veggies whereas you may eat a lot of fruit because of the natural sugars. That's why fruit have points and most vegetables don't.

Short answer - don't count the points on vegetables if the book says they're free. ( sigh! :rolleyes: I've never known anyone to point ANYTHING when the book says it's a free food:rotfl:) If the book says it's free - then don't question it! My WW leader always used to tell us that if the points calculator had a higher value than the book, then you had to count the higher value. (hence, no-one questioning the values in the book- cheating I know, but still!)

... I like the fact that they decide that something is free cos it's healthy but it all seems very arbitrary. I often make a basic home made ratatouille which I thought was zero points, but it looks like in reality it could be quite high pointed if someone hadn't decided to pretend that veggies are free. Can't see my body accepting that explanation "Oh its ok, just take the weight off down there, WW said all this was free"

TallGirl

Morning all
Back from my holidays, 1 weeks without internet access gosh I really missed you all. Had a good time, a bit wet but did get to play golf mainly in the dry. Not had time to catch up on everyone yet but I hope you have all been good.

Food in Devon was full boad with homemade puddings for lunch and dinner so very hard to resists. Went on the scales this morning and sadly I have put on 2lb. It could have been worse and at least it is not more.

Drank far too much wine while away and Saturday we had a BBQ with the inlaws and again had too much. Ended up with a handover all day Sunday and did not feel like playing golf. This has now got to stop. Back to 1 glass a day or 7 a week for me. Going to a works do on Thursday (first one I have managed since joining 1 1/2 year ago) and it is overnight. I am going to have to be so good.

I agree with Suggs and Efrieze that it can be hard to take your own food. I would love to be able to do it but not possible when mine are overnight. However I would if I could and not feel embarrassed about it. In my company a lot of the women wants to loose weight to no one would comment I guess it is different for blokes.

ajaxgeezer

Suggs wrote: »

All I say is that I am eating healthy now and that as much as the sandwiches look great, they would not do me any good. Only once have I had a poor response and that particular person didn't know me from Adam. :mad: So did the usual 'fat bloke is eating a salad, so he must have started yesterday' routine!!

.....was this guy from within your company? In our place that would have earned the guy a pretty severe warning under our Dignity At Work policy, and if it was a rep from an outside company they would have been asked not to come on site again. In fact I know of one guy, a very high-ranking bod from our biggest customer, who made an equally unflattering comment to someone on our staff. Our MD told their MD we were happy to do business with them still, but this individual was not welcome in our buildings.

petrichor

beanielou wrote: »

Arent they just fab petrichor?
Take its not raining where you are?
Its been raining cats n dogs here all day.
Mind you did hear on the radio that in some places it was the hotest day of the year for some lucky peeps.
Bit upset as have heard a lot of the cats that are missing round here (including one of mine) may have been used for dog fighting in Edinburgh:eek: :eek:

Hi beanie Oh how cruel, I hope that isn't the case with your cat there really are some unspeakable people in the world, I'm not a cat lover but I can't even think of harming one. I hope yours comes wandering nonchalantly through the door soon.

The weather was fabulous here yesterday, so Boo had a lovely day out

xxxx

petrichor

TallGirl wrote: »

Morning all
Back from my holidays...Food in Devon was full boad with homemade puddings for lunch and dinner so very hard to resists. Went on the scales this morning and sadly I have put on 2lb. It could have been worse and at least it is not more. .

Only 2lbs!! Well done :j :j :j and on full board as well, I haven't looked at a pudding for years :sad: ...

...ajax I found quite a few anomalies in WW points too, perhaps because of...

dellybelly wrote: »

....Short answer - don't count the points on vegetables if the book says they're free. ( sigh! :rolleyes: I've never known anyone to point ANYTHING when the book says it's a free food:rotfl:) ....

...:o...

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efrieze

Well - I am going to take in the salad to my meeting and see what happens. I agree it woudln't be very PC to make me feel uncomfortable about it. Thing is that most of the people there I have only met a couple of times and certainly don't know anything about me and my diet. Of well, I can cope with looking odd in the name of tomorrow's weigh-in! Thanks for all your comments.

efrieze

I have created a weight loss skeleton thing as you asked ajax. You can then input your dates and weights (in stones and lbs) and hopefully it will create what you want. PM me your email address and I will send it to you (and anyone else too, for that matter).

ajaxgeezer

petrichor wrote: »

...ajax I found quite a few anomalies in WW points too, perhaps because of...
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.... with you all the way petrichor, it's either free or it isn't. It's crazy to abandon the points system and call things free if they are not. Which brings me on to......

... so, vegetables appear to have a points value after all. How do you calorie counters assess the calories of fresh fruit & veg? If I can't read it off the back of a tin, I don't know how to do it.