Originally Posted by
hoverfly
I really adore my dieting friends, but truly hate getting fitness, diet and nutrition advice from them--especially since they don't exercise (and if they do, it's always the three same lifts at the gym--over and over and over again), they park as absolutely close to the building as possible so they don't have to walk across the street to get to work (and I ride 10 miles in almost daily), and they jump on all of the fad diets (a few are hardcore Atkin's dieters who always bounce back to heavier weights once they give up on the diet--but never learn and go back on it again.)
ok, so maybe I'm just talking about a couple specific friends in particular...hrm.
Moral of the story: listen to their advice with a smile, but don't buy in, and don't argue. Arguing = stress and stress isn't healthy. You know what works for your own body.
i also find diet advice from co-workers annoying- once i was making my self a scrambled egg sandwich for lunch and someone comes up behind me and proceeds to tell me how bad eggs are for you and i shouldn't eat them. she knows i ride 150 miles a week, why bother telling me this! the next week she was on a 2 week fast drinking nothing but tea. a few weeks after it's the cabbage diet. Her's someone who wont ride her bike 2 miles to work.
it's always calories in vs.calories burned. ride your 20+ miles a day and you can eat a few cookies, just don't use a shoehorn to cram the entire bag down your piehole!