not to mention the one i alwyas think of: you can lose weight, but she'll still be mean.

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Just an update! I work with the Candy feeder who says I look bad thin 1 day a week. She no longer works that day! WooHoo

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PQ ....Put that woman in the category of mean unsensitive women. I'm sure everyone here has come across women like that. Ignore her as best you can. Just think when the day comes and she wants something from you, she'll be as sweet as can be and "act" interested. Remember her true colors and don't give her what she wants.

Congrats btw on the 8 lb loss!

Sandy,Mick ,Goddess and Mixibee!!!
You ladies are sooooooo awesome! I feel so much better if anything happens at work I know that I am not alone and I can come and report what happens and everyone seems so supportive thanks!!

Today was a bit challenging. I got to work ( I get there at 11:30am on Thrusdays) and Pizza and Wings were ordered by a guy that was going to train us today. MS. Thang ( Lol Maxibee) ordered. When she told me when I got to work I thought...cool I can eat wings, ( I live in Buffalo BTW: home of the bufflo chkn wings...carb free basically) well they arrived...and they were BBQ'd!!!! Drenched in this thick dark goowey sugar laddened sause. I was a bit peeve'd they order 100 wings all BBQ'd! I seen them and walked over to the toasterover and popped my grilled chkn in the oven to cook and walked out. She says, Jeneen aren't you going to eat? I am like, "I can't!" she says, "I thought that you ate wings?" I said, " I do!, but not with BBQ sause...they are full of sugar!" And she says, "Your diet sucks!!!!!" I said," Thanks!!!" ( I thought to myself "so do you!") she come by me and says, " I am sorry Jeneen I didn't know!" I said,"Now you do!" (in a pleasant voice) I said, " Next don't order 100 wings BBQ'd, maybe "Buffalo style" and the rest BBQ." She says,"AWE...next time you won't be dieting then!" I looked at her and said, " Mary! I have 60 pounds to lose...there will be a next time." She looked at me and said..." Wow! I didn't know that you were going to lose that much!" ,"You will be skin and bones!" I said, "Hardly!" Now she is scared because she knows that soon...there will be someone better looking all over compared to her. I am not spiteful like that but, people like that make my blood boil.
So I resisted another day "AT THE OFFICE" And of course...Ms Manners was eating and talking at the same time....enough to want to take her a** down! I swear.

Thank God tomorrow is Friday!
Thanks for listening ladies!
PQ

PQ you're in an office from H***! It seems to me the signs are clear she's a master at sabotage. You're doing great regardless of her nasty lil comments. If you really want to retaliate in a nice way, the next time she's eating and talking....make sure you say "excuse me I didn't understand a word you said with all that food crammed in your mouth". Say it as often as you see her do it, maybe she'll learn some manners in the process.

p.s. Keep venting....with a person like that you need all the extra energy venting gives. LOL

Good grief!! Just a small critique of your response: "I can't". You just smile and say "I don't." Like it's a personal choice, not like you are being deprived by your "sucky diet". See what I mean? I think Maggie or April posted something about saying "I don't eat...." instead of "I can't eat..." Anyway, when Ms.Thang and Mouthfull start their stuff, just smile, vent to us, and know we are here, waiting for the next installment of "At the Office" starring PQ!

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PQ, good job! Hang tough! Gee, we need to get together and talk about catty competitive co workers. I'm a stylist so the whole focus is on beauty.
Sandy, your comeback about the full mouth is just too great!

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Yall are really making me appreciate working in a building full of guys! I am the only female in the building...I have to tolerate cursing, but hey...I can ignore that. They do bring in donuts every day, but don't push them on people. I don't eat them any more (haven't in 3 yrs). They give me heartburn, so I quit eating them before I started LC. They are really supportive here. At our main office, I am sure this goes on, but I am "out of the loop" per say...and thankful for it. PQ...my best advice is to forgive the girls and let it go (you do this for you, not them) and just be cordial to them, but don' t let them see it bothers you, or they will continue. There is no law that says you have to be best friends with everyone. You know, when I was in high school, my mom said that people change and act differently when we grow up. Unfortunately, I think she was somewhat wrong...some people just act like grown-up brats and it's very unbecoming.

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232/187.5 (WW)/202/195---November 1 Goal
232/202/175---major goal by January 2, 2006 (my birthday)
232/202/125---final goal???

Romans 5:3 "...We also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance"

Oh, Cindi, I like your style. Kill them with kindness and stick to your guns. The "I don't" vs. "I can't" is a powerful switch, too. So often we get caught up in the nrgative that we forget how empowering the positive is - you make it a choice rather than a chore when you say "I don't.

Good luck, PQ - believe it or not, you will come out on top of this. I guarantee that if you find these women catty and rude, so does everyone else, and by not sinking to their level, you will gain a powerful amount of respect from your other office mates. As everyone has said, keep venting here - we think you are doing great!

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179/179/120

you are doing great... don't allow some petty person to pull the clouds over todays sunshine...those kind of people are lacking in some important way, and this is just their way of trying to disguise it. You hang in there.

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This thread is one of the best I can remember in years!! I was LOLing!!!!!! All in all the day at work was the day from hell for me, the first part of the day that is. And Mary actually came over and she gave me a hug and said that she hoped my day would get better. For a moment in time everything frooze and I thought.....maybe she is like the grinch..and her "heart has grown three sizes...that day?????" But, FALSE ALARM everyone!!! Later she told me that my eye makeup was a little "BLAH!!!" looking and that 'I don't do enough with what I have.' How does one respond to a statement like that? I said..."You know Mary I never met anyone quite as blunt as you!! " Nor have I ever come across anyone that didn't like my eyes, usually everyone always says that I have the pretty eyes!!" (BTW: my eyes are like a crystal blue color, I had an eye doctor once ask me to take out my colored contacts!? I was like huh?) anyways she was like...."Oh no! I love your eyes! They are just breath taking!...I just mean that a blue liner would look better." And I said..."I see."

Then Ms. Thang! Brought in Blueberry muffins! She made them at home.....I am sure that she was talking and spitting blueberries all over her desk all day! LOL

SAY IT DON'T SPRAY IT! But, she ain't not gonna stop!!! (lol I am killing myself over here!) Double negatives...up there with nails on a chalk board!!!

I just shook my head. The one girl that I was low carbing with caved with the BBQ'd sugar laddened wings...I knew that was short lived. But, nice while it lasted!
Then at the end of the day this guy that comes to our office often does realy cool things for us and we like him alot so his birthday is on Sunday so ....you can see this coming right...................
I was asked to make the cake. Everyone is going to bring something to pass around. I should make a KETO cake!! (that is a low carb mix for anyone that doesn't know=) It isn't going to bother me to make it bc I am so dedicated to this and THIN TASTES BETTER. It is that everyday I can't escape the place without a challenge. Sorry to whine and I know that everyone goes threw this..but man! I can only imagine my weight if I wouldn't of have started this program! Ugh!
Anyway..everyone is bring a pasta dish or SOMETHING that I can't have. I said I just ask that SOMEONE please bring a simple garden like salad...with LETTUCE....so someone is. HOPEFULLY

Tune in on Monday for another episode of ..."THE OFFICE" (from hell...my low carbing story brought to you by PQ)

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PQ

i think it would be hilarious if you did make a keto cake...i'm not sure what they're like because i haven't tried them...but i'd love to see the looks on their faces when you have a piece of cake and they comment about it and you tell them it's lowcarb. 'cause they would smirk!

i don't believe i've met anybody that catty in a long time. makes me appreciate working at home!

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There are good lowcarb cake recipes out there. I'd do it.

Well the way that I think of it is they push their crap food on me, I might as well push mine on them!
LOL
I won't though.
PQ

Well things have gotten a little better. But, not really Ms. Manners mother brought in two dozen donuts for us because she bought a car! I work at a car dealership byw:There is 6 of us in our little office building, we are seperated from the dealership show room? I walked but the donuts and whispered a nasty word to them...although, I have to say that they looked yummy. Especially the peanut ones. But, I would dare let them know that, they would've called me.
Yesterday, Mary asked me if I wanted some of her Wendy's fries? I looked at her like she had a third eye and I said, "Now you KNOW that I can't have them!" She looked all shocked, " You can't have fries!?" I am like they are a potato? Stack? One of the largest in the carb group. I mean this office....is unreal. I said to them today, " I am glad that I started Atkin's when I did, because I would'a weighed 300 pounds already!" Everyone eats like there is no tomorrow and there is only one girl that is "heavy" and she isn't really all that bad off, it is just the way that she dresses. Mary is a 140 pounds and she eats like she was starved for a week...and she eats like that every day! Junk food and crap and she is still skinny? I don't get it. I can't say that I am not a little jealous, because I am. That is all that I am jealous about her.
Today she asked me how much weight I lost and I said, "Oh I am not sure!" And she said, " Well I can tell that you lost weight, but then again you are wearing black and everyone looks thinner in black." I thought to myself 'is that like a half of compliment?'
I am like....."uh huh,,(like whatever)"
Melinda said to me yesterday (she is the one that is a little heavy)," I don't know where you get the willpower? Because I don't care how fat I get, someone will love me for me." I looked at her and said, " I don't have willpower I have SKILLPOWER, and I don't care if anyone else loves me, I went on this program because I wasn't loving MYSELF." she didn't know what to say. (thankfully) I am proud as a peacock when I state how I feel, maybe everyone will just leave me alone soon.

Can't wait for your reactions on this one!

That concludes THE OFFICE for another day......until tomorrow!
PQ