Comments on: Why it’s rude to diet in public

By: Lydia Ramonita

Lydia Ramonita — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:10:25 +0000

I just went a party last night that had heavy hors d’oeuvres. I ate a bubba
burger before I went. Then I could just snack on carrots and veggies from
the veggie tray, drink some wine, appear to be eating, but not eating the
ham biscuits, the pizza bites, the breadsticks wrapped in bacon.
And about half of the people there passes on the deserts. I use the “I’m
allergic to wheat/dairy line” if someone presses me.
But for a friends birthday, wedding, etc. I’ll eat cake/ice cream. One
serving won’t kill me and it does taste good.
BTW, my wife (type A) made some Pamela’s brownies from a mix (no wheat,
gluten, refined sugars - only avoid is potato starch, which is a minor
ingredient. They are mostly rice flour, cocoa powder, honey, molasses,
walnuts). I expected standard health food taste, but to my surprise, they
tasted better than my Duncan Hines fantasy. You can also make cake from the
mix.
So if you really need to sin, these did not upset my stomach, give me

fatigue or any of the other usual wheat/sugar symptoms.
Still a little bad for nonnies like myself, but the amazing thing is how
good they tasted, all diets aside.
It’s just goes to show you that the crap that’s foisted on the world via
food is completely unnecessary for flavor, cost or ease of cooking - the
usual reasons. My guess is mass produced, these guys would be no different
from Betty Crocker and would make
I still think Peter & Thomas needs to start a food line. “Food for your
Blood” literally available at Grocer’s nationwide.
stephen
www.xiveren.com
“There is no band and yet we hear a band”
Mulholland Drive (that’s where I was going).

By: Sterling Charline

Sterling Charline — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:50:40 +0000

This was the other side of what was written which I was going to mention - the
selfishness of the author/hostess. She saw the selfishness of those women
and their need to eat only what they felt happy with and to discuss it. Yet
she didn’t feel selfish in wanting them to only eat what she had provided in
the way she had provided it. She prepared a meal totally lacking in thought
for her guests and then _expected_ them to praise her.
Of course she is also right in asmuch that the meal should have been enjoyed
by all, in the context of the love in which it was prepared and given - the
meal should have been enjoyed for the love of the meal, as I have learned
through experince. People are offended, if only through the ignorance and
lack of thought for others, when someone doesn’t like what is loving prepared
for them out of the kindness of the heart.
So I would communicate before a prepared meal if there is diet/health problem
but once at the meal politely and quietly refuse something I know I couldn’t
eat (allergy) or just enjoy an avoid knowing that one avoid today is not

going to kill me unless I start eating it daily!
LnL,
Steve - Cheltenham, UK

By: Whitney Shamika

Whitney Shamika — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:13:43 +0000

Response to the article so kindly shared by Ryan:
So much of this article goes against the right of the individual, and the social
pressure is on to coerce the individual into submission.
I laboured away at this meal, therefor you should get with the program and enjoy
it accordingly….
Did I ask you to labour away at this meal?
Did you ask me?
Do you know what I can let into my mouth?
Is this not a point of integrity, that I do control what goes in my mouth?
Or, should people feel guilty just because it can be annoying, and should they
abandon all their best attempts to survive in this oxygen, nutrient, and sanity
deprived world???
Okay, maybe I am overstating it, but as a person who eats strictly organic, ER,
and now SCD, well… I have let the crowd go by, at least insofar as when it
comes to eating….

And that is my prerogative… is it not?
I have no lack of friends, only lack of time to see them….
But the idea of proliferating bad eating habits because someone fancied the idea
that I would play my part as assigned, without consultation…
Well, I am sorry, I can see the frustration of it, but I am not buying it!!
Thanks for sharing that piece of writing, Ryan!
frances

By: lee90

lee90 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:03:43 +0000

In a message dated 8/3/2002 7:09:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rpartovi@… writes:
Hi
Ryan,
I agree with you. It really annoys me if someone mouths off about their diet
if I am preparing a meal. If I invite someone to my house I usually prepare
healthy food and several choices. If it was me going to someone’s house for
dinner I would eat what I thought was good for me and keep my mouth shut. I
think it is really rude to discuss your diet while eating at someone’s house.
Eat what you can and if you are allergic to something that is different,but
if it is a choice eat it or not and keep your mouth shut.
Sharon (Ontario) Canada