How to Deal With Diet Assassins

It doesn’t matter where you are or who you have supporting you when you are dieting, there are guaranteed to be people out there who will try to crush your efforts. Some will do it intentionally because they don’t want you to lose weight (for various reasons), while others will just make it really hard for you without even realizing they are doing it. Below are the 3 main kinds of diet assassins and what you can do about them:

The Food Fiend
This is usually a good friend who never seems to put on weight no matter what they eat, and so they eat junk all day long. That means when you are sat in the cafeteria at lunch trying to keep a smile on your face as you tuck into carrot sticks, they have purchased the biggest burger they can find and are happily stuffing their face with it, completely oblivious to how hard it makes things for you.

There are only really three methods for dealing with a food fiend, you either talk to them and try to get them to eat healthier food (or just not eat tempting stuff in front of you), or you eat all your food before lunch so you are already full and can just talk while they eat their lunch instead, or unfortunately you find someone else to eat lunch with!

The Jealous Dieter
This is the worst kind of diet assassin. This is the person who wants to diet themselves but never seems to get round to it, so they are then insanely jealous when you are dieting and succeeding at it. Usually this will be a work colleague rather than a friend or family, but the attacks can come from anywhere. If someone just accidentally keeps buying you sugary treats because they ‘forgot’ you are on a diet, or if someone singles you out at lunch to mock your carrot sticks, then you probably have a jealous dieter on your hands.

These are actually easier to deal with now you know their motivations and can learn to recognize the signals. If they buy you something or in some way try to get you to eat bad food then thank them profusely but say that you really need to be good today and then offer the item back to them, or to someone else if they refuse (if you can’t get rid of it then say you will save it for later and bin it the first chance you get). If they try to pick on your eating habits then smile and agree with them, saying that what you are eating is probably not very tasty but that being slim is worth the extra effort, they’ll probably scowl at you after that, but you’ll have turned the tables on them in a polite and dignified way.

The Party Animal
Ah the last type, this is the person who can’t seem to comprehend why anyone would ‘deprive’ themselves of fun. They see dieting as giving up and not enjoying life, they fail to see the happiness that reaching your ideal weight will bring, and instead tell you to ‘live a little’ when you refuse to indulge in that triple chocolate cake or refuse to get some takeaway with them.

It is usually done out of innocence, they are the kind of person who either doesn’t need to lose any weight or doesn’t care if they are overweight, and they hate to think you are missing out on any fun. To deal with these assassins either take them to one side at some point and tell them you are on a diet and you don’t want them trying to tempt you again, or you point blank refuse anything they say from then on so you never feel tempted and give in, eventually they’ll stop asking and you can get on with sculpting your perfect figure!