Would you eat a chocolate candy bar in front of someone who was on a diet?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
October 22, 2007 6:06am CST
This is my big pet peeve. My spouse knows that I'm trying to lose weight (and he is not) and he continually brings sweets and chocolate into the house. And, of course, it's always a temptation. I won't deny it. I love chocolate or anything made from it. It's a wonderfully decadent dessert that deserves all the praise and attention that it receives. With that being said, it's not a dieter's best friend. Or, at least chocolate is not my best friend.
I've asked him not to bring sweets into the house, but he always has some plausible excuse that makes perfect sense. So, I guess I'm stuck wishing for something I can't have or worse giving into temptation.
What would you do if someone brought chocolate candy into your home and ate it in front of you, while you were on a diet? Would you break your diet to indulge? Would you eat chocolate in front of someone who was on a diet?
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16 responses
@yram_gwynyth (166)
• Philippines
18 Jan 08
I like eating chocolate to someone who was on the diet. I just like to tell them that even her on the diet she can eat chocolate.
@nenyalorien (899)
• Philippines
2 Nov 07
Oh no. I think your partner is being way too inconsiderate. Maybe it's time to take him aside and talk to him frankly that this is not helping you. Tell him the benefits of when you'll be slimmer and would look and feel better. Because you won't be the only one who would benefit from your newfound self-confidence.. He would like being around you more! So tell him how this diet would help you both, and watch as he stops bringing the chocolates and starts bringing the flowers!
@beyonce03 (2331)
• Canada
2 Nov 07
Right now, I suffer from pregnancy diabetes so I can't eat any chocolate. My boyfriend is a chocolates lover. We have some little chocolate left from Halloween and he just bought a new box of it. So he always eat chocolate in front of me. I don,t find it's that difficult, but someday yes.
The other he bought my favorite cake and ate it in front of me. That was pretty difficult for me. I didn't find he was respecting me. But I only have 4 1/2 month to be like that. I will eat a bigggg cake after I gave birth lol
@marinarovi (1318)
• Argentina
28 Oct 07
I would definitely ask him not to bring any sweets to the house, or at least not to eat them in front of me! (Adn there's no perfect excuse for that, just go somewhere else, pleeeeease)
When someone i know is on a diet I try not to eat anything in front of them. I wouldn't like anyone to eat sweets in my face when I'm on a diet, so I try to do the same to others.
Try to explain this to him, and ask him for this BIG favour. Eat outside the house! =)
Good luck with your dieting!
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I don't diet, but there are times when I am fasting and my husband forgets. Though he says he is sorry and I say that's ok, I wish he would have remembered and waited until the fast was over.
@bagumbayan (2705)
• Philippines
24 Oct 07
I also like chocolates, but not much. I can eat chocolate in front of someone whose on a diet, why not. She was on diet and I am not. But if you are on a diet why not eat chocolates, just minimal. Anyway chocolate is good for health also. Happy eating, happy dieting.
@cikedo (3483)
• United States
22 Oct 07
I wouldn't sit at a table and while they are eating a breakfast bar eat a candy bar. That would be rude. The same goes for going out to dinner and ordering dessert. If someone is on a diet I'm not about to eat cake and make them watch me. There is a limit to this though. At least one or another of my family members is constantly on a diet and I'm not going to never eat when they are in the room. I'll eat my snacks while watching tv or somewhere not directly in front of them. That way they don't think I'm teasing them with the chocolate or anything. I am not a bad dieter. I just don't believe they work very well. A few balanced meals through the day and some exercise and I'm good to go. I've tried the fad diets and they don't work for me.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
22 Oct 07
I understand it. I have been on plenty of diets and for someone to eat a candy bar in front of me would be very tempting. I wouldn't get mad but I would want a piece or think oh just one peice. So I agree with you it is rude if someone knows you are trying to lose weight.
@recycledgoth (9894)
•
23 Oct 07
That is so cruel but I know a couple of people who would do that quite deliberately to wind me up. The last time I went on a diet, I made a real effort to avoid all the *bad* things but an acquaintence kept sending me emails with pictures of chocolate, cakes and junk food, the rotten lot. :-)
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
23 Oct 07
My husband does the same but luckily I don't particularly like sweets and chocolate - now and then I might have one bite or one bit of chocolate but thats about it. I don't see anything wrong with having one piece now and then even if you are on a diet.
@vokey9472 (1486)
• United States
22 Oct 07
My hubby eats candy and sweets all the time while I am on a "diet". It doesn't really bother me. I am the one on a diet, not him so why should he have to do without? Thankfully, I changed my view on food and now I no longer diet. I made some lifestyle changes and changed how I look at food. I can eat anything I want anytime I want, I just don't over do it. Most of the problem with dieting is that we are not allowed to have certain things. Deprevation is what makes us give in to temptation in the first place. Read "French Women Don't Get Fat". I read it and it changed my life. I have dropped almost 5 dress sizes since reading the book and adopting many of the lifestyle changes. I don't ever feel hungry and I never feel like I am not allowed to have something. The best thing is being able to have that piece of chocolate at the end of the day if I want it. :)
@navincp123 (442)
• India
23 Oct 07
i wud first of all never hav chocolates in front of some1 who is on diet...if some1 has it in front of me i just try not to get attracted to it..keep ur cool n determination...tats all i can say....
@Pompon (1757)
• Poland
22 Oct 07
I might do that wor the very same reason your spose probably do it:P If I thought that this person doesn't need to be on diet;) I don't know why but every time i tell myself I'm going on diet I get momentaly hungry-_-' So I give up the ide:P
