Feeling pressure from colleagues when it comes to your dieting efforts can sabotage all of your hard work.
Eating with colleagues is a way to create camaraderie , celebrate shared accomplishments and show that you are part of the team.
If you don’t partake in the office cupcake and coffee breakfast you can be judged critically.
Also, slim peers are seen as threatening elements in the office, often considered to be tougher competition in an already shaky job market.
From subtle to shocking the methods of co-workers to undo your diet can result in weight gain for you.
Read on to find strategies to help you beat the pressure!
Some 29% of people on diets say colleagues pressure them to eat more, make fun of their diets or order them restaurant food they know isn’t on their diets, according to a recent survey of 325 dieters by Survey Sampling International for Medi-Weightloss Clinics, a Tampa, Fla., franchiser of physician-supervised weight-loss clinics.
The approach can seem innocuous, but can result in weight gain over time. A colleague brings in home-baked cookies to celebrate a promotion, a birthday or to rally the team, and who wants to look like they don’t appreciate the work of others if they decline?
