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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP if you're 135 pounds and you are in good health, then tell people to MYOB. [/quote]

If you're 200 lbs and not in good health, tell them the same thing! It's no one else's business. At work, this sounds potentially like a bullying thing as much as a food thing. Don't discuss food and don't let them get any kind of response out of you. Make them trying to discuss food with you as boring as possible. Respond with silence, shrugs, "I guess/okay/huh." Nothing more. [/quote]

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I find it really hard to believe multiple women at OPs work are commenting on her food.  No one would care that much even if OP eats like a pig from a trough.  What is more likely is that maybe  OP thinks they stare or give eachother looks or maybe nothing happens at all- but OP assumes this is the dialogue in their heads or behind her back because they are "skinny" and eat differently than her.  [/quote]

When I was 18 and skinny, multiple coworkers commented on my food and appearance.  So I don't find this super unlikely. It was about being young and sticking out in other ways that made it easy to pick on me as much as it was about my food choices. You can definitely have workplace dynamics where one person gets negatively singled out, but you can also do things to shut it down. [/quote]

But it is socially more acceptable/tolerated to comment on thin people and what they eat.  It is not socially acceptable to do this is someone is overweight, because "fat shaming" [/quote]

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