I'd rather eat alone some days just for the fact that I need alone time! I have noticed that when I started losing weight I liked eating alone even more because I didn't like people looking at what I was eating. Not that I was ashamed or anything, but if it was someone that knew I was losing weight (not very many people know) I was afraid that if I decided to have something as simple as cheese on my soup they would judge me for it. I calorie count, so if I know I can have cheese I'm going to eat cheese, but I didn't want anyone saying "you shouldn't have that." That's why it took me so long to lose weight anyways, I had so many people around that I felt like was trying to make me lose weight. My aunt would give me diet pills in high school, or I had one REALLY fit friend who didn't know when to shut up and would literally tell me "should you be eating that cheese?" I know she was trying to help me, but it made me go heck yeah I should be eating this cheese.