HA! I used to do this too! I'd put stuff up high in my cupboard thinking it will be harder for me to reach!

My MIL does this too! She gets a lot of candy from everyone every Easter, Halloween and Christmas and she always hides it up high in the cupboards.

I think it is hilarious... what are we hoping we can't reach it? Or maybe we'll forget about it?? not hardly!

I have figured out that no matter where I put it I can get to it in a moment of weakness, thats why I know now I cannot have anything in my house I am not willing to eat all of!

If I don't bring it in the house I won't have to hide it from myself! :D

My friends hassle me if I don't eat when we go out... getting dinner together at a restaurant is a social ritual of ours. Even if I've told them I'm on a diet, and ate right before coming to the restaurant, they still bother me about it, and even sometimes try and tempt me with the burgers and desserts they're having.

I've found they cut it out if I pointedly order something healthy, so I've been steering us towards places where I can get a bowl of steamed broccoli.

Yeah. I don't know if it's always been like this and I'm just more aware to it now, or if people really try to make me eat more.

Some of my friends joke about my love of vegetables (not diet-related love, I really like the taste of many veggies) and how "fat is life" and I'd better eat fat. But after three or four times noticing that eating very sugary/fatty foods actually make me sick, I think they're finally understanding that my refusal of such foods is not only a rhetorical tool.

More problematic are the nasty food pushers. My grandpa's wife is one of those, and I suspect she's quite the proverbial green-eyed monster of jealousy in that regard--she'll tell you that you've gained on weight &c., but then she'll also be the first one to get all huffy if you dare not take seconds of her (not even so) delicious dinner. Go figure.

Fortunately, those seem to come in lower numbers than the friendly/"food-means-love" food pushers. They, at least, have a kind "reason" to do it.

My father in law is horrible about this. (He's always been this way though) Whenever we go to visit he's always offering chips, cookies, chocolate, any kind of fried foods. Then when I say no he says that just one isn't going to hurt me!!! Oh well, I've been a lot stronger now and just ignore it

I always found it incredibly rude of people (relatives mostly) to push food when I'm visiting. It's like why do YOU get to decide what goes in my body?? Just because you use food to show your love, doesn't mean I have to eat it!! I always get comments of how I'm "on a diet", but it's not like one day I'll be done losing weight and suddenly be off the diet and can eat again. I really like the food I eat, and I like that it's healthy, and I'm definitely not deprived.

One of the strategies I've learned here is the effective "oooh, I finally made the connection that too much sugar makes me feel really awful". In general, nobody who claims to care about you wants you to feel bad ... so they back off pretty well. I've been very fortunate in that the crowd I run with is always trying to lose weight or to get healthier - it's a non-stop support group!

That makes me think... actually it's not even so much of a strategy instead of a true reason, come to think of it. There *are* some foods that one's body may not tolerate well anymore after becoming used to eat healthily!

Good idea.. If it's not close family I can get away with saying I'm allergic (even if I'm not) to something or can't eat something for reasons others than being on a diet and people usually do back off quick.