207 - How To Turn Down Food Without Offending Others
Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling
Maggie Sterling
4.8 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The holidays are coming, which means that your co-workers are probably going to be bringing tastey treats to the office— it's innevitable. So how do you politely say no without offending the nice guesture? We get into it all today, and also dive a little deeper around managing the opinions of other people about you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome, welcome. |
| 0:17.9 | We're happy to be here with you guys. |
| 0:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | We're doing another, another Instagram DM today. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, we are? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | Okay. |
| 0:26.6 | Instagram, I mean... |
| 0:27.6 | But if you have an idea for the podcast or something you would love to hear us podcast on, |
| 0:33.6 | Ryan is going to put that link forever into the show. You will remember. You have to remember. If I |
| 0:39.1 | remember to do that, it will be there. And if you don't see it, I have forgotten. You don't see |
| 0:43.9 | send Ryan a DM. But yeah, that will be the place where podcast ideas live and where when we're |
| 0:52.3 | like, what the hell do we talk about today? We'll pull up the podcast |
| 0:54.5 | ideas from you guys. So, let's get into it. I had someone saying one thing she'd love to know is how |
| 1:02.0 | to turn down food at work without offending others. Please help. How do you say I don't eat off plan |
| 1:06.9 | without offending others? So my default to that question is I don't think I would ever say I |
| 1:12.3 | don't eat off plan as a way to reject a food offering from someone else. And again, I don't want to |
| 1:18.6 | oversimplify things, you guys, but when I worked in an office, I worked in an office that was like |
| 1:22.9 | my own office. So there would be like a guy coming down and he'd like go from office to office |
| 1:27.4 | being like, hi, would you like a cinnamon coming down and he'd like go from office to office being like, |
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