As all of you know, controlling hunger is where it's all at. It's difficult, especially before optimal restriction, and something we constantly battle. I've done okay. Believe me I've had my bad days, but I'm proud of what I've been able to accomplish. I don't snack during the day at work, and bring my lunch to control what I eat. Well, my place of employment decided to put in a break room, lunch room in our building. Where did they put it???? RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO MY OFFICE!!! :crying::cursing::crying:

So now, every time they have an office party or someone goes in to heat up their lunch I get to smell it. I'm sitting here right now smelling fried chicken. Last week it was pineapple upside down cake and Breakfast casserole. My stomach automatically started growling, I can't concentrate and now I'm hungry!! :mad:This is just awful for me. I just want to cry. :scared2:Of all the people in the building they had to do this to..... I'm just sick. This isn't going to work. what the hell am I going to do????? No one in my office knows I've had surgery and I want to keep it that way. This place is gossip central.... Suggestions???? God certainly has a funny sense of humor.......

any chance you can request to get moved? maybe tell them its too noisy and you cant concentrate?

I feel your pain. I'm not near the break room or where everyone brings in treats (I avoid it like the plague).. but most girls around here heat something up and eat in the office, so I can go all day without eating, then they heat something up and it wafts in here and my stomach starts going ballistic!! I hate it, and have no solution. I keep 100 calorie packs in my office for when I can't take it anymore, but I hate that I'm not hungry till I smell it.

I'd be tempted to tell a white lie here. I'd say that due to a medication I take, the smells from the lunch room cause nausea and I needed to move away from them so I didn't feel sick all day. Is that possible?

I would just say the smells and commotion are a huge problem and interferes with your work . . .

OH, I feel you. We moved to a new building last month and where is my desk? Right outside the breakroom! This means I smell everyone's lunch and to top it off they need something to do while their lunch is cooking in the microwave -- so they come and talk to me! Not like I am not busy or anything. And then I have to stare at the vending machine all day longingly looking at the doritos and chips. So I turned my desk around so I don't look in the breakroom when I am at work.

And the worse thing? They installed a free popcorn machine ...so every day around noon they start popping popcorn all afternoon long and I have to smell it. Then when it runs out people ask if I am going to make more..I have never touched that thing and never will!

My only saving grace is that I travel a lot, so I am not at the office that much, plus I work from home most of the time (the only way I get work done).

Until you can maybe get you or the break room moved----you might try to take a small container of Vicks to work, when the smells start take a small, barely there bit and rub it right under your nose---it will interupt the other smells.

I know nurses who do this to avoid smelling gross things----bodily function things---so maybe it would work for this too.

I am at a loss otherwise, I can only imagine how difficult that would be......poor you, I am so sorry!

Kat

WOW! What a great idea. I hadn't thought of that. My office mate may frown upon this, but hey, it's worth a try. Thanks for the suggestion!!