I can't be the only one here that gets a lot of strange looks and comments from people at the supermarket just because I'm buying a lot of fruits and vegetables.
It's very rare that I go to the store and the cashier doesn't say something about how many fruits and vegetables that I'm buying, but one thing that I've noticed is that almost all of the comments that I get from cashiers are comments that I know that they would never dare say to me if I was overweight...
- "Are you really going to eat all of this food yourself?"
- "I didn't even know it was possible for one person to eat so much food!"
- "So when you get home do you just sit there and eat nonstop 24/7?"
- "Oh my God!" (Saying this while looking at my shopping cart with eyes and jaw wide open.)
- "I can't believe how much food you eat!"
- "Do you gain like 20 pounds each time you eat a meal?"
- "So is all this food just for you or do you live with a few sumo wrestlers?
Like I said they would never joke about the large amounts of food that I buy if I was overweight, and since it's impossible to become overweight on this diet I guess that I'm going to have to hear these comments for now on. (If you get comments like these all the time, be happy because it means that you're fit, and you look healthy enough that they can openly joke about you're "Eating Disorder" because it's obvious that you're doing something right.)
I don't get annoyed by all the comments and looks that I get though because I realize that most grocery stores simply weren't designed for people like us. For the average person just eating an apple a day would be a challenge, so if you decide that you want to do a mono day or two of only eating apples you're probably going to end up buying more apples than the average 10 - 20 people would. Plus, years ago I used to buy less fruits and vegetables in 1 year than I do now in a week, and back then I probably would have looked at someone who lived entirely on fruits and vegetables as being strange.
One of my favorite comments was last week when I was shopping at Trader Joes and I was over in the banana section looking for ripe bananas and an old lady approached me and said, "Excuse me, what aisle do you guys keep your soy milk in?" I told here where it was and then I smiled and explained to her that I didn't actually work there and that I was just a customer, and then she said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I assumed that you worked here because it looked like you were going through and picking out all of the bad bananans that need to be thrown away."
I'm curious to know what kinds of comments you get when you are really stocking up on certain foods.
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