Being Jewish vs. Being weight conscious

Now, I want to preface this by saying that what I am about to say is not intended to offend anyone. So if you are offended, get over it because I wasn't trying to do that.

This has to do with the difference between being Jewish (or some other faith, or lackthereof), and being weight conscious. This week at school, the morale committee decided that it would be a good idea to have a day where everyone on staff brought a dozen holiday cookies to share with the rest of the staff. It wasn't like a cookie exchange, but rather a smorgasboard of goodies for everyone. And though I brought some peanut butter bars, I didn't really participate. I was kind of sad because if I was some other religion besides Christian, then no one would have asked me to bring bars, because they wouldn't have wanted to offend me. But the fact that I am trying to eat healthy and not eat junk really wasn't a factor to them. Now I know that weight loss is not a religion, but to those that take it way too seriously, it sort of is. I wanted to maintain my weight loss plan at least until we left for Christmas, but this week at work has not been easy.

Of course, I am sure that this is the case in any work environment this week. There are probably goodies galore, and though everyone wants to eat them, they all feel bad for doing it, and yet do it anyway. (I should confess that I did have three pretzel twists dipped in almond bark.) But it just doesn't seem right. You know?