Please, Don’t Talk About Your Diet at Work.

Ivy Staker
3 min readMay 14, 2020

Your small talk might be hurting your colleagues.

Photo by Zach Miles on Unsplash

We’re used to diet talk at the office. Jim from marketing is Keto now, your boss, Alison, is trying to slim down after the holidays. Everyone on your team feels so guilty for what they ate over the Thanksgiving long weekend.

It’s acceptable and expected small talk, something to chitchat about at a lunch meeting as…

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Ivy Staker

Social anthropologist | Passionate about the outdoors | Intensely curious | UX researcher | Fledgling eating disorder recovery advocate