I have a similar experience but with coffee. I drink one, maybe two a day. I don’t smoke, don’t drink soda and am slender watch what I eat and walk everyday with the doggums. This is my one nutritional vice….buy EVERYONE at work comments on my coffee drinking. It’s my own fault, I tent to ‘warm’ up the coffee I’ve been nursing all day. So it looks like I drink more than I do…but the one’s who comment on it are heavy, eat unhealthy lunches and drink soda. I don’t get why they some people feel they can mention anything about my coffee drinking when it’s really nothing to them. The other side would be ‘coffee guardian angels’? Are they actually looking out for my health? Is this a good thing to have people pay that much attention to what goes in my body?

Odd…..and perplexing. Good looking out or just critical?

Tons of virgo here, and of course he’s stupid. I worked as a cashier in a supermarket, and I found it interesting to see what people eat. And I tell you: I would not trade their fridge for mine in a million years (they actually EAT that? :-)). Maybe as an experiment it would be fun, but I like fresh food you see, not all this packaged rubbish.

I was a raw foodie, vegetarian macrobiotic eater when I was a kid. Total food Nazi. There was only one store in town that sold health/organic food, and mostly really old/sick people with bowel problems and cancer went there. I was perpetually patronized for being a health nag and teased for my eating habits.
Who’s laughing how?growl!!!!
3 planets in Virgo, and Uranus in 6th house. I think that about explains it.

the water out here is HORRIBLE, so i actually have water delivered. it’s an indulgence, but one that i appreciate every single day.

and mr. smarty pants pays for his water too. it doesn’t run out of the facuet for free. he’s just paying less for a less pure product is all.

I’ve got Venus conjunct Mercury in Virgo and I guess I don’t pay for either (tap water’s generally okay enough for me) but I definitely don’t buy soda. I’ve never even liked soda, personally, even when I was a kid. And it’s just so bad for you!

As an aside, I would advise everyone to keep from buying Fiji water as the creation of a 1-liter bottle equals about one pound of greenhouse emissions, among other things (such as contaminating 26 more liters of water). Terrifically bad for the environment.

Don’t need to buy bottled water as we have an excellent deep well. However, when I lived in Tucson & San Diego, I only drank bottled water. And I bring water from home to water my office plants & for drinking.

don’t drink much soda either . . . a little coffee in the AM to kick start the brain, otherwise it’s not pretty

Well, tap water is nearly free… I used to joke that bottled water cost more than gas/petrol, but I’m not sure that’s the case anymore. Whatever the figures are, it doesn’t matter - if someone thinks they need something regardless of sense, they’ll pay for it.

Lots of Virgo. Will pay for water, $3.50 half a gallon organic milk (have been for 15 years– I get 1% for my 8 yr. old, fat-free for me)organic fruits and veggies (I go by that list by that group that says what’s worth buying organic or not). I do not keep snack foods in the house (buy a single size bag when I have a craving)and have about 1 or 2 small packs of cookies around. (It’s not food,but since we’re talking about health– I also get really good sunscreen.) I am fascinated by nutrition– I would also totally throw out junk food purchased in a moment of weakness/bigger size than neccessary and not care about the money, because I’d rather limit the damage.

I never comment on other people’s food, but my son and I do talk about good nutrition and he’s very aware. In fact, he thinks it’s so normal that he saw a lady’s cart in the checkout piled with all kinds of soda and chips and snacks and he says to her, with a friendly grin and very chatty tone, “You sure have lots of unhealthy food there, don’t you?” like he’s commenting on the weather. And thank goodness she was nice, and laughed and said, “Well, I have two teeneagers and they eat a lot of junk.” “You know,” he said, trying to be helpful, “You might want to talk to them about good nutrition…” and I was poking him a little and got him interested in something else..and explained about personal comments later–but it was very funny.

Geez I’m a ditz… Forgot to add that I’ve got Virgo rising.

Re: the plastic bottle thing– urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

That guy should mind his own fucking business. Pardon my French.

Both choices buy into the commercial flimflam. Many bottled waters are tap in a wrap. Soda is just as you thought about saying, Elsa and what you said Satori. One health decision we made years ago was to invest in a reverse osmosis portable water filter system. I cannot drink flouride (in many water systems) and after a decade of hauling filtered water in jugs from the stores, we bought that r.o. water system. That little machine has saved us money in the longer run, and ensures we drink water we know.

Yup, we all have a perspective and the freedom to voice an opinion, or not. If fewer choose to buy the bottled anything, I say we’d all be choosing health any day.

Well, we buy bottled water, and diet soda, so, I guess that makes me stupid times x 2. On the other hand, I do believe commenting on what someone is buying, eating, etc. (unless of course it is your kid), is just oh so very rude. So CD, I agree with you!

I agree with you Dorothy. I get super snarly about this…I’ve fought with my partner about this before, and the argument usually ends with me saying ‘until you start going into work for me every day and earning my money, you can button it!’

I just had eggnog and coffee for breakfast. If I was in the mood, I’d be smoking too. PS. Togi the closet ain’t just for Dr. Pepper, wink wink ::snickers::

My middle name is Virgo, (btw) . . .

and I once worked in a supermarket checkout stand situation, too. Wow, I simply could not believe what some people buy. Incredible, especially during the holiday periods!

Is anyone like me? If I’d had a dinner or drinking party and asked most people to bring their own beverages, when everyone went home, I’d be shocked at the pile of beverage containers in the corner of the room. I would also be a little miffed that my guests had gone off and left all that crap in corner for me to deal with responsibly. (I lived abroad for a decade, and when I returned I just couldn’t believe the directions that American consumerism had gone in.)

When I was a kid, pop was sort of, well, special! You got to drink maybe 2 on a holiday, but otherwise, it just wasn’t in the house. And of course, that wasn’t for health considerations so much.

Koolaid, we got. You know, like one pitcher for the 5 of us on a summer afternoon. At least we knew it was real sugar in it. I certainly don’t think of the 50’s as the depression. We were middle class then, and doing fine.

soda is nasty…
but, seriously, take a bottle, put it under the tap, and fill it… or put one of those powdered electrolyte mixes in it if i’m feeling fancy… and i’m good.

lol @ togi! i’m way virgo and a member of the good health club via boot in the pants. i used to pretty much mainline dr. pepper and sugar in any and every form, all day, every day. i’d start getting anxious when we were down to less than a full box of little debbies in the house, i kid you not. but i was way fat and the doc told me i was pushing diabetes so i had a moment of enligtenment and ditched the sugar. once every few months, i have a DP, but i am careful now.

still smoke though. maybe i can join you if the closet’s big and well-ventilated enough? or we could try the garage…we can keep a fridge out there.

I was going to say both, then I realized that no one here is “stupid”, just both getting what they want. He was kind of stupid to say anything about what someone else drinks thou…

And yeah, a filter would work if one wants better water…but, who am I to say?

I guess it depends on what someone is paying for the water too. I’ve seen some bottle water sell for more than a bottle of wine…lol…now that’s stupid!