How To Cop An Attitude With An Overzealous Hostess

We all encounter those hosts and hostesses who feel it is their
duty to make us eat whatever their specialty is and generate a
sense of guilt if we do not flatter their creation by stuffing
ourselves with it, regardless of our weight control plans and
weight loss goals. Here are some nice ways to decline her
offering.

For example’s sake, we will use her justly famous (but
horrendously caloric) cheesecake.

10 Nice Ways to Decline:

1. Thanks, but I came to enjoy your company, not your
cheesecake.

2. I’ll trade everything on that plate for a cup of your
incomparable coffee.

3. Before I eat anything, I’d love to see your new vacation
pictures.

4. This time I’m really losing weight so I can’t break down,
even though I know how delicious your cheesecake always is.

5. Thanks, but no thanks.

6. Thanks, but I’m on a mission – to thin-dom.

7. It looks too good to eat . . . I’d hate to spoil it.

8. I’m on a very strict diet that unfortunately bans your
terrific cheesecake.

9. I already filled up on your wonderful dinner, perhaps next
time.

10. Wow, that looks gorgeous but it just isn’t something I’m
allowed right now.

When these don’t work (and they won’t), bring on the big guns -
the declinations that ensure your hostess will not continue to
press you further but may actually retreat to the other side of
the room to bug someone else.

The Big 15 (That Really Work):

1. Sorry, but I’m allergic to cheesecake . . . my eyes swell
shut.

2. Thanks, but cheesecake always gives me flatulence.

3. Thanks, but I’m already so full I’m having trouble keeping
everything down . . . where’s your bathroom?

4. Thanks, but I see my personal trainer first thing in the
morning and if I’ve slipped, he’s a sadist!

5. I spent the day at the dentist’s office so I couldn’t touch
anything.

6. My aunt almost died of food poisoning from eating cheesecake
- I just can’t face it anymore.

7. Sorry, but I hate cheesecake.

8. My grandmother was eating cheesecake when she died. I’ve
never touched it since.

9. I’d love to, but cheesecake always gives me immediate hives.

10. Sorry, but I’m a cheesecake alcoholic. One bite and I’ll eat
the whole thing.

11. Sorry, I don’t do cheesecake – and you shouldn’t either,
honey.

12. I’m fasting this week and it’s time for my enema.

13. I’d love some, but cheesecake always makes me throw up.

14. Cheesecake always makes my crowns fall out.

15. If I eat that, I’ll be forced to lead all your guests in 50
sit ups immediately afterwards.

Caution: you may not be invited back again for a while (but
you’re on your way to successful weight control).

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