When is being, or being around, a "health nut", annoying or overbearing?

[Prof_Don]

DISCLAIMER: I am referring to social settings and social interactions in this question.

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When do you feel someone being very self-conscious about their health and fitness is "too much" to the point of discomfort or annoyance?

Be as detailed as you like, using personal examples or scenarios if you wish.

[Darkfairie17]

I actually dated a health nut (I didn't know he was like this before I dated him). I was okay with him wanting me to be healthy, but it just became overwhelming. We couldn't go out to eat or be at his place without reminders that I am fat and need to be on some restricted diet (meaning no food at all (because I was too fat to eat apparently). Even though that sounds completely ridiculous, in his mind it some how made sense.

I think it's great if someone knows how to eat healthy and exercise and another person asks them for advice. But it's completely different for a person to place expectations they have for themselves on other people. Everyone is different so nothing will 100 percent apply to everyone else.

Being in social settings with him was really hard because he became quite over bearing and critical. Apparently he was perfect in every way and knew exactly why I was having weight issues (which he didn't). I always felt that I had to feel bad about eating anything because he would remind me that I could do without the calories. So apparently eating enough to just survive was too much :S

It was bad, but I got out! He started to get turned off of the fact that I couldn't live up to his expectations.

[Anonymous]

I have 2 friends that are total health nuts. It's SO awkward. Once, I had brocoli cheddar soup for lunch... she was like "wow that's going to clog your arteries." Most of the time she picks on her own food... like oh I can't x because it's so unhealthy (sometimes I'm eating it). She won't eat things like cheese or meat or pasta. She lives off of vegetables and sometimes has cottage cheese and hummus. It's frustrating because when we go out to eat she's like omgsh there's nothing healthy on the menu. If she orders something she deems "unhealthy" like a taco, she'll eat a few bites and say she's full.

[december1990]

When it's like they're forcing you to follow your health plan or that your diet isn't good enough and they always belittle your eating or exercise habits. Than that is just being judgmental and acting like your better cause of your personal diet plan lol

Its not about being nice or understanding and to them there is no other way? lol

[NerdInDenial]

When they start judging what you are eating. It's one thing if they talk about it; it's another if they start lecturing you or scolding you.