Watching others eat

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  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Pinnacle_IAO wrote: »
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Pinnacle_IAO wrote: »
    tabbylyn89 wrote: »
    How do you stay motivated when you have to sit and watch your family eat foods that you can't have?
    If you just eat in moderation, no issues, but if it's a family of obese gluttons, that would drive me nuts. I just can't be around such people without their habits weakening my resolve. Obesity is contagious, and when we sleep with dogs, we get fleas.
    I have what I call my 3 day rule. I can tolerate others for 3 days, and that is it.

    After that, I GET OUT!
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    What if it's your partner and kids?
    My kids eat what we eat or go hungry.
    As for my wife, she and I are on the very same page with exercise and diet. We have 5 kids...all fit and healthy, and she worked herself fit after every delivery. I am the slug in this relationship.
    :s
    BUT...if this were not so, I'd have to consider moving on like some spouses and partners do when one gets healthy and fit while the other remains mired in the slow death of obesity and withering incompatibility.
    Such is life.

    I know, if I had a partner break her leg, I'd do the humane thing and take her outback in preparation for the glue factory.
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  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    karyabc wrote: »
    Eileen_S wrote: »
    Pinnacle_IAO wrote: »
    tabbylyn89 wrote: »
    How do you stay motivated when you have to sit and watch your family eat foods that you can't have?
    If you just eat in moderation, no issues, but if it's a family of obese gluttons, that would drive me nuts. I just can't be around such people without their habits weakening my resolve.
    I have what I call my 3 day rule. I can tolerate others for 3 days, and that is it.

    After that, I GET OUT!
    :#



    Not sure about this post. :/

    Clearly you are not the only one -.- #smh

    It was good for a laugh. :D
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Psshh, life's not worth living without Tacos. Or bread. I could take or leave the coleslaw though.

    OP, you don't need to cut foods out, just the amounts. Fit the foods you love into your calorie goal.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    tabbylyn89 wrote: »
    Unhealthy stuff like tacos and coleslaw and bread lol

    @tabbylyn89 Tacos contain protein, fat and carbs. What's not to love? Meat, cheese and salad... They're a superfood!

    Coleslaw is my healthy lunch of vitamins, combined with meat and cheese for around 250 calories.

    Bread is more of a treat, but if I can fit it into my daily limit, I'm happy.

    You see, foods are not good or bad as such. For weight loss, only the calorie amount matters.

    To lose weight and keep it off for life, you need to allow yourself foods you love, and eat amounts that will mean you love yourself. Best wishes!
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    I'm always baffled when people act like tacos are somehow unhealthy or high calorie. When we have tacos it's usually one of my lower-calorie dinners.
  • txrn123
    txrn123 Posts: 47 Member
    I've actually found that since I cut back on sweets and carbs (junk food, pizza, cake) that I don't crave them. There was leftover cake and pizza from a co workers bday celebration at work and both were laying around in their respective boxes...if that had been before the start of my wt loss journey I would have dived in..but, now, after 8 months of watching my calorie intake and cutting out excesses, I didn't even give the leftovers a second look. No craving, no interest.
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