Boyfriend thinks I'm going to stroke out!
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Persephone7676
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My boyfriend keeps making comments and seems worried I'm going to die of heart disease from eating LCHF. He's such an oatmeal and pancakes kind of guy I don't think he gets it that some people just cannot eat that way and feel full for more than two hours. I explained it to him but he keeps giving me weird looks when I'm making food for myself.
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So laugh at him all the way to the doctor's office when you get a good report from the doctor and lab - and he probably doesn't! (hugs)6
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Have him watch the documentary Fat head. Or read The Art and Science of Low Carb Living!6
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LCHF athletes may be good too Peter Attia is great. Maybe Ben Greenfield or Menno Hesselman.
Keto Clarity is an easy read.
The Perfect Human diet is a good LCHF short documentary too. Fat Head is more fun to watch though. Watch Supersize Me first.
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Yeah. That sounds like my brother, my sister's mother, and my dad. Only I'm going to kick the bucket because of cholesterol apparently.0
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I've been low-carb for over 2 years, and my husband still gives me those looks. Even though he knows my trigs were 39 and my HDL was over 100.8
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@baconslave - Wow - your lipid #s are amazing. Congrats!1
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They get over that pretty quick as they see you get healthier and happier just wait it out.4
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I get the same comments from my mother and coworkers and I just keep telling them the dietary information we were programmed with when we were coming up in grade school about the food pyramid and the correlation between fat and heart disease are just plain incorrect and debunked. I also tell them that most general physicians are miseducated regarding nutrition as well and tell them to do their own research. They don't want to so they just stop, until next time. It's always a struggle.3
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I handled this by telling Bob to go eat a banana while minding his business.
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Make him read The Testosterone Advantage Plan.4
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My husband just worries I'm not getting enough to eat or enough nutrients in my food. I refused to eat banana the other day mostly cause I just really hate them but also they are way too sweet now. Sometimes he seems more worried than when I didn't eat any veggies at all...lol2
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Last year my TC was 183 and HDL 60 before LCHF. My next screening for work is in 2 weeks, can't wait to see the results this year.4
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My husband just worries I'm not getting enough to eat or enough nutrients in my food. I refused to eat banana the other day mostly cause I just really hate them but also they are way too sweet now. Sometimes he seems more worried than when I didn't eat any veggies at all...lol
My husband thinks I don't eat enough either. Lol
I just have to point out how my plate may be less full but the cheese, sour cream, Mayo... whatever topping I may have added to my meat is more calories than his pile of green beans. And that I probably eat more calories than he does most days but I'm losing fat and he's... not.
Then when he's starving a few hours after dinner and decides to eat a bowl of cereal before bed, I just shake my head and look at him judgingly as I sip my tea.
I've tried to get him to understand why he doesn't feel satisfied with our meals as long as I do but he just doesn't want to have "all that fat". Lol
He doesn't even want any butter on his veggies. He says it's gross.
Silly boy!6 -
I have a similar problem with my hubby. I just explained to him that I've researched it and read books by doctors who practice this woe have have saved me lots of time by reading and publishing the latest data on it. Once he understood it wasn't some "fad" diet given to me by a girlfriend, he calmed down a bit. He still doesn't agree but now just says "do want you want." I'm okay living with his indifference.2
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I have sort of developed this habit: if I know I will be eating around others at some point in the day, I get my fats in during the "off" time. That way I'm eating similar to others at the lunch or dinner with a few vegetables with some butter and some meat/protein.
Some might consider that habit as not "owning" what I eat (keto) but I clearly see it as a way of not having to listen to other people's negative opinions on my food choices.
Kind of hard if you're around your BF 24/7 but it may be doable, at least to a degree.8 -
I feel very lucky reading some of this. I said to Rowdy not too long ago that I really appreciate how he doesn't knock how I'm eating these days. His answer to me was "hey, it's working for you, why would I knock it?" He followed up with "just don't expect me to stop eating bread." He can eat a loaf of bread in about 2 days and loves his biscuits. Total Southern boy born and 'bread'....hehe....9
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I don't care what other people think when they watch me eat. First off, it's rude to stare/comment and second, I usually am appalled at what they eat and bite my own tongue to keep from commenting about their horrible eating patterns.5
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My husband wasn't over weight & never had an eating problem but he is a LCHF convert now because he lost 10 lbs in the last 2 months & is the same weight as when he got his black belt in karate. I hear him keto evangelizing to his friends.9
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The last time someone commented on my food choices (which were NOT keto at the time but as an overweight person was simply being judged), I said "You can keep your eyes on your own plate and quite worrying about mine, thanks". It shut them up.7
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Tell him to educate himself before making judgements. I second making him watch a documentary or listening to a few podcasts by Mark Sisson, Ben Greenfield, or Abel James.
Have your partner support your nutrition decisions is pretty important, especially if you are trying to lose weight. My boyfriend completely derailed me off my previous died (bodybuilder style).....and while I was mad he couldn't be supportive - I also now see that he just really cared about me and wanted me to eat healthy food that was supported by science. If I didn't come around to the LCHF/Keto stuff....we would be broken up by now.2
