Help!!!

summertimesadnessx

How do you diet/lose weight when you barely have any support - and the one person you thought should support you is getting fried chicken and chips and generally has a bad diet and you've told them so much that they need to change to help you and it's not working and i can't say no to bad food. I keep turning back to my old ways and it throws me off so much. What can i do?!!?!

RebekahR84

I'd like to offer advice, but I need to know who this person is to you. Is there an option of not being around this person?

summertimesadnessx

He's my boyfriend, and he prettymuch lives with me >.<

refinedredbird

You cannot control what other people want to eat. Every day you are going to be exposed to people and places that offer foods that you believe would be detrimental to your goals. You are the only person who gets to decide what you consume, so the only person you can blame is yourself when you are not following your own healthy lifestyle plan. When your boyfriend gets something to eat and it won't work for you (granted don't totally deprive yourself of food you enjoy) politely decline if he offers and make yourself something tasty that will work for you.

christianladybug

I understand I have a husband that doesn't eat veggies and likes junk food more than real food. You can't change him. My only suggest would be to get up and take a walk when he comes in with food that you don't want to eat. Especially if you love this guy. You can only change yourself not other people. Let him decide if he wants to change his eating habits by you being the example. Good luck. I know that it isn't probably the best advice but I hope you have success.

MG_Fit

Don't eat the fried chicken and buy healthier, less processed food.

Or every time he brings it home, go out to pick up some other foods.

Or just start cooking so he doesn't have to bring home the foods you don't want to eat.

TyTy76

You either want it, or you don't.

The choice is yours.

RebekahR84

Just start preparing YOUR food, but make enough for him too. He'll start to smell your amazing cooking and eventually come around. This has been my experience with my husband. He's not on a "diet" with me per se, but he eats what I cook. Sometimes he adds his own sides, and they don't tempt me too much.

itsscottwilder

1.

I don't think his bad diet = lack of support for you.

It just means that he's not on the same journey.

If your definition of a good boyfriend is one that will go on this journey with you then you are with the wrong guy.

2.

To heck with support.

If you wanna get fit then get fit. Who gives a rip what anyone thinks or how much support anyone else is giving you?

This is your life and your health. You have your reasons and your expectations.

Go get after it regardless of what anyone else thinks.

RebekahR84

1.

I don't think his bad diet = lack of support for you.

It just means that he's not on the same journey.

If your definition of a good boyfriend is one that will go on this journey with you then you are with the wrong guy.

2.

To heck with support.

If you wanna get fit then get fit. Who gives a rip what anyone thinks or how much support anyone else is giving you?

This is your life and your health. You have your reasons and your expectations.

Go get after it regardless of what anyone else thinks.

I think her issue is this: does he have to rub it in her face that he's still eating those foods while she can't?

And of course she's her biggest supporter, but her boyfriend can and should support her too, maybe in other ways than actually taking on the journey with her. My husband isn't trying to lose weight, but he makes it a point to go out of his way to keep me from being too tempted. His family (my in-laws) do too! Granted, I don't NEED them to support me, but it sure is nice.