Sabotage

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  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    walters514 wrote: »
    He is playing a control game with you....sounds much deeper than the weight issue.
    See above comment.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Some Quaker oatmeal? Log it, move the rest of your food day around, and let it go.
  • IHaveMyActTogether
    IHaveMyActTogether Posts: 945 Member
    What happens when you go to a brunch?

    Or the girls at the office bring donuts?

    Or it's that month where a bunch of people have birthdays and the cake is flowing?

    Or you go to dinner with your girlfriends and they order a pitcher and four appetizers to share?

    These are fairly common, real life temptations people face.

    Look at his "sabotage" as training for your self-control muscles. The food temptions don't go away - you will drive past a McDonalds or Dunkin Donuts. Someone will bring home chips and candy.

    So instead of trying to adjust the world to your diet, which is never going to happen, try to look at it in a less sensitive way.


  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    The other night I got off work late and just did not have the energy to make what I had planned for dinner. My husband said "why don't you have the leftover spaghetti?" I told him I hadn't planned the calories for spaghetti so I heated up the spaghetti for him and I had something else. (Ok, I hadn't planned the calories for spaghetti and the ice cream I wanted!)

    I'm telling this story because this is really how adults handle these everyday type of situations. My husband wasn't sabotaging my efforts, he was making a suggestion. When someone makes a suggestion I am free to either follow it or not.

    Like so many people have already said, it was a bowl of oatmeal. Take a deep breath and give both yourself and your husband a break. Now you know that next time you can just say "thanks, that won't work" and make your shake.

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