getting husband on board

mamabanana

Here's my new challenge. After trying fad diets and exercises over the years, I have finally found something that works. Logging my calories, calorie deficit and eating back my calories after exercise. It is a slow process but it seems to work. My husband, who has been trying to lose his excess of 50lbs is not successful. He is certain that drinking a boost for breakfast and one for lunch along with a salad or chicken a veggies for supper is the way to go. All along (even before I started here) I have been telling him that is body is starving which is why he is not losing ( along with his once a week binge on junk-food).
He has finally noticed my own progress doing what I do (not staving myself) and has given me a week to help him lose1.5-2lbs following what I am doing here. I have weighed snackfoods (grapes, carrots nuts, cheese, etc) and made handy little packages, am preparing his suppers, and encouraging him exercising 3 times a week for 30 minutes although he doesn't believe in eating back his calories. I will be logging his progress here as well.
I wonder will this be enough of a success after one week for him to continue?

gypsy_spirit

The only person we can change is ourselves. That being said, if he makes the connection and wants to continue - he will.

Lizzy622

He needs to learn to be responsible for himself and also do his own logging. You can help him out but don't do everything for him. You won't know if he is sneaking snacks and not telling you. When My husband was on here we did use the copy feature to copy dinners which we ate together.

4legsRbetterthan2

You can hope for the big loss some people see in the first week from a diet change. Hopefully that would sell him, however getting him to realize that his continual progress will probably be slower than that will be less than fun. One week is hardly a good trial period for anything. I would support him if he decides to do this but make sure you keep focusing on yourself and don't let him de-rail you. He will have to figure stuff out on his own. Dieting takes real commitment and until he is ready for that it is just a lost cause.

d2footballJRC

If he isn't ready for the change and to embrace it, it'll fail. That said if he follows eating less cals than he burns he'll lose.