When your spouse isn't dieting

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  • srpm
    srpm Posts: 275 Member
    My husband is in the Navy so I have to cook a lot for just me. Something I do a lot is make spaghetti squash then refrigerate it in individual portions, then for dinner all week (or in your case lunch) I dump that nights squash into a skillet with other veggies, sauce or diced tomatoes, and sometimes some ground meat or soy crumbles. Easy, quick, delicious, and LOADED with flavor and nutrition without a lot of calories or fat.
  • rosiecotton24
    rosiecotton24 Posts: 81 Member
    My husband eats healthy 'sometimes'. When we go to the grocery I'm trying to get healthy stuff while he's putting chips, cookies, frozen pizzas, etc in the cart. He told me the other day he eats some healthy and some bad. lol
    I really want to try to weed out a lot of the processed foods we have. We also have two sons who always want easy stuff to make- stuff they can just pop in the microwave. That or Taco Bell. Blah. My oldest son is a skinny rail who eats anything without gaining. Thankfully he does like a variety of veggies (more than I like!) My younger son is like me- gains weight easily and doesn't like many veggies at all.
    So, I guess I'm just going to have to try to slowly make changes. Hopefully in time they'll learn to eat more healthy.
    I also can't get my husband to exercise. Granted he does get up about 4:30 am to head to work, but gets off around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. But then, he mainly just wants to sit on his butt and watch tv all evening. Even when I go out to walk, he doesn't go with me. I have never really asked him to go, though, so maybe I should suggest that! He really needs to lose some weight. He is gaining mainly in his belly like most men, and it makes me concerned for his health.
  • Zichu
    Zichu Posts: 542 Member
    You could easily trick him with the pizza's. Buy some ingredients that he likes, obviously don't go for the most unhealthy ingredients and make your own pizza.

    I made a few pizzas before using Warburton's Square Wraps, a whole tin of tuna, peppers, onions, mushrooms, passata, a bit of cheese and it came to less than 600 calories.

    It's better than consuming 1000, 2000 or even 3000 calories from one pizza that isn't going to fill you up. With this, the pizza looks completely stacked and should fill your average joe up thanks to all that protein.
  • chellebubblz
    chellebubblz Posts: 84 Member
    Well we did grocery shopping over the weekend and bought very little processed foods, so I was quite proud of him! But I had a grocery list I had printed off of Plan2Eat so that helped. I've been making alot of recipes off of Skinny Taste website and I will eat the correct portion size while he usually eats 2 servings. Hoping to eventually get him down to the correct portion size also, but I will take the baby steps!

    Our son is just now starting baby foods so I really want to instill healthy eating habits in him and I can't really do that until his dad is on board too
  • Lynxie83
    Lynxie83 Posts: 246
    Hubby has been very supportive of me. We're both overweight, me more than him, but he has been benefitting from this healthy cooking too.

    I set a menu for the week and he will try everything I cook, if he doesn't like it or it wasn't enough for him, he'll have something to eat after. He's not exercising like I am, but he's still seeing the results from the healthier cooking.

    For lunches I make a big batch of soup on the weekend and freeze it in single portions, I also save the extra portions from dinner and freeze them. If my meal makes enough for 4, I serve up two plates and two freezer containers so we can't over eat.

    Good luck with the SOs out there who aren't as supportive as mine :)

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