"Healthy" significant others

AniOnFire
AniOnFire Posts: 33 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
My boyfriend has a wonder body, great abs very low body fat percentage and all of that jazz. That being said his eating habits are far from healthy, he pours on salt, he eats once a day and has been making comments and giving me looks since I'm now eating 1500 calories spread out over 5 meals. I have tried to explain to him that losing weight is more than just "Eating less calories than your body burns," but he doesn't get it, and it's driving me insane.

I went shopping last night and I grabbed a michelena's normal frozen dinner instead of the lean gourmet kind and he made some comments. I feel like I have to justify everything I'm eating to him now as though he is some sort of fitness guru when eating like him is what has caused me to gain the last 70lbs.

Has anyone else had to deal with something like this or am I alone?

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  • Tank_Girl
    Tank_Girl Posts: 372 Member
    Sounds like my significant other... He has a very high metabolism and needs to eat a lot to maintain normal weight, he eats a lot of junk and used to drink a lot until recently... He wants me doing workouts 7 days a week and im nowhere near ready to do more than 3 or 4
  • AniOnFire
    AniOnFire Posts: 33 Member
    Sounds like my significant other... He has a very high metabolism and needs to eat a lot to maintain normal weight, he eats a lot of junk and used to drink a lot until recently... He wants me doing workouts 7 days a week and im nowhere near ready to do more than 3 or 4


    ^.^ it's nice to know I'm not alone in this. It's like explaining color to the blind, only having to do it every time there's food around >.<
  • MTBrob
    MTBrob Posts: 513 Member
    You just do what you gotta do .. DO not worry about him, and tell him to back off...

    those eating habits will eventually catch up to him .
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
    those eating habits will eventually catch up to him .

    I was very fit and ate wendy's every day and drank a lot of beer. Eventually i became less and less active and next thing I knew I was 320lbs.
  • weird_me2
    weird_me2 Posts: 716 Member
    This was my DH about 6 years ago. He wasn't quite as buff, but still in good shape and had definite opinions about how to lose weight that he'd learned mostly from his brother in law (who lost over 100 lbs) and a trainer friend.

    Time has caught up to him, though, and he's almost 40 now and has put on some weight. He's having to learn how to lose it now, too, and he's finally seeming to understand my previous frustrations. I would say just explain to him what you are doing and why you are doing it, and if he continues to make comments or judge, I would kindly tell him that if you want or need his opinion you will ask for it, but please refrain from making comments or even faces at your choices until that time. I had to do this with DH when he was a pain years ago, and it helped.
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