Okay, here's (hopefully) a more constructive answer.

The way I get my dh to stick to a gluten-free diet is to fix all his meals for him, and keep the foods he shouldn't eat out of the house. My kitchen is completely gluten free, even though one of my teens is not. (She is not allowed to bring gluten home, but of course she can buy it and eat it away from home if she really wants.)

I make him breakfast every morning. Bacon and eggs is a good (and healthy -- especially if you can get nitrate-free bacon and free-range eggs) breakfast. So is steak, or a grilled or fried pork chop. You can make paleo "granola" and serve it with cream or coconut milk or almond milk (my dh gets his with 1/2-n-1/2, not sure how primal that is, but the higher the fat, the more protection his gut has against casein, the milk protein similar to gluten). Avoid juice, but offer a side of fresh fruit. Berries and cream, or cut up grapefruit, or orange sections are some possibilities. Not too much fruit -- it can raise triglycerides, but a little can go a long way. (I eat salad along with my breakfast, when I eat breakfast, which is pretty rare these days as I don't seem to need to eat until later in the day. I figure that might seem too "weird" to someone just starting out.)

I pack him a hearty, healthy lunch, usually dinner leftovers. An example might be a slice of meatloaf left over from dinner (To ground beef, I add shredded carrots and/or almond meal instead of bread, along with an egg for binder and my usual meatloaf spices), plus a salad or leftover veggies, plus something desserty -- again, most likely a piece of fruit or a paleo bar (lots of recipes online). I can't control what he eats when he's away from home, but if I pack him food that he likes, he's less likely to hit the vending machines.

I keep a couple of gluten-free, primal-friendly frozen dinners on hand for when the teens eat all the dinner, or if for some reason we didn't have dinner some night (like coming home from camping), and pack one of those in his lunch along with the standard snacks or desserty food that I'd pack with a homemade entree.

I (or one of my teens) cook a paleo-friendly dinner. I add in rice or gluten-free pasta or potatoes for my non-paleo family members, all of whom have high metabolisms and need a lot of extra calories so they don't lose weight. (Wish I had that problem. No, wait, nowadays I wouldn't want that because I'm full all the time and would have trouble trying to cram in more calories than I'm eating now.) I always cook extra portions and pack dh's lunch before serving dinner so my ravenous teens won't eat everything up in second or third helpings. There are a lot of yummy recipes online. They pretty much center around meat, fish, or poultry surrounded by vegetables. Since I started eating paleo/primal, my dh has really enjoyed that we're eating more meat.

I keep friendly snacks handy in case he gets hungry, like mixed raw nuts or cut up veggies with homemade ranch. I make my own mayo with olive oil, in order to avoid soy and canola oil. Once a month I buy dh one of Trader Joe's one-pound bittersweet chocolate bars with almonds. He can break off a piece or three when his sweet tooth kicks in, but it's closer to paleo/primal and also takes less to satisfy than his previous preference of milk chocolate.

Fat bombs are something I'm looking into for snacks, not just for dh but for my teens who struggle to keep weight on. I think my dh would enjoy some of these made with coconut oil or butter, cocoa powder, and honey. Maybe add some almond meal in, but then I couldn't eat them so I might have to make two different batches.

All this cooking doesn't take as much time as you'd think. I use the "hour in the kitchen" suggestions from the book Well Fed -- using an hour or so after getting home from shopping to soak, chop, and spin-dry greens; chop onions; shred carrots; saute ground beef with garlic and onion; slice celery into sticks -- it makes the next four days of meal prep much easier. I can get dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less, or while cooking breakfast I can throw a crockpot dinner together and then have almost no dinner prep in the evening. If I sound super-organized, well, I'm not. I'm a messy packrat who is in the middle of dejunking and reforming my bad old ways. It took a little bit of time to reorganize the way I cook, but it's a wonderful labor-and-time saving thing in my life now, and our teens can easily take over dinner prep if I can't manage for some reason.

I can't control another person, but I can make things a lot easier for him.

Hope this helps.

My husband just got back from his annual physical today, and as suspected, his cholesterol and bp were quite high. The doc just told him to go back on his diet (he was never on one), lose 10 lbs, and come back in 6 months. He loves food and loves to eat ALOT of it! Me harping at him does nothing. He does love his meat, and I have been trying to suggest this way of eating to him, but he knows NOTHING about nutrition whatsoever. Does this plan really help to lower cholesterol and bp? If so, what would be a REALLY simple way to get him to start implementing it? He will NEVER fully embrace any type of diet. I would think just cutting out the processed crap and getting lean cuts of meat (which I do already)? I'm afraid to tell him to eat bacon and eggs every day for breakfast, because you hear SUCH conflicting reviews! I have found PALEO to make me feel WAY better, although I follow it somewhat loosely. Any input would be great. I am concerned for him!

I'll chime in with the things I've learned and done and the results I've had.

In Nov, 2011 I had a health screening with the following results

Age 44
Height 5'8"
Weight 218
BP 151/100
Cholesterol 283
HDL 24
Fasting Glucose 135

In other words, I was suffering from what is called metabolic disorder - obese, hypertensive, cholesterol through the roof, and borderline Type II diabetic.

I tried the standard recommendations, cut my calories and started doing cardio exercise. And by late February, as happens with nearly all people who use that solution to fix health issues, I had failed and quit. I turned 45 shortly afterwards and woke up on my birthday and realized that I really was obese and horribly unhealthy, that I didn't feel good at all on a daily basis, that I had bad emotional swings. I came to the conclusion that I was all set to live a much shorter life than I wanted to, and that I would really not feel good and healthy for that much shorter life.

The thing is, I know that my 3 previous attempts to lose weight and get fit had all failed. I was going to need to find something that would work. I started using my free time to do the research and pretty quickly stumbled on to Gary Taubes and Mark Sisson. I bought Taubes' books and read them cover to cover. Eye opening revelations about why I couldn't lose weight and why my diet plans always failed. The introduction to the concept of a primal approach to my life (Mark Sisson and Mark's Daily Apple) was also a revelation. Reminded me of, mostly, how I had lived from a fitness and exercise perspective, in my 20's.

In June I started a change in my nutrition based directly on Gary Taubes work and I added in the idea of walking and running most days of the week from a fitness perspective. By Nov, 2012 here's the changes:

Age 45
Height 5'8"
Weight 195
BP 110/70
Cholesterol 228
LDL 140
HDL 41
Cholesterol/HDL ratio 5.6
Fasting Glucose 107 (and should note that continues to improve)

In other words, I had moved from being obese and my doctor wanting to prescribe cholesterol, BP and diabetic medications to being overweight and my doctor saying that I was one of her few patients to fix these problems. She had planned on having me come in every 6 months, but changed that plan to every year based on these results and no medications prescribed.

Today I can easily run 2 miles in about 16 minutes, have completed Beach Body's Power90 and Insanity and the first half of Focus T25. Am now starting my Break-In workouts for New Rules of Lifting. I am anticipating that when I see my doctor in November, she will take me off her watch list entirely and I will go back to a normal structure for health screening and physicals.

I still have a ways to go to be fit and happy at the level I desire, but I am already in better shape than the typical 45 and over man in the US.

Here's what I did very specifically on the nutrition side of this. And please note that I am not "paleo" .... I pay attention to Gary Taubes, Mark Sisson, Dave Asprey, Lou Shuler and a few others, because I think they are really smart about how nutrition, fitness and exercise work. I am very convinced that wheat, corn, and other grain/starch foods are horrific for humans to consume. The USDA recommended diet is a great one for cattle in an industrial feed lot being fattened for slaughter, awful for us.

- I have eliminated all wheat, corn, rye, barley based food products, including all bread, pancakes, waffles, rolls, bagels, etc. Anything that is made from refined grains, in other words. And I don't substitute "paleo" things, like that paleo bread stuff. I prefer to simply not eat bread.

- I have greatly increased my intake of grassfed beef, salmon, free range chicken eggs, grassfed butter and heavy cream, bacon, olive oil and coconut oil. These are the staples of my diet now, actually. I am fortunate enough to have a wife who loves raising chickens, so I get eggs from a very natural source, completely free range, etc. Technically not organic because we use fertilizer on our lawn. Ooops

- I have made green, leafy veggies the supporting food in my diet. I eat a salad with olive oil and vinegar or a cup of broccoli with melted butter drizzled on it, to go along with the 8 oz of grilled flank steak that I'm having for dinner.

- My snacks are things like pistachios and almonds, beef jerky, that sort of thing.

- I don't deprive myself of things like dark chocolate and red wine. Or cigars, as you can see in my picture. I am firmly convinced that if I take every luxury out of my life, this change to my lifestyle will be a failure.

And finally, if the food is in a box I don't eat it. Nothing that contains sugar (no matter how disguised) or preservatives. Nothing that is labeled low fat.

Edit: I want to add that your husband can't view this as a diet change and be successful. For me, this was a complete lifestyle change. No more sitting on my *kitten* every second I could. No more eating and living an industrial life. No more being glued to the TV after dinner. I could go on and on. But the bottom line is that I changed my whole lifestyle, how I ate, drank, exercised, enjoyed my free time, books I read, people I interact with. I think that your husband will have to do the same.

But it is important about the beef and butter being grass fed, right?

I'm not the biggest fan of coconut oil either. If I don't want to cook with olive oil I use bacon fat or butter.

Just get started and go from there. Things don't have to be picture perfect ever, but especially in the beginning. If you're in charge of the meals in the house, then just serve up what you eat (since it sounds like you've been eating paleo, yes?) Hopefully your husband is thankful for your support and advice having seen YOU feeling better from changing your lifestyle. It is HIS health in the end, so he will have to take ownership of what he's putting in his body. But if until now you've also been the meal planner and he's been getting grains and sugar, then just change up what you're serving him.

And if he's his own meal planner, then I would say that you should continue to share your good experience and also get him a book or two (Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes is a great recommendation given earlier...easy read and really eye-opening). One month of eating Paleo or Primal will not hurt him compared to eating years and years of grains and processed food getting him to where he is now. If after 30 days he does not see or feel any difference, then it can be back to the drawing board.

But it is important about the beef and butter being grass fed, right?

Yes, it is important for optimal health. However, should one avoid a Paleo lifestyle because they cannot access "perfect" foods? NO.

I don't know where you live, but if you live anywhere other than where I live I find it hard to believe that there are no local farmers with whom you could start visiting. Even where I live, while access to grassfed farm animals is difficult, I can access some wild meat. I do the best I can with what I have. I do put in a lot of effort in researching where I can get better stuff than is available locally. But I make no excuses and I find a way. Not perfect, but close judging by my health improvements.