Do the people you live with support your healthy eating?

My kids will eat the healthy foods I fix, but they'd rather eat junk. And if they can talk me into it, they surely will.
My husband is mostly supportive--he really tries to be--but he likes to spoil me with wine and chocolate and cheddar peppers. At least he will run and spar with me to work it off.
Supportive family or not, though, I'm the one who is responsible for what I eat.

I honestly don't care if my husband is supportive or not. It's my decision to lose weight. and........ I'm going to lose weight regardless.

In our house, food is not *bad* or *unhealthy*. If someone in our house wants to eat something....then they eat it. There is no shaming. No one is made to feel bad. No one is made fun of.(only if they fart) We respect each other. There is laughter and joy around food....no guilt, no impending doom, and no one is chastised. If you don't feel like eating vegetables that day, then don't. If you want a slice of Costco Strawberry Cheesecake, then go ahead. Everyone is accountable, responsible and respected.

I realize this might sound a bit snarky. It's not meant to be. This is honestly how it is in my home. I wish you could come over for dinner sometime. It's a lot of fun.

No, and I don't expect them too. I'm a grown as man and some of my "healthy" eating habits are borderline OCD. I get really upset when I can't quantify the amount of food I'm eating via weight so it's difficult. I buy all my own food and try not to burden them with my weirdness.

Mixed. I live with my mum, and she seems to switch between telling me I'm "WAYYYY TOO THIN!" to "Oh wow, you've totally changed your body, your butt sits up in the air!"
So she's either telling me to stop because anorexia (not anorexic at all in any way, shape or form btw) or telling me I'm awesome.
It varies :bigsmile:

My mom is kind of the same way!! No one's telling me I am too thin (that would be a hoot LOL) but she does go from "I am so proud of you, your legs look amazing, you have completely changed..." to "I think this is a bit much! A little bacon would not kill you! If you can't drink chocolate milk with your breakfast then is it really worth it???"

and yes. Chocolate milk isn't that important to me, or I'd "budget" for it haha

My boyfriend is very supportive. He eats about 50% healthy and 50% junk, but he has a very physical job and plays sports so he is still in top shape and honestly needs probably 4000 calories a day just to maintain. So yeah, he's going to splurge on dessert more than me and eat huge steaks. I have steak and dessert too sometimes but rarely now since I am in losing mode, maybe work more in when I am maintaining.

I have taught myself to cook through trying to be healthier too, and my boyfriend really likes it. He loves eating healthy too and is always asking me questions now and thinking of healthy meal ideas - of course he just eats abut a double portion of what I do.

So yeah he is very supportive but I also want him to feel like he can still do his own thing, and I don't mind if he eats certain treats in front of me .We have different sweet tooths so it's ok. Mine is chocolate, and he's more of a candy/licorice person, which I hate that stuff, so I don't care if it's in my face.

I currently live alone in a different state than my family for graduate school. This has made my life a lot easier by putting me in complete control over what I keep in my apartment. I work at the university I attend, which means I get extra vacation time for the holidays. I will be spending both a week for Thanksgiving and two weeks for Christmas at my parents' house. Although both of them are very supportive of the idea of my new lifestyle, they aren't exactly the best influences for healthy eating. I'm going to have to buy my own options to eat while visiting and resist temptation around every corner. I'm already trying to bring up how I don't want extra junk food "treats" when I visit. My mom tends to be big on putting out seasonal candy dishes and making baked goods. Although I eat everything in moderation, I still want to have healthier eating days while visiting! They also are big on going out to eat. I think it's going to be particularly tough for my parents to understand that I won't be able to go out to eat as often despite being home for an infrequent visit.

I think the hardest part is that this is how I've grown up my whole life. With time, I'm sure they'll learn to adapt to my eating habits being different. They're generally incredibly supportive of me.

YEAH everyone around me is totally supportive. My co-workers, my bff guy friend, everyone!! i have no one forcing me to eat fattening food, i have people giving me compliments, my coworkers are telling me they notice the weight loss, its great!! i have no one telling me im getting to skinny and i must eat cake. its wonderful.

but i want to get down where when i lose 100 pounds where it makes a huge difference so that it really shows.

Nope. Not my parents, not ex-boyfriends, not roommates. Nobody! Lol.

Yes, I have a lot of support but no one in my household eats the way I do. I usually a cook meat of some sort and and a couple different sides for my husband and myself since he doesn't like vegetables or anything remotely healthy! I have a good friend that goes out with me when I exercise to make sure I'm safe. (I live in a questionable area) he's taken to skating beside me because he can't keep up anymore.

YEAH everyone around me is totally supportive. My co-workers, my bff guy friend, everyone!! i have no one forcing me to eat fattening food, i have people giving me compliments, my coworkers are telling me they notice the weight loss, its great!! i have no one telling me im getting to skinny and i must eat cake. its wonderful.

but i want to get down where when i lose 100 pounds where it makes a huge difference so that it really shows.

me too

No. My dad gets really offended when I refuse to eat what he's prepared for dinner and make my own healthy dinner instead. Mum is happy to see me exercising and eating well again, but I was hoping to be a good influence on them both but instead they're eating McDonalds and pizza at home, AROUND ME. *sigh*

My boyfriend however is very supportive and understanding and is also cutting down on junk food.

Many of them seem to relish in offering my cakes and sweets as soon as I walk in the door.

My Nan is the worst for this - in an hour she will offer me a cake, a biscuit tin, crisps, chocolate and icecream. Then get astrology when I decline all

I live with a bf but he travels a lot for work. I do travel a lot too though.
He fully supports me to lose weight! But he doesn't diet with me, doesn't limit food at home. He eats a lot and I cook for him a lot, including the food I don't eat myself. He supports me emotionally while eating pizza.

My parents also fully supports me, my mom even paid for my first visit to the weightloss clinic. And she doesn't eat desserts in front of me, she's so sweet, my lovely mama! She also always sends me fruit baskets to my home or office.
My dad gives me tough love but still supports me by saying "you finally lost weight and start looking good because when you were fat you looked like an elephant", lol. He always encourages me to eat healthy and to exercise, and now even offered me financial help to go o a thalassotherapy.
When I come home to my parents, they have sooooo much food at home, lst of pastries and breads, that I don't eat. But they also have plenty of veggies and fruits.

My daughter supports me 10000%. My dh, not so much. When I tried to eat healthy in times past, he grumbled and complained A LOT about the food and also sometimes sabotaged my efforts. I think he was afraid I would run off with someone else if I got thin. He had a health scare last spring and he stopped complaining about the food. He is morbidly obese. He doesn't WANT to eat healthy but I am the one doing the cooking and shopping. I try to keep heart healthy nuts in the house for us girls to snack on, but if he finds them he will eat the whole container himself (within a day or two). He does not like the idea of paying out money to go to the gym and he doesn't like it if my working out cuts into his time "with me" at home. But, as long as he has food to eat, and clean clothes to wear, he doesn't really say much.

You can cook one food for him, and diet food for yourself. Or just eat less. . That's what I do. I cook chicken, meat or fish for example, and he has it with a salad, potatoes, bread and butter. I have it only with salad, no potatoes, no bread and butter. And we all are happy.
It's me who's trying to lose weight, so I eat my food and don't push my choices to him. He doesn't have to limit himself because I need to lose weight.

My partner is 100% supportive and praises my efforts daily. He also needs to lose some weight, and is eating healthily too so that helps, but even if he wasn't he would have to eat whatever I cook for myself, as he can't cook and would go hungry otherwise, lol! I also have plenty of support from my mother-in-law and workmates.