I'm sorry that your husband has decided that a healthy lifestyle isn't for him. Worse, it sounds like your children are now not supported to eat Paleo either. I am a single parent and my child eats Primally. Her health and behaviour have improved immensely. The only regret I have is not caring about my health sooner because that would have also ensured better health for her.

I don't have any great advice for how to deal with your family. In my house Paleo is non negotiable. It would be a deal breaker for me if anyone sabotaged my efforts. However, I am comfortable serving rice or potatoes to visitors and it wouldn't bother me if they were on the table regularly. Junk food in the house all the time-not an option.

However, it is totally in your power to choose to eat Paleo yourself. It will be harder than what I deal with, but it's still a choice. Even if your children don't join you they will learn and be influenced by the example you are setting. When they are grown up and start getting fat and sick they will know what to do to change it instead of having to figure it all out on their own, which took me until the age of 40 unfortunately.

I was transitioning my kids and my husband decided that was no longer something he would support. We have a house full of junk food again. I am so sad and frustrated that things are happening this way.

Have you talked to him about these things? This seems like a dramatic reversal to just be an arbitrary thing, especially after a year. I can't help but think that there's something else going on. If nothing else, it would probably be worth talking to him about how it's making you feel, and that you felt going Paleo was a good thing, so going back to junk food (especially if it's the really bad stuff like cupcakes) feels like a really bad thing.

Perhaps you guys can reach some kind of happy medium for him and the kids? Like, they can still have a roll with spaghetti squash night, or they can have gluten-free bread for some things. Even if you can't eliminate grains from their diet, not making them a staple is still an improvement, and may be a way to have everyone transition, albeit at a slower pace.

The holiday meals can already be largely Paleo-friendly, even if they're not perfect/Whole 30 level or entirely low-carb - turkey, ham, potatoes/sweet potatoes (the worst part of these is the marshmallow monstrosity, but sweet potatoes don't need to be that), vegetables, etc. The worst offenders might be the desserts, but you can compromise by making Paleo variations of your favorites, and it can be possible to make "bad" foods for others to eat and not eat it yourself.

As for support outside your house, check out Meetup.com and see if there are any Paleo groups near you, or if there's not, perhaps start your own. It helps to have other like-minded people around.

I'm definitely struggling with something similar. My boyfriend does not follow Primal/Paleo at all, so when I visit his place dinners involve a lot of pasta, rice or potatoes. And I actually had boxed sugary cereal for breakfast--I haven't had that since I was a kid! I'm going to start trying to incorporate more Primal things and skip the junk, but it's definitely tempting when it's EVERYWHERE at their house.

No kids here but my husband eats whatever. I try to stay away from processed things but he has a couple of junky things that I WILL buy for him and they are in a cabinet, out of my sight, that don't really tempt me. He eats very healthy but he's not down with the lack of grains and dairy.

Basically it's like I operate two different kitchens. This week he has chili, I have ham hock and cabbage soup. He has beer bread and I have almond flour bread. It's time consuming but I figure at least he's not eating fast food everyday.

Also I believe in not disclosing everything..like my hubs doesn't need to know the macaroons that are in the fridge are white sugar/grain free, I just say "they are sweetened with honey" and he's like "oh cool" and it's a non-issue. :happy:

My fiance has seen how this lifestyle can affect body composition. However, she still won't commit to it. We've done a few things in compromise:

1) When I am cooking, she can expect it to be primal. I respect it when she won't eat what I'm having (organ meat) and I make her something else (also primal).
2) When she cooks, I might not eat some things (rice, potatoes, carrots, etc.)
3) She now looks for cleaner meats (no hormones, organic, grass-fed) and realizes it tastes better.
4) She now incorporates some of the things I've bought to support my diet (Himalayan salt, grass fed butter, coconut oil).
5) She keeps snack foods around that she wants; I try to avoid them.

On my last point, I've found the only way I can avoid snacking on non-primal foods is to be prepared. I keep nuts, paleo stix and tuna pouches on hand. I also make sure I am the one cooking most of the time.