Does anyone else have a weight loss Saboteur?

I can so relate. My husband weighs 2lbs more than he did when we met thirty-three years ago. He eats whatever he likes and never thinks twice about it. Although, he supports my weight loss goals and says he will do whatever and eat whatever I need in order to stay on my diet. He often does the same thing as your boyfriend,

Just the other morning as I was getting dressed for church, he came in and says "Breakfast is waiting for you..he had made blueberry pancakes and fried eggs along with orange juice and coffee." Only after he noticed my puzzled look, did he acknowledge--Oh, I guess I goofed up --this is probably not on your eating plan.

Truth be known, he is not trying to sabotage me.. My husband and most likely your boyfriend..wants to make me happy, and shower me with things he knows will do that. History has shown my hubby that I like pancakes and eggs for breakfast and since weight loss is not a personal struggle for him, he just doesn't readily think of calorie content when he picks out a meal.

How I handled it, I thanked him graciously for making such a nice breakfast before church and then I ate half of it and told hi, I was stuffed..then I paid a little closer attention to what I ate for lunch that day.

If you really love wine..forbidding yourself to have any will not work in the long haul. My thought is I need to change the way I live within parameters that I can live with. To completely upset my entire diet and exercise program is not going to last for the long haul and this must be a lifetime change for it to truly succeed.

But to answer your question,---yes, I have a dear saboteur in my life as well.

Hahaha I can totally relate!

My boyfriend is addicted to jelly sweets and he knows I too have a massive weakness! Regardless of how many times i ask him to hide them or try and eat them when i'm not around he will still produce bags of them in evenings! Grrrrr

Two for Tuesdays at Dominos.... great deal but not when you're trying to lose weight! Every Tuesday bofy n I will argue about this. He will order it anyway and tell me it's fine he'll have the left overs for supper the night after and or take the rest to work. This never happens!!

Alcohol also... He always has wine and beer in the kitchen and he cant drink a whole bottle on his own.....

UUUUURGH!!

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my partner also does things like that but i think he does it to test my willpower, i just ignore him now.
its things that will happen in everyday life. iv set myself a goal to lose 10lbs for my birthday its in 5 weeks but by the way things have went this week im not sure i will get to it.
but i will also be having a drink on a birthday and a meal out. but in the meantime i have switched sweets and crisps for lower calorie versions so i dont feel like im missing out, iv also cut out the drink til then as well to try and reach my first goal.

Mine did me in yesterday...be strong..

We have a biggest loser challenge at work and I keep finding sweets and snacks on my desk. They're trying to sabotage my efforts, but it ain't gonna work. In fact, just the fact that they are trying so hard to sabotage me tells me they think I'm a huge threat. That makes me feel better.

My weight loss saboteurs are my co-workers.

Same here. There isn't a day goes by but someone in work is trying to get me to eat junk.

I just tell them "No thanks, I don't want to go back to looking like you"

My boyfriend is the same way. We both have an addiction to sweets. The difference is that he can eat whatever he wants and not gain any weight. If I look at it, let alone eat it, I gain weight. When we eat, he always wants me to eat more than the portion I have on my plate so we have small disagreements about that. He is a wonderful guy and will do anything for me but still does not get it that what he is doing is sort of sabotaging what my goal is.

On the weekend he loves pancakes or waffles and will fix them so I eat a small portion of them because he is doing it to please me. Before I really decided to get my life back and lose weight, I would eat everything he does and now I am paying for it.

Good luck to everyone.

Mine is my mother. She's convinced that just because something is organic that it means it's healthy or low cal/fat. So she'll make home made ice cream and try to convince me it's fine for me to eat since the whole cream she used was organic. Or that the ginormous buns she bought for the 4th of July BBQ were okay to eat because they were whole wheat (they were also 400 calories per bun)

And she'll do stuff like ask me specifically what I'd like if we'll be coming over for a get together, like for 4th of July or something. So I'll give her specifics or tell her that I'll bring stuff I can have but she insists she'll get the right stuff, then goes and buys whatever she wants that she considers close enough. Then she tries to tell me that it doesn't matter cuz it's a holiday and it doesn't really count. Like it's okay to eat the fruit salad that's literally drowned/soaking in a sugar syrup because it's fruit and a family get together.

But like it's been said above, it's about being strong in situations like that. I've managed to resist and work through every single sabotage attempt she threw at me. And sometimes it meant digging into her fridge/pantry and creating my own meal from scratch.

But if I had given in every single time my mom, sister, husband, co-worker, friend, etc had said "but it's just this one thing", "it's a special event", "having just one won't kill you", I'd never have been able to lose what I have.

And, once I did lose weight and my family and friends saw the results, guess who they're now asking how I did it and what tips and advice I have for them. I spent most of the last two times I saw my mom talking to her about my favorite recipes and how to cook healthier meals for her and my dad cuz she's so impressed with everything I've done.

Oh my fiance is bad...he can have chocolate stashed around the house and never eat it...where as I sit and stare at it until it drives me nuts...he left After Eight chocolate BESIDE THE BED before he went out of town for a week...it's like cheese in a mouse trap. He also has a king size EatMore bar on the dresser, that I had to drop into his sock drawer so I wouldn't devour it. I know it's there, but I can't see it so I haven't eaten it yet. Chips are the worst. He'll buy a bag of chips for lunch and not eat them, but he knows they won't be leaving the house if he brings them home. He does this mostly to test me, because he thinks it's funny, but he understands that if it's in the house I'll eat it. He will cook, and ask me if I want any, if I don't it's up to me to make my own meal. He's getting better, but I'm the one that wants to cheat all the time lol

Although me and bf are both on MFP, he is exactly like you (and I suppose I am like your bf!). I can buy a bar of chocolate, chuck it in the fridge and leave it there for a week, the bf will see the chocolate and have to eat it, straight away, that goes for crisps, peanut butter, jam, honey.... the amount of times I have thought about having peanut butter on toast (before diet), gone to the cupboard and found a scrapped empty jar!! I dont try and actually sabatage him though - now we are watching our weight we dont even buy anything like that, just incase the bf's will power doesnt hold out!!