Honey, you should lose some weight.
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Due to a new initiative at work, I had to unload all the candy I give out. It's a long story that you don't want me to rant about. Anyway, all my full-size candy bars had to go. I was giving them out left and right during the day. Last night my wife asked me to save a Snickers bar and bring it home for her.
"Honey, you don't need a Snickers bar."
Yes, I said that. Out loud. With my own mouth. At an audible volume. To her.
I am not a smart man. I am also very much in the dog-house.
Bahaha! I think you need to see a mechanic. Get that brain-mouth filter replaced.
I'm with the others, though. They have to find their own motivation to get started, and unfortunately, it's not usually their spouse, and the more you try to motivate them, the more they tune you out and ignore you.0 -
My husband's family dies young from heart and colon cancers.
My method of getting my husband to take his health seriously is unorthodox, but it works.
When he starts to slack off to much I just tell him to keep enjoying himself because the more he enjoys himself now, the sooner I'll get to enjoy his house and life insurance and find someone who does care.
Great answer, I am hoping that some visible progress on my end will also make a differnce.What I cook at home is generally low carb.
Where I run into problems is my husband's sweet tooth (ice cream? Where? Can I have some?) that the kids have inherited, compounded by the fact that the kids live with their mom part of the time and I have no idea what they're eating over there (I'm stepmom, guilty by association).
During the summer, my husband's parents keep them while we're at work, and that's a whoooooole 'nother mess.
I think the carbage is going to be banned from the house this summer. Junk food can be eaten elsewhere.
In laws and Out laws can really screw things up. You are to be commended for trying to do the best for your family in spite of the underminers. Stick to your guns and eventually it will be appreciated. 0 -
My husband is a fit, 6', 175lbs. He runs about 10-12 miles/week. He also eats all the carbs he wants. He is a natural food self-regulator.0
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I do 99% of the cooking and the grocery shopping for our household.
My husband steps on the Aria scale every so often so I can guesstimate how much protein he needs. I make sure he eats plenty and I figure out the portions and put leftovers away before the meal is served.
I make sure he gets stuff he likes (rice, pasta, potatos) every so often, but not every week.
When I found McDonalds bags in the car, I went on strike. I was not going to cook yummy healthy meals if he was going to supplement with crap. And he also removed ALL rights to complain about his weight.
Eating breakfast at home and then McDonalds 30 minutes later ...
So you treat your husband like a child basically?
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nicsflyingcircus wrote: »I do 99% of the cooking and the grocery shopping for our household.
My husband steps on the Aria scale every so often so I can guesstimate how much protein he needs. I make sure he eats plenty and I figure out the portions and put leftovers away before the meal is served.
I make sure he gets stuff he likes (rice, pasta, potatos) every so often, but not every week.
When I found McDonalds bags in the car, I went on strike. I was not going to cook yummy healthy meals if he was going to supplement with crap. And he also removed ALL rights to complain about his weight.
Eating breakfast at home and then McDonalds 30 minutes later ...
So you treat your husband like a child basically?
Nope. But I don't do two grocery shops and I don't cook two meals.
He is welcome to eat what he wants, but he's responsible for it and he doesn't get to pick both options. Eating Low Carb in Australia is way to effing $$$$$ for him to eat it and not see any results because he's supplementing with McDonalds.0 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »I do 99% of the cooking and the grocery shopping for our household.
My husband steps on the Aria scale every so often so I can guesstimate how much protein he needs. I make sure he eats plenty and I figure out the portions and put leftovers away before the meal is served.
I make sure he gets stuff he likes (rice, pasta, potatos) every so often, but not every week.
When I found McDonalds bags in the car, I went on strike. I was not going to cook yummy healthy meals if he was going to supplement with crap. And he also removed ALL rights to complain about his weight.
Eating breakfast at home and then McDonalds 30 minutes later ...
So you treat your husband like a child basically?
Nope. But I don't do two grocery shops and I don't cook two meals.
He is welcome to eat what he wants, but he's responsible for it and he doesn't get to pick both options. Eating Low Carb in Australia is way to effing $$$$$ for him to eat it and not see any results because he's supplementing with McDonalds.
Sorry if I came off snarky.
My point had more to do with portioning his food/putting away leftovers/calculating his needs for him.
I know about it, I'm the cook and shopper for a household of 6. They eat what I make for dinner, or don't eat.
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Due to a new initiative at work, I had to unload all the candy I give out. It's a long story that you don't want me to rant about. Anyway, all my full-size candy bars had to go. I was giving them out left and right during the day. Last night my wife asked me to save a Snickers bar and bring it home for her.
"Honey, you don't need a Snickers bar."
Yes, I said that. Out loud. With my own mouth. At an audible volume. To her.
I am not a smart man. I am also very much in the dog-house.
Sorry - I'm sure you're being made to suffer, but that made me laugh!0 -
Well, 4 days of lower GI flu is a great starting off point. I highly recommend .0
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Normally I'd have begged and nagged my husband to join me, but this time I'm just not going to worry about him. Dieting stresses him out and makes him miserable (to be and to be around) so I decided not to wait for him and just do my thing. We eat dinner together but we are responsible for our own breakfasts and lunches. So he's eating his usual breakfasts (which are often low-ish carb Chia/Quinoa waffles with a low carb syrup and some breakfast sausage), his lunch, when he eats it at all, is usually a protein shake. So as long as he eats with me and doesn't have a soda, he's actually in pretty good shape.
But as I said in another thread, he's watching my journey in LCHF with interest and I suspect he'll be joining in sooner rather than later.
Every person is different with what will get them to join in, but I do generally think that no one will be successful at a diet until they are ready to embrace a new way of eating.0 -
I've been thinking this same thing recently. My husband likes to spend our hard-earned money on soda and beer and chips and energy drinks and frozen convenience foods and pizza... Not only am I tired of him spending the money that we should be using to buy healthy foods for our family, I see his waistline expanding and his previously bulky muscles shrinking. I can't tell him that, but I'm hoping that he will feel the need to "step up his game" as he sees me becoming more appealing to other men. LOL I tell him that I worry about his health and that he needs to be around for a long time so he can help me raise this brood of children we created! He agrees and then runs to the store for more Coke. *sigh* We also have the added complication of his PTSD, one of the symptoms of which is a sense of a foreshortened future--so he honestly has difficulty planning for a future he doesn't think he will be around for....
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Mami, want to know a secret to get him to lose weight? Find a pair of pants or a shirt that used to fit him but he's grown out of. One morning ask him, "Why don't you ever wear that _____ shirt with the ______ pants anymore? Those make you look so sexy."
I promise... he'll start working towards getting back into those clothes. 0 -
That's the thing--he still fits everything, just not as well. Good mind trick, though!!!
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Now you've got me thinking about this... I'm planning a foraging trip through his half of the closet after work. 0
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If you're really evil, make the first meal after the time is up something full of carbs, sugar, and gluten. Just for her, because you know she's been missing _____.
This is nothing short of brilliant (because I'm evil, and I will be filing this away for use at a later date) ;-) I can think of no better way to make it abundantly clear to a "resistor" how negatively carbage affects the body...0
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