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This is tricky...

robin79
robin79 Posts: 17 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
My fiancé is trying to gain weight, and I'm trying to lose weight. How the heck am I supposed to cook!?

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  • richln
    richln Posts: 809 Member
    You can both eat the same meal, just adjust portion size appropriately.
  • robin79
    robin79 Posts: 17 Member
    Good call....but still...ha!
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    edited June 2015
    No reason you can't eat the same things, just amend portion size accordingly. Add more calorie-dense items (e.g. nuts, avocado, butter, ice-cream) for your fiance if required to help get adequate calorie intake.

    Use MFP to track your intake and make sure you are both hitting your calorie and macro goals.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    richln wrote: »
    You can both eat the same meal, just adjust portion size appropriately.

    this. my husband is trying to gain while I lose... there's no drama.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    I went through this when trying to lose. I made one meal, but I took more veggies, and he got bread and butter with his, or cheese on something. He can always add a glass of milk or something. NBD...
  • GrammyPeachy
    GrammyPeachy Posts: 1,723 Member
    My husband is trying to gain while I lose as well. We mostly eat the same things, but I do have something different from him for some meals or I eat them differently, ie. dressings, added cheeses, side dishes, he drinks soda pop, or like when he eats tacos and burritos, I have a taco salad. It's not complicated.
  • yesimpson
    yesimpson Posts: 1,372 Member
    Extra portion of carbs/fatty sides for him - easy for him to get a larger amount of calories in a small volume of food, without needing to cook nearly two separate meals. At the moment my mum is dieting whilst I am eating at maintenance, but trying to support a lot of running. Tonight we are having fajitas, so it will go like this:

    Mum - 1 or 2 tortillas, plenty of the spicy Quorn & veg mix, 1 tablespoon of guacamole etc.
    Me - 3 tortillas with a reasonable amount of filling, lots of guac, a little bit of cheese.

    We do a similar thing in my house as we have 3 stocky, active boys/men living with two much shorter women with desk jobs. There's always extras (garlic bread, bread & butter, avocado, cheese, extra meat, more potatoes) to supplement them so we aren't fussing around too much at dinner time.
  • robin79
    robin79 Posts: 17 Member
    Thanks everyone! I guess that's sort of what we're doing as is. I guess it's just a test to my will power as well. If I make cornbread with a healthy turkey chili, I just have to have a sliver. I guess I should've said, it's just tricky for me!
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