DO YOU COOK FOR OTHERS WHILE ON DIET?

I cook what everyone will eat, but then I manage my portion control.


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Yes my other half has his lunch out but eats the same meal as me in the evening but only more of it and he's quite happy with that. I'm lucky he is into healthy eating.

I cook for me and my boyfriend. So I just modify how much I eat. Last night we have 'healthy chips and egg'. I made roast potatoes in oven with 1 tablespoon oil, then after 30 mins added loads tomatoes, mushrooms, and onion. Then after 15 mins added the eggs to cook in the same pot. I had 1 egg, pots, lots veg. He had 2 eggs, lots pots, veg, plus bread and butter.

I eat everything but try not to eat as much. Im sure you can do it.x

I cook healthy foods for the family and manage my portions by weighing and measuring what I eat. Part of my motivation is to make sure my son does not have the same struggles with weight that I have had since a child. I figure he can eat a healthy well balanced diet just like me!

We have a dog, she eats my son's leftovers! Her metabolism is way better than mine! haha Seriously though I adjust her doggie food intake and she is in a healthy weight range so as well with her too!

it could be an opportunity to try out new healthier things with them, a lot of basic meals can be altered to be healthier

Family dinners are extremely important to me and are one of the deciding reasons why I didn't go the gastric bypass route. I cook for everyone and everyone in the house has started eating healthier. It wasn't easy at first, but after a few weeks of tears and grumbling (from the kids), we've all settled and adjusted.

I give my children small portions of food and they are always welcome to ask for more (rarely do they do so). I usually make enough so that my husband has lunch for the next day.

Occasionally I will make the rest of the family something naughty and eat something different (these are usually nights when I have a School Council meeting or dinner plans with my BFF). For the most part though, they eat what I eat.

I do bake quite often (mostly muffins) just for them. I will occasionally have a muffin or cookie (I make them as healthy as possible) but usually not. I don't have much trouble resisting so it's o.k.

Hi! Yes I cook what I know they will eat and then I cook my own. I dont think its fair because I am changing my eating habits to dramatically change their eating habits too just because now it suits me. So I am slowly making little changes to their meals. I should point out that both my children and husband do not have weight issues but definately need to eat healthier. I want this to be a gradual and positive process. I remember how it feels to be served foods I didnt like and it didnt help.
Eventually I expect we will all eat the same healthy foods and it will become a natural habit the children grow up with, not a change that was pushed onto them. That is my goal.
As for leftovers, sometimes I will have a little - its often enough to satisfy the craving and I dont need anymore.
If they are having takeaway I might have a couple of fries and thats enough and I have my own healthy food.
Do what works for you and if you have a few bites of their leftovers, no big deal, just record it in your food diary, you might be surprised what it adds upto.
Good Luck!!

there are tons of great web sites to find great tasting healthy receipes that the whole family will eat, times before when I have been dieting I had to cook two different meals and that gets really old fast. So this time we aren't calling it a diet it's a life changing plan It's only me & my husband ( who isn't overweight) now and he has been all in to all the new things that I have been cooking. Good Luck and If your family doesn't eat leftovers, feed it to the dog DON'T clean your childrens plates!!!!

NO EATING CHILD'S LEFTOVERS!!! :happy:

lol.

I cook for my family. Sometimes I make things that are figure-friendly, and other times I make their favorites traditionally, or make food substitutions to create a lower calorie version. If not that, I make myself a separate dish.

I'm allergic to seafood but my husband and son aren't so I will make a couple of seafood dinners some nights and for other nights I make and eat what everyone else likes to eat. I just watch my portions or I'll eat something lighter before dinner and save the dinner leftovers for lunch the next day. My son makes his own plate so he eats everything he puts on it.