Re: Spouse/SO and eating healthy
Having a SO that is not watching what they eat makes it a LOT harder to stay on track. I met mine about 5 years ago. I was a runner, and vegetarian, and ate very little junk, never
ate fast food, and was running 15-30 m/p/w. I was in shape, and healthy. Then I met him, and after we moved in together, the running started slipping away. Then got pregnant, and my craving for meat was unbearable, so I started eating meat. Then one day at my Dr's visit, the nurse said I had keytones in my urine, and the Dr told me to eat more calories. I told him I already ate a lot, and could not eat much more volume. He said to add more fat, and other high calorie foods to my diet. BIG MISTAKE!!!! I thought I had the green light to give in to every and all cravings. Little by little I started eating the typical american diet.... not healthy! So after a couple of month's eating like that, and training my taste buds to like that, they tell me I'm gaining too much weight! Well, I was pregnant and hungry all the time, so I figured I'd change to eating better after the baby was born. But by the time my son was born, I was used to cooking 3 course meals using a lot of butter, and mane canned and box items. After my DS was born, I continued to eat that way for about 2 1/2 years... and at the end, my blood pressure was way up, I found I had gained about 40-50 extra pounds, and couldn't even run to the end of the block!!! FINALLY I decided that I was going to start eating better again, start excercising agian, and if the SO wanted to contunue to eat like that he would have to cook for himself.
Now, I have lost about 30lbs of the weight, went back to being vegetarain, and started running again. The SO is eating the food I cook, and starting to like it. He keeps saying he wants to run with me, but when the morning comes he doesn't want to, but I have inspired him to eat better, and now he has FINALLY agree's to join a gym with me, maybe i can get him to walk on the treadmill next to me, while I run. He's also lost a lot of weight, just from eating better. Now he's even starting to tunr into my cheerleader... the other night I wanted some chocolate, and he talked me out of it! He said, you're doing so great! Don't waste it on desert! A year ago he would have said, yeah eat it, and bring me some too!!!!!
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Don't ever let someone tell you "you can't", if you believe them, you may never know what you CAN do!
I would be very content eating only rice/beans/veggies/fruit and not having any sweets in the house. I did it before i got married and could do it again. Most of the time, I can resist all the temptations we have but when I'm craving something, there is just too much around to tempt me and I get weak. {sigh}