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My husband is 6'0 and weighs 275. He knows he's overweight, and doesn't need me to pick on him about it. As is stands right now I cook seperate meals for my son and husband, and I just eat my own healthy thing. It works because they love food I hate and vice versa.
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CAROLYNGN
4/28/06 10:18 P
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I am the cook in my house. My declaration of going cold turkey on unhealthy fatty foods was met with quite a bit of resistance. I went with Pan B. I started slowly sneaking healthy foods into every meal gradually making the meals healthier everyday. I love my husband and want him to live a long healthy life, that how I justify the sneakiness. 
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TWOTONTILLY
4/28/06 11:27 A
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| Hi, My hubby will not let me be his mother and that is how I feel when I try to get him to eat a new way,but if I just cook it and put it on the table,he'll eat it. I guess its phycosematic[sp?]I try just to be a good example cause he will get the benefit for how I look too.
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CRICKETRO
4/28/06 11:23 A
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| today my fiance told me he loved the veggies i prepared! :) hence he is actually enjoying the healthy stuff i cook
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| Don't bug him about it, this just happened to me. Me and my daughter started eating right exercising and counting everything once my husband seen the weight dropping off of us. He said to me just a week ago how do you guys count your food and now he is counting, walking, lifting, etc. Give him time and trust me he is going to want to start losing too.
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Thanx everyone for your advice and honesty. I guess I will just keep trying different healthy recipes until I find some that he will eat and enjoy. If it doesnt work then ill just have to let him come around on his own. Thanx again for the support. 
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MANDIKINNS
4/26/06 9:53 P
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I'm finding that it's very difficult to try and convince a significant other that they should join you in your weight loss efforts. My boyfriend needs to lose around 45 pounds, and his health has deteriorated over the past year. He never wanted to join me at the gym or eat what I made, but one day he just looked in the mirror and said "I need to change this." Now, we are starting to work out together and plan healthy meals. I'm loving it.
I think they really just need to have their own wake-up call on their own. There's not a lot you can do or say except to reassure them that you love them and will be their support team no matter what they decide. And who knows, once he sees how well you are doing, he may just decide to join in.
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W.ALKINGQUEEN98
4/26/06 8:05 P
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| i have the same problem because i want to lose 40 lbs and my man needs to lose also 40 lbs he too cant get motivated i feel its best to stay on track and you know once he sees how great you look hell soon follow good luck
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BUFFEDSTUFF
4/26/06 6:35 P
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| Well, he has to have the want to. Just be a good example and you never know one day he might want to eat healthier. I wish you well.
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my fiance likes what i cook and is supportive of me cooking healthy foods cause he knows he can keep his thin body like this :) sometimes he likes something frm a fast food restaurant but he orders a salad for me cause he knows i won't be eating anything else:) i've always tried to eat healthy and when he moved in he found in the fridge nothing but yogurt, fruit and veggies and he was kind of forced to accept my way of eating...
if he is supportive of you he will understand you and if you manage to cook healthy food and explain him why it's good for him (NOT for weight loss but because he will be more fit and you can still have those wild nights of passion...you get my point)
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Well I am on a diet, I had a baby 10 months ago and put on WAY too much weight. When I got home from the hospital I weighed about 215lbs. Before I got pregnant I was in the 140s. Now im down to 155lbs. I try to eat right, but he has never even tried salad and refuses to. He used to be pretty fit before I got pregnant, but now he looks pregnant. He has had a gym membership for years now and so have I and he still goes, but he only lifts weights he doesnt like cardio, thats another problem. 
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SARAH1125
4/26/06 12:05 P
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I would have to ask you first, are you on a diet and if so how long?
my boyfriend wanted to have nothing to do with eating healthy when I first started but after a while he saw that it was helping me so he now at least eats healthy meals with me all day.
If you not on a diet or you have been for a while and it's still not helping, I'm sorry I really have no other advice, but believe me I know how you feel it's a lot harder to get someone in that state of mind.
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He will not even try to eat healthy food and I am finding it difficult to stay on track when I cant get him to do the same thing. He is 6' tall and weighs about 235-240lbs, he needs to get some of that weight off, but I dont know how to get him started on the right track. SOMEONE HELP PLEASE!!!!
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