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    Help me with my husband

    Hi guys,
    I finally got my husband to do low carb with me. I thought it would be easier for me, and in some ways it is (not eating junk in front of me, ect.) but some ways it's getting hard. There's so many things that he doesn't like. I hate to complain cause at least he cut out junk. But for a man his weight loss is quite slow and we are getting quite frustrated as to what to do. When he doesn't lose fast enough he tries to lower his calories. no matter how many times I tell him not to. Yesterday his calories were only 1000 and his carbs was 10. He just kept saying he wasn't hungry. He went 6 hours without eating. I tell him he needs to eat at least an egg or something every few hours. He doesn't like allot of veggies. He like tomatos, bell peppers and lettuce. The other day we had speghetti sauce and he weighed 1/2 pound more. Now he refuses to eat tomatos
    The only artificial sweetener he has is in jello. He's addicted to jello. When I told him we should take away the jello he started to panic. He asked what I planned to replace it with. I didn't really know since he doesn't like cream cheese or whipping cream or anything. Anyway, I'm sorry I'm rambling. It's so easy with me. If something's not working I can treak it. Not so much with him. I don't want to make it hard on him but I don't want him to give up if he's not losing as fast as he thinks he should.He started about a month ago and has averaged about 3 pounds a week.
    But he weighs everyday (something else he won't change) and the scale is showing a very slow loss day by day.
    He needs to lose about 70 pounds. Anyway, I'm not really sure what I want from you guys. I'm just rambling I guess
    My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
    ~Orson Welles




    Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember,
    That even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see.
    ------------------------------------------------------------

    "Eating like most people won't, so I can look like most people don't."
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    Re: Help me with my husband

    Does he exercise? How long has he been on atkins? Is he on induction. My dh is doing it also but he has dropped 13 pounds. It is hard for me because he wants a large variety of food and I am not a low carb chef. I tend to be ok eating the same types of meals week after week but I find myself searching for new ways to low carb cook for him. Which is good in the long run but, a lot of stress.

    Really men will drop quick if they do this plus exercise because they have more muscle mas than us they drop burn more calories in the same amount of time.

    How many jello's does he eat a day? If he gets off them for a couple of days completely his craving will probably expire. If I eat anything sweet (even if it is splenda sweet) my cravings for sweets come back. and He may not feel hungry. But he does need to eat. Maybe you could try tempting him. I like to take a roast and cook it up. Then put it into the food processor with mayo, onion etc. process it up and eat that straight out of the fridge or on revolution rolls. Keep that on hand (you can do the same with chicken but it tastes better to me with roast) And you may have to sneak some more veggies into him (men can be so infantile) just joking guys...

    I made stuffed chicken breasts the other day food processed mushrooms, fried in butter added cream cheese, blue cheese and then parmasean to bind. stuffed the chicken with it and then poured some over the top and baked it was yummy.

    Steak with a mushroom onion cream sauce on top.

    Omelletes with veggies?

    Look at the side dish recipies and see if you can prepare any of these to keep in the fridge for snacks. Maybe the macaroni salad subsitute..

    Also trick him into more calories: Fry more things. Add melted butter of top of all your meats. Add more mayo to salads, eggsalad, tuna whatever. Try avacado for some of your veggie. hmmmmm what else?
    meli
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    1-30-09 CW 190 17lbs gone in month one!!!
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    • #3
      Re: Help me with my husband

      Susan, my hubby is in kind of the same boat. He eats daily a large greek salad split into 3 servings, whatever I make for breakfast and a steak for dinner. He will snack on pork rinds and cheddar cheese. I am having trouble convincing him he needs more protien. When I have foods preparewd he will eat some of them as well. Trying to get him to change things up a bit has proven to be hard, especially since I work afternoon shift.

      Not sure what to suggest for you. Mine also weighs daily and is losinfg only about a pound a week but at least he is losing. He needs to lose 100lbs to get healthy again, Dr's orders.

      I wish you the best of luck sorting this out. BTW rambling/venting is good.
      velcrocat aka Ladyjean aka Lana has returned to the fold. Female/55
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      July 1, 2008 return date, weighty problem=210/171.9/160,
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        Re: Help me with my husband

        Thanks, Mel, My husband is just the oppisite. He doesn't really like fancy recipes. And he really hates when I try to sneak veggies in a dish
        I remember a cookbook a while back that's written for kids. It tells how to sneak veggies in to recipes for you kids but they can't tell they're in there. I need to see if I can find that book.
        He doesn't exercise much right now. Except at work. He walks quite a bit.
        He's quite lazy by nature
        You know, he started out eating just one (1/2 cup serving) after lunch. Now he eats 2 or 3 a day. And he won't give them up. He doesn't really have sweet cravings (like I do, constantly) so I don't think the jello bothers him that way.

        Velcrocat,
        I'm still trying to convince hubby he needs more fat. Protein he's ok with
        It's funny, a couple weeks ago I made him shrimp alfredo. It was loaded with cream cheese, creem and cheese. The next morning he said he owed me an apology. He said he couldn't posibly think he could lose weight after eating that yummy meal. He was down almost 2 pounds
        I. on the other hand, had a veggie salad (I don't like shrimp) and was up half a pound
        So after that he's a little more willing to trust me
        My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
        ~Orson Welles




        Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember,
        That even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see.
        ------------------------------------------------------------

        "Eating like most people won't, so I can look like most people don't."

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          Re: Help me with my husband

          It looks as if you are doing as much as you can to encourage him Has he read the book? If not maybe doing that would help convince him as to why it works and allow his mindset about calories to change?
          Wondering how to get 'most' of your net carbs from your induction veggies?
          Take a look at the thread from the latest Veggie Challenge to see how others manage it!



          Check out our Low Carb Recipes website and add to it!!





          F/60 yrs/5ft 5.5" (Though due to collapsing vertebrae I am now only 5'3" - but I refuse to recalculate my BMI )

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            Re: Help me with my husband

            1000 cals a day is far far too low for a male, and I'd imagine the reason he's not losing is because his body is in starvation mode. As melimeli mentioned, upping the fat is a good way to do this.

            Is he past induction? Moving up the rungs in OWL might help as well.
            Jen, 39, F
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            • #7
              Re: Help me with my husband

              Originally posted by Elizellen View Post
              It looks as if you are doing as much as you can to encourage him Has he read the book? If not maybe doing that would help convince him as to why it works and allow his mindset about calories to change?
              He hates to read I'm going to try to get him to come to this forum this weekend. Lots of good info here wrapped in a nutshell.
              My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
              ~Orson Welles




              Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember,
              That even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see.
              ------------------------------------------------------------

              "Eating like most people won't, so I can look like most people don't."

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              • #8
                Re: Help me with my husband

                For him, the calorie count is much too low. He will probably lose faster if he increases it. Also, is he getting enough water? Also, is he on any medications that may cause problems with weight loss?
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                  Re: Help me with my husband

                  Originally posted by sadie147 View Post
                  1000 cals a day is far far too low for a male, and I'd imagine the reason he's not losing is because his body is in starvation mode. As melimeli mentioned, upping the fat is a good way to do this.

                  Is he past induction? Moving up the rungs in OWL might help as well.
                  Yes I told him that. That's why I was trying to get him to eat after a few hours but he kept saying he wasn't hungry. I think I'm going to have to get creative to up his calories at mealtime. I sneak in fat where I can. I'm thinking he's probally going to have to stay on induction. He won't eat many veggies as it is. He likes very few things on the list of owl. Fruit he likes....Strawberries, melons. I told him this summer we could have fresh strawberries and his eyes lit up
                  He could pretty much live on meat and eggs. I feed him allot of eggs. Eggs are a good source of everything.
                  My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
                  ~Orson Welles




                  Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember,
                  That even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see.
                  ------------------------------------------------------------

                  "Eating like most people won't, so I can look like most people don't."

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