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Although I’ve only dropped six pounds, the spouse is impressed with the progress I’m seeing on my diet.
When I joined FS in April, I didn’t tell my spouse I was even thinking about losing weight, much less signing up for a food tracker. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t want her to know as much as I didn’t want to be hyper vigilant about what I was eating. In the past, I have put myself on some strangely restrictive diets and I have followed them like a new religion. Those crazy diets have always failed if for no other reason than because the spouse wasn’t on board with eating like a monk, so eventually her resistance and my dissatisfaction with my progress converged and I stopped whatever ridiculous plan I was following.
This time I was determined to approach this whole weight loss thing from a different angle. Rather than put myself on some bizarre plan, I have been trying to use the foods I already eat in different configurations so that the fact that I am on a “diet” is barely noticeable. If I hadn’t had that meltdown on June 1 and started talking about my diet, the spouse would not have even noticed that there was anything different about the way I was eating.
She did, however, notice the change in my appearance. She says it looks like I have dropped 10-15 pounds.
The spouse saw no discernable change in the way I shop for groceries or in the way that I am eating. I know that I am making some different recipe choices. Although I am still eating fast food, take out and snacks, I know I am making different choices that are more conscious of my diet and I am eating fewer snacks at a sitting. Although I still drink, I am having fewer beers in a sitting. Many of these new habits were in development before I started tracking my food, but now that I am tracking and seeing how my progress is impacted by the choices I make, I am continuing to make adjustments whether the spouse is aware of them or not.
The spouse is so impressed with my progress that she is getting on board. Beans are my new staple, but the spouse is not such a fan of them. Still, she’s participating more in the development of the weekly grocery list and finding recipes on the Internet for vegetable – and even bean – dishes that she thinks she might like to eat. I’m going to make falafel this week for the first time because the spouse thinks she might enjoy it. I found a new stir fry sauce recipe that the spouse, who has insisted for years that she hates stir fry, really enjoyed. She has been begging me to keep sautéed eggplant on hand. I started making it to use in paninis, but she wants to build an antipasto meal around it.
My spouse doesn’t have the temperament to do anything as tedious as tracking food on a website, but I think she likes the idea of losing weight without thinking about dieting all the time. If she is on board with making slow and steady changes to encourage slow and steady weight loss, that can only be good news for the both of us.
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2428 kcal
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Fedt: 116,32g | Prot.: 77,04g | Kulhyd.: 202,79g.
Morgenmad: All Fruit - Blueberry, 100% Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, bread, coffee, half and half, sugar. Frokost: Broccoli Mushroom Stir Fry, Orange Spicy Stir Fry Sauce. Aftensmad: Roasted Red Peppers, olives, hot sopressata dry sausage, mozzarella, eggplant. Snacks/Andet: Peanut Butter Cups (Miniatures), Sour Cream & Onion Potato Chips, Traditional Lager. mere..
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