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I am just starting my journey. I am on the pre-op diet now. Probably won't have surgery until this summer do to schedule conflicts. My problem is I live with someone who is not a big fan of diets (and would benefit from a bypass himself). Any helpful tips out there to follow my diet and still provide him with meals he won't whine about, without having to cook two seperate meals every time? He's willing to eat healthy but doesn't want to eat "diet food".
One of the things my boyfriend really likes that i fix is chicken breast tenderloins baked in hot sauce. It's like buffalo wings but healthy.
Add some celery sticks with light ranch and a small baked potato or some garlic roasted asparagus and its a healthier version of what you would order at a place like applebees. :)
ultimately...this surgery is about you. I too struggle with trying to please everyone....but here is the thing....you are doing this to better yourself obviously because it's something that needs to be done. If this person you are living with can't be on board with your healthy meals....you may have to tell him he will have to find his own dinner.
The truth is if you are trying to diet and having to cook the fattening stuff too, it's only going to make the process harder on you. And it's hard enough to make good choices without dangling the bad ones in your own face and taunting yourself.
Best of luck to you. you can do it! :) And i'm still pre op but from all the post op stuff people talk about on here, I can assure you it will be worth it. I have to keep telling myself that too.
I never say diet, I always say we are eating to live. And by changing our style of eating, like no fried foods (tho he still eats french fries out), and cutting out fatty types of meat (mostly red) he has lost weight even eating all my leftovers!
I think it's all in their head some what, just like us having to deal with head games. Just start preparing more healthy meals that taste good of course and see what happens.
Good luck!