What is your spouses eating habits?
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What is your spouses eating habits?
| Tue, 03-09-2004 - 9:57am |
Im running into a small problem with my husband and his eating habits lately.
| Tue, 03-09-2004 - 9:57am |
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~~Linda
Edited 3/9/2004 4:25 pm ET ET by linda112491
~~Linda
He always is saying he wants to gain…. He does a little in the winter but as soon as it starts warming up that’s it…. Sometimes I wonder where he puts all of his food and cant gain….I wish I had his problem lol
Breakfast…. Usually grits…2 sausage patties…. 2 eggs…. toast.. And coffee…. Oh and a vitamin
Lunch,,,,, 2 sandwiches…..banana…orange apple or some other kind of fruit…. Chips.. 2 snack cakes…2 sodas…. Or instead of sandwiches he takes his thermos with left overs depending on what we had…
Dinner….usually Some kind of meat…. pasta or potatoes… vegetables…. This is where I have my hard time because its almost impossible to fix a dinner for him and ds and then fix something else for me…
Snack…. Whatever he can find to put in his mouth lol
All this talk about doing things together makes me want to go bike riding. I think it would be so fun to get the girls some bikes and put the baby in back and go riding together. It may be awhile since my 3 year old isn't very good at riding. We also love to hike. We used to put the girls in backpacks and go hiking. Now it is much slower but it is still good exercise. sharla
Edited 3/10/2004 1:20:24 AM ET by sharla_a
Thanks for the ideas, it has got my wheels a turnin'. ;) lol
-Tina
Having grown up in a family of overeaters, I have to diagree. I think that of course, adults choose for themselves and you cannot force your ideals upon them. Of course. But as a PARENT, you also have to make sure that your choices are in the best interest of the child(ren). I would say that whatever he eats at work or away from the house is his personal business (if you want to take that road), but that in a family, parents need to stick together when making choices that will affect their children. I would not let me spouse smoke, do drugs, or drink excessively in front of my children, and having seen the light where food is concerned, I would not want him to eat excessively in front of them either. Why model unhealthy, destructive behavior?? Children learn more from their parent's than they will ever learn from anyone else, and once a habit is learned, it is darn hard to unlearn it (I think we all know that from experience)! Until the child is an adult himself, provide a healthy model for living!!
I am not a parent yet myself, but my view comes from living in a family of overeating, sedentary people (and knowing how they led by example for my brothers and I), and from being a teacher. I see my students mimic their parents every single day, and see the behavior (such as inability to accept responsibiliy for one's own actions) mirrored in parent and child when we sit in a conference. In addition to the health concerns, imagine if your child went to school, and at lunch mimicked how your husband might scarf down those krispy kremes... not flattering I'm sure. I could go on and on about parenting responsibly, but I will stop here.
-Tina
Tom's not very tall........he's about 5'8 or so........and he does have a bit of a beer belly from his high school days and then turn-21-hit-the-bar days.....but I would say he's only about 15-20 pounds overweight.
The man described here is married, and his wife is dieting but he isn't and they have one child. Correct? He's not a bad parent just because he eats as he pleases. Yes, he has a responsibility to care for his child....and since he's the wage-earner, let's assume his paycheck is taking care of the child nicely. It brings food into the house, and with some of that food budget this wage earner is entitled to eat as he pleases IMO.
Do either of these parents smoke? Drink on occasion? Have sex on Saturday night? If yes, than by your logic they would be abusing the child by patterning behaviors inappropriate for a child to follow. Sorry, but parents are individuals too and they don't lose that individuality just because they become parents. BOTH parents have an obligation to provide for the child's needs. And beyond that, they have obligations to themselves to be themselves...whatever that is.
Yes, parents make choices which are in the best interests of the child. Does the husband bring home his paycheck and provide adequate money for the child's meals, shelter, clothes? If yes, then he's making the choices necessary for the "best interests" of the child. And beyond that, the guy has every right to his donuts without a wife nagging.
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