What is your spouses eating habits?

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What is your spouses eating habits?
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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 9:57am
Im running into a small problem with my husband and his eating habits lately.

  Shawna-- Proud Cl for 100 Pounds or More to Go 

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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 3:54pm
Rob and I like bowling, tennis, badminton, and playing at the lake. I say playing rather than swimming because mostly it's him trying to catch and dunk me or vice versa. We play in the yard with the kids, and we play at soccer once in a while. Most of our "together" exercise comes from just playing outside.
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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 4:22pm
I'm planning on buying a basketball hoop and a basketball so that we can shoot hoops when the weather gets better. I also want to get some bikes so that we can go bike riding. Of course we need to come up with some money first. Maybe you can go for a drive to a scenic trail nearby if you have one, and go for a hike?

~~Linda


Edited 3/9/2004 4:25 pm ET ET by linda112491

~~Linda

 

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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 6:53pm
Ohhh this is a good one… Frankie is 6’0 and averages between 185-195 no fat and has a lot of muscle tone because of his work…. I know there is such a big hoopla of men saying they are pipe layers lol but he really is one… he also does concrete work and some…

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

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Tue, 03-09-2004 - 11:30pm
Ian has okay eating habits. He has a small frame at 5'9 and around 170 pounds. I kid you not, but he shrank an inch this year which puts him right at the weight cut off for the marines. THe poor guy started riding his bike to work and then gained muscle. The next weigh in he was up a pound or 2. He is doing better now, though. He eats well at home, but I know he grabs a lot of cokes and junk food at work. With as much as he exercises all he would have to do is cut out the junk and he would drop the weight. He just doesn't understand that a subway isn't healthy if you pile on the cheese, white breadand mayo. And I really miss him right now so I could go on forever about him, but I guess I will stop.

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

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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 9:31am
Thanks to everyone for their together-exercising ideas... I've always leaned more towards dance, so it's hard to think of other things... I am NOT a bike rider (have never found that fun), but tae kwan do or something might be fun. I'll definitely think about it. Otherwise, I'm thinking of getting a volleyball. My apt complex has a net up and I think that'd be fun. :)

Thanks for the ideas, it has got my wheels a turnin'. ;) lol

-Tina

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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 2:09pm
Dunno, I kinda think husbands (being adults themselves) can eat whatever they want to eat. And wives (being adults themselves) can eat whatever they want to eat. As the wife, you make good meals for your entire family, child included, but that doesn't mean the hubby has to eat only what's put before him. In life we control what we can control, and the rest takes care of itself. You can control your child's meals (at least while he's a little one at home) and you can control what you put into your own mouth. But what the man eats, or doesn't eat, is entirely his own business.
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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 3:19pm
Wow...

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

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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 3:25pm
Good post Tina =)

  Shawna-- Proud Cl for 100 Pounds or More to Go 

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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 5:10pm

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.

 
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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 7:59pm
Sorry, Tina, but I'll have to disagree with you there. By that logic, any parent posting here would automatically have been unfit to parent. I mean, if you want to consider a parent as NOT being adequate by virtue of being overweight, and since this is a board for people seriously overweight. I don't buy that for a moment.

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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