Diet for husband who needs to lose weight

Many couples are suffering from situations where one partner is overweight and must definitely lose weight because the other partner simply is not attracted to that person any more. In one of our previous discussions we dealt with a case about diet and exercise for an overweight wife. This time we will respond to a query from Pamela in Clifton, New Jersey, whose husband must definitely go on a diet since he needs to lose lots of weight.

Pamela tells us that her husband has never been fond of dieting and eats whatever he likes. He has never visited a gym either. Watching television with beer and potato chips is his main activity when he comes home from work. Apparently that was OK when he was young but as they are approaching their 40s, he has started to put on weight. She continues, "Since our marriage 9 years ago, he has put on at least 65 lbs and is now approaching almost 200 lbs which for a 5'7" man is too much weight. What type of diets would you recommend so that he can lose at least some of this weight? I don't think that he will follow a diet if I tell him to, but I will simply switch to a diet for the whole household and then he will have no choice but to eat. Please help. I can't stand the sight of him in the bedroom and hate to be intimate with such a fat man."

Breakfast

• A fruit
• Freshly squeezed orange juice (please do it at home from oranges and do not add sugar at all)
• Oat meal from organic ingredients (that you can buy separately in any health food store; do not buy packaged oat meal in the supermarket) and then cooked slowly in skim milk each morning. If he likes it sweet, add a few drops of maple syrup instead of sugar

Lunch (You should pack it for him)

• A fruit
• Water
• Pick one: Stir-fry vegetables with tofu; grilled vegetable sandwich with no mayonnaise; steamed vegetable with just salt and pepper; or other dishes along these lines

Mid-afternoon snack

• A low-carb energy bar

Dinner

• Salad without dressing (you can make your own dressing with a few drops of olive oil and lemon juice)
• Steamed vegetables
• Pick one: Chicken breast, fish, seafood, or occasionally beef cooked with minimum amount of oil
• No dessert but it is acceptable to have fat-free yogurt twice a week

Finally, you might want to use an online diet to make sure that you can keep track of the progress with weight loss. Hopefully, you will start to enjoy making love to him after weight loss.

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