By Linda Hilliard - Author of the Book
E-mail Your Weight Away - Diet Dialoges for Women
It’s not easy to diet when you have a family that expects you to provide snacks on the shelf, a full refrigerator and three meals a day.
No matter what your family circumstances (live alone or feeding hoards), dieting is tough. Unless you’re ultra committed to super healthy eating for all members of your household (and more power to you!), it’s a struggle to please every eater that sits at your table while honoring your own diet commitment.
We can all voice the platitude about how everyone should eat as healthy as a dieter. Yeah - tell that to teenage boys coming home hungry from school looking for pizza rolls or bags of chips (they definitely do not want your celery sticks). And presumably your spouse will not be thrilled with a plain chicken breast and lettuce leaf every night. So - yes - everyone in the family should probably be on your diet, but good luck with that one.
So how does a dieter satisfy all the family palettes without destroying his or her own diet plan? It’s not easy but here are some suggestions:
Get your family to respect your diet effort. If you’re like me with years (dare I say decades) of dieting attempts, it’s hard to get family members to believe you when you say “This time it’s different; I’m really going to do it.” The only way to get family (and friends) to buy into your diet is to demonstrate that you can do it - one day at a time. And demonstrating your commitment equates to “DO IT! Don’t eat your spouse’s apple pie or your kid’s potato chips.”
Check my next blog for two more tips on Dieting With (or in spite of) a Hungry Family
Linda's Book is available on Amazon!
