Comments on: Diet Change and Partner Dynamics

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Dear Mark: Common Stumbling Blocks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:41:25 +0000

[...] fact is, the social aspect has the power to work both for and against us. Sure, it helps to have everyone around eating and living with the same standards, but I don’t know how many readers can really say that’s the case for them. I would [...]

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By: Nic

Nic — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:45:56 +0000

This is probably one of those issues that aren’t even brought up in nutritional counseling, but I’d imagine it is responsible for a majority of healthy diet changes failing. It is a lot easier to make a change when you have support.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:58:52 +0000

I had to be on a celiac type diet for a few months due to a reoccurring issue and I have to say I was surprised and taken aback by the support of my boyfriend. He still ate some things I could not but didn’t make a big deal about it. Since we go out to eat often (too often) it made it easier to adjust. And I have religious dietary restrictions that he also took on completely on his own – it makes me feel really great to know I have such a supportive S.O.

however, I gotta say, when it comes to straight dietary restrictions for weight loss… lets just say we have a half eaten home made cake in the fridge. Oh well, at least we’ll be plump together.

By: Huckleberry

Huckleberry — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:42:18 +0000

I have to say, it's really nice when you share similar food tastes, restrictions, choices, or values with a partner, and when they support your choices or needs. Food is such a central part of our lives. Or maybe that's just me and my obsession with delicious things. Food Is Love

By: Migraineur

Migraineur — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:52:42 +0000

I am grateful every day that my husband does not question my food choices, eats everything I put in front of him, cooks appropriate foods when it’s his turn to make family dinner, and only occasionally eats foods that I consider tempting but unhealthful in front of me.

Nancy – isn’t it amazing? When the ACCORD study was cancelled (the one that claimed to show that normal blood sugars are bad for diabetics), one of my friends simply would not believe that I knew more about diabetes from my years of dealing with it in my family, reading dozens of books and hundreds of articles over the years, than she did by reading one rather poorly reported newspaper article. Doesn’t your friend think that, you know, maybe you went to some effort to learn about cross-contamination? And even if you were wrong, what’s the big deal about putting the knife in the sink instead of the jar?

By: Naomi

Naomi — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:14:33 +0000

“I’ll never get why my knowledge of something important to me isn’t trustworthy, but read it on the net and it’s fact!”

I’ll never be able to wrap my mind around that either Nancy- It’s horrible.

By: Nancy S

Nancy S — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:56:11 +0000

When I had to alter my diet because my baby was allergic to foods I was eating, my dh was not exactly supportive. He wasn’t opposed, but he kept eating things I no longer could.

Fast forward 6 years later when we find out ds is STILL allergic to dairy and soy and is also allergic to wheat, egg, and malt. Dh was stationed in Korea for a year, so I handled all the changes myself and when he got back it took him a while to be able to remember what ds could and couldn’t eat. Now dh is really good about it, supporting ds positively when ds is down about not being able to eat all the crap everyone else eats lol, and dh will even make ds’s lunch, and fix dinners we all can eat (sometimes we all eat the same thing, sometimes ds’s portion is modified).

Support from my ILs is limited though. They don’t really seem to get that a food allergy (though not anaphylactic, he’s IgG reactive~~skin and GI issues) is serious business. Even telling MIL that it’s the same part of the immune system that causes autoimmune disorders like RA (which she has) had limited positive impact on them. So we just do our best. I think they try to accomodate just so I won’t get ticked and not show back up with the kids lol.

I myself am in the process of figuring out if I have food allergies/celiac, and if I do I’m sure it’ll be another round of educating and not a lot of support from extended family.

Oh, my very bestest friend that I’ve known since 7th grade didn’t even believe me that you can cross-contaminate the peanut butter (by using a knife on wheat bread and then sticking it back in the PB) until she read it online. I’ll never get why my knowledge of something important to me isn’t trustworthy, but read it on the net and it’s fact!