Extra Picky

One thing about the FHP household is that we tend to change eating habits on a dime. It's probably not the best way to go about things, but that's just how we roll.

After a month of me trying to incorporate more veggies, fruits, and whole grains - and less red meat - into the eating plan, my adorable boyfriend (bless his heart) decided to go on his version of a low carb diet.

What can you do, right?

I can't be MAD exactly, because we gave it a month and he didn't like anything I made, despite the fact that I'm not a terrible cook.  And he IS cutting sugar from his diet, which is what he needs to do right now. I just kind of feel like my time was a bit wasted.  I know I shouldn't feel that way since I've gotten a chance to eat things that we normally don't eat. But yeah...can't help but be a little put out.

But, you have to learn to roll with the punches and decide what works and what doesn't.  Obviously, what we were doing wasn't working for him.  In some ways, it wasn't working for me either because I felt really angry all of the time about dinner.  Like, ridiculously angry!  Anger and stress are like diet killers, so it's not good for me to feel that way.

The problem now is that he's doing his diet thing, and I can't (and won't) eat what he's eating all of the time. His version of a low carb diet doesn't include a lot of variety, or fruits and vegetables.  I need to now look up a lot of good, healthy, low carb recipes for us.  I don't want to eat a lot of red meat because I've felt better since we've kept our red meat meals down to about twice a week.  I don't want to eat a lot of fatty meat, although he will say it's necessary to eat fat. (It is, but the right kinds, you know.)  And I definitely want to keep adding more veggies into our meals because that's really really important to me.

Now if HE will go along with this.... I guess that remains to be seen.