Family Members and their foods!

I have requested that we don't have junk food in our home.  I have also said I will do all the cooking of dinners for the rest of the family.    Is this a unrealistic request to keep junk food out?  How do you deal with this? I am on the LD right now, maybe it won't bother me after some time?  

I just start kicking bootie!  It's just roger and I and even with just the two of us he ends up with his crap...  Mr. Supportive he is  lol I just make him keep it in the basement where I very seldom go.  That way if he wants it, he can have it and it's not in my face. As for dinners, I work afternoons so we do our own thing all week anyways and generally end up out on the weekends. Maybe a bit of education as to what is good and not for you will help anyone that wants to help out.  I don't know your family situation so really can't address much GOOD LUCK!!! *hugs* and *support*

Oh My... I definately need to hear the advice on this topic-LOL

I have teenage kids and although I have not had my surgery yet I have started shopping healthier- lower sugar, sf foods, low fat, etc. Anyway the kids are complaining that we have nothing good in the house any more.  I try to explain I want us all to eat healthier, but like my husband , both my son and daughter are thin and very active.  Is it wrong to deny them their sweet indulgences....

I am not sure how I can continue to cook the big meals, favorite hotdishes and pastas and know I can not eat much if any of them... I have a rough road ahead... my daughter doesn't care for meats, she prefers pastas and rice dishes and I am so afraid if she continues, even though she has my husbands genes, she also has mine and may find herself with a weight problem...

Lisa, First off you need to look at what you think junk food is and what everybody in the family thinks junk food is.  You will need to compromise.  once the tool is in place sugar and high fats are off limits.  your mind also starts developing the healthy thinking.  My wife and kids have donuts, chips, ice cream in the house.  then i have my sugar free fat free fudge bars from Schwans only 60 cal.  I have my almonds and veggies.  I try to incorporate 1 healthy snack for one not so healthy for my kids.  I just keep trying to set the example for my wife. Good Luck Troy

Just tell them!  How would they like it if the shoe is on the other foot?  If they want that food then they have to have it else where.......at least for the time being to support you.  I had head issues with food and it was tough for me but one crying spell and being so emotional and I think my DH got the point and bucked up........my little girls complained for a bit then they thought it was cool to eat healthy like mommy.  Hang in there IT DOES GET BETTER

That is a tough one Lisa. James does all the cooking and makes something for me and then something different for him and Lukas. It really does not bother me much to watch other people eat things that I enjoyed before surgery. I get nervous to try things because who knows how I will react. With the Girl Scout cookies I bought all the kinds that I did not like so that I would not be tempted. Also if James wants junk food he has to buy it himself I will not pick it up for him.  Do you really think you want to do all the cooking?? I think that if you just make healthy choices at the store then anyone should be able to cook.. I also think that after surgery food will not be that appealing so it might not matter. I'm all about making the family healthier but, I don't think you can take everything away!!.  Love ya, Good luck with this one!!

Thanks everyone!  I should have been more specific in my post.  Yet, I wanted to see how others do it before I stated our plan.  We have decided no pizza, ice cream or sugared cereal in the house.  Those are the foods that are really hard for me!   As for making every dinner.  I agree that planning and buying the food so it is available is a better approach.  In fact my hubby did make the healthy meal for himself and the kids last night, but I gave him the menu.  :O)     HOWEVER, my hubby and I did not come up with a special plan for when I am on the LD!!!!  For instance, Doritoes have never been an issue for me, however, even though I am liking the liquid diet, if I have to be next to good smelling foods, it IS bothersome to me.  I do move, but it does not go unnoticed.   My almost perfect hubby came home from the grocery store last night with too much junk. food  It's stuff that I'm sure I will be fine with once I have my surgery, but on the liquid diet, it upsets me.  He is such a great hubby, and I know he did not mean to bother me, but man oh mister, he NOW knows that I can't handle that on the LD!!!\ It's a tough road to walk without wondering if I am asking too much from my family.  I know this is a better way for them to eat and if they want the junk, they know they can go out to get it and eat it!   

Well....  I have to be honest and say that I am the instigater of the junk food in my house...LOL..  Yeah.. I need a severe arse kick'n.  99% of my junk food purchases are on impulse.  Usually end up sending it out to the Mans garage for Randy to share with his buddies when then come over.. 

My situation is somewhat different from you other folks. I'm the guilty one for bringing junk food home. Yesterday at Safeway they had Easter bread on special. That's sweetened white bread with raisins, baked in a round pan so it's tall too. I cut a fairly thick slice, buttered it, ate a few bites, and insisted my son Quin eat the rest. HE REFUSED!  Now, I'm having problems with him NOT eating the junk I bring home.  What gives??? A teenager refusing carbs/sweets??  This kid is my rationale for bringing this stuff home. That's what I tell myself!  I've had chocolates that I have had to throw out because he's refused to eat it!  (Actually--I'm almost proud that my son refuses to be  a garbage can. It makes me accountable for my bad food choices. Better to chuck 'bad' food than force him (or myself) to eat it.)  I'm also the cook. I do try to prepare high-protein stuff that I can eat--but usually after one meal I'm tired of it. This is where Quin IS good--he doesn't mind eating left-overs for a week. Sometimes I wonder if this young man is really my son!  But I know he is--even though Quin was born by C-section,  I was awake and was shown him seconds after he was popped out.  I'm just not sure where he's gotten his food preferences from! Good luck, LisaJoy! You will figure things out. Even yet I'm developing dislikes for things I liked previously. It's all part of the journey. ((HUG)) **SUE**

As I have said many times before, food will always be in your life.  There is always going to be a birthday cake, donuts at work (Angie), bagels in the kitchen, Halloween and Easter candy, Christmas cookies.  This is where YOU have to change.  If it isn't a problem for others, why are they required to change.  My hubby works out for 3 hours six days a week.  He eats lots of crap but exercises it off.  I have tons of "grandma' food in the house for Koleby (his mother hates it but it is my job -- and I do make him eat dinner first!!).   YOU have to resist and set YOUR mind to not eating it.   YOU have to work the tool.   YOU have to decide what YOU are going to do.   I go grocery shopping with my hubby and we each get our own food.  I don't eat his and he doesn't eat mine.  Koleby eats what he wants.  But I don't touch the hubbys ice cream, or his cookies, or his candy bars or his candy -- in fact I bring most of it home or bake it for him.  Koleby has chips, laffy taffy, Mike and Ikes, etc.  and they are his.   So while YOU may not want it in the house, what are YOU going to do with stuff at work, or other places?   So go buy the family the stuff they like and resolve to change YOU -- not them......