When you’re trying to lose weight, it can be difficult to avoid temptation and make healthy decisions if your partner isn’t also fully onboard with nutrition and fitness. While your partner may be supportive and encouraging of your weight-loss efforts, watching them enjoy foods such as pizza, ice cream, and hamburgers from your favorite fast-food restaurant can indirectly influence you to engage in the same eating habits.
Living with an unhealthy partner is one of the largest challenges you may have to face as you’re trying to slim down. However, you can still achieve your weight-loss goals and have a healthy relationship with your partner as long as you communicate openly about your goals. In some cases, your healthy habits might even influence your partner to become healthier as well!
Here are ways to maintain good, long-lasting health when you live with a partner who has less-than-healthy lifestyle habits.
Consult with your partner about meals
Involve your partner in the meal choice process simply by asking them what they’d like to eat for dinner. Then, instead of sticking to traditional recipes for meals such as mashed potatoes, hamburgers, and pizza, look for the same meals made with healthier ingredients. For example, add Greek yogurt to mashed potatoes instead of sour cream, and make black-bean burgers instead of traditional hamburgers made with beef. In most cases, meals made with healthier ingredients will taste more flavorful and wholesome since they usually lack additives and sugar.
