Claire
Master Chef
One thing that worked -- astoundingly well -- for my husband and me was that I told him I wasn't going to count. I cook good food, neither are junk food junkies. He went to the dietician (alone, I might add. His doc, who was also mine at the time, wanted me to go. No. When it was cholesterol, I went to the dietician with him. When it was high blood pressure, I went to the dietician with him. Both times I knew more about nutrition, and one heck (and I'm being nice) about cooking than the dietician). This time I sent him alone and said to bring me back the info. There was nothing in it I didn't know.
I took out a 1 cup measuring cup, a 1/2, and a 1/3. Since my husband's preferances aren't often for sweets, but for eating too many starches, I just put out the cups and he useS them for serving spoons.
Within a few years, his PCP said that if he hadn't diagnosed himself, he wouldn't believe it.
That and, can't say it enough, DAILY EXERCISE!!!
I took out a 1 cup measuring cup, a 1/2, and a 1/3. Since my husband's preferances aren't often for sweets, but for eating too many starches, I just put out the cups and he useS them for serving spoons.
Within a few years, his PCP said that if he hadn't diagnosed himself, he wouldn't believe it.
That and, can't say it enough, DAILY EXERCISE!!!