To be fed up with my husband the diet bore?

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My husband has been on a diet/weight loss regime since January. He's doing well and has lost a fair amount.

However, I am so tired of the daily commentary, the list of calories in everything he (and I eat), it's become very boring and irritating.

He has a spreadsheet for everything, and made one for me too (I didn't ask him to).
He'll also tell me the calorie content of everything including what me and the kids are eating.

Twice a day he strips off all his clothes in the kitchen to use the scales, usually coinciding with me and the kids eating breakfast and dinner, and we have to take an interest in what his current weight is. It's all such a performance! Apparently he can't do it in the bathroom, due to the lighting.

I was supportive in the beginning, but now I'm just bored of it all, as we literally can't seem to discuss anything else!

AIBU? I think I am probably. But diet bores, are well, boring.....

My husband did this. In the end I told him it's great he's lost weight but I don't want any commentary on my food or dc, that I wasn't having them grow up with food issues. Told him to put a sock in it basically.

Sounds like he is trying to get you to join in his diet with him. He is being quite blunt about it too!

He needs to stop going on about it in front of the kids too. The kitchen weigh in just needs to stop

@Snowflakes1122 That's a good point. OP, do you think this is his not-subtle way of hinting that you should be doing the same thing as him?

That would bore me to tears. It is possible to be on a diet and not talk about it. Tell him to try it sometime!

Wtf!! Throw the scales out. Threaten to divorce him if this is true! Sounds very far fetched and weird!
Seriously id drop something on the scales in the kitchen like a heavy pan and break them. Then explain what he is doing is mentally damaging to you all esp his kids. Good on him for dieting but hes doing it all wrong!

Thanks for all the responses!

I will have another talk to him about it all. Particularly about the negative impact it might have on the kids.

The weighing, I could probably convince him to do in private, if I bought him a battery powered set.

A couple of PP made a good point. I think he's trying to encourage me to lose weight too, and trying to do it in a weird subtle way.

I certainly don't begrudge him losing weight, and there's no jealousy at all, it's just become quite tedious.

It will be interesting to see what happens when he reaches his target. If he continues and it starts to look like an eating disorder, then I'll have to do something.

Yes OP, I would keep an eye out for this turning into an eating disorder.

Naked, in the bathroom, after loo, after shower, before breakfast. No other way!

Please come back and update us OP. I want to hear that you've thrown those scales in the bin! 🗑