To not want somebody to come and eat Mcdonald in my house when I am on a diet?

[soon2befamilyof4]

I started a diet yesterday, which is the first time as I love my food and take aways too much and cave very easily. I am determined to do this properly now, not to loose weight as such (yet) but to improve my health - I am very pregnant so want to be fit and healthy anyway, regardless of weight.

So, DH asked our friend to come and help us with a few things today, which is why I am not wanting to make a big deal as he is doing us a favour. BUT he told DH that he would come and get McDonalds breakfast on the way (with me picking him up). McDonalds is at the end of our road. DH asked him not to eat it in front of me as it would really test me and he knows I would be upset if I gave in already.

So, I went and got him after the school run, and he went on about McDonalds all the way there. I said I would drop him off at McDonalds and meet him back at mine (2min walk) because I didn't want the tempatation, although he had already made me fancy it! He was very about it all but did it anyway. Next thing I know, he is at our door, with 2 Mcdonals meals, both for him and he has just sat and eaten it right in front of me. I am quite annoyed TBH. My whole house now stinks of McDonalds brekkie and I am now hungry and wanting to eat more now, which isn't the point. Have had some fruit and a shape yogurt, but was hoping to wait till DD went for a nap (about 11am) before cooking my beans on toast for brunch. Yesterday it worked fine doing that and I wasn't hungry in between, wasn't tempeted to have anything else etc but I feel a bit like he is just rubbing my nose in it a bit?

Obvioulsy he can eat what he likes, but can he not just eat in? I might as well have just taken him through the drive through.

What do you think? Am I being fussy or would it of annoyed you to?

I have to say that i do agree with dittany with regards to the diet industry - it really does tap in on women's insecurities. I did do weight watchers once, with DP - we lost two stone each in about 12 weeks. Great- but acually not great, we piled the weight back on and more once we packed it in. While we were dieting we were pretty much OCD in our attitudes towards food. The having to eat no fat during my illness was extreme and again i have piled the weight back on, and more Am now considering a diet but refuse to be sucked into any SW/WW lose weight programmes as i think the only pounds you really lose are the ones in your pocket. And have you noticed that the leaders of these programs tend to look really old and haggared - thats because i think they take their diets too far. Not everyone is meant to be a size 10!

just a turn of phrase dittany, and of course BF is very different to being pregnant - i am pretty sure though that the baby will take what it needs and it shouldnt be a risk to the baby unless the mother is undernourished. What i dont know is, that does dieting = undernourished? I would be more concerned actually about the OP doing her own body damage in trying to diet and be pregnant too. Does that make any sense - i agree with you dittany (for once ) im just looking from a different angle and possibly not explaining myself very well.

Many diet plans that are marketed as 'The Answer' do lead to malnutrition. The Atkins diet is pretty unhealthy unless followed very carefully and even then it's not great (scurvy, anyone? Kidney failure?) and LIghter Life is frankly dubious. Weight Watchers appears to be one of the least unhealthy, but it still isn;t great and encourages the same sort of submissive-obedeience-unhealthy-dependency-on-the-Group as the 12-step programmes do.

Anyway, SW does NOT say to cut out all fats, it actually encourages you to have Olive oil, you have to count it...etc...also nuts...yes, you can't go on eating nuts all day, a small amount, but you can...

Also, actually if loosing weight in pg is a good idea or bad idea, depends actually if the person is very overweight or not....a very overweight person would actually be encouraged to loose weight in pg...(before would be better, of course...)

Agree with FairLady, iirc, the advice for pg women who are overweight is not to lose weight but not to gain any either.

sw is also not about cutting out food groups or eating meal replacement crap.

Anyhoo, not getting drawn in any further as I don't particularly want to be on a one women sw promotion mission, I just wanted to add some support to Soon2be as I couldn't quite believe what a hard time she's getting on here.

Do youself a favour soon2be, hide this thread!

"By dittany on Tue 24-Feb-09 00:18:55
Slimming World is not healthy if it is discouraging people from eating a whole food group - fats."

So this is in no way implying that they are saying to cut out a food group??? This is only a few posts before you say:

"Actually what I said was that it was low fat, not cutting out fats all together so I think it's you who is twisting what I said."

I am not planning to LOOSE weight during pregnancy, I have already said that god knows how many times! I just want to improve my diet. I have already said I have adapted the diet to suit myself and pregnancy and I am using common sense with it, just using it as a guide.

Can I just say, I have just finished eating a big fry up. I have just eated 2 big slices of bacon, sausage, egg and beans - and I am stuffed. I then had a yogurt about half hour later just to take the taste away sort of thing.