It occurs to me that a lot of blokes are a bit clueless when it comes to losing weight! I know exactly why: When we girls turned 10, maybe 12 (in 1972!) we began to worry about our weight as we were culturally primed to do so.
Thus, as adults, we knew the calorific value of everything! Apart from the fact we maybe should've known the carb-load of everything instead, we knew nuts were 'good' but 'fattening'; ditto avocado. We knew 'healthy' breakfast cereals were laden with sugar, we knew the only 'good' cheese was cottage, etc.
So it is proving hard to get DH into this way of thinking. We are both on Michael Mosley's 8 week Blood Sugar Diet, but I cannot get DH to RTFB! He could easily understand the bio chemistry, but needs to get 'under the skin' of what he needs to do.
Admittedly, he's feeling like he's 'failing', a week in, as he lost 2 kg very quickly, but nothing in 3 days, which he's attributing to augmenting his salad at work which really is just lettuce, tomato and cucumber, with half a Asda bean-mix salad (? sugar content). So now he's saying he won't add anything, but I'm telling him to take some protein along, a thing he'd know if he'd read the book!
Also, 2kg in a week is pretty good going but I lost 3kg....
He currently weights 79kg but he is 5 foot 5 inches and carries it in that dangerous tyre around his middle; and I have way more to lose as I'm 5'6" and weigh 87kg.