Background is I have put nearly 3 stone on during my perimenopause and now menopause. I have tried to diet many times, I do lots of exercise, nothing seems to work.
Ironically my partner has lost lots of weight during this same time. He is now a 30 inch waist. We have become a couple where the bloke looks great older ( silver fox!) and the woman looks a bit shit. I look like a mother in law from a crap 1950's seaside postcard.
I have started doing meal replacements lunch and breakfast with a normal dinner ( Mindful Chef) in the evening. I thought I would never do this!
He is kind of not eating much himself as I just can't make him food and not have any. But I feel he isn't taking any responsibility for his meals and keeps saying that he doesn't feel hungry. He makes no effort to think what to have at lunch time. I don't think it enters his head.
Today, he had no breakfast as he forgot. Then at lunchtime he had a bowl of my low calorie granola. He has eaten around 250 calories all day. I have had 600 calories ( I did Zumba so had to have a snack) and I am so bloody miserable with hunger.
We had a row about it because I said he would eat if I prepared it and he agreed that he would. So if I wasn't strictly dieting he would have scrambled eggs or whatever for lunch and porridge for breakfast.
I just can't go without food like he seems to be able to. I feel so hungry and miserable on 600 calories, he thinks one bowl of granola is all he needs all day. He says it's full of goodness!
I don't know what the point of this is really. I should just let him get on with eating what he wants to eat I suppose.