Single Advantage

[bornfree]

In losing weight, I actually find being single an incredible advantage. I don't have kids to feed, no spouse or the like. Which really reduces the nibbling I do. My married friends, who are also heavy, complain about losing weight, seem to always make horrible unhealthy food because 1) it's fast, and 2) no one likes her cooking except for this-n-that. What I have in my fridge is what I need. No snack food, no candy laying about..

Pretty cool, eh? :D

Lea
230/155/135

[valeriefarris]

Hey, Lea,
That's actually totally true! I guess the struggles we have are just different than those of married or other people. Like, how do I keep myself from buying the junk I shouldn't keep in my house! lol
Valerie

[MsWildfire]

Amen to everything you said!! Now, dating can be hard..seems it always involved dining out!!

[bornfree]

I use dates to eat pizza! ;) It's a major, major red light food for me. So red light, it should have a hazard sign on it. I can eat a whole pie, be nauseous, and still eat more. When I eat pizza with other people, I eat only two slices and then the other person takes the leftovers home.. that way I can have my pie and eat it too!! Considering the men I've gone out with and met, that's all they seem good for :rolleyes:

Lea

[GingerIsMyPuppy]

I've done WW married and then single. I much prefer doing it single.

[susant]

I have aslo done ww single and married. Both have advantages and disadvantages. If you have a partner, they can help to keep you on program and sometimes to get you off. The bottom line is we all really have to make up our minds that we controll what we eat and not anyone else. Having reached goal weight once (lost 110 pounds in one year) I think it is very important to keep things you really like around. They will always be creaping up and you have to learn to deal with
eating what you really like and what taste good to you within the limits of the program. Until you do you will never loose it and keep it off *S* graemlins/wave.gif

[Sparki]

Lea, I respect your viewpoint, but I myself would prefer to be partnered.

[HazelAMW]

The one more advantage I have being single is thatn on Sunday afternoons, I make my lunches for the week. I fix rice or a potatoe dish and steam double vegetables (frozen) and then fix a couple of burgers (lean) and chicken breasts and pork chops and then put them in the square glad boxes and freeze them for lunch.

Some weeks I make the vegetable soup and freeze that. Some days at work I don't know what my lunch is till I nuke it in the microwave. That and a salad...and I'm fixed for lunch.

One last tip...when I make the veggie soup, sometimes I have leftover meat from eating out(since the portion is so big) that I cut the meat into small pieces and put it in the soup for the day. That way I have some protein in my soup too.

Please write in with your tips..
Thanks.

[Crystalfire]

I love having all the foods that I want in the kitchen and not a bunch of things that I don't want. I don't have to worry about pleasing someone else's taste buds when I want to be OP.

Another thing that I noticed when I tried baking for my family for the holidays...I don't normally bake, but when I cook I normally measure things before I cook them so that I know exactly what I am making. When I tried to make some cookies, I kept finding myself tasting it as I made it. It is much easier when I have my premeasured portion out and I don't have to worry about counting those BLTs.

[Maimu]

I enjoy being single for many of the reasons already mentioned here. I also like the idea that as, right now, I can go down to the exercise room, plan when I'm going to have dinner, and then watch a movie with some salsa and chips without worrying about what a partner would want to do, and if their schedule would be the same, etc. I'm also going to have my crockpot going with a recipe for WW pork and black bean chili I found online, to pack up in containers to have handy. I also had a great pork and sauerkraut recipe for New Years, which I'm doing the same thing with. I don't mind eating the same thing (or similar) for lunch or dinner each day, and don't have to worry about a partner's tastes in food, whether or not they are on WW, if they get bored with leftovers, etc.

I do have to admit, however, that when I was married years ago, my ex and I were dieting together. It actually made it fun to have a partner to come up with ideas for meals, go walking together, etc. Still, it would be hard when I'd see him cheating on his diet and putting on weight, and I was responsible for the meals.

Overall, I'm glad I'm single now...and not just for the WW reasons. smile.gif

M.

[Lady_in_Boots]

Hi buddies..interesting thread...
Im a single mom of one...and I have to say that I love cooking for just her and I. She is my biggest WW fan, knows point values for so many foods, asks how much something is worth when she sees me eating..how many points Ive got left over, etc. But, that being said, I am now in a relationship that I can term as serious and of course I've been above board in telling him what Im doing. Im lucky, he's totally supportive and fortunately he's not a fussy eater and likes veggies (I just think its the bachelor coming out in him..he'll scarf anything down he doesnt have to make!). Yes, there are always compromises when cooking for more than your own self, but it is definitely fun having input on whats on the menu, and the help in the kitchen. I find having someone else around helps keep me accountable..Im more likely to go over the edge if Im the only one seeing me do it.