Thread: How did you cope with cooking?

I have a husband and 3 children, and do 90% of the cooking - I dont pick while I eat, so am wondering if I just make the food and then make myself scarce while they eat, this might work?

I work but less hours than DH, so feel bad expecting him to come home, and cook when eh bathes and puts the small ones to bed anyway

Just wondered what everyone else had done!
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Hi Bib

Horrible isnt it!!! Basically I just have to suffer . I just tend to look upon it as a very necessary thing to do - I try to make an extra effort to make my kids healthy stuff - that way I feel virtuous because I am abstaining and ALSO pleased with myself because I am feeding them something nutritous.

My problems are the left overs - I just hold my breath and tip them STRAIGHT in the bin - so fast - as soon as they are in the bin the feeling of wanting them passes and I then feel great cos I have not given in to the temptation!!

Good luck!

Tasha

Hi BiB

I too find the leftovers are the trickiest bit. I now try really hard to cook the exact amount I think the children will eat easily and then if they are still hungry offer them extras eg yoghurt, baby bel, apples. I quite often leave them to eat alone and log on to minmins and just listen out. Then go and clear up the fall out later! After a few weeks my husband joined me on the diet so that helped me there.

I also have my own CD soup at 5pm just before I start cooking and so I am not hungry myself.

Sure you will find your own coping strategies in time.

Dizzy x

Just thought of one more, the times I don't resist at cooking time so well are when I am over tired so do all you can to stop yourself getting too tired at this time (I know not always easy!)

I work with food and have 3 kids so I'm constantly around food having to prepare it etc. I thhink the more I've been around it the easier it has got over time.

I also have a soup when the kids have their meals usually. I make sure I put it in a bowl not in a cup and that helps a lot.

I kind of taught my kids from an early age to empty their own leftovers in the bin so I wouldn't be tempted to eat them.

I gave my kids ready meals for the first couple of weeks, so that I didn't have to cope with cooking scrummy, aromatic things!

Harsh, but it worked lol!

Now I couldn't care less what anyone else is eating around me - 'being slim tastes better' etc! lol

I have to say, since I've started this, I have cooked my daughters dinner,given it to her in the kitchen and walked into the sitting room with a coffee...Cooking I dont mind, but she takes so bloody long to eat that I cant stand being there watching!!

I cook all the meals for my husband and son, dish it out then disapear upstairs. When i come back down the dishes are done and everything is away. xx

I was very lucky in that hubby insisted on doing all the cooking in the first week, then i said hang on i need to cook, and so in the 2nd week i did the cooking and found i was making them stuff i wasnt keen on lol, then making sure my soup was ready atthe same time, i was only ever tempted when making ptato wedges, but i was good and resisted lol, if i ever had a day when i felt like i might cheat hubby cooked, but he is a sweetie and im grateful for his help,

Must say that I truly admire all of you who have children to cook for. Not sure I'd have coped with CD nearly as well in that position.

I was really lucky as Mr.D, bless him, offered to have his hot meal at lunchtime while I was at work and ate salad each evening to spare me the cooking smells. A real trooper 'cos I started back in Feb and the weather was pretty cold then My big test was always Sundays when we have my Mother for dinner...........smelling those casseroles was murder for the first couple of weeks

Like isobel though it really didn't take too long before it stopped bothering me what others were eating...........NOTHING tastes as good as being slim feels

Guess the really important thing to remember is just how much you want this and how bad being overweight feels