Husband's healthy diet...not!

Vety well done Icanhandthemback. That is a really sensible diet, one which I followed but have slipped back although I didn't cut sugar completely. Thanks for the nudge! I so wish I could eat like my husband although not quite so much. I have such a sweet tooth. Like you with M.E. exercise is a problem, although I guess yours is more so.

Petra, I really don't like the argument that the NHS is overloaded by those with an unhealthy lifestyle. Where exactly would you draw the line anyway?

We could judge and /or exclude smokers, drinkers, the overweight, those who don't exercise enough - along with 'unhealthy' eaters - but few would be left.

Health status is also influenced by heredity. Some of us are really lucky, others aren't.

Should only the 'naturally fit' be allowed to reproduce?

I'm a firm believer in 'a little of what you fancy does you good'!

After reading this thread, I thought I'd better check on my annual blood sugar results and was thrilled for the first time in years I am in the 'normal' range. I have done this by going virtually fat free, eating protein, fruit and veg with very limited complex carbs. This goes against NHS advice and Diabetes UK low carb/high fat, neither of which kept me on track. The NHS advice kept my blood sugars high, the Low Carb/High fat was so restrictive I would fall off the wagon and couldn't get my leg up to climb back up! My triglycerides are marginally up rather than the 8 times higher they were but I just can't seem to get my LDL down. I think that the only way to do that is to exercise so that is my next mountain to climb which is a bit more of a problem as I am disabled. How I wish I had better genes!

I didn't realise people were still posting.
Some folk think it sounds ok. But as Bbbface said if you divide it into one each day it seems a lot, to me anyway.
Someone asked how would my husband feel about me posting which made me feel really bad. I was just trying to get an idea if it was ok/normal to eat so much.
To those who criticised me for 'policing' his food. If I didn't love him I wouldn't care what he ate.
But I take on board that some folk think its ok and will try to ignore it..a bit. Perhaps as I have problems which limit my diet and the amount of food I can eat, I am more aware of what he eats.

Agree with Glamma and Ican. A lot of people with diabetes, high BP, high cholesterol etc are genetic, not related to life style. Some other luckier people can eat, drink, no exercise, and yet have no weight gain and in range blood tests!

The list looks fine to me, it's not over the top.

I have been a type 1 diabetic for 67 years next February.Five injections a day ,numerous finger pricks .I eat mainly what I want by adjusting my insulin dose. I have no complications. I have been lucky.
Personally I consider type 2 diabetes to be more dangerous but by careful eating can be rescinded.
I haven't been in hospital for any treatment due to my diabetes since I was 18 .

Petra, my whole family is predisposed to diabetes, even those who exercise well and have always eaten healthily. It doesn't seem to matter what sort of eater you are in this family, we all end up with it in the end. Some of us are skinny, some of us are overweight but few of us are obese.

It is really offensive to be kept being told that diabetics have no thought for the NHS. In fact, if I ate how the NHS advises on my diabetic journey, I'd probably be on more medication and possibly even insulin. They advise that a 3rd of my plate should be complex carbs...definitely a problem for my blood sugars. It was only when I ate to the meter, I was able to see how disastrous the advice was. BTW, my blood sugars are well controlled so I am not speaking defensively because I don't control it; it just irritates the hell out of me that the moment people find out you are Type 2, you are stigmatised.
If we are going to look judgementally at people who enjoy some unhealthy sugary treats, let's also look at the people who enjoy their wine (full of sugar), alcoholic drinks, coffee and tea (caffeinated), salt, etc, etc. All of these things impact our health and can have repercussions for the NHS. What about people who don't exercise enough or maybe they play sport and get injured? All these things can be avoided and cost the NHS.

ExD
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to care for an obese diabetic. It's not pleasant. There's every probability that he will loose a limb before he dies.
I can't believe there are so many so called educated people on here who are so ignorant in regard to diabetes.
You have all been supporting the NHS these past 8 months but give no thought to the cost to the NHS due to diabetes.

Whoops!!! I really hate to say this, but it didn't seem that truly dreadful to me!! Not if his actual meals are healthy and well balanced.

Sounds a sensible ‘I wish’ list.

I also think this thread is judgemental. My mother had very high cholesterol as has every other member of my skinny family (though I’m not skinny like the rest). Nobody is diabetic. She was a vegetarian most of her life and weighed less than 6 stone when she died aged 87. I have treats every day, wine mostly, occasionally chocolate and I’m a cheese addict. I think you are just dealt a certain hand when it comes to the genes you inherit. I would hate to live my life in a state of angst regarding everything I consume,

We are not robots.

One person’s diet might be processed fine (for them) yet make another person ill.
Genetics plays a large part.

My hubby too, has a "sweet tooth" and loves biscuits/chocolate etc. We are both diabetic. He has now been persuaded to eat the dark chocolate wholemeal biscuits, and one packet last more than a week. I do all the cooking, so he gets well balanced, often vegetarian meals a (we both love vegetables). He has a sandwich for his evening meal, as our cooked meal is eaten at lunch time. I prefer something hot, such as eggs/meat/quorn with tomatoes, or just soup - no bread. He eats toast or porridge for breakfast. I think he does reasonably well and do not begrudge him a packet of KitKats every other week. Sometimes he even volunteers to do without them!

Prior to lockdown in March, I got a book out of the library which they tell me I am allowed to hang on to for a bit as they are not issuing fines at the moment! It is described as an international best seller ( I'd never heard of it) and was written by an American doctor called Michael Greger. It was published by Pan (paperback) in 2015.
It is an evidence based book called 'How Not To Die - discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease'. Detailed, but easy to read for a nonscientist like myself. I have found it illuminating - and intend to buy copies for my ACs if I can. Any of the rest of you read this, or indeed anything else on nutrition which has made you change the way you eat/feed your families?

My friends husband would never eat white bread,always wholemeal, ate fish 3 times a week ,went to the gym regularly had a heart attack 2 years ago and died at 65...she was and still is heartbroken and said all his life he was sensible and she wished he had lived a bit more as he would rarely allow himself chocolate never had biscuits in the house and had never smoked....everything in moderation is my moto.

Other way around in our home, I have a sweet tooth, a savoury tooth and any other food tooth. I also have no will power, Orlin does the cooking and tries hard to be my will power.
I switched on Escape to the Country, then realised I’d been reading this thread and not seen one house. Finally an addiction that isn’t fattening, yey.

Another 'fad' I hope dies out soon is this business of accusing others of being judgemental as soon as they express an opinion about anything. Shut up. It's so tedious.

I feel ashamed when I look at the size of my obese husband. He buys himself whatever be fancies and stuffs his face from morn to night. I cannot stop him.
We eat reasonably healthy meals, I am a size 10 - 12 and feel embarrassed by what I imagine people are saying about him. What can I do?
Like the OP's DH I have tried and better tried, now I have given up, if be's determined to kill himself I'm not going to spoil the few years we have left by nagging.

Sounds absolutely fine to me if it’s for a week. Give him a break it’s the flipping pandemic!!

Many wives and female partners obviously engage in poor diets also, just look around when walking in any town centre. Food has never been more readily available or plentiful than in the last thirty years and we the British have, like so many nations, taken advantage of that to the detriment of many peoples health.

Perhaps if much of Britains food is stuck in the back of lorries in January waiting for days on end to cross the channel we shall all be on forced diets and the health outlook for many will improve. ??

Our husband could be a bigamist

This is a depressingly judgemental thread!

Add three bottles of Scotch whiskey and it appears quite adequate.

@Suttonj My 29 year old youngest son eats no fruit or vegetables at all and he never catches anything!