My poor husband has those crappy genetics that mandate he battle his weight his entire life.
Don't get me wrong - there's some good genetic code in there, too. I won't go into that though.
It's just sad that he has to go to the gym or hit the pavement every night to keep his waistline below a size forty, and I get to sit on the couch eating a giant bowl of Reese's Puffs cereal while watching Master Chef, and not gain a pound. (Almost.)
Just watching Master Chef has the potential to make Andrew gain weight.
Several months back, Andrew decided he needed to be at a respectable weight before we go on our annual salmon pilgrimage to the Pacific NW. He started out by watching what he ate and working out six nights a week.
I helped out by baking peanut butter chocolate chip cookies to tempt him with.
After a few weeks, he decided that his plan wasn't drastic enough, so he started to eat rice. And nothing else.
He ate rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for two solid weeks before I finally convinced him to eat a banana for breakfast, or an occasional packet of oatmeal. I honestly thought he was going to get scurvy or something.
And he wasn't even eating brown rice! He says he doesn't like it. So white rice, (empty carbs), only. And it really did work. He was burning every one of those empty calories, and then some. He dropped about twenty-five pounds in three weeks.
Finally, I got sick of cooking the rice, (broke my rice cooker lid quite a while ago, so I was doing all of this on the stove top, poor me). I did a little poking around online and found a super easy recipe for refried beans that aren't fried. Slow cooker all the way. They are delicious, have almost no fat, and they are actually pretty full of nutrients. Everything from fiber to protein to magnesium.
And believe it or not, I convinced Andrew to switch from rice to beans, and now I'm only cooking for him once a week.
Seriously nothing but beans!?! My house would explode from all the gas that my sons and hubby could produce and they'd be laughing and chest bumping as the house came down on them.
ReplyDeleteYou are one brave and generous woman for allowing that give me my Chester Puffcorn and hubby can eat whatever he wants.
You are a brave woman! I would need to move out of my house if my husband only ate beans for a week. Good lord, the whole neighborhood might need to evacuate. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like something my dad would do. Only instead of rice, he'd eat nothing but tuna or yogurt or something for weeks on end to lose weight. Crazy men.
ReplyDeleteWow! You are right - there's nothing of value in white rice! But beans, on the other hand, are a different story.
ReplyDeleteHe dropped about twenty-five pounds in three weeks.
ReplyDeleteWhat!
He's a diet genius, I would do it, if only I could convince myself to eat only rice.
25 lbs huh? Hmmm...I just may see if I can muster up the self-control to do that!
ReplyDeleteAndrew has some amazing self control. I wish I had half of that control! I still can't believe he ate only white rice for weeks on end.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the bean recipe - we've been eating a lot of beans at our house lately and I was running out of ideas.
Damn, crazy gene pool! My hubs tries to go all low-carb on me, but I can sit there with a box of Nerds on top of my vanilla ice cream (try it!) and pretty much stay the same. Broke my rice cooker lid too....and I hate making it on the stovetop!
ReplyDeleteAre we living in parallel worlds?
I want to figure out the trick to staying the same. That's how my husband is. Skin and bones. Maybe I should start eating rice only.
ReplyDeleteExcept I might die.
I believe I share the same genes your husband does - don't mock metabolism. It's a curse. Like kankles. Which, thankfully, I do not have.
ReplyDeleteYour bean recipe sounds pretty damn good. And since I've already owned up to being gassy, I'm good to go.
Yum, the bean recipe sounds good. We love beans here.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to start a pop tart diet. :)
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight... you actually encouraged your husband to eat beans? I know what happens in my house when those things are ingested. You are a brave, brave woman, Bethany.
ReplyDeleteMy wife would say that Andrew must love his family - to do what he is doing. As for me, she says that I don't because I won't starve myself...
ReplyDeleteYou sound like me and Wayne, but the opposite. He can eat everything I eat x4 and not gain an ounce. I can watch him eat and gain weight. It's a miserable thing!
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to head off the scurvy, that and rickets are making a comeback I've heard!
I always thought you were supposed to go low carb to lose weight. I don't get it...Rice??? Maybe I should try it.
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