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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would want my spouse to help me find healthy foods prepared in ways I like.

I want them to not bring in unhealthy foods that I binge on.

Keep foods I like that are healthy stocked in our home.

Offer to do physical things with me - keep me company on walks, offer to download good music onto my iPod, etc. [/quote]

Thank you for your thoughts. I definitely do all of these things. It is a little tricky as we have children, and while my DH wants to avoid carbs, we obviously aren't going to avoid all carbs for the kids. So, he'll binge on anything that is in the house, even if it is for the kids. I'm not talking about anything overtly junky, but SmartPop popcorn, granola bars, crackers, whole wheat bread, etc - anything we have at all, he will eat until it is gone. [/quote]

One thing I've noticed is that people (especially women) often lose weight after their kids go away to college.  Suddenly there is no excuse to buy chips or candy.  There isn't a reason anymore to provide a starchy side.

It's a whole lot easier to avoid temptation if you don't have it in the house to begin with.

I've been doing low carb for years and trust me it gets old toasting bagels for dh and picking up pizza for the kids when I'm trying to stay away from that stuff myself.  Carbs are everywhere and you don't even realize just how everywhere they are until you are trying to avoid them.  A bite here and a nibble there can add up very fast on a middle aged body.

At any rate, my advice is to look at the carbs he's eating.  Everything you mention that he is binging on is a carb!  His blood sugar is totally out of whack and his body is sending him signals that he's starving and needs to eat carbs NOW.

He needs to take those carbs out of his diet.  Once he does that his appetite will stop going so haywire and he'll find that he has some control over his eating.

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