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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is setting the kids up to be obese.  Eventually a bad diet catches up to you and it's best to teach good habits.  Talk to the kids,say it's not healthy.  Shoe them episodes of sesame street and other shows that say it's not healthy.

You start cooking.  Make dinner on Sundays for the entire week.  Prep a lasagna but include spinach in the sauce, sece it with salad.  Set up a casserole.  Start with starches and veggies and then move on to proteins that your wife can throw in the microwave.  Help her find a quick 30 minute meal that doesn't involve pasta that your kids will eat.  Once the kids begin to want real food they won't let her go to fast food restaurants.  [/quote]

OP here again. I spoke with my wife today and told her that she needed to clean up her eating habits. She'll drink 3 bottles of Coke throughout the day and complains that she doesn't have the time to work out with me as I am getting back to the gym. I would really like her to make small changes but so far it's going nowhere. [/quote]

You “told her”. What does she say about her eating habits? Does she agree that they could be better? Or is she fine with it? Again, is she depressed and open to therapy?[/quote]

She's not depressed. Far from it. She's happy to play with the kids and I think she hides behind needing to be with them all the time instead of actually doing household chores, preparing meals etc. When my dad and his wife visited for a few days (out-of-state), my wife didn't prepare a single meal and my dad, his wife and I had to make dinner or buy groceries instead and make plates for ourselves. She calls herself a picky eater but she isn't willing to put in the work to live a healthy lifestyle. [/quote]

I was on your side OP, but now you sound like an ass.  If your family visited why would you not be the one to shop and cook?  Plenty of people hold jobs and take care of thier guests.  And you told her to clean up her eating?  Focus on what she is feeding the kids and what you can do to help make that happen.  [/quote]

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