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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and I are at odds about what is typical food intake for a man.

Here is a typical daily log, which seems like way too much food.

breakfast:
Two egg omelette on a bagel with tomato and onion

Lunch:
6” deli meat sub, fruit slices, baked crisps

Snack:
Two handfuls of honey roasted peanuts

Dinner
Two chicken thighs, sautéed vegetables, starch like a 1-2 cups of potatoes au gratin or Mac and cheese. 
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DH here: this quantity of food doesn’t seem crazy, but you aren’t going to lose weight that way. Is he interested in losing weight? If so, the highest leverage modifications to make here would be:  1. Drop the bagel, the two egg omelette is fine and i find that carbs early in the day sets me on a bad path, 2. Replace half of the Mac and cheese at dinner with an extra chicken thigh.  My guess is that this is someone who’d drop weight pretty quickly just by going low carb for breakfast and lunch, and would probably do well on intermittent fasting for a while. But, not gonna work unless he’s trying to lose weight.  I will push back on some of the push back in this thread, sometimes men in this situation DO need some tough love because it’s easy to be in denial about how much weight you have gained. But you need to slow your roll on the micromanaging, OP, that’s going to backfire. He has to find a method that works for him. [/quote]

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