[bryony]

An interesting Wikipedia article.

I have in the past always tended to what I now know to be a reduced carb, high fibre, low glycemic index approach to losing weight, and it worked well when living alone or working away from home, but not nearly as well when living with someone who believes that one should not change one's diet but simply use wiill power to reduce intake of all food put before one, even if carb intensive, and too plentiful. Potatoes and baked goods are more important to my wife than myself, and we both cook too large meals, but her will power is stronger than mine!

The only way to succeed is to do what I do - sadly - which is to share meals when we can, and diverge when we can't.

E.g. when she has a pasta meal, I have a really juicy peppercorn steak with a creamy mushroom sauce, a portion of peas and maybe a half a potato.

We eat salmon together, cooked in various different ways. When I was seriously losing weight, I had no pasta, grains or root vegetables at all. Now the rule of thumb is that I have no more than half the portion of carb veg than she does (apart from creamed, light fluffy mashed potatoes - my one weakness) but I will snack on low carb things like, e.g. brazil nuts, small portions of cheese, maybe a thin dried salami stick etc... anything but high carb snacks.

Eating separate meals is not a problem with modern technology.

B.