Is it possible to change your eating habits

So am I. Me a south indian, married to a bengali. There are a lot of similarities in the food like we have a lot of fish and rice in our meal. but when i came to live in this part of India, i had only heard of mustard oil and things like that. I was initially very hesitant to eat their food. But now I eat and enjoy it well. It is not that he doesnt like our style of preparation, but never on a daily basis. We use a lot of coconut in almost every preparations!!! I do not brood over the fact that he cannot have my type of food for over two days. I please my stomach by making small proportions of different items in my style only for me!!! Not just that, I can say about language also, I picked up bengali in no time..but he still cant speak a small sentance in malayalam. for that I get a lot of comments from my peers. He seems to be least bothered.

That can cause some headaches. I have funky eating habbits, so do what i do. Make each ones dinner or lunch seperately. A bit of extra work. My boyfriend doesn't eat what i do and visa versa and we are both south african. It is not easy to change ones eating habbits. TATA.

I believe that anyone can change their eating habit if they so wish to do so. Thankfully for myself I enjoy a wide range of ethnic foods. I am a bit fussy when it comes to meat though. I am not real fond of eating red meats much at all. I would find it extremely difficult to cook for someone, foods that I do not normally eat. It would be a huge learning curve so hats off to you! You could change your way of eating to fit your husbands or cook seperate food for yourself as well as the food he eats which would be a bit more work but doable. Otherwise, you both could sit down together and learn to compromise. It is okay to agree to disagree. No tiffs necessary. Maybe you both could agree to learn to experiment with foods from your husbands diets on some days and then foods from your own diet on other days. Perhaps learn to cook food that combines both cultures. That could be fun. What is even more fun is to learn to cook together. How did your husband eat before you married him? Did he not have to cook for himself then? I think compromise is the solution here, on both parts. May take some effort but would be good for the both of you.

I think it is very easy to change one's eating habits. But some people are not generally open towards change generally - and that just happens to reflect in their eating habits too. It is okay for you because you don't mind eating the kind of food he likes, but it could have led to a real conflict if you too had his attitude to food. A typical case where the woman compromises, because there is no other way. I just wish he understands your point, and tries to change, at least gradually.

Thank goodness, No I do not face this kind of situation with my husband. Becuase my answer would be either you eat what I serve or go hungry. He is a grown man and if he does not know how to fix himself something to eat than he deserves to be hungry. But I guess my way of seeing this came from my dad becuase he and my mom shared kitchen duties. And he always told me that he would never go hungry becuase he could cook for himself. So with that being said I often ask my teenage sons to help me in the kitchen so that they will know how to cook when they move out on thier own.

Well avani, my wife and me are different caste. We initially had this problem. But its the true love which made us easy irrespective of lots of difference in our habits. I am non vegetarian and my wife is vegetarian, now she started to take non veg. Though i never asked to change and am ready to change for her. She does for me before me changing for her! Love has no barrier..so nice to hear you both are love married!

Hi avani, My hubby has three brothers and among the four siblings my husband only does not know how to cook. In the beginning he helped me in kitchen works and could cook something but on the passage of time he become a typical husband and now he don’t even know anything , he can’t search anything in kitchen, if he do it he will end up by furious. There is not much difference in our eating habits and I can adjust and prepare the food according to his taste. Now the kids are also growing and elder starts his own likes and dislikes but younger is too small he don’t mind to eat whatever I cook. Just imagine, three of them demand for different stuffs (lol), I am trying to educate the elder one, as we have to eat everything available at home, but I knew I am pouring the water on a pot which kept as upside down. In nutshell I have to consider the eating habit of three gents at home and forget about my habits just for the sake of them.

Good for you to be so adjusting. But I like what my wife eats and cooks, in fact I don't like or enjoy the food made by any other woman. But I think both of you should adjust a little bit, "Thora Aap aur Thora Me"! Enjoy Life!

I was a vegetarian when I met my bf and slowly he kept trying to make me eat cow. Even my Mom tries to get me to eat pig or cow. I really think I'm going to stop eating land animals. Factory farms are cruel, and by eating meat in America, I am just supporting cruelty.

To an adult, it's not easy to change his eating habits. The eating habits of a person is formed in a certain background, including cultural background and family background. If he goes to another region for a short time, for instance, travelling, he may temporarily change eating habits to adapt himself to the new environment. But if he has to permanently change his eating habits, he will feel very painful and fall ill.

As far as I am concerned, I think I have not met this situation like waht you have mentioned above. For me, I think it may not be easy to change the eating habit at a moment. But with the time goes by, I think it can be changed. For we must live together and eat together, in that way, we must try our best to adapt to the life.

of course you can change the eating habit if we have an objective to achieve it so we will have more power to do , as for me i am very fat now because i am eating too much in the past few year and i am on diet plan because i want to look better so i am trying to eat less with health food and do gym , so it depends on us , believe in it we can do it.

It's a matter of will power that can be devoloped.

I experience the same.We have the same culture but there are food which he likes that I sometimes don't like to eat.I prepare food also that he doesn't like to eat.But that situation never hinders me to stop eating the food i want.What i do is , I cook for myself, as simple as that.He does the same way too.Like, if I want to eat vegetables which are raw and steamed,I prepare it all by myself and eat alone.On his side, i let him cook the food he likes.For me,it would never be a problem.

I don't have the problem you have but I am going to have to change some of my eating habits. I have to because I'm morbidly obese. I have swelling in my legs and I might be pre-diabitic. I need to eat healthier and less. I have had a weight problem all my life and it is the time to get it under control. Easier said then done!

Well it's possible to change eating habits. as we make our own habit. So it's possible to change if any body really want. Well i didn't face such a problem in my life yet and hope i will not. If i face then i tried my best to solve it.

Pretty tough situation huh! well i think you will just be encountering some major adjustments , and it wont take that long at all until you will be able to meet half or you coping with your hubby's way of eating ;)If you love him that much then it wont be that hard at all.I even think you have this cute situation right now its more of both of you sharing your lives and adjusting to each others ways ;) Enjoy mylotting my friend ;)

Good luck, if you can't change you are a looser. Changing is very difficult and for you as you have entered a change for your life, either you change or your husband changes, both of them will be difficult or eat different food stuffs. What is the big deal? I can change my food habits for about 3/4 years due to living in different places but I don't think I will be able to change my eating habit for a life time. I can't even think of it. When ever I sit before a meal I don't use to take before I always remember the foods I used to take, so there is no way of changing. One lifetime, eat well and be healthy is my policy, As a Christian, I believe that Jesus said that things that go into a man doesn't defy a man, but the things that comes out of the man, the way he talks defy him.

By the time we become aware of the fact that we need to change the way we have been eating,for our entire life, we are kind of attached to it. Everybody has their reasons for wanting to change, but once the decision has been made it may seem a little overwhelming. It may even seem like the he impossible dream. It gets a little scary considering the possibility of never enjoying the foods that have brought so much pleasure for so long. It seems to be human nature for our thoughts to start spinning out of control at the mere consideration of making a life altering change. It is completely normal to feel like we are talking ourselves out of something when we have a fear of the unknown It can also happen if we think we may failit just seems easier to never have tried than to try, and then find out that we couldn’t do it..

its really a problem i guess as you need to prepare different meals each time than to just cook for one to be shared for both of you. though we really need to understand them as we cant change them coz they already grow up with this kind of food.