Signifigant others and weight loss

I'm curious, are your signifigant others supportive of your weight loss?  If so, how?  If not, how?

First of all... "skinny jerk"... I can't tell you how often I say this to my own or how hard I laughed when I read it. How did you get him to cook healthy with you?!?!?!!? We cook together almost every night, and the night's that it's just me cooking I do fine.  I eat a balanced meal, he eats everything in sight.  I guess the problem I have partly with changing our meals is that he really has no taste for vegetables and there are very few vegetables (relatively) that I enjoy.  Plus I have been out of work since I broke my ankle (waitressing and crutches don't mix) so he's been footing our grocery bill and I feel like he gets dibs kind of.   We are on a budget food wise too, and growing up with a father who's a gourmet chef (the source of many food issues for me :) ) has made my taste for canned and frozen vegetables very limited (think LeSeur baby peas, and those single serving broccoli and cheese things you can get frozen... that's about it).  Fresh produce just gets too expensive sometimes and  get bored really quickly eating the same thing all week.  Does he just enjoy the act of creating new dishes? Or does he really enjoy the healthy food?  What's something nutritionally sound that he likes? maybe I can baby step my boyfriend into it.

He honestly just loves to cook, which is a plus! Personally I hate spending money on groceries but its just something that has to be done. So what I do is figure out how many meals we are going to eat at home together for the next week or two find a meal for each one and make a grocery list.

We do a lot of chicken, we buy it fresh but you can also buy a huge bag of frozen chicken breast for around 12 bucks that is just as good.

We also do shrimp. If you buy the frozen UNCOOKED shrimp, it doesn't taste fishy at all, but you do have to take the time to take the skin off and everything...  We do shrimp Alfredo (it's his favorite, so I found a healthier way to cook it)There is a low fat Alfredo sauce floating around this site somewhere (its kinda bland so add some of your own spices), and there is a new type of pasts now that is high in protein so it is better for you.

We grill Tuna (the less you grill it the better it tastes, say 2 min on each side). We do beef stir fry over rice, Chicken stir fry in a corn tortilla, Asparagus is a wonderful veggie that you buy one bushel and use the entire thing for dinner so it doesn't go bad. A great if you like broccoli like me, you can get a big bag of frozen broc. (or any other frozen veggies for that matter)and it stays good FOREVER, that way you could do a meat, and a veggie for you and he can deep fry something for himself :)

We also found a pretty good recipe for pancakes that I can share with you, and I am about to try this new pancake recipe this weekend that is really high in protein which you need in the a.m.

All in all, it is better to just come right out and ask him what he likes, and find a healthy version. Plan meals together if that works for both of you (I can't keep my boyfriends attention for long enough to do that!) find a cookbook that has nutritional information, and pictures for every meal and you're golden!

I have a lot more information, and I can give you the name of a good cook book if you would like... Remember: Dining in is ALWAYS cheaper than eating out...