My DH is a foodie. He reads recipe magazines, cuts out recipes, loves to cook, and is good at it. Weekends are a blitz of cooking, entertaining and leftovers. Great fun to be sure, but awful for the diet. I am the sous chef and the clean up crew. He has had bypass surgery so he can eat all day and not gain. We have three teens who eat all day without gaining as well. He is a recovered diabetic who now buys m&m's by the pound.

Anyone have some coping hints for me?

I'd be a little ticked off, too. Let him know that while you love the fact that he loves to cook, he needs to start trying more healthy recipes. Veggies, tofu, lean protein, that kind of thing. For all of your family, not just you. Remind him that he needs to learn to eat well-balanced diet and that you need to teach your kids to eat a healthy diet, also.

Yes, and I'm a bit of a foodie too.

I love it now more than ever now that I dont overindulge. I love nothing more than to spend Saturday shopping properly (like at a good deli, a good butcher, a good grocer, not a trolley round the supermarket) for a new recipe and spending the afternoong cooking. And then we have a fabulous dinner!

I dont see the problem. A small amount satisfies and a lapband is not a sentence to a life of boring food.

We dont make really fatty or unhealthy stuff, its usually great quality food. We dont make enormous amounts. Leftovers go straight in the freezer for work lunches for Doug.