When trying to diet, whether you have kids who don’t need to lose weight or a husband who refuses to eat what you eat, it makes it hard to diet but it is not impossible. The best situation for success is to have everyone on board for support but once you know you are going it alone, get prepared. When dieting alone, you must learn how to prepare food for the week. Cooking ahead is tough at first, especially if you are working but once you get organized it is easy. Make out two menu plans, yours and your spouses (or kids). Prepare the meals and freeze them ahead of time. Figure out what night you can order out and what nights there can be leftovers. Knowing what you will eat a head of time will cut down on the confusion and the sense of being overwhelmed. If you have a problem with eating from the ‘forbidden list’, don’t buy it. IF you must have cookies/chips//high fat items in the house to keep the peace, ask your spouse to keep them in a place that is out of sight. If dessert time is rough on you, during that time, take a break and get your hands busy; clean, take a walk, call a friend. Most of your control will be out of the home, at work. To get a leg up on the diet, master as much control outside of the home as you can. BRING your food along with you to work. If you work late, it is not a bad idea to eat before you go home. I prepare three meals a day and tote them with me in a lunch pail. It is harder to diet alone, it’s even harder to diet in a home where there may even be resistance. Ultimately it is you whom is choosing the food and eating it. You have take the sole responsibility of your diet, once you come to fully accept that, you will build momentum and perseverance which will launch you forward to success. Independent success breeds confidence!