Advice for staying on track when eating out with others.

I've started a CICO based diet recently once it had finally hit me that I had let my weight get completely out of control. I've been at it a three weeks and have lost 15lbs so far going 419lbs down to 402lbs. While I'm glad I'm off to a good start with my weight loss I realize I have an obstacle to staying on track when my significant other visits. He's a cook and rarely likes to do additional cooking when he is not at work. He often subsides off of take out and microwave meals and tends to avoid vegetables. My diet at this point is a variety of vegetables cooked or prepped by me with lean meats, occasionally a protein shake if my daily protein intake is lower than my target.

Usually his choice in food doesn't interfere with me at all as we live with some distance between us and I only see him every other weekend or so. However, spending a weekend with him throws my entire calorie planning for the weekend out the window. Since he doesn't cook at home he doesn't have the kitchen equipment I'd need to prepare my meals at his place, and when he visits me, he wants to eat out as my town has more variety in restraunt.

I'm looking for advice on how to maintain a consistent diet with such a large hurdle. Is it down to just planning ahead and meal prepping for the weekend and planning to eat separately so that he doesnt feel guilty about eating what he wants to? Do I order a side salad hold the dressing and pick away at it while he goes to town on a sandwich?

Furthermore, while the pandemic has limited how often my friends and I eat out, I run into a simmilar issue. I don't want to make others self conscious of what they eat by how I eat and I'd rather not have to explain my diet Everytime I do get invited to grab some take out or something.

I recognize that I have a long journey of weight loss ahead of me. I have a firm grasp on my self control when it's just me eating alone, but I feel like I'd be more successful in the long run with a method of handling these situations for eating out with friends and loved ones without drawing more attention to it than needed.

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