My husband is doing a great job of kicking the TV habit and getting back on track with his eating. He seems to be sticking to his plan. I am very glad because as I have said to him many times, "I don't want to be that couple!" You know what I mean, wider then they are tall, like two fat babies that got separated at birth, the one is slightly rounder in the middle, the other slightly rounder on top, bookends of obesity...
There's only room in this relationship for one fatty right now and that's me. Hopefully not for too much longer. I have good reason for being concerned about his diet habits and not just because they affect me. For those of you who don't know, my husband is an ex-fatty. He graduated high school weighing more than 320 pounds. As he says, it might have been more like 340 pounds because you stop counting at a certain point. Through diet and exercise he was able to lose 150 pounds and has maintained all but twenty pounds of it for the last ten years.
While most couples have a romantic story to tell about how they met, our story is more practical. After years of battling a weight problem I had finally lost the weight, got in shape, and had beaten the monkey on my back, or so I thought. I had lost so much weight that I had excess skin hanging from my abdominal area, my arms, and my legs. I was considering some cosmetic procedures to correct the problem. A woman I worked with had recommended that I speak to someone who had already been through the surgery. She insisted that I call a guy she knew who had not only lost weight, but also had the exact surgery I was considering. After some serious arm twisting I made the call. The rest is history.
You might say that between the two of us there is little that we don't know or understand about dieting. Having both struggled for so many years with weight issues, we are near expert on matters of eating and exercise. It is a great support for me to be married to someone who is so understanding about my weight problem. He understands all to well what I am going through and it's nice that we are able to help and motivate one another. Now while that sounds positive, there is a downside to it. When you live with a foodie you're not only battling your own eating issues, but each others too! I don't want to see him fall back into the trap that has swallowed me up. When he had this epiphany last week about his recent habits I said to him, "take a good look at me, this is your future if you don't keep the situation under control!" In short, "I don't want to be that couple!"
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." -Henry Ford
THAT COUPLE
There's only room in this relationship for one fatty right now and that's me. Hopefully not for too much longer. I have good reason for being concerned about his diet habits and not just because they affect me. For those of you who don't know, my husband is an ex-fatty. He graduated high school weighing more than 320 pounds. As he says, it might have been more like 340 pounds because you stop counting at a certain point. Through diet and exercise he was able to lose 150 pounds and has maintained all but twenty pounds of it for the last ten years.
While most couples have a romantic story to tell about how they met, our story is more practical. After years of battling a weight problem I had finally lost the weight, got in shape, and had beaten the monkey on my back, or so I thought. I had lost so much weight that I had excess skin hanging from my abdominal area, my arms, and my legs. I was considering some cosmetic procedures to correct the problem. A woman I worked with had recommended that I speak to someone who had already been through the surgery. She insisted that I call a guy she knew who had not only lost weight, but also had the exact surgery I was considering. After some serious arm twisting I made the call. The rest is history.
You might say that between the two of us there is little that we don't know or understand about dieting. Having both struggled for so many years with weight issues, we are near expert on matters of eating and exercise. It is a great support for me to be married to someone who is so understanding about my weight problem. He understands all to well what I am going through and it's nice that we are able to help and motivate one another. Now while that sounds positive, there is a downside to it. When you live with a foodie you're not only battling your own eating issues, but each others too! I don't want to see him fall back into the trap that has swallowed me up. When he had this epiphany last week about his recent habits I said to him, "take a good look at me, this is your future if you don't keep the situation under control!" In short, "I don't want to be that couple!"
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." -Henry Ford
Any recent pictures of you?
ReplyDeleteI am going to get crackin' on that! Hang in there! I need my hubby to take them and for the last few months by the time he got home from work it was dark out (which makes for terrible pics.) Now that it's staying light outside longer I hope to grab some in the next week or so.
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