How to deal with Significant Other & "Support"

jaimejean478

Like how I used "Support" in quotations? I'm wondering from other users.... how do you keep yourself motivated, if your significant other is not on the same page for fitness/weight loss/healthy lifestyle as you?

When I've done well at weight loss in the past, it was when my boyfriend also had a gym membership with me and we were able to go together a couple times per week. He dropped his membership for financial reasons about a year and a half ago, and while regaining stability in the last year, he has yet to rejoin. And I gained back all 30 lbs that I had lost in the previous year. Since then his idea of "fitness" is a walk around a 1 mile loop, or a 5-10 mi leisurely bike ride. Neither are the same calorie burn for me as an hour at the gym.

When it comes to cooking, he purchases on the side of cheap, not healthy. Yesterday I had asked for chicken in the crockpot with a can of rotel, and a small red potato, and some left over asparagus for dinner. I get there, and he seems excited by the fact that he made a substitution of Italian dressing for marinade. And picked the 2 largest potatoes out of the bag, that were ginormous even for red potatoes. Then he gave me a hard time for having some candy.

I think I'd be more understanding of the food thing if it weren't for the exercise thing. When I'm around him, I have zero motivation to just change my clothes and go to the gym by myself - and it's 1/2 mile from his house.

How does everyone else deal with that sort of road block?