Your marriage, after weight loss?

Kourtne_KK
Kourtne_KK Posts: 60 Member
in Motivation and Support
Just curious in what ways have you changed in your marriage, rather it be for the better or worse? Does your spouse compliment you more? Did it motivate your spouse? Did the accomplishment from losing weight help or hinder your marriage? please share and thanks in advance!

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  • telizad
    telizad Posts: 38 Member
    Well, I'm newly married, but being healthy is something my hubby and I are both advocates of. Now, hubby is slim with a rock solid body and in great shape. Me, not so much. I used to weigh over 300 lbs, got down to 165 few years ago, but then 50 lbs creeped back on. My husband completely supports my efforts to get healthy and its something we do together. We go for walk/run on weekends and I cook the same fat filled items I love but just in a low fat version. My husband doesn't let a day go by without showering me with compliments about my progress and that is major turn on for me.
  • TheFitHooker
    TheFitHooker Posts: 3,357 Member
    I'm not quiet at my goal yet but I've lost enough that I think I can honestly and openly share my answers with.

    What ways have I changed?: Besides my body and how I look over all, I have a lot more self confidence. I can be more intimate with him because I have learned to love myself. I did not love myself when I was bigger. In fact the moment I could start changing myself was when I said out loud that I hated myself. My self esteem has changed but I think it's still lower then it should be. What I mean is I have come a long ways and the comments I hear and compliments I Hear on a daily bases should be enough for me to know how good I look but I still have bad body image issues but it's not nearly as it was.

    My husband does compliment me nearly every day, in fact he can't keep his hands off me. No complaints from this side lol.

    No my husband has found a lot of the weight I lost. He needed to put on weight though, now he looks great but he also quit smoking which has helped with his weight gain. Just trying to get him to workout with me so he can be buff.

    It's really really helped my marriage. You can't expect your Spouse to love you if you can't love yourself. To love someone you have to first love yourself.
  • reenielovesthebeach
    reenielovesthebeach Posts: 98
    This is a change my husband and I are doing together, after almost 23 years of marriage. We both got a bit comfy with a sedentary lifestyle, heavier bodies and high blood pressure creeped up gradually on both of us. I am off my high bp medicine now. He only takes one of his, instead of two. He hopes to be off the second high bp one soon. He's down about 37 pounds and I'm down 31 pounds. We both feel better. We both feel as if we were 18 years old again, if you know what I mean and we were together at that age, so I know. :heart: :love: That's an awesome part of this!

    We have more energy now and I think we both feel more confident because we look better. All of that combined makes things awesome! I want to lose another 35 pounds or so and I think he wants to lose another 20 or so. We go to the gym together and have the same meals, which makes life a lot easier for both of us. Life is goooooooood.....

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