People who are married and have lost weight...

My wife says she really appreciates the weight loss I've had... Makes things a bit easier... She appreciates the fact that I'm actually doing more and can do more now...

I am curious, of you ladies ( and gents!) who have lost say, 50 lbs or more, how did it affect your marriage/relationship? I know my husband loves me either way, but I am curious. Examples of what I am curious about: struggles with eating habit changes at home, struggles with new body making you feel like a different person, etc.

My husband is used to me losing weight! I was around 147lbs and a UK size 10/12 (us 6/8) when we met, then i put on weight when I did my teacher training, lost around 42lbs for our wedding, got pregnant straight after, lost the baby weight, got pregnant again, and I've now lost 51lbs after baby no. 2 and can wear clothes I wore when I met him nearly 10 years ago!

I think my love of exercise has encouraged him to think more about exercise, but we've always been healthy. He occasionally gets a pizza or something and I just don't have any. Having young children makes us very aware of what we cook anyway as we want them to grow up with healthy eating habits.

I don't think anything has changed to be honest. He's always loved me and always thought I was gorgeous.

I would say it has improved for the better as we both try to improve ourselves. I love how attractive he finds me now and love when he compliments my efforts and accomplishements. Our sex life has improved tremendously as well!! A lot of times one person in a relationship drastically changing their lfiestyle helps bring the other person on board too to be healthy with you and better themelves as well.

I have lost 54 pounds and am aiming to lose 37 more.

I have a fantastic husband. We have been together since he was 15 and I was 17. He loved me then, at about 160 pounds, and he has, to my amazement, loved me when I was nearly 300 pounds. He tells me that he likes me when I am at a lower weight only because my self-esteem is so much better...in other words, he is more likely to see more of me when there is less of me to see. He has been very supportive in my weightloss as he knows that it makes me happy and I have become more energetic to keep up with our kiddo better, which makes all of us happier. My hubby even jokes, or at least I think/hope he's joking, that he will be upset if I get "too skinny".

My husband is pretty supportive, so it seems like same old. I was 19 and very fit when we met, so I think he is secretly looking forward to me getting that body back.

I've lost 26 pounds since February and my wife says I am a lot easier to hug!

I've only lost about 32 lbs, but I don't think I actually logged my highest weight, so I may be near the 50lb club. My husband is extreamly supportive of me loosing weight. He's always made it a point to tell me that he didn't mind that I had gained the weight - what he DID mind is how much it affected how I viewed myself. I was deperessed. Unmotivated. And not willing to truely do productive things to change my life. I was a a**hole to myself and my body for a good couple years.

I don't like being really heavy. I don't mind a little chunk and curves here and there - but I look and feel so much better when I'm in the category of "slightly heavy" as opposed to morbidly obese.

I love my husband fat, thin, young, or old. So his weight has never been a factor... It's on my side of the equation. I think it has helped our relationship that I made the decision to get healthy. Who wants a dumpy, chunky, frumpy wife that hates how she looks? NO GUY EVER.

It really didn't change my marriage much.... Seems we are more close now..... He married me when I was a size 18 and I'm a 4 now.... Things are GREAT though.....

My husband is so supportive. I couldn't have done this without him. Together, we've lost almost 150 pounds, each about 75ish pounds. I'm so proud of him! He first started doing this with me to help me because he knew how unhappy I was with my weight. We're so much more active, it's really helped our marriage, I think. Now, instead of playing on the computer or watching TV, we take a nightly walk and that's our time to catch up over the day and to talk about things that need to. We're more active, happy, and healthier. Sure, there's struggles. He doesn't understand why I'm so hard on myself when I don't lose the weight I want to (he's much more chill about that), but he's a man. :P And doesn't understand the frustration that is women's clothing! He's got it easy in comparison!

But it's been the best decision we ever made, and one I couldn't have done without him!

As far as the calorie counting... I dunno. I'm that person. That unashamed person that no matter who I am with or where I am at, my phone's out and the words, "I wonder how expensive /that/ is!" Everyone who's a part of my life knows and understands. /Especially/ my husband. So, be you, do what you gotta do! He'll still love you and will congratulate you on your perseverance!

I was (note the was) married and immediately after (upon return from the honeymoon) I decided to lose weight. I lost 45lbs (went from 195 to 150 at 5'10) and my husband was none too pleased about it.

He was not supportive at all, wouldn't watch me play team sports, wouldn't watch the kids so I could run, guilted me anytime I took a minute for myself to exercise, lambasted me when I asked him to occupy the kids for 30 minutes so I could work out and told me I was selfish and an absentee mother (for taking 30 minutes out of a day to work out, when I was a stay at home mom 24/7)

Needless to say, I dropped 45lbs and then dropped him too.

Needless to say, I dropped 45lbs and then dropped him too.

Good for you! I hope everything has worked out well.

My husband is supportive, but not participative. He eats what I cook and I try not to let him cook! :laugh:

I have yo-yoed the 9 years we have been together, so I think he is reluctant to make such a big deal out of it in case I get big again. He, of course, loves me at any weight, but I know he likes the new healthier me. I have overheard him brag about me and have had people/strangers come up to me to say something because he was talking about me to them.

I don't think he really likes that I take time away from home to go to the gym (even though I'm with our kids all day - at work - and I need some time away), but he doesn't make a huge deal about it. The most recent thing is when I started a free weights lifting program. He said, "I'm sure there are lots of guys there who would like to spot you." I think he knows that a woman in a weight room will turn some heads, even though the last thing I'm there to do is socialize. Yes, I've invited and encouraged him to come with me, but he doesn't want to.

Overall, my health benefits my entire family and my marriage, even though there were some lifestyle changes that we have had to made. He likes his hotter wife!!

We have been together since I was fifteen. At that time, I thought I was big. But looking back I was relatively thin! Haha! Oh the teenage mind!
He wholeheartedly supports me, but does worry about my obsession to lose weight.
I'm currently pregnant, so trying not to focus so much on weight loss, but instead on being healthy.

When I lost six kgs earlier this year, he was so excited, right along with me!

He's a qualified (and very talented) chef, and is hugely into nutrition. For him, he's little, anyway, but he really cares about health. So he creates lovely healthy meals that taste completely amazing.

He also gives me a kick up the bum when I don't eat enough, or when I go a little nuts on junk food. He's a really good support person, really!

We're doing it together! No better support than getting fit with the one you promised to love honor and support forever....