Are your partners supportive?

My boyfriend of 7 years and i are both trying to lose the extra weight we put on since back in our high school days. he mainly is just working out and hoping for the best, whereas i am the one on MFP counting calories and logging workouts and checking my weight and measurements every week. I would say he is... semi-supportive? he will buy me health food and stuff and say he is proud that i continue to work out, but if i say things like "i lost another 2 lbs!" he will just kind of be like "um... ok" saying that its not anything to get excited about. Or i told him i lost a quarter inch off my waist and hips and he said my muscles were probably just tighter from having worked out. so he is half and half with the support.

I feel like I'm starting to sound like a broken record to my husband, friends, family etc. I've lost the most weight I ever have in my life and it's such a huge journey I'm on and a huge part of my life right now that it's all I want to talk about. I totally get that it's not something that's on everyones mind all the time like it is for me but I can't help it, I'm so darn excited about this new life I've created for myself!

My husband seems to like the results, but he doesn't like me spending too much time away from him at the gym... plus he's like 40 lbs overweight and isn't doing jack **** about it.... all in time, I suppose.

If she is willing to lock her food away, I think you can count her as being supportive! We can't really expect them to makeover their lives just because we decided to!

My partner is the same way. He is quite active, but he needs to eat constantly. He can't just eat a huge dinner, then be done with it, he has to snack all evening to balance his stomach capacity and his calorie needs. Even when I am snacking, I measure out one serving for me and two for him. He doesn't bring junk food in very often, but he does eat my cheese two and three servings at a time!

Sure, his eyes glaze over if I mention nutrition, and he is baffled that I get out of bed to work out. But he will pick up anything I ask at the grocery store and he has expressed admiration at my commitment to working out. He has also whined a few times when I get up on the weekend and leave him in bed with only his pillow to snuggle with.

My husband is supportive to a degree, the constant "but you're not even fat, you're perfect" comments to wear thin though when i know its not true, i DO need to shift a fair amount, my WiiMii is currently obese.

Oh and if you can find some yummy recipes that are low fat, add them in to your routine (your gf might not even notice :P). I like making mini pizza's on tortilla shells. You can customize it to make yours healthier like using ham instead of another meat because it's low calorie. And then the gf can have whatever she would like on hers

I feel like boyfriend is supportive.

He and I broke up for six weeks, after being involved long distance for two years, in part over working out and health. My anxieties about his health ramped up when we would sleep together and I would hear his breathing hiccup in his sleep, like he was struggling to breathe. Of course, this scared the living daylights out of me. It bothered me that he would eat bad things or not do anything that was for exercise. A lot of it was due to the fact my father has suffered two heart attacks, a stroke and is now living with aphasia and marked weakness on his right side... and I've watched it all happen. I'm not willing to be my mother- who of course complained about it, but never really pressed the issue while enabling and participating in the same bad behaviors herself. Of course, he never realized this until negotiations with getting back together began six weeks later and I flat out admitted his bad behaviors made me fearful for his future health.

He thinks I am gorgeous as I am, and that is well and lovely, and he does respect the fact that I want to take better care of myself- I want to move more and I want to drop some of the weight. I honestly do not desire to be under a hundred and fifty pounds. It's not a personal goal of mine. I'm okay being a bit round and plump. I'm not okay with my present weight and the health forecast for that weight though. He still wants to take me to eat Chinese [a weakness for sure] and I'm pretty okay with having that as a once a month treat when he visits. I'm okay with occasional treats- but I know the day to day needs to be good and the treats need to stay occasional. I feel myself getting obsessive and guilty of what to eat, what not to eat... but I know that I need to keep my mind healthy to and obsession is anything BUT healthy.

He's trying to eat vegetables, a long time nemesis of his, and I'm trying to find a good path with food that isn't dependent on emotions. I've succeeded in detaching myself emotionally in a lot of places, but I know I still have a long way to go. I realize that I can't get mad or resentful of him eating what he wants, because I realize that it isn't on him. He isn't responsible for my health. I am and it is a test and testament to MY willpower when I make the choice not to partake. I don't expect him to give it up and I don't think less of him for eating the cookie, I just know I can't at this time because of my calorie allowance or my fear of emotional attachment to that cookie. He works out on his treadmill and I work out by doing C25K outside. I do fee a greater sense of being more like minded than we were before, even if we're choosing what battles to fight differently.

I have read the other posts and I see that I really am lucky to have a husband so supportive of my wanting to be healthy. And he has even decided to join me. He changed my membership to a family membership at the gym so he could work out with me, we have gone repeatedly to the walking track, and now all I have to do is get him to give up the sweets and Pepsi....but I'm all for baby steps with this.

Good luck with everyone on your goals, both short term and long term! Feel free to add me, I log on daily and try to give as much support and advice as I can