SPOUSE/PARTNER HONEST FEELINGS

He is very supportive. Even when my kids ask him why I'm gone so much he tells them I'm trying to get healthy. I, however, do wish it would motivate him a little more. He says he wants to go to the gym but never takes initiative. I just told him I'm making him go to spinning with me over lunch. He threw a fit, I said I'd be there in 15 minutes and hung up the phone:)

He's happy I'm happy!

I'm making better choices, and making changes for both of us. He's supportive of anything I do. I appreciate him being there for me, and helping me feel good about what I'm doing. If I get upset, or discouraged, he'll tell me I started doing this for health, and not weight. He tells me how ~beautiful I am, and how much he loves me through it all. He bought us Fitbits, and thinks I am an amazing cook.

He's just wonderful, and perfect, tbh.

My husband has been super supportive. He's working out and eating well too. Of course, he's loved me at all different sizes but I can say we are both enjoying the benefits of this journey. :blushing:

My boyfriend is the most supportive man I have ever met... he has never once complained. In fact, in fear that my new lifestyle would cause me to leave him behind on the couch, he joined the gym WITH me and we both learned how to cook together. We are at the gym together 8am and we are both so much happier doing it together! When I started alone, it was harder with him eating fast food and smoking and just wanting to watch TV all the time... It is a real possibility that I would have left him behind eventually had we not been in this together. We are improving every day!!!!

I've been on both sides of this in various seasons. It became a matter of prayer, and this season, we are in it together. I'm not sure I'd do it at all without him, at least not to the level I've been able to this season. I'd rather us be on the same page and have peace in our home. I really need his support and encouragement. To know we are both trying right now is such a blessing. He has an injury right now, so we've had to make some adaptations, and I try to do things he can't do with me on my own time to make it easier on him.

He can eat more caloriesand grew up eating a lot of bacon grease and six course meals, so the ways I try new health food isn't up his ally sometimes. I've learned to eat "my food" for breakfast and lunch and then good something recognizable for supper, or only throw in one "I don't know about that" dish, and not the main dish. : ) I really want my family to feel loved and taken care of, and it not just be about "me and my health". I want to be a nurturer, wherever they are. I try to save enough calories for a decent supper with them, or slightly modify my takings so that they are still feeling "normal".

At best indifferent, at worst angry.....

I could not do this without my hubby. He cooks supper for me and our teenage sons while I am at the gym training, gets up and gets me a protein shake before I get out of bed, and praises every inch and pound I loose.
I do my best to let him know how much I appreciate his support.

That's so sweet. :flowerforyou:

he said i look dead sexy.

then i got a pixie cut. now i look manly.

but not so manly that im not sexy.

but manly enough he says id be a good bodyguard.

My boyfriend is fine with it and has been very supportive. He has even taken it upon himself to get a little naggy with me sometimes, like when I'm eyeing the last scoop of dinner and he reminds me about how I only have so many cals left he's also taken my chocolate stash hostage cuz I can't seem to keep my hands away from them! lol. And he makes comments on my progress and always makes me feel sexy definitely great to have his support - it's extra motivation!

My husband loves it as I love and support what he does. We are each others biggest supporters and I love bouncing workout ideas and questions off him and training with him.

My husband started out all passive-aggressive 'hey I made you some cake'. Then after I shed 60lbs and started getting 'noticed' by other men he got all defensive and eventually he joined me and has lost 20lbs of his own. He was convinced I was now super hot an therefor I would leave him. Silly man. Now we work out together and are much closer because of our common goals.

I've started this road many times during our 11 years as husband & wife, and so many times I've quit. When I started my routine at the end of January this year, I know he thought that I would quit again. I could see it in his face when he came home and I told him I did a workout already that evening.

As the days went by and turned into weeks, I could see that he was proud of me. If I changed my routine up or missed a workout, he would ask if I was okay. When I bought a new Easter dress, he said "You look so beautiful!" A few days ago he said I looked like I lost 50 lbs.

Instead of leaving the house when I workout, so I can have privacy, he stays and watches and tells me pointers. "Your knees are going forward too far." Or some other helpful tip. He also really enjoys taking my progress pics each month, even though he says he doesn't.

I would have to say that my hubby has been great with helping me progress and encouraging me when I get down about the slow pace of things.

He's a great supporter. He's in the Military, so we motivate each other a lot. He teases me every once in a while about logging or wanting to cook my own food for weighing purposes (he doesn't measure or portion anything), but he's very supportive. The gym thing doesn't get in the way bc I do that while at work

At first my husband didn't say anything about me "trying" to loose weight. Then after I dropped almost 25 pounds and 2 sizes his insecurities really came out. He is overweight himself and when we both were, it was fine. Now he drops guilt trips and puts himself down to make me feel bad. If I work out at home he'll say something like "there you go making me feel even fatter". I confronted him because he made me feel bad but I didn't want to stop working out. I told him that he frames houses all day which is a workout and I sit behind a desk. Working out or walking is my only exercise. He said he was sorry and said I looked really good. He just has his own insecurities that he needs to deal with. I'm doing this for me and no one else!!! My kids support me and I feel great. If he can't handle it, then that's his problem. Not mine!!

My wife supports me in everything I do, well beyond fitness. What makes it easier though, she is on her own fitness quest. We have different goals and as such are on different paths to get there, but the support is there.

In reverse, I support her and her quests, but I think I sometimes become like an over bearing parent at a hockey game. I want to help her succeed in everything she does as much as I want to succeed.