How does your spouse support you?

My husband is super active and always has been. I tend to be a lot more lazy and sedentary. If I had married someone besides him I think I'd be much less healthy. He decided to do the Leadville 100 the year he turned 40 and fell in love when mountain bike racing and is now starting on his 3rd year of that. He'll even ride with my on occasional even though I am much much slower than him (usually only on recovery rides)and he'll watch the kids when we don't have a sitter so I can ride alone, or with my club. He doesn't complain when I cook healthy and tries to encourage it actually. He joined a gym with me even though he knew I'd be going much more. He's the same height and weight as me but never makes me feel like there's anything wrong with that. He thinks my muscles are sexy and *might* have requested naked cell phone selfies with a flexed bicep...

And in general he's very loving and supportive, supporting me through the 4 years it took me to finish my Masters. He appreciates that I'm intelligent and career driven. He's okay with the fact that the house gets messy due to crazy schedules for both of us. He actively wants to work on our marriage and ensure we are both happy. Plus he's a great dad and an awesome lover.

And sometimes I go all creeper and take shirtless photos of him mowing the lawn because he's a sexy beast.

I NEED A LIKE BUTTON!! How do you keep your hands off him when he's mowing the lawn? Can you take one of him doing dishes? Can we turn this thread into husband (soft) porn? Much better than food porn!

My hubby completely remodeled a room in our basement for my home gym.

He cooks sometimes and chops veggies and all that. But he has to decide to be in the mood for it. Im hoping this time around we are in it together and we both stick with that healthy lifestyle.

he is constantly telling me how sexy I am. He survived through my 6 month stint of eating vegan without saying a word, for Christmas he bought me a new bench, barbell and set of weight plates and made me a squat rack, he talks me down when I'm about to go nuts over how fast my mother is losing weight on jenny craig, he tells me how proud he is of me. When I was cardio queen he completed insanity with me.

He listens to me rabbit on and on about lifting

He cups them gently. :drinker:

Hahahah! GMTA....I was about to say, "With one hand under each bewb" LOL....:laugh:


Additionally, he keeps me company while I'm working out, makes sure the heat or air is on in the area I work out, works on meal planning and bulk food prep for the week, picks up the latest copies of my favorite magazines when he sees they are out, and generally cheers me on.

He pays for my Louboutins.

Now HE is a keeper!
Mine does too - he just doesn't know it ;-)

I had weight loss surgery a month before our 37th anniversary. He has always loved me no matter how big I was and has always been supportive of what I wanted for my life/our lives/schooling/career/etc. And didn't disapoint me this time either. Yes ultimately my success is my responsibility but his support and interest makes it so much easier. He attended the sessions with my nutritionist to understand my dietary needs after surgery, he grocery shops with me and because of our different hours does most of the cooking and makes sure it's something I am supposed to eat. He indulges his fast food addiction when I'm not going to be home for dinner. There is so much more that he does and thinks about, but I won't bore you with it all. We will be married 40 years this summer. That number says it all. He's not perfect, but neither am I. Together however, we are awesome!

I NEED A LIKE BUTTON!! How do you keep your hands off him when he's mowing the lawn? Can you take one of him doing dishes? Can we turn this thread into husband (soft) porn? Much better than food porn!

He's a little too fuzzy to do dishes shirtless...

I can see how that might be a problem. Too funny. Thanks for starting the thread; it is great.

My husband is the most amazing, supportive man I have ever met. No matter what I want to do he is always 100% behind me. He adores me and constantly tells me how amazing I am and how much he loves me.

If I want to weight lift, run, make hair clips, have an invention idea, he is ALWAYS 100% supportive. Never has a negative word to say and tries his hardest to make whatever I need happen.

Yup, I have me a keeper

Finding the right schedule was a challenge. I was never a morning person so I originally began workouts after work. Although wifey didn't complain, I could feel she didn't like it too much since I would get home late and missed family meals together. So I shifted to working out at later in the evening, but I found myself making excuses like I'm too tired or just want to relax with my girl. She was being so accommodating for me and I didn't consider how my schedule was affecting her and the kids. I made the decision to wake up early at 5:30am and I haven't stopped since then. It was difficult shifting my schedule at first, but it eventually became routine. She even helps push me out of bed if I don't get up. She just has to tell me, "You'll regret it...". I follow the same schedule on weekends but not as early, but I'm still done my workout before the family wakes up. This gives me the rest of the day to spend time with them. Also, I have no more excuses if I suddenly have to work late, be at my kids events, or just have us time at night.

Here's are some other things my wife has done for me:

- She buys me workout clothes for me all the time. She'll come home with a little something and say, "I thought you might like this. My co-worker that runs marathons recommended it..."

- She's conscience of my calorie counting. Every night for dinner she'll kindly ask, "What do you have room for?"

- When I first started calorie counting, she listed out all the recipes for the meals I prepared so I can log them in for more accurate tracking.

- She just bought a blender for me. I've been using a crappy wand blender for years.

- One day after exercising, I mentioned the battery on my HRM was dead. She just went out and got the battery replaced the next day on her way home from work without me asking. Also, she was the one that bought the HRM for me in the first place.

- I signed up for my first 5K. She immediately asked if people can walk it. They do, so she replied "Sign me up!". (That meant so much to me)

- She tells me I look sexy all the time even though I don't feel it.

Yes, fitness is about you, but you also have to compromise with your family. Along with these little things and her support on helping me achieve my goals, I wonder how I got so lucky.

My husband often cooks dinner (almost always healthy), which is awesome. He also knows that I go a little crazy if I can't work out so he will watch our young daughters for an hour or two so I can run/cycle/yoga...it helps both my physical and mental state. Also, he has never complained that I have like five different pairs of running shoes in my closet at any one time :laugh:

He told me, one starry night, "You've always been beautiful, I'm just glad that maybe now you can see it, too."

My husband tells me I'm beautiful no matter what my weight is. He acts like he thinks so, too. He takes care of our son when I'm exercising. Most days he makes my lunch with the healthy left-overs from what I make for dinner. And he's just generally an excellent, amazing human being, kind and supportive.

General awesomeness. In all of the ways.

My partner is probably the most wonderful, caring, compassionate human being I know. He is a great guy and I am very blessed to have him.
FYI - Valentines Day is blech If your going to act like a douche all year and you think you can rub it clean and demand sex with a bunch of roses mid Feb your kidding yourself Appreciate your partner each and every day... not with "stuff" but by just being there and being present in your relationship.

Ok vent over LOL