Husband and Wife teams

My fiance and I are both trying to get into shape/lose weight before our wedding. He's on Weight Watchers, I'm on here. We support each other, but have different ideas about working out, so we aren't fitness buddies.

My husband and I are both on MFP. Proportionately, he's much thinner than I am, but in actual pounds we have the same amount of weight to lose. We started MFP at the same time. It makes it much easier to plan dinner with us both trying to lose, although his calorie goal is much higher than mine. He makes up the difference with bigger portions and higher calorie breakfasts and lunches than me. We go walking together after dinner, and I make sure if I buy goodies for the kids it's things he doesn't really like so that he's not tempted to eat them. So far it's working very well for us. He was sent to South Africa at the beginning of June to work down there for a month, and we thought this would mess up his weight loss. I bought him a travel food scale, and he's staying in a hotel that has a small refrigerator and microwave, so what he does is go to the Woolworth's that's only a 10 minute walk from his hotel, and buys bread, cheese, lunchmeat, fruit, salads and ready made packaged meals. He weighs everything to get an accurate count. I found a Woolworth website that lists all the nutritional info for the products he bought, did the kilojoule to calorie conversions for him, and he's been able to stay with the program. We talk to each other every night on Skype and have been encouraging each other with our diet and exercise, and if he eats out with the people from work, he takes a picture of his meal and I research and figure out what he ate, estimate the portions, and log it for him. We'll see how well "we" did with his intake when he comes home on July 1st, because he's had no access to a scale to weigh himself. But yes, we are definitely doing this journey as a team!

my husband started on mfp and brought me along for the ride, he mainly uses it for the daily summery but is looking to make some friends and Im on here constant trying t see what Im doing wrong or what i should do. Any couples wanting mutual support ad us! his username is Jjw1125

~Denise

My husband joined before I did and he has lost about 20lbs. We both have a considerable amount to lose but working together sure does help

Both of us are successfully following MFP. Frankly, it would be very difficult to do wo her involvement because as is common she runs the kitchen. Think we've lost something like 35# combined. I started a little sooner

that's my wife in the post above.
couldn't ever do it withour her...not just for the motivation, but for the science side of why my body does what it does sometimes.

as She said, we've never felt better and we're just getting started.
I love her more than anything

p.s....I think it's time to retake my profile pic...I hope that's not how I'm looking these days...




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My husband got me started on MFP and is my biggest supporter! Now we have some of our friends and our BIL on too! My husband has lost 20 pounds with about 10 more to go! I am halfway to my goal!

Mrs Wife and I are both members of MFP and encourage each other throughout the day. Are there any other husband/wives/partners etc on here and how are you working together ?

Stu:bigsmile:

yes. my husband and I are both on MFP, and we support each other.

I joined about four months ago but didn't get serious until my wife joined me three weeks ago. Combined we are down 20.

Glad to see other committed couples (traditional or not!)