by vb » August 31st, 2006, 10:35 am
This is the best topic ever!
I agree with everything everyone has mentioned. When I started this (30 pounds ago) my husband did the whole "this is just a fad, you won't last" blah blah blah. It was hard because his junk food was still in the house, the soda, popcorn, chips, etc, but I knew I wanted to stay with it. This may sound corney, but I totally felt alone in the whole process, and if I was feeling a little down or discouraged I would read the boards and see how much weight people were losing and how positive everyone was.
I am happy to report that after seeing my results the husband is now on day 3 of medifast, and has already lost 5 pounds. But god is he cranky! I asked him if I was that cranky at the begining, and he said I was worse.
We did the big house clean out and it is nice only having healthy food in the house.
My biggest problem have been the people (okay one person) who on the weekends will say things like, "You guys want to come over and have some drinks, or is V still being a stick in the mud." It pisses me off to no end, when someone is doing something for their health you should encourage it as much as you can. It is not like I am judging them for drinking, I just want to lose weight. If I was an alcoholic would it be OK to make comments like that?
You have to take it all in stride becuase there will be a lot more compliments than ney sayers. It was all worth it when we recently sent out an invitation for an event with our picture on it and I got a message that said, "You bitch! How did you lose all that weight!" It cracked me up.