Jurnal Ceebee, 23 Jun 10

I love working out with my hubby. It makes us both feel good because we are doing something together and we are doing something for ourselves at the same time! I hope he keeps it up! I'm with you on the not pushing thing. But with me eating healthier, it's changed everyone's attitudes in the house. Now the kids are excited when I say we are having watermelon for dessert. And hubby digs in too. :) 

OMG Ceebee and tglenna--I think I will fall over dead the day my husband decides to join me on this journey voluntarily. I hear stories like yours' and so many others so I still like to think it's possible but really...it seems so impossible right now. It would make me so happy though...and make this journey a bit easier and more enjoyable to share it with him. I'll keep thinking positively that maybe someday... 

I get what you saying ChallengeMember. My wife has made only one comment that makes me think there is hope. Maybe some day she will come to the same realization that I did. I'm not gonna push though. You have to come to it on your own and get into the correct mental state before you can start to take the correct actions. But I still think that there is hope for everyone. Good luck to you and yours 

You ABSOLUTELY have to get there on your own...there's no other way. I'm convinced of that. (I just have to remind myself that I believe that though from time to time when I *want* to nudge.) 

You are so right bump...I don't push my DH because it's unfair for me to expect him to be in the same place I'm at mentally. I share my successes & my challenges with him & he is supportive, & if he wants to have similar successes & challenges to share with me he knows what to do so when he's ready, he'll do it. Occasionally I have to set boundaries with him. I recently told him "I'm gonna need you to not bring fried food home" & he was fine with that because he understood it wasn't a controlling-type thing, it was because it's hard for me to resist when it's in my face. If we stay on our positive path to a new way of life, our significant others will be more likely to follow suit. Just keep doing you!! ~ Kat 

Ok, even though I see some changes in my whole family, my hubby is still not nearly where I am. I order a salad at a restaurant and he orders the Shrimp Alfredo. I snack on yogurt, he snacks on peanut butter. Even though he eats the watermelon with the family for dessert, I have caught him with nutty bars and chips late at night after I go to bed. He knows it is hard for me and I don't keep the junk food he likes in the house, but that doesn't stop him from sneaking it in when I'm asleep. LOL :)