A good talk

We were just finishing an episode from the 2nd season of Lost (we are a little behind) when my bf turned to me and asked if I have heard of Medifast. Two of his co-workers are using it so he wondered if it would be a good idea for us. "The boys" told him how much it costs and how much weight they've lost so far. Since he is known for finding the easy way out, I had to lay it all on the line. $289 a month is all fine and dandy for a single person or someone with the finances to do it, but not us. Definitely not $289 x 2. I did the quick calculations in my head and it came out to about the same as we spend in a month for a family of 5!

Now, I believe those programs could work well for people [like me and him] that find it difficult to find the time to make healthy meals and the willpower to limit portions. I often wonder how successful people are when they stop though. Anyhow, I reminded him I was doing really good losing weight last year when I was doing the grocery shopping and he helped by limiting the temptations in the household. By October, he started buying the groceries and the temptation stock grew astronomically. I don't know how I managed to maintain the loss for so long but I can see clearly now how I didn't lose any more. I told him that if he is serious about losing his gut, we need to get back to how we started. Exercise alone won't get rid of it (about the gazillionth time I told him this). I finally stood my ground and told him he doesn't understand that having bad foods around messes me up. Plain and simple. If it's there often enough, I'll eat it. I confessed to the cookie-stuffing episodes I have when everyone leaves the kitchen. And the out-of-bag potato chip binging when home alone. Oh, and the bites I sneak off the kids plates when they aren't gonna eat it anways. I don't do it in public... but I still do it.

I suggested he try keeping track of what he's eating and he immediately reacted how I did when first investigating WW: "I suck at details!" I tried to tell him about WWO, SparkPeople and other places where you only enter what you eat and it figures it all out for you but I think I was talking to deaf ears by that point. Hopefully something sunk in or he recalls that the discipline isn't easy for me either.

I realize after talking to him that we make a great team when we are both on point. When one of us drops the other soon follows... and then it's twice hard to build ourselves back up again. I think we can do it as long as we stop holding back. I didn't know the food thing was that difficult for me to bring up on my own. I've mentioned it to him before but I'm sure I worded it angrily and he got defensive. This time I think he really heard me. Now to wiggle my way into doing all the grocery shopping again - he bought some awful stuff yesterday!