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My Diet Will Not Work For My Wife
by Keith Quackenbush
I write this article in a continuing series of events that I consider significant to my journey to lose weight. I write these stories in my effort to not only lose weight, but to pull anyone along for the ride to their own individual weight loss.
The crux of this article is that my wife and I have tried diet after diet after diet and failed every single time. After over nine years I looked at myself in the mirror and I am fat. I do not like the person I see anymore and I have considered my self a failure. My wife, Sue and I have spoke often to one another about how we had to lose weight. Then BAM! it occurred to me the reason for my individual failure is not because I am a failure it is because I have tried to diet with the needs of my wife forced into my life and my metabolism. It occurred to me that I can not go on a healthy diet that will be the same for not only me, but also my wife. We always try to do everything together and dieting was no different. We always would try to attempt the same diet. This set us up for failure from the start.
I have concluded that I am over weight because I am an emotional eater and my wife is a junk food junkie. I had to wake up and realize that I over eat when I am emotionally stressed and eat until I am stuffed. I would sit down to dinner and eat until every meal was an all you can eat buffet. I have learned that the answer for me to lose weight is not the answer my wife needs.
What I have done is separate my eating habits from my wife and changed my entire outlook on food. I am not pigging out at every meal. I learned to eat less and more often. I learned that it is my eating habits that caused me to be overweight. I have learned that my wife and I are not failures, we just have to attack this weight loss issue together, but individually specific for our individual needs.
Sue and I have learned that we can not be successful if we are on the same diet. So I guess we must be different to be together.
So my question is, are you and your spouse trying to lose weight together as if you are one person? If you are, try to see what you need and worry about your spouse next. This may appear that you are insensitive but it is not. Losing weight to be around longer is in itself an expression of unselfish love.
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Keith Quackenbush is a graduate of St. Johns University, New York. He has spent considerable amount of time traveling throughout the world for the United States Government as a Marine Officer. He has spent considerable amount of time being educated in life through his very existence. Currently spends too many hours per week in big box retail management.
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