Hi, Dr. K:
Obstacles have been lack of time – taking care of 3 terminally ill people in my family at the same time which left me with no time to exercise between work, school and caretaking- unfortunately that obstacle sort of took care of itself. When I ate it was only 1 meal a day if that – I ate the right food and not in big quantitities but not enough of it. Lesson learned
My boyfriend whom I live with pretty much flat out said you may be on a diet but I am not. I am happy with my body the way I am now. So I told him good I am glad for him but I am not happy and I am not that old as he wants to make me out to be so tough Sh&& I am doing my own thing.
So my cooking has been cooking 1 meal for him and his dad and separate meals for me.
When we go grocery shopping, I make sure to not buy certain products that I know I can’t have at home because I will most certainly eat it or drink it. My loving man would put those items in the basket when I am not paying attention so when it comes to check out I take them back out and put them back where they belong and he gets upset. When we eat out I will order only what I know I can eat and he will purposely try to get me to order something else.
I am fighting my own demons. He doesn’t understand I can’t fight him too. He would call me or insinuate that I am a fat ass but at the same time he sabotages me. Hello!! Worst part about it is he was a bodybuilder. He knows better.
It took me a year to lose 30 lbs with this war that we have going on.
He may have won some battles but I AM winning the war. I am glad to say that ever since I have resisted his BS attempts, I have lost 27 lbs in the last 7 weeks. I have basically done in 7 weeks what took me a year before.
I think he is coming to see things my way as for the last 2-3 weeks he has joined me in my nightly walks after dinner!