External sabotage
Becky Speier, 35, of Pueblo, has been doing Weight Watchers for nine weeks and has lost 25 pounds. At her top weight, Speier was 409 pounds. At 5 feet 7 1/2, she wants to lose about 200 pounds.
“Sometimes my husband can get to the
point where he can be a little negative about my weight loss.I think he’s just more concerned he will lose his eating habits along with me. He makes it an issue if I don’t want to go out to eat all the time with him. He’s pretty slender and works out. But on his splurge, reward days, he likes to eat fried chicken, laugh and talk and just pig out all day. He wants me to be involved, I guess because it’s something we used to do together all the time.
But he never gained weight; I did. Now when I tell my husband that (splurging) is something I don’t want to do anymore, that eating like that doesn’t make me feel good, he wails on it all the time. He makes
me feel like I’m depriving him.”
