Comments on: How to lose weight and stay married (should you want to)

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:58:27 +0000

I did the same thing with my wife we went to the diet for six months and now both we are in good shape.

By: Gindy

Gindy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:30:07 +0000

Wrong about the cancer and weight loss thing. My husband gained weight during chemo therapy for lymphoma. A new drug literally canceled the nausea most patients have with it and he had no mouth sores to prevent him from eating or drinking about anything he wanted. Now he has to lose those 15 extra pounds he has gained so he can get back to his normal weight.

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:55:29 +0000

Yeah, Jim, even though I’m thin and fairly fit at age 57, I have the utmost sympathy for middle-aged people who put on weight, especially women. I know how easy it is to gain and hard to lose.

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:32:45 +0000

My wife and I started one of those “eat protein bars and drink protein shakes every morning” diets about 6 months ago. I dropped 25+ pounds; she dropped 22 pounds. We both developed good workout regimens that tautened us up and made us both feel great.

6 months later, I’m still eating bars and drinking shakes, still down the 25+ pounds and still working out every day. She’s regained 17 pounds and works out maybe twice a week. She vacillates between grudging admiration and angry recrimination.

She rationalizes that it’s a man thing to be so disciplined and, because I’m old enough to know what I should do when I hear such rationalization, I commiserate….

As Edward Lear observed in that masterpiece of British poetry, “Cold are the Crabs” – “such, such is life….”

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:32:39 +0000

Much as they don’t want to be overweight, most women, especially as they age, want to exercise even less. They can diet all they want, but unless they start and stick with an exercise program, the weight is not gonna stay off.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:17:43 +0000

I haven’t noticed anything so far that I’d classify as “pity.”

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By: JS OBrien

JS OBrien — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:57:47 +0000

Yep. Pity is always useful in deflecting attention from a shrinking waistine.

Good on ya!

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:55:15 +0000

My dear wife has it made. I recently ran afoul of my doctor (actually, there are now two doctors messing with my diet). As a result, I was compelled to give up soda and most things with sugar (Pepsi is my favorite liquid in the world) and beef (my favorite food in the world); dramatically curtail my booze intake (guess how I feel about beer?); and now I’m being advised to trim my sodium intake (which wasn’t bad to start with).

So, I quit soda cold turkey maybe six weeks ago (and that has implications for my caffeine levels, as well). I went a month without beef and am now allowed one serving per week. I haven’t had a beer in six weeks (and have had very little in the way of wine or hard likker, either).

My quality of life sucketh. It’s easy to know what to have, though. Basically, if I like it, I can’t have it.

Angela is working very hard to take care of me, though.