In reply to Merevel (msg # 675):
No, I like your idea very much. He has a prospective job lined up, or at least he thinks so. A friend of his "put in a good word for him." Knowing my husband, this means he'll just bum around at home waiting for his friend to say, "Show up 9am Monday morning." When that doesn't happen (it would be great, but I'm being realistic), he'll act surprised that he has to spruce up his resume and get out there like everyone else. Like his initiative draining away.
I'm a bit annoyed because my best friend is already saying things like, "He doesn't look fat to me" and "He's not as fat as he could be". But she didn't know him before and she's a lady of size.
I'm away from home right now. I think it will be easier to help him when I return. Just one step at a time: first, the suit; then the interviews. Then everything else.
Mrrshann618:
One thing that helped our family's soda/pop consumption was to purchase a sodamaker. Yeah sounds odd I know but we have cut our soda/pop consumption to nearly a tenth of what we used to drink.
I appreciate this, but
we don't drink soda. All the soda and junk in the house he buys for himself and he eats it himself, mostly. Whenever I do have some junk food or something sweet in the house, it's like I have to beat him to it. More than once I've put a treat for myself in a plastic in the fridge and he's told me that I just left it sitting out there and he had to eat it before it went bad.j
For instance, there's a nice German bakery in town. We used to go out on a jog, stop there on the way back and pick up some pastries. Now he'll buy a box of six, eat five and a half of them in two days. The half is for me because I like to cut mine in half. They're big pastries. If I haven't eaten my half of pastry by the third day, he'll eat it because he'll say I'm wasting it.
The problem isn't the junk food, but that he simply eats far too much. He eats healthy dinners and breakfasts, but in ridiculous portions. If he wants bacon, he'll fry up two or three slices. Then because he feels good about watching his sodium or fat, he'll eat three bowls of breakfast cereal. If he gets out for a walk, he'll pile on the desserts after dinner. He rewards himself with food. He'll say things like, "This pizza is gluten free" or "This soda is made with real sugar" and that registers as better, so he takes in more of it.
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