What? He Said You’re Fat!?
At the time of her wedding she wore a size 2. Her pregnancy with her daughter caused her to balloon up to a size 14. A couple of years later she was a whopping size 18. Unfortunately, rather than joining a gym or getting rid of the baby pounds, she was plagued by post partum depression, which "broke the camel's back;" she demanded that her husband would just have to love her for who she was on the inside. And while he did fall in love with her as a person, she felt unattractive to herself and her voluptuous size 18 and enormous breasts did not help in her feeling the least bit attractive. By this time, however, she had stopped caring.
Perhaps you can relate?
What is a woman to do when she feels trapped in a body that is no fun, in addition to dealing with a depression that you can't seem to explain since giving birth to a child should be one of the most exiting undertakings of anyone's life? Even the shoes on your rack consist mainly of slip-ons, because you've grown tired of getting out of breath when tying your shoes.
By this time the excuses of caring for a small child keep you away from the gym, for good seeming reason. So you resort to diets and starving yourself - the weight has to come off somehow, even though we know that 95% of all diets fail. So we fall deeper and deeper into the hole of depression and the mountain of excuses soon seems to swallow us alive.
So there is no time for the gym, diets don't work, perhaps you should leave the marriage? But what would happen if you did?
You realize that life goes on, whether you're thin or fat.
Here are 5 things that can help you get off to a great start to regain your health and re-ignite a new spark into your partnership:
1. Stop the excuses as to why you are not losing the weight. Instead, find positive reasons why you want to regain your sexy figure. You've been there before, you'll get there again. There is no need to worry about losing all the weight by next week, just start somewhere and be consistent.
2. Do it for you. Instead of wanting to lose weight for "him," realize that losing weight and feeling good about yourself is all about you. If you're in a relationship then yes, you're going through this together, but losing the weight for him may be too superficial of a reason and the results may only be temporary. Desire to lose the weight and get back in shape for you and only you. Remember that it is you who is feeling the lack of health, you feel unattractive and you want to start feeling better about yourself. Your lover feeling attracted to you is a bonus, cream on the crop so to speak, but the main reason for you to get back in shape needs to be for you.
3. No reasons for pouting. There is no reason for you to put your hands on your hips and demanding from him to love you no matter your size. If he truly loves you I can assure you that he loves you no matter what, however, I can also assure you that men by nature are stimulated visually (and they are just as much turned off by visuals). No matter how much you try to bend Nature's rules, in the end you only hurt yourself by making unrealistic demands of your partner. Instead, learn to work with nature and ask Life to help you create a perfectly healthy and sexy body once again.