I started IF and keto on July 5th,2022 with over 80lbs to lose and have added several different length water fasts over the last few months. I’ve lost about 22 pounds but significantly more inches and clothes sizes.
My husband started keto with me a week ago to lose 40 pounds after we got some scary news following his colonoscopy.
This morning he took our family to breakfast at our little cafe and he just suddenly looks at me and started to get emotional. He said I looked very pretty with my hair pulled up and he could see my cheekbones again and he could see my face and neck were going back to normal like before I was pregnant with our daughter. He actually started crying!!! Then I started to cry too and our 2 year daughter started crying because we were all crying. Lol. We were all a mess.
I had been very sad for about the last six weeks because he hadn’t mentioned anything even though other people are noticing my weight loss. I told him so this morning.
This whole time my mantra has been “Find the motivation inside you; stay focused and don’t get distracted.” Even though I have been disappointed with him not saying anything, I kept going.
Today was a huge victory. I am more motivated than ever. I have another 50 pounds left to go and I am more resolute to be successful finally getting some much desired acknowledgment from my spouse.
Good for you. Both for finding your internal motivation, and for handling the compliment better than I would have. Particularly because he also needs to lose weight, and didn’t have a pregnancy, you were remarkably diplomatic.
Well played. Lose weight for you, let the rest work itself out.
I’m just going to put out there that bad diet (assuming he has one) can really screw with our head. It’s possible he was in a state of depression or at least just unclear head space and the better diet is allowing him to notice more around him.
Nice work by the way :)