Men Vs Women! Men have and unfair advantage!
Okay, I am not losing my motivation or anything, but I really need to vent. When I mention this to my husband he just laughs.
I don’t understand why I have to work twice as hard as he does to lose weight. I mean, my logical brain does know and understand all the reasons but my heart doesn’t. And it pisses me off. I work out 5 or 6 days a week. Plus, my job is pretty active. I’m a teacher so I walk all day long while I teach. I may sit down 2 min out of every class period. Then when I get home from work, I cook, straighten the house, do laundry, by the time I actually get to sit down it’s normally 7:30 or 8:00. What is my darling hubby doing all this time? Sitting on his ass playing on the computer.
I really don’t have any trouble eating healthy and other than two cheat days, I have stuck to my plan really well for the last month. I have lost 10-11 lbs. I am proud of myself!! But my hubby eats out several times a week for lunch, once a week for dinner, and never moves his lazy bum. Why, ohhh Why does the weight just seem to melt off of him and I struggle so much?
Is it normal for me to resent his weightloss? Shouldn’t I be happy for him? Why can’t I be happy for him? It makes me so bitchy toward him. Everything he says I want to snap his head off. Bless his heart he can’t do anything right as far as I’m concerned. He has no idea what is going on, but I do. I’m pissed because he is just breezing through losing weight and I am struggling.
Last night, I had just got off my treadmill and was logging on to buddyslim for my accountability when he said he was going to play a game on his computer. I said “Why don’t you walk a little on the treadmill instead?” He actually laughed at me. He said, “I don’t need to.”
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!!???? It’s like he was rubbing my nose in it. “Ha, ha, ha. I can lose weight better than you.” (He didn’t say that, but that’s what I heard)
A few days ago, he had bought some fig newtons. Now, I knew that they were pretty low fat but kinda high calorie. So I ask him to check the calorie count for me because I had ate two for a snack earlier. They were 60 calories each and he had ate a full sleeve of them while playing on his computer. That’s 14 fig newtons. He inhaled 840 calories as a snack. I just had to laugh. I guess I’m evil.
I feel your pain. My boyfriend is the same way. I’ve been working out and eating healthy for months now and have lost 7 lbs. (and sure…I wish it was more, but I’ll take it). My darling boyfriend decides he’ll switch to diet soda from reguler–mind you I’ve always drank diet, so I can’t try this one, and he loses….22 lbs in a month…just from that!!!!! what?! SOOO annoying.
I have to admit it peeves me off sometimes when I hear Tom has lost weight but not done anything to cause it. Its a curse thta we have to try so hard just to lose a few ounces!!
*lol* I know how you feel -I have a bottomliss pit of a skinnyman myself. It’s frustrating, but I look at it like women are way more sexier than men -we have the sexy curves, the smooth backs, the great boobs, & long legs!! No wonder it takes a little more for us to perfect our bodies & lose weight (besides the fact that God is a man haha) Happy to read that you’re laughing about it though!
Kitty, I want to read more but I have a bucketload of work to do.
Just know, men, they are a differnt creature and yes ALIEN to us. Rod loses weight and he eat fast food 2 times a day. Is now 169 lbs!!
Hope I can come back and read more.
It is so frustrating! But everything is more difficult for women so we shouldnt be suprised, right? Hang in there sister!
lol girl one dont ever ever compare our bodies they are crazy wonders and b a big difference is you are working so hard you will appirciate the new you a lot more and know how hard you worked therefore more than likely maintain the loss where as he will probably log those pounds back as soon as his metab start to slow
My highschool bio teacher had a saying. Men are for the sprint; women for the marathon. We are built to last famine probably because we have much more to do with the reproduction of our species then men do (I’m talking biology folks, we know many of you are awesome dads)! So yeah it’s annoying, but it’s just biology.
~Renee’
Yeah, we are built with natural fat stores… boobs and hips. Men don’t really have ANY need for fat.
My hubby can skip lunch one day and lose five lbs. (He doesn’t do it to diet cuz he’s super skinny. It just happens sometimes cuz he gets busy.) Anyway, it pisses me off too!
It is frustrating but just something we have to accecpt i guess. I dont get it. J eats large portions of crap and I stay on track…he drops more weight than me…it baffles my brain too, you are not alone
totally understood! my boyfriend can eat all kinds of garbage, exercise very little if at all, and has almost no fat on him. i on the otherhand, exercise my butt off and while i’ve almost reached my goal weight, can tell i’m still carrying a lot more fat than he is. it’s so frusterating! BUT- i know i’m in better overall health. when we go to the gym, i can do a lot more than he can and i bet your overall health is better as well. lol, even though i know that, it’s still irritating
Yes, I think if you killed him it would be considered justifiable homicide, so I don’t think the jury would convict…if you had a jury of women anyway!! LOL!!
Honey, let’s face it, men have an unfair advantage not just in weight-loss but in life in general. It’s the same in the workforce too, women have to work twice as hard to get half the recognition the fellas get. Unfair? Yes. I would still have it that way than have us be equal. I can hear the femenists already asking for my to go to the chair, but seriously…the only reason I would even want to be a man is so that I don’t get TOM’s visit AND so I could lose weight faster. Now let me tell you, I LOOOOOVE me, to me, they are God’s gift to women, but you and I both know that women are the superior gender. So it’s ok that he’s losing faster, it’s God’s way of making it up to him for not being as fabulous as we women are!!
I typed too fast….I meant I LOOOOOOVE MEN, I love me too but I meant MEN! LOL!
Health is not just about how much you weigh. By exercising and being healthy and eating the proper foods you are treating your body right and that has to feel good!
Be your own standard for health. You can’t measure yourself up to your husband or anybody else (in life or weigh loss). This is your mission and your goal, focusing on your husband’s ability to lose weight just makes you lose focus on you!
I mean do you really want to eat a whole sleeve of fig newtons?
even if i never lost a pound, exercising and eating right makes me feel good and energized!
I like Renee’s biology teacher’s explanation of it!!
I don’t agree 100% with the scenario of men having it easier than women because I know several women who can eat like a pig and never gains an ounce either! I think it has alot to do with metabolism and unfortunately, I don’t have a good one!!
My boyfriend has always been thin and I would sometimes feel this same way about him as he is a fast food junkie. Eating it twice a day probably 4 days a week and 1 time on the other 3 days! His diet is absolutely horrible and he is muscular and thin!! However, that doesn’t make him healthy. His cholesterol cannot be good eating like that!
i know it must be fustrating…that you are working your but off and he is rubbing in your face that he doesn’t need to…..work as hard….but look at it in a positive way…he probably keeping you motivated…i can’t compare cuz the only male at home is my kitty snowy…and he eats more than my bella…and he is only 4 months old…