don't you just hate it when guys look great at 200# and we don't! [I'm just jealous]

CONGRATS TO HUS-BO!
Janet

MyHotComments KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

Hunbo, you're hot...and I love you.

Hunbo, One nice thing about losing a bit slower is the fact that our skin will have the time to shrink with your bodymass and we will not have saggy skin. We gals don't want that our clothes expose more skin too! You'll get there kiddo....after all who really won the race the Tortoise or the Hare?
*Wink*
~Pam

you two are adorable! Yeah, you may be losing slower, but you've lost 95 lbs! That's an amazing feat. You'll get there, and maybe the diet gods are hearing ya - so you'll get there even faster!!! ;0) ENjOY!

Congrats on your weight loss. I sit across from my wonderful boyfriend every night and watch him eat enough to feed a small country. Sometimes I worry that if the dogs get too close, he'll eat them too. Yet, by the power of gray skull (or something like that) he doesn't have an ounce of fat on him. He has a six-pack that any professional athlete would be jealous of. If I even looked at that amount of food, I'd be wearing muu muus for the rest of my life. I love him, but I'm jealous too!!

crap... I misread your post. Husbo lost 95... I get it. You've lost a busload too though!! Hope your still digging the gymbo. Love the gym stories, fo-so! ;0)

I am the diet god Appetitus. You have a point. Sorry, but some times I just like messing with you. This week you will lose an extra 2 lbs., and your husband will buy you flowers. So let it be written so let it be done.

Oh, Honey.
I get it. Mine went and pulled the same crap on me (ha ha...I'm not really bitter!), getting into the choice BMI zone while I'm still working towards getting to ONE-derland. Argh!
Let me say for the record, I'm supportive and SO proud of him, as you are of HusBo. They are amazing guys, and deserve kudos till the end of time. Simply awesome!
Ahem. However: If you ever want to inwardly seethe just a little because this was all OUR idea and then we get topped progress-wise, right out of the starting gate...Yeah. I get it. Come sit by me. We'll go buy some shoes and dull the pain a little, K?

Now this is the part where I tell you it is NOT NOT NOT about comparing yourself, and especially not to the progress of any guy.
They. Lose. Weight. Faster.
It's biological. You know this, I know this, but it bears repeating. What isn't fair is the expectations of our fair sex that we must be the thinner ones in a relationship. This is media-hyped, commercially-reinforced, CRAPPOLA. What's important is that he loves you, you're fabulous, and you've worked your damn ASS off here (never, ever, _even_ in jest, doubt your dedication to weight loss. At least not in a place where I can read it. Got that?). You're going to lose the weight. Just not today.
Now go have another Date Night with your lean mean man, and make him smooch some sense into you. Certainly there is something he can to do distract you from this temporary pity party?
Off soap box. Love you to pieces. -S

Shannon, dearheart, it is so seldom that your blogs are less than uplifting. I am feeling bad for you right now. It's normal to feel some jealousy, I get it. He (men in general) make this weight loss thing appear far easier than it is. I can't imagine any scenario where you and HusBo, current or previous weight, would be anything less than an awesome couple. You were when I met you guys and, as HusBo says, you are still awesome and he loves you to pieces.

Keep doing what you are doing and you do know that eventually you will get where you want to go. I am doing the same dance as you and as anxious as we are to reach our goal, as long as we are giving it our all, we need to be satisfied with whatever length of time it takes to get there. There is definitely nothing wrong with throwing ourselves a pity party from time to time.

I'm with Suzanne and Rose on this one...you are a WOMAN - and damn it we don't drop the pounds like our testosterone laden bretheren. It sucks!! That said, he loves your womanly, female-ness and I'm guessing this doesn't cause him near the anguish its causing you. So - you lose slowly and he (curse him) loses quickly - just think of him as the "point" man in this little maneuver. . he's gone ahead to scope out the territory and clear the brush...then you can make your entrance and not step in a pothole.

YOU ARE FABULOUS AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!!

Well for what it's worth women for the most part keep their looks as they age MUCH longer than men do. Something to look forward to ...I'm just sayin'

Pam

My dear friend Shannon,

Don't let this weight lost/getting healthy thing mess up your head. Don't know why, but both of us and everyone else knows that us guys loose faster than you gals.

You are doing great. Maybe not as fast as some of us guys, but you sure to hell are way ahead of the game. Plus you put a great smile on lots of faces almost every day of your life. Your life story is good.

Keep up the good planning and keep doing what you do best.

Cheers on ya,

Chester down here in the Desert

Don't despair! Same thing happened to me. My DH and I started in September 2008 together and both had 50 lbs to lose. He was done by January and I still have 6.5 lbs to go! First of all Men have all that testosterone that give them extra muscle and we all know muscle burns fat, fast! Even now, my DH, bless his soul, can eat 4 times what I eat and not gain an ounce. It's just the way things are and I know I will get to my goal, but at this point, exercising feverishly and eating within the NS parameters, it takes me over a month to shed 1 lb. Slow metabolism, menopause, less muscle... whatever. Hopefully, knowing you are not alone in feeling your feelings will help! Gotta love that nice firm body, though! ;) Carol

I'm late to the comment party...so I'll just ditto what everyone else said. =-)

And I'm even later, but when I read the comment from HusBo, I got tears in my eyes.

As long as he thinks you're hot, then you've got it made and are warranted to go at your own pace to become SMOKIN'.

More than weightloss, I would surely love a DH who would openly admit he thinks I'm hot and supports me unconditionally, unfortunately, from his upbringing and a couple of failed marriages, he just doesn't feel comfortable expressing himself as HusBo does.

Hang on his words and all the rest is a piece of cake (no pun intended there)

You are the best, and you are doing everything right. He seems to be doing what is right for HIM, and you are definitely doing what is right and healthy for YOU.

I'm guessing your admiration for his great success is very important to him....and guys ALWAYS lose weight faster than girls!!!

They can eat salads for lunch a couple of days one week and say they "dieted" and lose 5 lbs! HA!