Two Pigs in a Puddle
I swear, my husband and I are like two peas in a pod. Actually, we are more like two pigs in a puddle since we are so much alike and are still so happily married after 6 years. The reason I say that is that he balances me out in every way possible. When I'm down, he's up and there to lift my spirits. When I am being too serious, he is there to irresistibly bring a smile to my face. When I am sailing smoothly along with my BFL lifestyle and not having ANY problems eating clean, he is there to offer me Burger King on a platter...
Ha! HOLD on there! We are BOTH so guilty of this, I admit. That's the whole reason we got so unhealthy and both gained so much weight--we really WERE too pigs in a puddle except there was no puddle. It seems like this is the biggest hurdle as a couple that we've had to overcome and still are working to overcome. For years now until recently, whenever one of us was on track and focused on practicing healthy habits, the other was always there at dinnertime to say "KFC?", "Pizza Hut?", or to suggest one of our favorite restaurants. Ahhh...the root of our undoing and the definition of how we were not working together to get healthy. It really does take a team...
During my 1st program in 2003, I was doing BFL all by myself while he continued our regular poor eating habits (fast food, pizza, more pizza, oh yeah, and pizza--our FAVORITE!). For the entire 12 weeks I ate clean and THAT was a tremendous accomplishment given all the temptations I was presented with on a daily basis. I am really proud that I was in control the whole time and never had cravings or the temptation to partake in his juicy eats. When I started my 2nd program this past June, he began doing the modified BFL program, meaning he skips workouts and is not eating completely clean, but is still seeing some nice yet slow changes. He's dropped about 30 lbs and has developed some nice chest, arms, and shoulder definition! His modified approach is what would get me in trouble if I let it since he is okay with eating "bad" several times a week. Well, I am once again on the right road and I'm not ever looking back. It really is up to me to keep us on track since the poor thing will eat whatever I put in front of him. So, we will eat healthy when I can help it! And every day, the practice of eating junk food or fatty foods every night is becoming a distant memory that we do NOT want to revisit ever again!
That's what BFL helps people like us to do--once that bad stuff is out of your body, you stop craving it. It's just not good for you and your body doesn't want it anymore! So, my task at hand is to get him from modified to full BFL so we can BOTH be in the position of not wanting the bad foods anymore at all and only eating them on free day IF we do want them. Afterall, the most important thing is that both pigs are still in the puddle years and years from now and the route we were going down was NOT one that was going to have us around for a long time. I am SO happy to have found BFL. It has probably saved BOTH our lives.
Ha! HOLD on there! We are BOTH so guilty of this, I admit. That's the whole reason we got so unhealthy and both gained so much weight--we really WERE too pigs in a puddle except there was no puddle. It seems like this is the biggest hurdle as a couple that we've had to overcome and still are working to overcome. For years now until recently, whenever one of us was on track and focused on practicing healthy habits, the other was always there at dinnertime to say "KFC?", "Pizza Hut?", or to suggest one of our favorite restaurants. Ahhh...the root of our undoing and the definition of how we were not working together to get healthy. It really does take a team...
During my 1st program in 2003, I was doing BFL all by myself while he continued our regular poor eating habits (fast food, pizza, more pizza, oh yeah, and pizza--our FAVORITE!). For the entire 12 weeks I ate clean and THAT was a tremendous accomplishment given all the temptations I was presented with on a daily basis. I am really proud that I was in control the whole time and never had cravings or the temptation to partake in his juicy eats. When I started my 2nd program this past June, he began doing the modified BFL program, meaning he skips workouts and is not eating completely clean, but is still seeing some nice yet slow changes. He's dropped about 30 lbs and has developed some nice chest, arms, and shoulder definition! His modified approach is what would get me in trouble if I let it since he is okay with eating "bad" several times a week. Well, I am once again on the right road and I'm not ever looking back. It really is up to me to keep us on track since the poor thing will eat whatever I put in front of him. So, we will eat healthy when I can help it! And every day, the practice of eating junk food or fatty foods every night is becoming a distant memory that we do NOT want to revisit ever again!
That's what BFL helps people like us to do--once that bad stuff is out of your body, you stop craving it. It's just not good for you and your body doesn't want it anymore! So, my task at hand is to get him from modified to full BFL so we can BOTH be in the position of not wanting the bad foods anymore at all and only eating them on free day IF we do want them. Afterall, the most important thing is that both pigs are still in the puddle years and years from now and the route we were going down was NOT one that was going to have us around for a long time. I am SO happy to have found BFL. It has probably saved BOTH our lives.
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