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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp here with twins. Honestly, the exercise will make her feel better, but a healthy diet will help her lose the weight. Stop buying so much ice cream. She's going to eat it. I wish I had a good support system at home, but DH travels 1-3 weeks a month. 4 kids, 2 of them are infants, and it's hard to be peppy and shop for and cook healthy meals.[/quote]

Just, yeah, wow...4 kids...$deity help you doing that w/o a support system.

I tried to very gently encourage walking because DW was never an exercise hound (I'm a 30 mile a week runner).  I don't expect her to become an exercise hound or to be a "thin" or "athletic" person, and I don't want to in any way make her feel bad about her fitness level or appearance right now to give her time to recover.  Also: it doesn't appear to be affecting our sex life yet, and I'm terrified of killing that by saying anything that would make her embarrassed of her body.

[quote=Anonymous]When I'm most successful, it's weeks when I've found the time to prep more. Chop up veggies and have them ready to grab from the fridge as a snack. Have fruit prepped for a smoothie so I can choose that instead of ice cream. Finding time for a healthy, filling, protein packed breakfast so I'm less likely to snack on something horrible and easy mid morning. Things like that, things I did when I was thin and had half as many kids. If you're in charge of food, start working on making sure she has amazingly wonderful healthy options so she doesn't hit the ice cream like I did last night. :([/quote]

I do the shopping and do not keep ice cream in the house.

I make healthy meals which are mostly veggies and proteins and avoid carbs like the plague (she's a carb-a-holic); I never make prepared foods (yeah, I'm a foodie snob).  To the PP who commented on substituting protein and fat for carbs for better satiety: this is my dietary plan since before I met DW.

But when she's at work and has pizza for lunch and then gets soft serve for an afternoon snack...not much I can do about it.  And I'm not about to harp on her or police her eating.

I don't mind Zaftig - I think it's sexy - but I can't handle out and out obesity.  [/quote]

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