Frustrated with wife !!

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Frustrated with wife !!

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Has anyone ever hear the phrase "The pot calling the kettle black" ?? Well, that's wife. I have been weight training / bodybuilding for the last 20 years and competitive powerlifting for the last two. Yes, i fully acknowledge that i'm carrying more body fat than i would like and should and iv'e been making great progress in reducing it in the last couple of months.

frustration stems from someone telling ME that I need to lose weight and do more cardio and get more active, who herself sleeps until 10 am and sometimes even noon and the rest of the day, unless she has to go somewhere, either lays in bed or sits in the recliner surgically attached to her phone and laptop !! Apparently she believes that as long as she eats small meals and wears a frigging "fitbit" to track her steps, she's healthy.

About three months ago, she bragged about registering for a 5k. She even posted about it on her facebook and told everyone that she was going to do it and asked for everyone's support. She posted a "Body under construction" sign on her page and her status read "Let's go, time to get training !!" and said how she was starting this "Couch to 5K" training program. Well, the 5K is next month and the only training on the "couch to 5K" that iv'e seen her do is the couch portion !! Wait, not completely...she has been to the gym maybe twice, three times in as many months.

I train 5-6 days a week with powerlifting and power-walk a minimum of two miles a day and i workout twice a day, two days out of the week. YET....she'll pat ME on stomach and tell me how i "need to lose that" while SHE'S the heaviest she's ever been. To make matters even worse, she is always walking around the house with no clothes on and so i have to look at her gut hanging over and everything sagging !!

The real bonus here is that if i even mention HER weight or ask when SHE'S going to get back into the gym, she gets mad and shuts down.

Iv'e already decided that i'm dropping the body fat for ME because i want to be healthier and look great and let her keep ballooning up. Iv'e already lost around 4 inches in the last month or so :) as far as she is concerned....i don't know...if you can walk around the house like that and look at yourself in the mirror and that alone doesn't drive you to get your big back into fitness, then i say that you have bigger problems. biggest challenge now is to try and avoid looking at her while she's walking around without LOOKING like i'm trying to avoid looking at her lol
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Re: Frustrated with wife !!

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Well I'd use the term stuck between a rock and a hard place, but with your miltary past it probably doesn't even compare.

Have you ever asked her why she feels it's okay to comment on your circumstances like she does, but it's not okay when you do it and if so how does she counter your thrusting critique?
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Re: Frustrated with wife !!

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I feel ya man. Have you and your wife ever thought about trying to workout together a few nights a week? Maybe you could use all of this energy to push each other in the gym? :)
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