My wife joined Weight Watchers to support a friend. I was not sure she was really going to do it, but she seems to be taking it serious although today we were bad. I really need to support her in this and the best way is to eat as she is trying to eat.
Today we were good and bad. We went to IHOP for breakfast ans split a Colorado Omelette with Buttermilk Pancakes and got a side order of Bacon. That was about 30 points. We did better for lunch and we were super busy so did not really eat dinner and then it hit us, we both wanted something. So we had our daughter go to 7-11 to get both of us Nachos and me a Hot Dog. What a mistake. That added another 19 points to my wife’s total for about 50 points on her first day. Bad husband.
I offered to go to the store to buy what we need to do better on day 2 and throughout the twelve week program. Pray that we do better tomorrow.
Ephesians 5:21-33 New International Version (NIV)
Instructions for Christian Households
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Men, I pray that you will support your wives. Woman are amazing, but with an unsupportive husband, it can bring them down. No I am not saying that woman cannot succeed on their own, they can. However, it becomes more difficult to succeed when it is a hostile environment or when a person is displaying counterproductive attitudes such as eating something your wife may really want in front of her when she does not have any more points. What I am trying to say to all of you men, if your wife does something join in with her to encourage her. Since my wife is doing Weight Watchers, I will join her efforts and follow the same plan.