More importantly, I'll weigh less than me soon!

Dally, still dropping

but it turns out that no diet works.

Great wisdom!  Never thought of it that way.
/send to print
thanks!
Teri

You are right... you are a smart a.s.   I know what my question was.

You've made an error in assuming I thought a diet was something you do
for 4 or 5 days.  I guess I can see how you thought that because I
gave you very little to answer on.  However, the truth is, "I" am not
the one that needed to loose weight, nor is this something "we" are
going to do 4 or 5 days.    My wife struggles with weight and to
support her, I am doing the same meals - with her - daily.  I'm
committed to stick it through with her - for life (married 23 years
already).   I'm 6-2, have a 48 inch chest and wear 34" pants.  I grew
up a farm boy and was lucky enough to have the "V" chest from the hard
work of my childhood. I don't have my 6pack anymore, but good eating
is important to me and supporting my wife is even higher on the list.
I won't get that 6pack back without lots of sweat, but that is ok.
This is for her.

My wife sees me eat and eat, and then sweat it off again.  She works
hard to keep it off and gets mentally discourage seeing me not gain
when she does.  The SB diet looks like some good eating, moderate
weight loss, healthy, and already shows good improvement for my wife.
It's also fun to prepare the meals together and just spend good fun
time together in the kitchen away from the kids. She's looking much
better every day and I want to help her stay on it.

The question I presented to "you" (since you are the smart a.s that
answered) was just something I posted "with" my wife together at the
computer to help her not get discouraged with any "hesitation" in
weight loss.   I told her no one replied with anything worth while
because your reply was so sarcastic that it would have discouraged
her.   She has not seen this thread since the first post.

The second half of your paragraph is what I was looking for.  We both
realize this is not only a "long term" commitment; it's a way of life.
I was looking to show my wife that it is a slow progress and don't
give up.  But here is what happened.  (Days are spread by "," and are
deltas each day.)
me: -9,-10, -4, -1, +1, -1, +2, -1, +1, -2 and so on.
her: -6, -4, -2, +4, -1, +1, -2, +1, -1 and so on.

She looks at those numbers and thinks it's stopped working.  I argue
differently and work to encourage her to march on.  I weighed 242 on
7/3.  I weight 217 right now and really am not interested in losing
much more.   my wife is 5-4 and weighed 165.  Scaling her weight to
mine, she basically lost the same amount as me, on the same slope.
But then she leveled off - as I did.  I'm a math wiz so I put hers and
my weight on a graph and statistically showed her and I going through
the same curve.  I'm able to show her that she is still losing weight
even if only a fraction of a pound.  It keeps her going.   The only
reason I put the graph together was because she kept bringing up this
"fear" the "guys loose faster than gals" thing.  Though that may be
true in part, some of it is due to the fact that I weight dang near
100lbs more than her from the start.  Of course I'm going to loose
more "pounds" than her.  It is a tool to help her forget about that
difference.  On the graph, we both look the same because I change our
weights with a ratio.

Yeah, I know.  We weight our selves at exactly the same time, same way
every day.  Daily is way too often, I know, but if I lose even one
pound a day, I will be a little boy by the end of August.  My wife
will be a little girl by the end of September.  Won't do much good to
weight monthly.. would it?

Very obvious.  I'm glad I read your reply without my wife present.
You would have hurt her.  She's never seen the new groups or forums,
and would have taken your reply quite personal.  At the time I read
it... you were the only one that replied.

Congratulations on your win.  You probably wouldn't believe me now,
but I really am happy for you.  Unfortunately though, your success has
made you forget what it is like for those who still stuggle.  You seem
quiet insensitive with your "smart-ass-ness".  I'm glad to see others
in this group are not so proud.   I'm going to give you the benefit of
doubt that you just happend to get sarcastic with me and are probably
not that way with everyone all the time?  (no need to answer... I'm
not coming back here.)

How bout I do neither.  How bout I just leave quietly.  I would like
to say I will find another way to support my wife without the likes of
you, but that would be uncalled for.  I can see you aren't a total
dink as you have turned back into a nicer person at the end of your
post.   I see you have posted some links.  Thanks.  "We" will read
them together.

My thoughts exactly.