[quote]Professor X wrote:
MarkT wrote:
My wife, making no particular effort, still looks great. For some weird reason, she actively opposed me getting in shape this time, but now the motivation is internal, so I managed anyway.
That could be a whole new topic; “spouses who want you to get fat so they feel better and no one else will want you as badly”.
I have a feeling this goes on way more than people talk about it.
“Gee, honey…chocolate cake again…with sprinkles…for the 4th time this week…and it’s only Wednesday. If I didn’t know better…”[/quote]
My wife doesn’t do much choco-cake style sabotage. She just resents the time I spend at the gym (even though it’s almost always on my lunch-hour from work) and criticizes my food choices (too much meat of course, Surge may give me diabetes, peanut butter has aflatoxin, tuna has mercury, chicken has arsenic (never heard that one elsewhere), not all my food is organic, etc.).
And more than that, she has not made a single positive comment on the huge change in my physique, though she has made a few grumpy comments acknowledging it. My favorite was her response on noticing (mild) washboard abs on me - “That’s the same muscle earthworms have”.
She was a biologist once, but is creeped out by worms. So basically, the vibe she sends is “Yeah, yeah, low fat, twice the muscle you used to have, yuck.” You can probably tell we have a few problems. 
I think basically it makes her worry I will leave her, so she can’t appreciate it.
Hmmm, I never did so well when my efforts were appreciated, maybe I respond best to scorn? Just kidding. Before, I didn’t have T-Nation and had no clue how to train.