On being a supportive husband.

When people compliment me on the weight I lost last year, I always take care to give credit to Mark for being very, very supportive.

Mark refuses to take much credit.  He says it's very easy to be supportive of me.  Here is his algorithm, according to him:

1. Listen to me when I wonder out loud why the scale is not doing what I want it to do 
2.  Ask, "Have you been sticking to your habits?"
3. Listen to the answer 
4. Say, "Well, there's the reason the scale isn't doing what you want it to do.  Go back to your habits." 
5. Wait for a chance to say "See?  I told you things would improve if you went back to your habits." 
6. Repeat as necessary  

Of course, this doesn't include all the cheerful schedule-arranging and child-minding he does for me so I can swim and run every week without fail, but I guess he doesn't mind that.

Must be time to listen to him some more (image courtesy of babyfit.sparkpeople.com):

Have I been off my basic background of habits?  Yes.  Namely, I haven't been interested in vegetables and I have mainly been making up the difference with hot buttered toast.  

The last couple of days I've tried to correct this with lots of green veggies.  I'm having the most success with steamed leafy greens, so maybe as boring as it is I'll just try to eat a bag of collards or spinach every day.     And I can go back to my extra habits too — they're all still really good habits, even for a pregnant person.