thepowerofme

This time of year is a scary time to be a husband.  Every new year we are bombarded with new years resolutions.  Some good, some bad, and some that are just out right scary.  But what our lovely wives fail to mention is that most of them in a round about way impact our lives as well.  With that in mind I tend not to make any for myself because I am forced to live the ones my wife picks for herself any way.

The biggest one that strikes fear into the hearts of men around the world is when our loving wives decide to loose weight.  I can remember when my wife came home one year and announced to me that she was going on a diet.  Fear is an understatement, for she is the one that does most of the cooking in our household.  I for one looked at this as an invasion of my personal space for being raised in the wilds of Wyoming diets meant a whole new world of dietary consumption.  To fill you all in on what it means to be a true Wyomingite is that we eat things that go moo and run on four legs.  I for one look at most vegetables as the dietary spawn of Satan.  What in the world was I going to eat?  Then I remembered our wedding vows to love one another in sickness and in health, richer or poorer, and to love and support one another till death do us part.  While I looked at the diet initially as getting closer and closer to death I was forced to look at it through a different set of eyes.  As I woke up one morning and got in the bathroom to get ready for my shower.  I happened to look in the mirror and noticed that I was no longer the well per-portioned man that my imagination led me to believe.  Where once a six pack had donned my belly, it was no replaced with the kitchen table and a few cases of butter.  I was amazed how bad certain parts of my body had become in such a short while, and for one was very embarrassed.

So men let’s be honest with ourselves for a brief moment if we can.  Many of us that are married have taken the physical lifestyles that we once knew and threw them out the window.  Where at one time, in our own minds of course, we looked like Greek gods that where here to bless the planet, those times have come and gone.  We are now the worst things we can imagine, a living image of our fathers.  So when your wife comes to you with the news of her new year changes and the word diet comes into the picture we should be excited about the changes she has brought into our shallow worlds.  We can definitely go through the changes with her.  What does it hurt to only eat that one helping of food instead of all the leftovers in one sitting?  Look at it from her eyes, if she wants to loose weight to help herself, we reap the benefits each and every day as she does.

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