One step forward, Two steps back

When I first moved back home from college, the day after my 24th birthday, I spent two days moving things from one house to another. I then weight myself and the scale said 238. This was way more than I ever hoped to be and by the time I turned 25 I was closer to 210. Most of the weight was what I would consider "alcoholic bloat." Since then I have slowly gotten closer to 200, with efforts that included spending plenty of time on the treadmill and doing P90X. Those efforts never really got me under 200, but I am now a couple of pounds under that and feel that I could continue losing more weight. After all the effort I had done before it comes down to eating better and eating a lighter meal once a day. Amanda fixes me healthier food to eat that what I was shoving down my gullett earlier. It turns out my diet has much more to do with weight loss than much anything else.

This however, is not sitting well with Amanda. She has stated before that she would like to have a heavier husband and my weight loss is not what she has in mind. She is also doing the natural thing a pregnant woman does and coming along just fine. She is really upset because of some conversations that we have had in the past that don't necessarily hold true. I once confessed that I didn't really want an overweight girlfriend or wife. We also talked about how pregnant women looked once, but I don't really remember what stance I took. Whatever stance I took, she thinks it applies to her and whenever I try to complement her and be a loving husband she doesn't believe me. Couple this with my current weight and I have an unhappy wife who doesn't want to hear anything I say.

In other news, I am now using financial software to keep track of my spending. I had a dog scratch me on stomach while delivering mail, and the incoming money is helping with the home improvement, which is nearing some conclusion pretty soon. We are going to find out the sex of the baby on our next pre-natal appointment. After the conctracters finish up, we are going to start cleaning out and fixing up some more aspects of the house. I plan on going to a job fair in march for teaching jobs in KY, but am not sure what I really want to do. I will probably make more money here as a farmer, but have more stability as a working stiff.

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