Let me start with a little background information before I get into the first part of this series. My wife and I had recently had our second child and put on some weight during and after the pregnancy. With the new addition to the family we found it a lot harder to find time to hit the gym and to stay motivated on any diets. I was especially having a hard time, I'm not a fan of the gym and just couldn't get myself back into the swing of things. My wife would start and stop and we both knew that we only have success with diets and losing weight when we are both on board and push each other. It's just way too hard to eat right when your significant other is eating a bowl of ice cream every night.
My wife knows that there is always one thing she can count on to motivate me. You guessed it, sex. She sent me an email one day while I was at work that expressed her desire to lose weight and the frustrations of dieting and working out without me. She offered up an idea. She said I should come up with a sexual themed weight loss goal list. Every time we would hit a certain amount of pounds lost there would be some sort of sexual reward to go along with it. I was very intrigued and thought it sounded like a fantastic idea. So, I went to work preparing a list of sexual rewards for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 pounds and sent it back to her for her feedback. I also instructed her to come up with her own list of rewards.
We both exchanged our lists and agreed on the request/rewards and made a few adjustments. So, we started our diet like every other one we start, a trip on Sunday night to the store for one last night of our favorite candy, etc. Monday morning, I surprised the wife with a nice healthy breakfast for us and the kids before starting with our days. Throughout the week we stayed on track, hit the gym a few days during the week and kept an eye on our calories. We pushed through the first weekend, which is usually the hardest for us. Family is always wanting to go out to dinner and usually kills the diet before it ever gets started.
Weigh in day. Sunday night we put the kids to bed and decided to hit the dreaded scale. My wife went first and she had lost 3 pounds. I congratulated her on her success and jumped on myself to see I had lost 5 pounds. Not a big surprise, as most of us have experienced for some reason guys seem to lose the weight a little faster. My wife punched me in the arm and gave me that, you're a jerk, look. She had worked her butt off at the gym more than I had that week. I always feel bad for her because it does come so much easier to me. Unluckily for me part of the agreement was no sexual reward until both parties hit the milestone.
Throughout the next week we were both starting to really get into a good routine of going to the gym, spending more time away from the TV and eating really well. I was really looking forward to weigh in day and I think she was as well. We really hadn't had a lot of sex during the first two weeks because we were sore and tired from starting up the workouts after such a long time off. This time I got on first and lost 2 more pounds. My wife jumped on and she lost 4 pounds, needless to say she was very excited. Not only had she lost 7 pounds in two weeks, but she had beat me this week. I didn't mind, since the best part was we would both really enjoy our 1st reward since we had quite a bit of built up sexual tension.
