Review: The Plan of Action Worked Well For A Friend
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2013
After receiving a preview copy of this book a couple of months ago, I loaned it to a friend of mine.  She and her husband are both wonderful people.  Unfortunately, however, he has gained twenty pounds in the last few years and she was becoming very concerned about his health.  Since this book seemed tailor made for someone with her problem, I told her about it and she decided to give it a try.Basically, the book is about motivating a husband to lose weight by the wife first providing an example of how to do it.  Contrary to what is seen on many television shows, rarely will you find a couple where the husband is a couch potato and the wife is a long distance runner.  More than likely, if one person in the relationship is a slacker then the other person is as well.  The good news, however, is that one partner often responds positively to the changes the other one makes.  How to go about making these necessary changes and the many techniques involved are the focus of much of this book.At first, my friend had the same difficulties that other people face when changing their own lifestyle.  She had to devote more attention to herself and her own body than ever before, so as to motivate her husband to get active as well.  This required a certain degree of willpower to keep going even when things occasionally seemed hopeless.  After a while, however, she began to enjoy the challenges of her diet and fitness routines.  While it took several weeks before the husband asked her to go for a long walk with him, there was finally a break through there as well.This book doesn't provide a miracle plan which is guaranteed to transform a lousy marriage into something wonderful.  If there are emotional or psychological issues which are the root cause of dysfunction, then any book probably won't help.  What it does do, however, is provide a reasonable plan of action for finally getting a husband off the couch and onto the treadmill.  The basis of this plan is the idea that most folks are competitive in nature and wish to match their partner's successes with their own.  My friend tells me that she is very happy with the results so far.  While her husband isn't running marathons yet, he is more active now than he has been in years.  Given how lack of physical activity and obesity are the root cause of so much disease and early death in western society, wives owe it to themselves to try and do everything possible to keep their husbands motivated and fit.  A helping hand is sometimes required to show people a better way of living.  With this book, you have detailed suggestions, tips, and strategies on how to begin changing your own life and your husband's in the process.