I 28 m stand at 5'11 tall and weigh in as of today at 165 lbs. Here's the problem. When I met my wife I was in the 220s towards the end of 2021 I topped out at 240. Since then I've been losing weight. This year I dropped into the 180s and have now made 160. A few years ago I suffered a few rounds of food insecurity at workplaces that claimed they would provide food. I was walking 5+ miles a day and the food was barely helping me keep on weight. I was eating breakfast lunch and dinner and both me and my wife were losing weight. She 28f topped out at 260 lbs well distributed after a hysterectomy at 23. She has experienced much frustration in her weight loss journey and I don't know what to do or tell her.
My wife is a CNA with enough letters behind her name that she's just a few short of an alphabet. She has an anxiety disorder and worries about me. Since my best friend died I started eating less but not completely stopping. I've been unemployed for some time now and don't do a lot but I move around enough that I feel like I'm in good shape for my weight and height. I don't feel sluggish or tired most days. Wife wakes me up at 4 am every day to take her to work and usually I try to spend a little time gaming with my friends and most nights I go to bed before or at 11:30.
We eat good enough. We both have yoghurt in the morning and she has a piece peanut butter toast. I eat like crap some days and I still lose weight. I'm getting frustrated because she thinks that I have an eating disorder but I'm eating every day. I eat dinner with her and I'm eating hamburger/tuna/chicken helper. Eating peas, broccoli, cauliflower, I eat rice and cheese burritos with hot sauce. Fruit snacks, fruit roll ups, bread, homemade pizza. when I have the money I get fast food. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. We have a wide variety in our diet and I eat a lot. When I eat a fruit snack I'm eating like 4 packs at a time.
To be honest it feels like she is projecting her insecurities over her weight loss onto me. It's frustrating. I want to please her and make her happy. I'm even willing to quit smoking my vape to gain 10 lbs. But this is getting frustrating. I just hope I don't see 160 because I don't want to hear the ranting over it.
Is there anything I can do to maybe gain some weight. I do feel like I was better off at 180 back when I was lugging chips for a casino in 23/24. I don't fit in most of my pants. I just want my clothes to stay fitting in one size tbh I got down to a 34 waist earlier this year and bought a bunch of new pants that's already needing a belt of which none of mine fit anyway as most of them are studded and cannot have added holes added to them (otherwise Id do that)
Do y'all have any advice I can do to start packing on weight? I eat plenty of lean protein and we do keep protein shakes in the house. I have cinder blocks a plenty in the back yard and I'm pretty handy with some rope and duct tape any suggestions?
(Minor edit just adding a bit more info) I look good. Even my grandfather has noticed. I don't look gaunt and I have a bit of a belly and a bit of arm fat. Aside from that my legs are very lean and muscular. I feel like I'm in good overall health.
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