I thought this was interesting. A Stanford study (from a few years back) concluded that those who lost weight via WLS tended to have a moderate weight loss "halo" effect on their family members as well, even if they didn't get WLS:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8831352/Anti-obesity-surgery-causes-family-halo-effect.html

Happens in our house. Every time I go on a diet, hubby loses 20 pounds.

Without fail.

Damnit.

It's happening here. H has lost over five pounds just from eating less. He is already skinny but had a little tummy which is almost all gone now.

I think it's eye opening for a lot of people at least in the US to see how little food we actually need to thrive.

His portion sizes have gone way down.

My husband is immune to this. He is literally eating ice cream right now, at 12am. He's pretty thin though, save for a bit of tummy. The cat, however, is on a diet. LOL!

We were at a family gathering this weekend and hubby who has lost four lbs got all kinds of compliments. I've lost over 40 and only one person noticed it.

We were at a family gathering this weekend and hubby who has lost four lbs got all kinds of compliments. I've lost over 40 and only one person noticed it.

That sucks doesn't it? My husband only had to put out a modicum of effort and his weight would come off on Weight Watchers; it would make me so frustrated. I would be hungry, logging everything, and my weight would come off like 0.5 lbs every two weeks, if that.