Understanding how to lose weight and become more healthy is pretty straightforward – move more and eat less. However, putting that into practice isn’t always easy. Finding the motivation to make the right food choices and exercise can be difficult, especially when you add the everyday stresses of life into the mix.

A fed-up husband has revealed how he’s been trying to encourage his wife , who feels she is overweight, to make healthier choices but is getting frustrated with her progress. Taking to Reddit to ask for advice, he explained that his partner has been trying to shift the weight she gained over two pregnancies for a while. He wrote: “Ever since the 2nd delivery she has been about 50 lbs (three and a half stone) overweight.

She is no longer breastfeeding and kids are sleeping well now, and our life is pretty stable. “She often mentions that she wants to lose weight and has tried a few things off and on like Noom, my fitness pal, but is not very consistent. She does a lot of things that I feel are incompatible with losing weight.

After eating a normal-sized dinner where she serves the same portion that I eat (I am naturally skinny, and not trying to lose weight), she will frequently have a late snack around 8:30 or 9 like a bowl of cereal, piece of toast, or ice cream. “She also does not seem be able to deal with any amount of hunger. She has made comments like ‘I need a snack before dinner, all I ate for lunch was an apple, a bowl of yogurt with Granola, .