Tomorrow, June 18, is my 21-year wedding anniversary.

And I will be at day 4 of my pre-op diet!

This means the traditional anniversary dinner will be Atkins Advantage Shakes for everyone!

But one thing that this brought to my attention was just how much of our relationship centers around food in some way. No wonder my husband and I both are overweight (read: obese).

One of the ways we show our love is with food. And why not? It's comforting and makes people happy to eat high-fat, high-carb goodies.

I think one of the things that my husband and I need to do is sit down and find a new "expression" of love.

I'm confident we can do it, but, let's face it, enjoying a romantic dinner at a nice, high-end restaurant is going to be missed!

Happy Anniversary, I feel the same way as far as Father's Day is concern, I usually take my husband out to dinner, and I'm on a liquid diet until next Monday.... due to getting my first fill on Monday the 15th.

I know how you feel about the showing love with food thing. My hubby is a chef so he makes all kinds of great stuff to show how much he loves me. Never did say in all the six years we've been together that I need to lose weight or anything of that nature. God bless him. But isn't it funny how we notice how much our lives have revolved around food. Which is part of the mindset that we need to change after surgery.

We're going to have to find different ways to show our love other than food as well. If you come up with some zingers let me know. And I'll share ours with you as well. Good luck. It'll be the best decision you ever made for yourself. I promise you that.