Losing weight can be difficult, and that's why it's so quicker to get it done with a buddy. Especially if that buddy is the spouse. Colorado cleansed slim tea couple Jessica and Robert Foster know what we're referring to. Together they lost greater than 280 pounds.

That's greater than a whole person together!

Robert Foster had always been heavy (he jokingly owned a tee that said "I bit anorexia") and said that he got sick and tired of being too overweight to look after his four girls. Jessica said she was motivated to shed weight following a family member said that "she used to be something to check out. Not anymore." How rude.

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Once the couple decided to improve your health the weight started coming off fast. Jessica started with Zumba classes and Robert took on tennis. Both of them started eating less. The pair began training for a 5-kilometer race together in December of 2012 and that motivated Robert to actually push his exercise regiment into overdrive. Plus they got much better at maintaining a healthy diet, too. One of their most favorite tricks: Shopping limited to the perimeter aisles at the grocery store, where all of the fruit and veggies and meats are.

So far, Rob's lost greater than 160 pounds, and Jessica's dropped from the size 24 to a size 10. And exactly how they think about themselves? Jessica says this is the smartest thing that's changed. "I love myself. I love what I'm zixiutangbeepollenoriginal seeing within the mirror. I understand there's some try to be done, but I'm such a different person than I had been before."