As scientists from Ohio University (USA) found out, women who are in a happy marriage gain weight. Guard, what to do? Let’s figure it out!
The thing is that under the same roof with a partner, women eat more high-calorie foods, tend to move less, preferring to spend their leisure time watching TV together. Studies show that on average we gain from 3 to 5 kilograms 2 years after marriage. How to deal with it?
1. Don’t Prove Your Love By Active Cooking
Polish psychologists share this observation: 70% of married women in the first year of marriage strive to “feed” their husbands to satiety. This trend is also typical for us: wanting to show ourselves as a good housewife, we try to cook more high-calorie and tasty dishes. The result is obvious, more precisely, on the stomach, waist, and hips…
Prove your love by supporting your loved one, share his hobby with him, please him with cute surprises – believe me, a man chose you not as a slow cooker in heels.
2. Down with bad habits!
It is no secret that among the representatives of the stronger sex there are few adherents of a healthy diet. In an effort to share everything with our loved ones, we also adopt an addiction to junk food – chips, nuts, sweet bars, etc.
Try to keep your eating habits, and even better – gradually accustom your loved one to them.
3. Do something else… besides food
Food – especially in the evening – often becomes the main moment when we do something together with a partner. Pizzas in front of the TV, popcorn at the cinema, barbecues with friends, birthday parties, snacks in malls while shopping – this is how the standard diet of a married couple is built.
Evening jog in the park – what is not an alternative to the evening “pizza holiday”? Is it difficult to decide? Get a dog – and evening exercise is guaranteed!
4. Don’t eat the same food
Even if you are the same height and build, your partner will always burn more calories. Due to the fact that they have more muscle mass, men need more calories.
In a restaurant, order a smaller portion for yourself, and at home get plates of different sizes: a large one for your spouse, a smaller one for yourself.
5. Find a compromise between dietary and tasty
If you are ordering food to take home, order a variety of foods (which you share later) and have one of them as a light option. When preparing dinner, dress your salad with olive oil, and your husband with mayonnaise (if he can’t live without it). A small portion of roast with potatoes can be increased by vegetables. It is not necessary to eat the same thing at dinner: you can just “keep company” while drinking green tea.
6. Eat only when you feel like it
Do not eat for the company, do not finish eating for the child. It is important that you eat when you feel hungry, and you and your loved one can feel it at different times of the day. The same applies to what you eat – if you are not delighted with dumplings with sour cream (which your husband loves since childhood), you should not eat them at all!
