Top four reasons we gain weight after meeting our mate & How Two Island Girls can help:
1. Bye-Bye Motivation
When you’re single and looking for love, you probably take more care of your appearance by eating healthier and exercising more – you want to impress future love matches. You may cook healthy meals at home for yourself and you have more time and interest in running or going to the gym. Once you finally hook up and fall in love, you don’t feel as motivated to look good because you’ve already hooked him/her. Love has a way of making you feel special, no matter how much weight you gain, especially if your boyfriend/girlfriend doesn’t acknowledge your body’s changes. And once you’re married, other responsibilities become more important – your kids, home, money, work, expenses – and looking good becomes second priority.
Your friends and family can certainly tempt you to stray from healthy eating habits, and your partner is no different. Besides, eating with someone is always more fun, and you don’t feel as guilty about indulging in fatty foods because someone else is too. A lot of men aren’t the healthiest eaters to begin with, and you may start to inherit your guy’s pizza and beer diet as a way to bond or because it’s an easy solution to dinner. If your boyfriend isn’t regularly active, it might be difficult for you to get up for that run when he’s pulling you back on the couch to cuddle. It’s always more of a challenge to remain healthy in the face of temptation.
3. I Don’t Have Time to Exercise Anymore!
You love him/her, you want him/her, you have to have him/her – every single moment of the day. New couples tend to spend a lot of time together, forgoing the activities they did when they were single. Your alone time becomes your couple time, especially if you have a busy schedule with work or other priorities. Visits to the gym and those solo after-work walks around the neighborhood get put on the back burner in favor of spending time with your partner. Women are also the caretakers in the relationships, so they’re more prone to put their needs, healthy and otherwise, last on the list. If you’re married and busy with kids and other responsibilities, you don’t have the time or the energy to even think about exercise!
What’s to stress about when you’re in a loving, fun relationship? Good, stress, known as eustress, can actually fuel your relationship weight gain. Even happy, euphoric feelings can make you turn to the
fridge in almost a celebration mentality. However, you’re sure to experience the bad kind of stress when your relationship hits some bumps in the road, and one of the most common ways people deal with stress is to try and eat it away, which you know backfires.
Once you start celebrating month or year anniversaries, chances are that you’re so comfortable in your relationship that impressing your partner isn’t always your first priority anymore. The average weight gain once settled in a relationship (not dating) is 15-20lbs within the first 6 months to a year.
Two Island Girls have put together an excellent package and program to help you and your significant other, work together to attain your weight loss goals.
Getting married? Want you and your bridal party to trim down for that big day? Two Island Girls can help you with that as well.
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