The Untold Secrets To Relationships And Weight Loss

How does your relationship affect your weight and weight loss goals? This can depend on the couple, but it is best if two people support each other in their goals and share the joy of success. Sometimes your relationship can hinder your weight loss plan, and it's not uncommon that when one partner loses weight that it affects the relationship.

Relationships are wonderful and require sacrifice, communication, and effort. Weight loss is tricky and requires a lot of time, work, and discipline. Put these two together and you get a union that is wonderful but tricky, blissful but stressful, and altogether confusing and emotional.

Most people give little thought to how the relationships they have affected their body weight. In fact, most people don't believe that one thing has much, if anything, to do with the other. Though your relationships, including relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners, can all affect your weight in a variety of ways.

Weight Loss Fails

Studies show that having a partner with a shared interest can be an asset when it comes to weight loss success. If your partner is not interested in fitness, it could hinder your efforts. Partners who share goals can go to the gym together and plan and prepare meals as a team.

Studies also show that if a person is in an unsatisfying relationship, it can lead to passive-aggressive eating behaviours or, pretty much, eating to mask your feelings. If you don't feel satisfied in your relationship, take a step back and evaluate how you feel and if this is causing you to eat more or crave foods loaded with carbohydrate and sugars.

Fat Friends = A Fat You?

While it's not always the case, multiple studies have shown that the more overweight friends a person has, the more likely it is that the person will be overweight. The reasons for this are unclear, though it's easy to speculate on why this could occur.

More often than not, people adopt the habits of their friends. So, if you're constantly with people who snack or go out to eat, you're likely to join them, which can easily lead to weight gain. While you don't have to give up your friends just because they may be heavier than you'd like to be, you should be aware of this fact and try to avoid taking on their bad habits.

Suggest other, more active activities you can do with your pals, like going to play a round of miniature golf instead of things like dining out or going drinking, which also involves calorie intake. Who knows? You might just help your friends to be healthier too!

Stressful Relationships

People who have large amounts of stress in their lives gain weight more easily and have a harder time losing it, too. And, of course, one of life's major stresses can be family members and romantic partners.

If your family fights often or if your romantic relationship is unhappy, this could cause you to pack on the pounds. Work on distancing yourself from negativity so you can get into the right mindset to lose weight successfully.

Family Habits Die Hard

Finally, children learn from their parents, and if your parents and/or a sizeable amount of your immediate family is overweight, there's a good chance that you've adopted some of their habits. You may have to skip out on family gatherings where there is food involved or just get powerful enough to resist the temptations that are literally served up around the family.

Remember, though, that no matter what your relationships are like, you are in control of your body and of what you eat. Also, keep in mind that when you work on changing your own life, all of your relationships will be better for it.

Weight Loss Effects

Sometimes when one partner loses weight, it can negatively affect the relationship as well. Your partner may start to resent your weight loss and the new you, getting compliments from others.

Or you may start resenting your partner's bad habits when it comes to diet and exercise. This can lead to one partner trying to sabotage another's a success or a couple not getting along as they once did.

To avoid this from happening to you, discuss your weight loss goals with your partner and if you can, try to get him or her on board to get healthy with you. If after weight loss, jealousy or resent sets in, you both need to talk about your feelings.

And reassure your partner that the relationship has not changed and you still want to be with him, and there is no need to worry. Weight loss is about being healthy and fit, and if you and your partner discuss feelings and vent when needed, your relationship shouldn't affect your overall weight loss goals and success.

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