I’ve always been a believer that being in a relationship has some downsides. Like gaining weight. Maybe that’s because I’ve only had a few serious relationships, and they’ve all resulted in a lot of eating out, or sex that’s resulted in a baby (that seriously helped me pack on some weight). But now that I’m single and unpregnant again, I’ve shed the weight and am back to wearing short shorts and skanky dresses (although I try to keep the skanky dresses to a minimum, afterall, I’m someone’s mom now).
Single bodies look like this:
In a new study to be published next month in the journal of Obesity, there was clear evidence showing that the risk of obesity rises the longer people live together.
Penny Gordon-Larsen, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, found some health benefits to marriage, including decreased cigarette smoking and lower mortality rates.
She was sure to mention that, “We also see greater weight gain than in others of the same age, and greater risk of obesity. Maybe the cause of weight gain is not just age, but the pressure of shifting behaviors that result in weight gain.”
She said people living together (married or not) tended to eat meals together, possibly cooking larger meals or eating out more often than they did when they were single.
So there you go… it’s what I’ve believed all along. Stay single, stay skinny. Get a man, get a muffin top.
You do the math, you don’t want to fall in love and look like this:
Very true! but isn’t getting skinny after a relationship (or a pregnancy) worth the trouble? Just the idea of seeing you in a skanky dress again makes my heart go BOOM! 😉
viv, i’ll always look skanky for you…
After 2 relationships that caused me few unnessesary pounds I started dating someone who’s in an extremely good shape himself… And so now Im 11 pounds lighter dating a guy with the cutest butt I’ve ever seen…)
I don’t think it’s fair to blame the relationship for your own behavior. No one makes you eat more often or larger portions, or to get lazy and not try to look good all the time. I’ve been in a 3 year relationship and I have never looked better, because we are both active and healthy people.
Also..if single bodies actually looked like that (maybe in photoshop?) I doubt there would be many single people anymore.
It’s true. When we moved in together, my girlfriend put on 30 pounds in 6 months. I encouraged her to lose the weight and she did. However, we got married and after almost five years she has packed on 100 pounds. It’s like she has no more incentive to lay off the sweets and fried foods.