Get a Guy, Gain Weight....

May 14, 2012

Women who enter into a relationship with a man gain weight. Marriage and

having children have become major contributors to overweight and obesity in

the US.

Helping women retain some of their single eating and exercise patterns is

essential to avoid the common pitfalls.

Do any of you have any additional insights into why men have a negative

influence over women's weight?

http://www.appforhealth.com/2012/05/how-men-make-us-fat/

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Upton, M.S., R.D., CSSD

Appetite for Health

www.AppforHealth.com

CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer

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May 15, 2012

I must be an anomely. I weighed 135lbs when I got married. Lost 20 the first six

months...I was doing my own cooking and prepared healthy meals and I was happy..

After first child was born I weighed 5 lbs less...and so it went until when I

became pregnant with #3 I was 108 lb...now 43 yrs later I am 120 lb.. exercise

and eat well...but it is easy to blame someone else - who wants all that

responsibility.

My youngest daughter weighs about the same after 2 children as she did when she

got married...hard to tell as she is pregnant with #3.

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When I first read your email and your question I had a chuckle. Any insight why

man have negative influence on women....

Where to start ... At the end: finally, it is not your mom to blame or your

wife, it's your husband/ boyfriend or even child! Yey. Blame them all

But on a more serious note: we starve to death during dating, so we could get a

date, then we find a guy. He takes us out .... To dinner. Hey, " a girl has to

eat " . And then we get married, feel comfortable. We stop going to the gym bc

someone has to clean launder and cook. And even if we are lucky that he shares

the load or even do more chores then we do, we still exercise less bc it is

suddenly more fun to be home and cuddle in front of the TV. Then we have kids

and not only the hormones will drive us nuts but we are required to eat extra

300 cal, which when the pregnancy & lactation ends - what are those 300 cal I

ate for the past year+ that I now need to cut back, and between dippers and

sleepless nights I am even doing some emotional eating bc sleep deprivation will

do that to you. And then We wake up one morning with 40 lbs more then we were at

21 and we feel terrible and we try every fad diet in the world bc our man, who

grew bigger too, makes us

feel unattractive, only to find out that all those fad diets making us gain

more and difficult to lose at the end. And then comes the real " bomb " :

premenopausal followed by her evil sister menopause ( did anyone ever looked at

this word? Man-o-pause) .

But you all know that. So yes. Let's blame man! I love that

And just for the record - I also have some extra lbs to shell but never tought

to blame the men in my life. I am now ! Lol

Merav Levi, RD, MS, CDN, CSG

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> Women who enter into a relationship with a man gain weight. Marriage and

> having children have become major contributors to overweight and obesity in

> the US.

>

> Helping women retain some of their single eating and exercise patterns is

> essential to avoid the common pitfalls.

>

> Do any of you have any additional insights into why men have a negative

> influence over women's weight?

>

> http://www.appforhealth.com/2012/05/how-men-make-us-fat/

>

> --

> Upton, M.S., R.D., CSSD

> Appetite for Health

> www.AppforHealth.com

> CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer

> t:

> m:

>

May 15, 2012