It's a Fact, Women gain weight after Marriage

Weight before and after Marriage

Marriage is an exciting and very serious step in one’s life. Tying the knot with the one person you feel is the one can be scary and exciting. When the day comes and you are stepping at the altar waiting for your bride/groom, MANY different thoughts are going through your brain, “Who will our kids look like?”, “Marriage at last!!”, “Are we really going to be happily every after?” etc.
However, none of those thoughts even come close to asking the question, “How will my physical appearance change in the next two or three years of marriage?

Anyone about to pledge to have and hold should pay closer attention to the bit about “in sickness and in health”.
Fresh new research demonstrates that during the first short years of tying the knot, married individuals have a 50% higher risk to become obese as are people who are merely dating.

But why do married individuals gain weight so fast?

A study which was published in the July edition of Obesity, focused on finding the reason of why romantic relationships affect the “scary” number at the scale.
In a recent study on Married and Obese researches were able to track changes for over a number of years in the weight and relationship status of those individuals (which total almost 7,000) which participated in the research. The findings during the research are not very positive for those already married.

Based on the study, it seems that marriage is not the only reason for packing extra pounds. It seems that those individuals that move-in to live with their partner also demonstrate a significant increase in weight. Furthermore, the research demonstrates that even younger adults that decide to live with their partner also gain weight scraping the age excuse out of the table.

In contrast, a finding that is surely raise eyebrows from ALL unmarried women who have lived with their “blue prince” for one to five years, run a 60% increase in obesity. WOW!

Wait, what about those single and unmarried men?

Well, on average unmarried/single men had no weight-increase or risk during cohabitation.

”Amazingly, on women we notice an incremental risk of weight increase only after one year” said Penny Gordon which is one of the few nutrition epidemiologists at University of North Carolina (UNC) who conducted the research.
”The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting weight”.

On the other hand, risk of weight-gain or obesity between men single living-with-partner or married is visible in the first and second years of living together.

But how does marriage relate to gaining weight?

Researchers believe their theory after questioning over 1300 couples for another part of the study.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner can become more important than it was when individuals were single or not living with their partners.
Also, it’s worth noting that out of those married or living-with-partners that participated in the study, at least 75% expressed disappointment that gym memberships are not as used previous to marriage/moving-in with their partners.
And increased importance for meals and lack of interest for physical activities at the gym may very well be the reason for the sudden increase of weight.

Dietitians have warned individuals with obese friends-family members about not falling in to the same eating-habits as those of an obese person because research demonstrates that people that share a close relationship with an obese individual it’s more likely to become obese.

And the most serious effect of weight increase in a relationship threatns the ever important sex life.
Many obese couples have express concern and insecurity while performing sexual relations and in many times have considered to completly avoid any sexual interaction due to fear of rejection or lack of attraction.

How do you break the cycle?

It’s a good advice to gain inspiration from the person that helped you become obese: which is usually your better half.
An assistant to a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut published a research paper which showed that if a one spouse takes part in a weight-loss program, the un-enrolled spouse also loses an average of 5 lbs.

The same weight loss program conducted a pilot study of 20 married couples, which demonstrated that the person not enrolled in the program loss more weight than enrollee.
This demonstrates that it takes half-effort to get both partners to lose weight.

Also, it's not a bad a idea to join at a local gym. Staying active by joining a gym such as 24hour fitness, Bally Total Fitness can help you burn extra calories. And it has been proved that an active indivual combined with a healthy diet is guaranteed to shed pounds by the month.
If the main weight problem has to do with eating disorders, Weight Watchers or MediFast can be succesful alternatives. Weight Watchers educates you on how to eat and MediFast provides you with low calorie/low Carb foods to reinforce weight loss.
Remember, stay active, exercise, take walks after work, walk during lunch at work, take a bicycle ride at the part etc.



In conclusion, couples should not live over-weight ever after. And many other research also show that marriage can also provide health benefits such as living longer, and having a higher chance of quitting smoking

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