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It's full-on wedding season, but anyone about to pledge to have and to hold should pay closer attention to the bit about "in sickness and in health." New research shows that within a few short years of getting hitched, married individuals are twice as likely to become obese as are people who are merely dating.
The study, published in the July issue of Obesity, set out to determine how romantic relationships affect the tell-no-lies number on the scale. Researchers tracked changes over a handful of years in the weight and relationship status of 6,949 individuals, and their findings don't bode well for commitment. Not only are married people more likely to become obese than those who are just dating, but young people who move in with a boyfriend or girlfriend tend to pack on the pounds too.
And in a twist sure to tick off all the ladies in the house, the study notes that unmarried women who have been living with their sweeties for five years or less run a 63% increased risk of obesity. What about unmarried men? On average, they have no increased risk during cohabitation.
"With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on weight." Meanwhile, the risk of obesity among guys — married and unmarried — spikes only between the first and second years of living together.
What's behind the weight gain? Gordon-Larsen and the paper's lead author, Natalie The, have their theories after questioning 1,293 couples for a separate part of the study. Mealtime may become more important than it was when the people were living alone. Gym memberships may not get the same workouts they did before nuptials. And maybe, after months of prepping to squeeze into crinolined and cummerbunded finery, couples just let themselves go.
Scientists have known for a while that having a close relationship with an obese person, whether a friend or a spouse, makes you more likely to become obese. So how to break the cycle? Perhaps by drawing inspiration from the same person who helped get you into this mess: your better half. Amy Gorin, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, published a study last year that showed if one spouse participates in a weight-loss program, the unenrolled spouse tends to lose about 5 lb. Now Gorin is exploring whether enlisting the support of spouses can help both partners shed more pounds. In June she wrapped up a 16-week pilot study of 20 couples, in one of which, the support person lost more weight than the main participant in the study.
Couples don't have to live chubbily ever after. And studies show that marriage conveys some health benefits, like living longer and being more likely to quit smoking, notes UNC's The, who lives with her boyfriend but insists her obesity findings haven't scared her away from the idea of marriage. "This is an interesting paradox," she says, "but it certainly wouldn't stop me."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1907143,00.html
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People have known that women gain more weight after marriage than men for years. Why waste money on a study?
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People have known that women gain more weight after marriage than men for years. Why waste money on a study?
Because they can. Most studies published are rubish.
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No cohabitation and no marriage=solution
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A proper wife will obviously get fat. Between pregnancies and all the time in the kitchen, it's inevitable.
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I believe the Muslims got it right (for once) on this one.
A man needs four wives, one to fix him gourmet meals in the kitchen, one to do the remaining housework and take care of the kids, and two hot pieces of ass for fornicating :P
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I believe the Muslims got it right (for once) on this one.
A man needs four wives, one to fix him gourmet meals in the kitchen, one to do the remaining housework and take care of the kids, and two hot pieces of ass for fornicating :P
It's also more harmonious. Two wives will fight; three wives will be 2-against-1; four creates a 2 vs 2 harmonious competition to be the best wife while keeping cattiness in check.
Not Muslim, but intriguing nonetheless...
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So in theory could a man marry a big gal, and she will lose weight...or she'll just get bigger? ;D
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So in theory could a man marry a big gal, and she will lose weight...or she'll just get bigger? ;D
no she will get bigger. They all do...
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no she will get bigger. They all do...
Not true :)
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Not true :)
sure...
lol kidding
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sure...
lol kidding
I was fatter when we got married.
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I was fatter when we got married.
Ahh, I so my question does have validity.
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I was fatter when we got married.
More cushion for the pushin'?
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I was fatter when we got married.
but you are odd rare
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women get fat
men stop holding in their farts and burps
its the natty order of things
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Ahh, I so my question does have validity.
Don't think I would have been considered a big gal (nothing wrong w/that though!)..I was fatter but weighed less..
but you are odd rare
>:(
;D
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My first wife gained 60lbs in three years. Granted she started out at 120lbs at 5' 6 and she even looked pretty good up til about 155. Past that I had enough.
One of many reasons she got the boot.
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My first wife gained 60lbs in three years. Granted she started out at 120lbs at 5' 6 and she even looked pretty good up til about 155. Past that I had enough.
One of many reasons she got the boot.
I hope you were nice enough to tell her that. :)
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I hope you were nice enough to tell her that. :)
Oh she knows. She didn't really care about anyone but herself so I made sure she knew she was fat. I started out being nice about it and encouraging her, motivating her, etc. But as it became obvious she was a lying, deceptive, lazy low-life I started to be more up front about it.
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Oh she knows. She didn't really care about anyone but herself so I made sure she knew she was fat. I started out being nice about it and encouraging her, motivating her, etc. But as it became obvious she was a lying, deceptive, lazy low-life I started to be more up front about it.
You played it just right. Make sure Hippobottomus knows her place before you send her fat ass out the door.
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Hippobottomus
ah HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D Funniest shit I've heard in weeks.
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My first wife gained 60lbs in three years. Granted she started out at 120lbs at 5' 6 and she even looked pretty good up til about 155. Past that I had enough.
One of many reasons she got the boot.
then you were in like
not in love...
sonnet 116 which i have quoted ad neseaum
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
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then you were in like
not in love...
sonnet 116 which i have quoted ad neseaum
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
Oh Bullshit!!
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Oh Bullshit!!
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
;D
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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
;D
Brixton was right, someone who lets themselves go doesn't care. No amount of love or poetry in the world can change that simple fact. :)
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Brixton was right, someone who lets themselves go doesn't care. No amount of love or poetry in the world can change that simple fact. :)
Brixtons situation might have been different...he said she just didn't care about anyone but herself....
when people grow old...invariably they get uglier...dosen't mean u dump your wife just cause she got old....or prego...
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Brixtons situation might have been different...he said she just didn't care about anyone but herself....
when people grow old...invariably they get uglier...dosen't mean u dump your wife just cause she got old....or prego...
There's a big difference between caring for versus about oneself. :)
Pregnancy is a temporary condition, Silly.
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It was definitely love at one point but believe me there were quite a few other problems besides the weight gain. I'm not THAT shallow.
She stopped giving a shit about me long before I stopped giving a shit about her.
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It was definitely love at one point but believe me there were quite a few other problems besides the weight gain. I'm not THAT shallow.
She stopped giving a shit about me long before I stopped giving a shit about her.
People usually fall out of like first.
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It was definitely love at one point but believe me there were quite a few other problems besides the weight gain. I'm not THAT shallow.
She stopped giving a shit about me long before I stopped giving a shit about her.
yay! i wus right!