Posted on 01/24/2010 10:20:48 AM PST by Steelfish
Married Women '4lbs Heavier Than Unmarried Counterparts' Women really do let themselves go when they get married according to a new study which found that they are 4lbs heavier than their unmarried counterparts.
By Chris Irvine 24 Jan 2010 The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, also found that they are 9lbs heavier if she has a baby.
Queensland University in Australia, who conducted the research, followed 6,000 women aged between 18 and 23 over a 10 year period ending in 2006. Each woman periodically completed a survey with questions about weight, height, age, physical activity and alcohol consumption among others.
It found that a 10st woman gained 11lbs if she was single and childless, but she would be 15lbs heavier if she had a partner, and 20lbs heavier if she had both a partner and a baby. The researchers attributed the weight gain to cohabiting women eating unhealthier food because of their partner, while they also have less time to exercise.
Professor Annette Dobson, who co-authored the study along with Professor Wendy Brown and Richard Hockey, said: "This is a general health concern as obesity rates continue to increase.
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Your post is hilarious.
I agree with that. If your "partner" insists on handing you food, how many fights is it worth to keep from gaining 5 lbs.?
which is my point. American women stop caring what they look like after they are married. the media is partially to blame as they push the mindset that a woman is supposed to gain 40-50 pounds after having a child (and in some cases, just for getting older).
it just drives me crazy... and i dare not say anything or i’m a ‘bad person’ (like that matters)
I agree with you 100 %. It drives me crazy as well. Glad I have bucked the stats :-). I feel good anyway!! You sound like an honest, insightful, up front person. Just shows if anyone calls you bad how they can’t handle the truth of the matter and how solidified the delusion is.
but, but.... There are slobs and then there are fat slobs. Please don’t lump them all together. rofl
I weighed about 110 lbs when my husband and I wed back in 1995 (15 years in March!)...I’ve had four kids and I now weigh about 3 or 4 lbs above what I weighed when I got married. I’m 5’4” and wear a size 4 (okay, sometimes a 6 depending on the pants/skirt). Just don’t ask me about my stretch marks, LOL (I did gain 50+ lbs with my first baby, after all).
In case you’re wondering, I can eat like a field hand and not really gain anything. I thank the high metabolism passed on to me by Dad’s side of the family—my grandmother had four kids too and she’s tall and slender even at 80. And I recently started working out with the Wii Fit Plus dh got me for Christmas. Not to lose weight, but I need to be in shape to keep up with my Tasmanian Devil of a 2 y.o.!
For sure you write well.
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