Couple power for weight loss

by Ilona Peltz, Posted Jan 19th 2008 3:00PM

Filed Under: Negotiating Speed Bumps, Relationships, After the 'I Do's', Grooms, Bridal Beauty

You know you have a few pounds to lose, and you've decided that your wedding will provide the perfect motivation to finally get that job done. Anyone who's tried to lose weight, though, knows how difficult it can be.

If your dearly beloved also has a few pounds extra, maybe the solution is to do it as a team. It's always good to have a support network when you tackle a large project, and co-habiting couples who diet together tend to have more success, even more than those who diet with a friend.

When it's a joint project, you can rid the house of high-calorie snacks. This is not to say you can't ever have a treat, but treats are best kept to a weekly event, not a daily one. When you're both working together, you can your fridge and cupboards with low-calorie, high-nutrition food and snacks, and keep temptation out of the house.

You can also compensate for each other's weaknesses. If one is methodical and the other creative, put the the creative one in charge of writing the menus and the methodical one in charge of shopping (everything will be purchased off the list, no impulse junk food surprises!).

You can try new recipes together. Buy a vegetable cookbook, and discover hundreds of yummy way with these good-for-you items beyond boiling them to death or, worse, deep-frying them. Go back to the way your grandparents ate: meat and three vegetables per meal. You filled up on vegetables back then, not meat. (If you're vegetarian, substitute other protein, of course, but vegetarians are statistically less likely to have weight to lose, anyway.)

And when you've transformed yourselves into slimmer, trimmer versions? Don't stop with the wedding! Keep these good habits for life -- because you want to enjoy each other as long as you can!

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Tags: nutritious-eating, team-dieting, weight-loss, weight-loss-couples