August 22, 2008 | Graham

My partner made me fat



Jenny Craig has just posted the results of a survey of 400 people which, according to the press release comes to the conclusion that your partner can make you fat.
Apparently one in 10 women blame the bad eating habits of their partners for their weight gain, and 7% say their partner made them fat (not a lot of difference between the two figures).
Sounds like a bit of a cop-out to me, although I have had food problems in relationships. When I was married I weighed a couple of stone more than I do now. Part of the reason was that my ex sent me to work with a lunch that was about as large as dinner. But, when weight became a health issue (don’t ask I still had a health BMI) I took control of my diet, and the weight dropped off.
Perhaps a little bizarrely, another relationship ran into problems because I insisted on eating too healthily, as a result of my previous experience. Mr partner had trouble adding her salt after the cooking, because salt in the cooking can promote hypertension! In this case I suspect I was making her thin rather than fat.
So I wondered how much a part food does play in the negotiations that occur in all relationships. Perhaps I just fall for food instransigents!
Jenny Craig’s pitch is that they’ll offer you spousal surrogacy – if your partner won’t support you, we will.



Posted by Graham at 6:26 am | Comments (2) |
Filed under: Health

2 Comments

  1. Lots of ways to cop out of taking responsibility, blaming the partner is an easy shot.
    An article in Science Daily News says that identifying unhealthy behaviours with an ‘out’ group is more effective than just giving info on being ‘good’.
    Strangely, the out group they used for undergraduate was graduate students. Go figure… but the undergrads drank less alcohol when told about the naughty drinking habits of the graduate students.

    Comment by karin — August 26, 2008 @ 2:11 am

  2. “Mr partner had trouble adding her salt after the cooking, because salt in the cooking can promote hypertension! In this case I suspect I was making her thin rather than fat.”
    You can more about this?

    Comment by tutaback — December 17, 2010 @ 1:51 am

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