Linking Weight With Relationships

By Amy Campbell The winter holidays are slowly dwindling. Besides being left with too many presents and a lot of food, you might also be left with some unwanted weight. Now's the traditional time for people to be thinking about New Year's resolutions and shedding some pounds for the incoming new year. If you're trying to lose weight or eat better/exercise more for your diabetes, how does that impact your relationships? For example, if you're making an effort to eat less or up your physical activity, do you find that your spouse or significant other is supportive? Or are they knowingly or unknowingly sabotaging you? Weight loss and love: not always a happy mix We all want to believe that our spouses or significant others would be supportive of us in anything we do, whether it's going back to school to earn a degree, taking a new job to earn more money, or changing habits to look and feel better. But the reality is that the other half of a couple — and even friends — doesn't always view change as a good thing. When it comes to weight, family and friends can actually feel threatened. Being hit with a diagnosis of diabetes can also bring a host of issues, including resentment, fear, and nagging (remember the diabetes police who are waiting to pounce on you for eating those Christmas cookies?). Weight loss, however, is a tricky thing when one half of a couple is losing weight and the other isn't (but perhaps should be) or is feeling threatened. Interesting research c...
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