It’s pretty much a given that once in a relationship, many women will pick up their partner’s unhealthy eating habits, resulting in weight gain. It sure doesn’t seem fair, but it’s true. And the main reason behind this is simply that men eat different from women and often have little understanding on basic nutritional needs. They eat when they are hungry and as we women know, they are always hungry.

But, as Jenna writes in her book Your Big Fat Boyfriend, ‘love doesn’t have to mean love handles’. Learning this the hard way (ie not being able to fit into her ‘skinny jeans’), Jenna has taken this topic in hand and created a very readable and often hilarious book full of anedotes and tips on how to stop the boyfriend from sabotaging (which of course he is not doing deliberately) your healthy eating habits.

Geared towards young women in their late teens and early twenties, Your Big Fat Boyfriend is full of tips for eating, exercising and living with a guy who thinks French fries are vegetables, can’t say no to all you can eat buffets, and must always have ice cream in the freezer.

Along the way, you’ll learn…

• How to eat healthy when dining in not-so-healthy places (ie fast food restaurants)
• Creative ideas for active dates to keep you both on the move
• The differences between male and female metabolisms  – or why women can’t eat like men
• What to order when your guy insists on a trip through the drive-thru
• Healthy recipes that taste great and won’t leave your guy hungry

Definitely a book worth checking out, not just for it’s balanced diet advice, but also for the fitness and relationship tips as well.

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Well, you don’t have to tell me twice to follow this advice:

Get more sleep!

So the deal here is that we can go about our business, scraping for anything remotely resembling rest, or we can make sleep a priority and lose weight. Boy, I’m just not sure on that one. Lemme think a sec…

Okay, yeah, I’ll play. I am officially on board with the findings that too-little sleep ends with a 40% increase in cortisol in the blood (cortisol is a stress hormone that’s been proven to slow down metabolism). Not only that, but you might also experience a whopping 33% increase in hunger pangs and cravings, which you know you’re bound to give in to. No thanks.

Sounds like a much better plan to work at getting those elusive seven blissful hours of snooze time, don’tcha think? Me too.

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