Study: Your Spouse’s Bad Habits Can Make You Fat Even If You Grew Up With Healthy Habits
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The first winter that I was dating my now-husband, I found by February that my pants didn’t fit so great. It was easy to see why, once I stopped to think about it: Frigid nights spent on the couch binge-watching whatever our latest chosen series was on Netflix, and me answering “Sure,” to just about any deliverable meal he suggested, from stromboli to nachos.
When I mentioned something along the lines of, Dude, I am gaining so much weight and I’m pretty sure it’s your fault, he barely looked up from his phone as he offered a casual confirmation: “Oh, yeah,” he said. “I’m kind of known for making my girlfriends fat. Some of them have never recovered.”
