Marriage - Can It Make You Fat?

Holy Cow! Observations about the role of marriage in weight gain reveal that women gain an average of 25 pounds over 13 years of marriage, while men gain 19 pounds.

First, let me say this: Totally unfair, this whole man/woman weight inequality thing. Last year when I overhauled my family's diet, I lost 15 pounds. My husband lost 40. I exercised nearly obsessively. He didn't exercise at all. OK, we know this is to be expected. Still, very frustrating.

Second, this marriage revelation is something we can kind of control. The survey that revealed the above finding, and included a whopping 15,000 people, finds that causes of wedded weight gain include regular trips to restaurants and women eating the same portions of food their hubbies consume.

Maybe we brides won't ever be able to control the numbers on our scales as well as men, but we can limit the amount of pounds we pack on as our anniversaries rack up. I know we committed to "for better or for worse," but I say we leave getting fat out of the equation entirely.