4 Reasons You Gain Weight When You Meet Your Mate

By Emily Battaglia, LifeScript Staff Writer

Published September 29, 2006

Candlelit dinners and Netflix/pizza nights make for great dates with the new person in your life, but while your new love may last, your pre-boyfriend slim figure might not. New love is time-and mind-consuming, and when you’re blowing off gym time for snuggle time and trading in your Lean Cuisines for decadent dinners, you’re blowing off your health. And weight gain doesn’t just happen in new relationships; married women fall prey to this phenomenon, too. Find out why women in love gain weight and how you can keep that girlish figure you began with. Plus: Test your calorie IQ…

Physical attraction plays a huge part in your relationship compatibility – it’s one of the reasons why you were attracted as a whole to each other in the first place. And you probably put a lot of effort into your looks when you first started dating. But once you start celebrating month or year anniversaries, chances are that you’re so comfortable in your relationship that impressing your partner isn’t always your first priority anymore.

Months of watching the numbers on your scale climb may turn into years, and before you know it, you’re married and heavier than ever before. A study conducted by Cornell University found that newlyweds gain more weight on average than single people or widowers or divorcees, usually within the first two years of getting married. It’s also no surprise that many women in love find that they are getting fat steadily throughout the marriage. So what does this all tell us? We shouldn’t bother getting married if we want to stay slim? Of course not! In order to avoid packing on the relationship weight, you have to know why this seemingly unexplained weight gain can be explained – so let us count the ways:

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Independence and the "Fighting Spirit" of the Vincentian People

by Ta' Neil James on Friday, 26 October 2012 at 22:29

Been hearing Perseverance by Mr. Rasum Shallow a lot lately. Always knew it was a good song, but never internalised the lyrics until now. I honestly believe it is one of the greatest songs written in the world lol, and it got me thinking, and well writing too... been a while since I have done that lol. Here goes...

For a considerable period in its history, the Caribbean region was characterised by a socio-economic structure based primarily on plantation agriculture revolving around sugar. For much of that time, plantation labour was equated with slavery characterised by inhumane living and working conditions. Historian Franklyn Knights asserts that slavery in Caribbean society was in every respect a wretched form of labour organisation. Moreover, many scholars have agreed that the end of enslavement did very little, if any to improve conditions for the masses. For centuries therefore, Caribbean people, including Vincentians had to struggle in a society that was deliberately designed to control and stifle their aspirations and development socially, economically and politically.

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Elma Francois 1897-1944

November 03, 2002
by Corey Gilkes

Elma Francois

October 14th marked the birth of one of the most vociferous Africentric activists in the history of Trinidad & Tobago and the Caribbean. She is Elma Constance Francois. In the study of the struggle of African people on the Continent and in the Diaspora to free themselves of European and Arab domination and redefine their existence the women who were the standard bearers of those struggles are often given less attention than their male counterparts. Even when they are acknowledged, the names of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis are the names spoken. Elma and her contemporaries gave the lie to the myths about meek acceptance of colonialism by the colonised and to the lack of political and social consciousness among women.

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