How To Get Your Partner To Lose Weight

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Nagging, pleading, and badgering won't help your partner lose weight. But these subtle strategies may do the trick.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Compliments
A healthy, balanced diet
Slim versions of favorite foods
Modest goals
The Big Picture
A medical doctor

Step 1: Compliment them

Find ways to compliment them. Weight-loss experts say that the first step to getting someone in the frame of mind to diet and exercise is to raise their self-esteem, not destroy it.

Step 2: Eat the same foods

Eat the same foods. Making your partner eat "diet" food while you chow down on the kind of meal you used to enjoy together is a recipe for disaster.

Tip: Establish a "cooking date" at least once a week where you prepare a new recipe—only you have to know it's low-cal and low-fat.

Step 3: Tweak favorites

If you cook for your partner, slim down their favorite meals. Use less meat, cheese, butter, cream, or sugar than the recipe calls for; substitute fat-free or lower-fat ingredients; and bake, broil, grill, or roast foods instead of frying and sauteing.

Tip: Weight-loss counselors say many men resist dieting because they fear tiny portions. Help him feel satisfied by building meals around foods that can be eaten in volume, like vegetables and low-calorie fruits.

Step 4: Become more active

Plan fun activities for the two of you that involve breaking a sweat.

Step 5: Remove temptation

Keep foods they can't resist out of the house.

Step 6: Set the bar low

Encourage your partner to lose just five pounds. If the task doesn't seem so daunting, they're more likely to give it a try—and more likely to succeed. And if they succeed, they're more likely to keep going.

Step 7: Have a big picture

Keep up their motivation by presenting them with a goal to look forward to.

Step 8: Call in outside help

Finally, it's always a good idea to consult a doctor. An M.D. will make sure the extra weight isn't a symptom of something else, and your partner will benefit from a medically approved diet-and-exercise program.

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[houndoom1234]

Sex burns alot of calories if its hardcore enough

[Carripolla]

How To Get Your Partner To Lose Weight: Don't let them make or consume any of the bean dip in HowCast's last video.

[brokenmetaphysics]

@FlurpzZ oh shit

[FlurpzZ]

doesn't matter how encouraging you are. i'm telling you, this is how divorces start.

[pr1cl3]

an hour of sex burns a pack of chips. i ate 5, wut u doin tonite?

[jazmin2hip]

wow! he has a *to write love on her arms shirt (if you dont know what that is look it up)

[bubbasbjj]

none of this worked... you suck

[mrKANYEwes]

they shouldve made the girl the victem........ cause its usually girls dat dnt wanna lose weight but expect us to run 4mi and hit a gym for 2hrs every damn day just to suit them