Maintaining Weight Loss Goals in a New Relationship

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It can be difficult maintaining weight loss goals in a new relationship. With most new relationships, your schedule will change as you are available for and spend time with the new significant person in your life. Use these tips to maintain your healthy weight loss focus while you pursue your new relationship.

Be careful when you eat out at restaurants on dates

Dates often involve food so make some adjustments to how you’re eating. Regardless of the types of establishments you visit, you’ll be eating out more in the early days of your new relationship than you were before you were dating.

Are you up front about your goals with your new partner?

If weight loss is important to you, introduce the idea early on in your relationship of scrutinizing the types of places you are going to eat at as a couple.

What are your new significant others eating habits?

Make sure you get to know the eating habits and exercise style of the person you’re dating, including the big meal that that person eats during the day as well as the time of day the person exercises. It’s important that you acknowledge differences in your styles of eating and exercise so that as a couple you can decide on incorporating the diet and exercise practices that are important to each of you.

Keep exercise as “you” time

Resist going to exercise together unless you both exercise for similar periods of time. In addition to making, you feel self-conscious about your athletic abilities or appearance in your workout clothing, you can each end up being annoyed by the other person if one person tends to exercise for longer or shorter periods of time than the other.

Do make time for activities together other than hitting the gym

Plan some active outings such as hiking or taking a walk that you’ll both be able to do regardless of differences in your athletic abilities.

Discuss ahead of time whether an after-dinner walk or going dancing is going to be part of your date so that each of you can wear footwear that is comfortable for the activity.

Don’t be afraid to advocate for your needs

Consider whether your new romance is resulting in a shift in your traditional evening activities such as going out dancing for staying in and watching a movie, a much more inactive lifestyle, and adjust your exercise schedule to accommodate the change to maintain your weight-loss focus.

Make healthy living part of the relationship

Encourage discussion and activity that revolves around healthy lifestyle including weight-loss goals and enlist your new partner’s help in maintaining or further reducing your weight. Similarly, be supportive of your partner’s weight-loss efforts.

Be open and honest with your partner about your goals

Don’t pretend that you’re not worried about watching your weight if you are worried about watching your weight. Turning down an opportunity to eat out can be viewed as rejection unless you communicate that you’re trying to limit your eating out to pursue weight-loss goals.

Do not sacrifice your goals to please others

Don’t eat to please your new partner or others when they encourage you to try something, take seconds or choose to eat a food that is not part of your weight loss diet. This seems obvious until you find yourself saying OK to tasting a fattening dessert or other menu item. Decline the food and if you want, explain that you’re watching your weight.

Do you think you can maintain your weight loss goals in a new relationship?

A new romance should not mean unnecessary weight gain that defeats your weight loss goals. Use the tips above for pursuing your new romance while keeping your weight-loss goals in sight.

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