Before the wedding, many girls are concerned about the problem of weight loss, but few do it, and often a couple extra kilograms comes in the first months of marriage - says a new Australian study.
The study involved about 350 Australians, who in the coming year were going to get married. Women were asked to name their values ??of real and ideal weight at the time of the wedding. A month and six months after the wedding, they were again interrogated to find out whether they had gained kilograms or lost.
About half of the women wanted to achieve the ideal weight for a wedding, for which on average they had to lose about 9 kg.
However, a month before the ceremony, their average weight did not change. So it happened because somebody lost weight, but somebody got fat, and the results of both groups equalized.
Regardless of the changes before the wedding, women in both groups started gaining weight after the wedding. On average, in the first six months of married life, each began to weigh 2 kg more.
This fact is confirmed by previous studies, which say that women become full after the wedding, but before that no one could determine exactly in what time interval after the wedding this happens.
"Post-wedding weight gain is not surprising, perhaps it is the result of the fact that now the newly wedded women do not need to sit so strictly on diets and spend a lot of time in sports," write the scientists of Flinders Institute, summing up their research.
"There is also the possibility that they no longer have the motivation to follow the weight, because the right man is already" hooked up "and the appearance has gone to the background," the researchers report..
In addition, it was found that if friends or relatives told the bride that she needs to lose weight for the wedding, then she recovered more than those who did not feel such pressure.
In subsequent studies, the goal is to find out whether pressure from the outside has led to an increase in women's discontent with their bodies and erratic diet.
Researchers note that the participants were selected at the wedding exhibitions and the results of this sample may be unrepresentative.
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