“Today I start the diet.” How many Mondays have you said that phrase while preparing a healthy and balanced breakfast? And how many Mondays at dinner time have you thrown in the towel and given up making that effort that would allow you to lose those kilos with which you don’t look good? Going on a diet requires a certain psychological preparation and, above all, a lot of willpower. We have found the best way to motivate you to achieve your goal: dieting as a couple. We can assure you that it is the best way to lose weight without realizing it. 
9 tips for dieting as a couple
Relationships go through different phases until they reach their consolidation. Did you know that on this path from falling in love to becoming established, you can gain an average of 4.5 kilos? These are data provided by the XSL Medical survey carried out by the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (SEEDO). And what to do to reduce that excess? Nothing like going on a diet as a couple, something that can unite you even more. For this it is necessary that you take into account a series of guidelines.
- Design a plan. First you will have to sit down to talk about what the objectives of each one are and how far you want to go separately and together.
- It is also important to know how you are going to achieve it: diet type, doing some kind of exercise, extra treatments such as massages to reduce cellulite or combat fluid retention.
- Division of tasks. Who is going to be in charge of going down to the supermarket to do the shopping? Which of the two will be responsible for drawing a menu each week? Who will cook? If you have everything well established, there will be no misunderstanding in your bikini operation as a couple.
- Share your feelings. If you’re doing well, if you’re having a hard time, if he’s not being as hard as you thought… Since he’s going through the same thing as you, sharing the experience of being on a diet will motivate you and help you gain strength to get to where you are. the end.
- Be aware of the risk involved in going on a diet together. Hunger makes us more pissed off and angry and we always end up paying for it with the one next to us. Before entering into a meaningless discussion, think about whether it is the result of your process to lose those kilos.
- Enjoy the food and establish a protocol of the type without mobile phones at the table or no television until you finish.
- Examine well the components of the labels of those products that you are going to buy, because you may discover foods that are not as ” light ” as you thought.
- Beware of metabolisms. The constitution of men is very different from that of women, and men are lucky enough to lose kilos faster than women, a very important fact when facing the scale every week.
- And finally, this is not a competition but a way to modify routines and establish healthier eating habits.