Love me slender
Subtitle: how smart couples team up to lose weight, exercise more, and stay healthy together
By: Thomas N. Bradbury, PhD and Benjamin R. Karney, PhD
Contributors: Karney, Benjamin R., author
Edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781451674514
Subjects: Reducing diets; Couples; Health and hygiene; Psychological aspects; Reducing exercises; Weight loss
Description: Many couples find themselves gaining weight as they settle into a relationship, but some couples manage to buck this trend. They exercise (together or separately), they support each other's healthy eating habits, and their relationships are stronger as a result. What are their secrets? It turns out that many of us are ignoring the most powerful tool we have to help us get healthier and stay healthier--our spouse or significant other. For more than twenty years, Drs. Thomas Bradbury and Benjamin Karney, codirectors of the RelationƠship Institute at UCLA, have been studying how couples communicate around these issues, witƠnessing firsthand how partners can help (and hinder) one another's progress toward better health. Here, they identify the specific principles that successful couples use in their quest to improve their health.--From publisher description.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Healthy relationships are the foundation of healthy lives. From healthy relationships to healthy bodies : a new way to think about health ; How our relationships affect our health : the three sources of power in our intimate bonds ; The basics of helping and being helped : how great support is like great sex; title: Part 2: Teaming up to eat right. Eating right and mutual influence : recognizing our power over what our partner eats ; Eating right and mutual understanding : discovering what our partners really need ; Eating right and long-term commitment : getting beyond the diet; title: Part 3: Teaming up to move more. Moving more and mutual influence : getting your move on; title: together ; Moving more and mutual understanding : listening for a change ; Moving more and long-term commitment : working out how to work out ; Epilogue : Better relationships make for healthier partners; title: and healthier partners make for better relationships.