When Jenna Bergen moved in with her boyfriend, she realized that she was very much in danger of overeating and gaining a lot of weight.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon is not limited to Jenna alone. Most women gain weight when they are in a relationship.
Your Big Fat Boyfriend: How to Stay Thin When Dating a Diet Disaster explains why this happens and teaches you ways to avoid becoming your big fat boyfriend’s big fat girlfriend!
Your Big Fat Boyfriend: An Overview
The book is a cute and funny way of learning how to keep trim when you are in a relationship. Along the way, you also get to learn the basic difference in metabolism between men and women. You also get your hands on a number of healthy recipes.
At the very beginning, the author acknowledges that women are almost always pushed into changing their eating habits by men. So, the first task is to identify the nature of your man. Depending on his eating behaviors, man is classified as the anti-veggie, the pusher, the Junk food king and so on. Once you identify your man, you are given different ways of dealing with him.
Instead of getting down to a diet plan as such, this book breaks down the process of eating into various episodes, like how to eat when you go out, how to pick snacks, how to order food, how to shop at the grocery and so on.
The book contains a number of helpful and creative tips on how to have a date that helps you lose weight, like participating in miniature golf or going for salsa dancing together. You can shed the unwanted pounds while you nurture a wonderful relationship with your partner.
Exercise is given a lot of importance. In fact, the author says that exercise not only keeps your weight down, it also improves your sex life and helps you sleep soundly at night. Followers are asked to work out for 30 minutes every day and they are taught how to calculate the heart rate they need to maintain to lose weight. The author also talks about how to keep yourself on the straight and narrow as far as exercise is concerned without allowing your boyfriend’s couch-potato ways to ‘taint’ you!
Your Big Fat Boyfriend: A Review
The book is full of healthy tips on how to eat right, without actually getting into the specifics of what to eat and when to eat. That is good news for women who lead busy lives but bad news for those who want a definite step-by-step guide to weight loss.
Pros:
- Practical tips to remain healthy while dating a big fat man
- Focuses on the importance of exercise
- Ample ways of dealing with situations when you’re likely to zoom past your permitted calorie intake
- Written by an expert
- Interesting read
Cons:
- Only for women with boyfriends
- Not a step by step guide
In Conclusion
This book is for a specific audience, but then you already know that from the title and you can’t say you haven’t been warned.
It contains lots of useful information for women who want to preserve their figures even when they are with an ‘eating machine’. Although the information is not new it is presented well.
