Comments on: Your Friends Are Making You Fat? http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/08/01/your-friends-are-making-you-fat/ Daily writings about fitness, diet, and health Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:38:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Crabby McSlacker http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/08/01/your-friends-are-making-you-fat/#comment-120706 Crabby McSlacker Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:29:55 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/08/01/your-friends-are-making-you-fat/#comment-120706 <p>The study itself was pretty interesting. Like Emily points out, it works both ways--if people around you are losing weight, you're more likely to do that too. It seems as though without even realizing it, we absorb what our friends are doing (and how big or small they are) and think that's "normal."</p> <p>I think it would be silly for people to "blame" their friends--but it might make sense to look at whether their behavior might be an unhealthy influence, and be conscious of making healthy choices.</p> The study itself was pretty interesting. Like Emily points out, it works both ways–if people around you are losing weight, you’re more likely to do that too. It seems as though without even realizing it, we absorb what our friends are doing (and how big or small they are) and think that’s “normal.”

I think it would be silly for people to “blame” their friends–but it might make sense to look at whether their behavior might be an unhealthy influence, and be conscious of making healthy choices.

]]> By: emily http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/08/01/your-friends-are-making-you-fat/#comment-120623 emily Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:26:24 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/08/01/your-friends-are-making-you-fat/#comment-120623 <p>i never really thought of my friends being a cause, but my hubby...definatly. Luckily he also is why I am losing weight. He bought me lingerie from a online site (pamperedpassions.com) for our anniversary a few months away and so that night we would feel as sexy as ever we started eating better and working out...TOGETHER....it really does help....i suppose it is possibly to have the opposite effect.</p> i never really thought of my friends being a cause, but my hubby…definatly. Luckily he also is why I am losing weight. He bought me lingerie from a online site (pamperedpassions.com) for our anniversary a few months away and so that night we would feel as sexy as ever we started eating better and working out…TOGETHER….it really does help….i suppose it is possibly to have the opposite effect.

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