One of the reasons why people would like to lose weight is to find a mate. In fact, when one already feels that he/she is in love, it is easy to lose weight because he/she, most of the time, loses the appetite to eat. Unfortunately, we cannot be in-love all the time. When a relationship ends, it is the time when people usually gain weight the most. For these people, eating is the best coping strategy. I will personally have to agree.
According to experts, the reason why we lose the appetite to eat when we are in love is most likely because of the chemicals released during this attraction of falling in love, namely, dopamine and monoamine. These are the very same neurotransmitters that gives us a feeling of satiation after a meal. Now this is love literally fulfilling your most basics needs. Sounds cheesy, eh?
More important than the chemical effects of dopamine and monoamine, however, is that fact that love can make you forgive yourself about the missteps that you have made along the way. Sure, you've made a mistake in forgetting about your former weight loss diet regime, but with love, you can forgive yourself. In fact, it can even motivate you to make yourself more attractive to your potential mate.
Personally, love wasn't really that effective in making me opt to lose weight, primarily because I don't consider myself to be even overweight. I did not consciously make an effort to make myself look attractive to my past partner, because love just unexpectedly came then, and I thought that if we really loved each other, attractiveness should not really be much of a problem.
But then again, all good things come to an end, including our relationship, which endured a little over a year of joys and sacrifices. No regrets, I always say. We did love each other and the joy of having felt that kind of feeling was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. I will not lost my current form just because of a broken heart.
