Help Your Lover Lose It


Updated 10/14/11 11:50 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 11 comments

How to Help Your Significant Other Lose Weight

Chances are, if you're reading FitSugar, you make an effort every day to eat right and exercise. Although you're doing your best to live a healthy lifestyle, maybe your significant other isn't. He or she may constantly snack on cookies and chips, drink soda instead of water, and get fast food every day for lunch. If it's upsetting to see them abusing their bodies, instead of watching their Read more

What Do You Call Your Lovah?


Updated 01/29/10 3:03 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 38 comments

What Do You Call Your Lovah?

Hopefully not that! But, whether you go for the politically correct "significant other" or the standard "boyfriend," tell us what you call your ________. Source: Flickr User Knives Out What Do You Call Your Lovah? Boyfriend Girlfriend Significant other Partner Husband/Wife Something better. I'll tell you in the comments. Read more

How Often Do You Work Out With Your Significant Other?


Updated 01/28/10 6:29 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 28 comments

How Often Do You Work Out With Your Significant Other?

Sometimes a loving relationship can lead to packing on the pounds, but your relationship can actually help you stay on track with your healthy lifestyle, giving new meaning to the phrase "healthy relationship." Your significant other can motivate you to get off the couch and into your sports bra, and he or she can also be a great workout buddy. So tell me . . . How Often Do You Work Out Read more

Ways to Turn Your Partner Into Your Workout Partner


Updated 12/04/09 7:05 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 0 comments

How to Get Your Significant Other to Exercise

I have been asked repeatedly for ways to motivate husbands, boyfriends, and partners to get interested in fitness. Chances are high that fitness is important to you, but here are some tactics to get your significant other to make working out a priority as well. Join a gym together. Tell your honey you really want to stay fit, and that you need their support to do it. Most gyms offer a deal if Read more

What Does Your Mr. Right Look Like?


Updated 03/28/09 6:10 PM · Posted by · 39 comments

What Does Your Mr. Right Look Like?

I caught up on Monday's Oprah last night and her guest, Steve Harvey, gave us all a glimpse into the male psyche as he answered a bunch of burning questions about love from an audience full of women. One in particular came to the show with a list of 43 requirements that her dream guy must posses, which included his height, his religious beliefs, his bank account, her need for him to be Read more

Dear Poll: Would You Rather Give or Receive?


Updated 12/28/08 6:14 AM · Posted by · 30 comments

Dear Poll: Would You Rather Give or Receive?

The older I get, the more enjoyment I take out of giving gifts verses receiving them. Sure, it's always fun to open presents of your own, but seeing the joy and excitement on your loved ones face when they see what you bought them is a feeling like no other. Especially when you've spent countless hours trying to find the perfect gift! Since you're probably doing your fair share of both today, Read more

Dear Poll: Who Do You Turn to First?


Updated 08/28/08 6:09 AM · Posted by · 38 comments

Dear Poll: Who Do You Turn to First?

Since life isn't always wine and roses, we all need someone to turn to when the going gets tough. Sixty percent of you still turn to your mom, like me, but I'm sure a lot of you also turn to your significant other when you need comfort, support, or even just a voice of reason. Of course, our moms are irreplaceable, but when you're in a relationship that special someone can easily become your new Read more

Dear Poll: Could You Work With Your Significant Other?


Updated 07/27/08 9:24 AM · Posted by · 25 comments

Dear Poll: Could You Work With Your Significant Other?

I'm a believer in a little distance making the heart grow fonder, which is why I don't think I'd ever be able to work with my significant other! Office stress is very different from home-life demands, and I think mixing business with pleasure could easily be a recipe for disaster. Of course we all take a little bit of work home with us each night, but when you work and sleep with the same person, Read more

Where Do You Stand: Shopping With Your Significant Other


Updated 07/21/08 5:00 PM · Posted by · 34 comments

Where Do You Stand: Shopping With Your Significant Other

After reading the comments from Friday's poll on shopping, almost all of you admitted to loving it for one reason or another. And as fun as it can be to try on one thing after another, sometimes an honest second opinion from your special someone can come in handy. Though I've never been one to dress for a boyfriend, it sure does feel good when he looks at you with longing eyes because you're Read more

Relationship Protocol: What Are Your Significant Other's Strange Habits?


Updated 05/20/08 4:08 PM · Posted by · 37 comments

Relationship Protocol: What Are Your Significant Other's Strange Habits?

We've talked about our own bad and nervous habits, but what about those of the people we spend most of our time with? Sometimes it's our significant others who have even stranger habits than we do, even though they might find them quite normal! I'm sure you can easily rattle off a few of his unique mannerisms so tell me ladies: What traits or strange practices does your significant other Read more