Why Chubbier Guys Make Great Dates

Men have always said they prefer a lady to have curves and ''plenty to get hold of''', but it seems increasingly these days, women are coming round to the same way of thinking.

After all, it's all very well having a guy with a six pack and biceps on his biceps, but how do you expect to enjoy a bag of chips on the promenade or a cup of tea and a big cake in Betty's, when all your man wants to do is get back before the gym shuts?

What's there to cuddle up to and warm your feet on in the middle of winter, and what if your man would rather be at five a side training than watching a dvd and gobbling a pepperoni pizza?

The fact is that women can properly relax with a tubby chap, in a way they just can't with an image obsessed fitness freak. The David Beckham's of this world are all very well to look at, but what would be the reality of sharing their space? I certainly can't see him scoffing a curry on a Friday night, or choosing a Sunday lie-in over 100 lengths in the baths.

Women are beginning to see that blokes who keep a record of their BMI in their phones, buy more expensive moisturiser than they do, pluck their brows and make monthly block bookings at the tanning shop are quite simply not as much fun as a cheeky, chubby guy with a great sense of humour that includes the ability to laugh at himself.

There's a lot to be said for the true real men in our lives - the hairy ones who might be a bit insensitive from time to time, and don't have buttocks of steel, but who love us for who we are and don't tut if we pig out, sometimes get too drunk, let our roots show a week too long or put on a few pounds. Because they are secure enough in themselves, they don't want us to be insecure too.