The say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but a new study is finding that you can say the same about women — she’ll be a lot more romantic with you if you treat her belly right.

As it turns out, a nice big meal resulting in a full stomach is more likely to win her over than just about anything else, according to a CNET report.

The study, which will be published in the journal Appetite later this year, comes from researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research — a mouthful, but so is the subject they were working on.

The study examined changes in the female brain when food is introduced. It focused on women who had a history of dieting, and those who did not, finding that those who dieted in the past showed more of a reward circuitry when they felt full.

So they expanded on that experiment to see if response to romantic cues improved when they were full versus when their stomach was growling.

The second study found that both types of women had the same responses when they were fed, finding that women who had eaten before being exposed to the romantic cues showed more activation in the brain that corresponded with perception and romantic responses.

The study shows just how much food and romance are tied together for both sexes — and it actually applies to more than just romance, with other studies suggesting that people were more responsive to things like money and drugs when they hadn’t eaten, according to the report.