Here’s a friendly warning for those of you who are trying to lose weight. If there’s one phrase you’re likely to hear a hundred times before you’re done shedding the pounds its:
“Oh My Goodness! Look at you! You’re all skin and bones!”
The first time you hear it you can’t help but take it in a complementary fashion. After all, it took a lot of hard work to shed those first six pounds!
However, as the days and weeks go by, you slowly feel the murky undercurrent that accompanies the words; the disingenuous delivery and the accompanying melodrama with its cloying dissonance.
We may have lost a love handle or two, but we’re not dumb. We don’t need to be encouraged like pre-school children. “Congratulations on dropping a few pounds” may not sound quite as dynamic, but for my money it sure beats the histrionic alternative.
#004 - You're no longer subjected to theatrical ‘weight loss’ pleasantries
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