When Someone Loses A Bunch of Weight, Maybe Don’t Lead with “How’d You Do It?”
Weight loss is not a life change that just happens with a snap of one’s fingers. There’s more to it than that, even when people say it’s just about “putting in the work.”
Want
It really just comes down to putting in the work.
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Schmendrik. Foolish, contemptible.
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Schmendrik
It really just comes down to putting in the work.
It really just comes down to putting in the work, Gideon.
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it really just comes down to putting in the work
How’d you do it?
I worked very hard
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