{"id":121,"date":"2009-03-10T07:32:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:21","slug":"tuesday-march-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/tuesday-march-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>I used to be quite fat.\u00a0 After watching two seasons of The Biggest Loser, I got inspired and lost 60 pounds.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very happy and healthy now, except for one thing.\u00a0 People keep making really rude comments.\u00a0 For instance: &#8220;Wow, you are really thin now.\u00a0 You used to be so fat&#8221; or &#8220;Gosh you won&#8217;t be scaring children and busting chairs now, huh&#8221; or &#8220;I bet it&#8217;s a relief now knowing you could get laid.\u00a0 When you were a fatty you were hopeless!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe people can&#8217;t hear themselves?\u00a0 It&#8217;s scary to think that people don&#8217;t know these are hurtful things to say.\u00a0 Sometimes I want to say &#8220;You&#8217;re still ugly!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>Svelte<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Svelte,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m sorry that your accomplishment is marred by a few encounters with thoughtless idiots.\u00a0 Although, I bet if you tallied up the nice things people say versus the stupid thing people say you&#8217;d notice you get more nice comments.\u00a0 Hurtful comments just seem to stick in our brain better. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When people make backhanded compliments, I recommend implying that you lost weight because of a medical condition.\u00a0 Say things like &#8220;Well the meds really kill my appetite&#8221; or &#8220;Blech all that hospital food!&#8221; or &#8220;All those infected intestines weighed a lot&#8221; or &#8220;The removal of a 50 pund cycst will take you down a few sizes!&#8221;.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t be tempted to make up answers if they ask follow up questions.\u00a0 Just smile politely and say nothing until they walk away. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There aren&#8217;t a lot of instances where you can actually teach people a lesson, so you should take advantage of this one.\u00a0 You might be able to make this world a little better.\u00a0 I learned my lesson after fawning over a woman I thought was pregnant.\u00a0 I kept touching her belly and saying &#8220;I bet that&#8217;s going to be a big boy!&#8221; She was not pregnant.\u00a0 Now I wouldn&#8217;t ask some one if they were pregnant unless I was in the delivery room, watching the head crown. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Above all, be proud of yourself.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I used to be quite fat.\u00a0 After watching two seasons of The Biggest Loser, I got inspired and lost 60 pounds.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very happy and healthy now, except for one thing.\u00a0 People keep making really rude comments.\u00a0 For instance: &#8220;Wow, you are really thin now.\u00a0 You used to be so fat&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/tuesday-march-10th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday, March 10th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,45,44],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-revenge","tag-rudeness","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}