{"id":1858,"date":"2010-04-15T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:44","slug":"a-few-pounds-reveal-deeper-issues-wednesday-april-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/a-few-pounds-reveal-deeper-issues-wednesday-april-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Pounds Reveal Deeper Issues- Wednesday, April 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/herroyalmajesty\/4363052229\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4363794374_d1f81c7caf-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"4363794374_d1f81c7caf\" title=\"4363794374_d1f81c7caf\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1859\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4363794374_d1f81c7caf-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4363794374_d1f81c7caf.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<br \/>\nMy girlfriend has started gaining weight.  Not a lot, maybe five pounds.  But I think I know where this is headed and I really don&#8217;t want to date a fat chick.  So I&#8217;m thinking about either buying her a gym membership for her birthday or even just suggesting she go on a diet.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I really love this girl but it&#8217;s really important that my mate is physically fit.  I think she would understand where I was coming from too. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>-Name Withheld<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dear Name Withheld,<br \/>\nYour situation reminds me of an old saying I heard once:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you love something and it gains a little weight and you think it&#8217;s fat,<br \/>\nLet it go,<br \/>\nBecause you&#8217;re probably painfully shallow,<br \/>\nOr have wicked low self esteem,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s better off without you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nI think my Grandmother had that needlepointed on a pillow or something.<br \/>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, My girlfriend has started gaining weight. Not a lot, maybe five pounds. But I think I know where this is headed and I really don&#8217;t want to date a fat chick. So I&#8217;m thinking about either buying her a gym membership for her birthday or even just suggesting she go on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/a-few-pounds-reveal-deeper-issues-wednesday-april-14th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Few Pounds Reveal Deeper Issues- Wednesday, April 14th&#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":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}