Why the hell should she listen? Dieting doesn't work. Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers (the programs he recommended, with the comfortable comment that there were "lots" of them out there) -- they don't work in the long run. And they're horrible for one's frame of mind. I personally would rather die than ever go through another one of those stupid useless programs with their adherence to the ickiest ideas about bodies and femininity that our culture affords, which is saying a lot.

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