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Olga55 Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
stomach flu away from...
Hello, in the movie "The Devil wears Prada" I've heard one girl who is trying to lose weight saing " I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight. ..."
What does this mean?
Thank you.
What does this mean?
Thank you.
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If she gets sick with stomach flu, she will vomit and/or not eat anything, so her weight will drop to the weight that she wants to maintain. ) .
- If she gets sick with stomach flu, she will vomit and/or not eat anything, so her weight will drop to the weight that she wants to maintain.
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If she gets sick with stomach flu, she will vomit and/or not eat anything, so her weight will drop to the weight that she wants to maintain. (It is a joke, of course.)
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If she gets sick with stomach flu, she will vomit and/or not eat anything, so her weight will drop to the weight that she wants to maintain. (It is a joke, of course.)
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Even worse than the vomiting is the diarrhea and the ensuing loss of fluids, which can be life threatening. Rest assured, it is very much NOT a joke. Many girls and women die to achieve their "goal weight".Never heard of anorexia or bulimia?
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Lighten up, Anon. No one thinks that acquiring a stomach virus is a viable weight-loss strategy -- not even the writer who wrote the book or the script for the movie.
Yes, it's a serious problem for many young women. And yes, it was intended as a joke in the movie.
Yes, it's a serious problem for many young women. And yes, it was intended as a joke in the movie.
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