Do you have a friend that chows down on fried chicken wings like a one-man piranha herd unleashed on clueless swimmers but looks skinnier than Victoria Beckham? Meanwhile, there you are looking glumly down at your pathetic salad and inwardly screaming to the heavens, “How have I displeased you, mighty Thor? That thou hast not alloweth me to win the genetic lottery.”
The Unfair Advantage
It seems everybody knows somebody who can keep weight off without doing anything. It’s so unfair. Meanwhile, there you are, quaffing weight loss pills, signing up for gym memberships and praying every night not to wake up looking like a whale. If you ask your friend what his secret is, he’ll shrug and say, “I eat like this all the time and never gain weight, good genes I suppose.” And we mutter under our breath “you lucky bastard.”
So we perpetuate the ......