11. Kudos

She began criticizing her close friends for the meals they would order at restaurants. She would occasionally recite healthy recipes in public as if they were poems. She even started a health food blog. In the beginning, people had merely resented her in silence, but soon they were barely tolerating her obnoxious and rather vocal vanity.

As this behavior continued, no one was returning her phone calls or e-mails. When she went on her morning and afternoon jogs, she sometimes saw people she knew, but they all avoided eye-contact or pretended to be answering their cell phones. And when her friends and family received the Christmas card of her wearing a red bikini and Santa hat while eating gluten-free fettuccine, not one sent theirs in return.

It had been over a year since she lost the weight. In as much time, she had also lost everyone she had once cared about. The initial praise she received for the accomplishment had gone to her head, and she knew it. But all things considered, she was just grateful that it hadn’t gone to her hips.

 

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