What’s the point in your shedding those extra calories. You’ll only make your spouse/partner look fat in comparison. You’ll begin to look like Laurel, while he/she will keep looking like Hardy.

Your spouse will have less of you to love.

If you win the battle of the bulge you will not be able to throw your weight around.

It’s a costly affair. You might save the precious cash that went into buying all that junk food—colas, chocolates, chips, et al. But you’ll end up spending more on a new wardrobe for the lean ’n’ thin you.

You’ll only be adding to the nation’s malnourished population.

You’ll be putting all those cola manufacturers and much-frequented fast-food joints out of business.

You’ll be providing unnecessary competition to the Miss Universe aspirants.

You will give your partner one less reason to be unfaithful. Why deprive him/her of more choice.

There are so many starved souls in the world. If you’ve got all goodies on a platter, there has to be a divine reason behind it—you’re the blessed one. Enjoy this priviliged status.