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Dude, this isn't a body building website. Words like "ripped" are not appropriate, bro.

I'm not a native speaker. Is it a vulgar word? Didn't seem like that to me. And I didn't know people looking to lose weight wanted to do so specifically without gaining any muscle. My advice wasn't to become a body builder, just a healthy person.

It's not vulgar, don't worry. The GP is just weird.

I'm guessing the negative comment was due to a jocks vs. nerds cultural thing, combined with the fact that your advice was well.. bad.

I'd argue "the best first step" is not to start pumping iron, but to develop and execute a strategy that helps you to reduce your number of daily fork lifts.

> I'm guessing the negative comment was due to a jocks vs. nerds cultural thing

Oh, yeah that happened to me a few times in the past, but more explicitly. The funny thing is my main activity is actually devops.

> daily fork lifts

LOL

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