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.
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.
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