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Follow Up Thursday: Her Bestie Is Pressuring Her To Lose Weight!

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Her best friend had a New Year's resolution to drop some weight, which is great for her, but she kept pressuring her friend to join her! We helped her with #TextingTutor to get her to back off! Did the friendship survive? Spoiler alert: NO!

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:01.0

Are they still friends or did the friendship blow up after we did the texting tutor?

0:07.3

So we call a follow up Thursday to follow up on some Burk Show storylines.

0:11.0

And we had a Burst Show listener reach out to us trying to text a friend being like, hey,

0:15.9

love this journey for you that you want to lose weight, but I'm not feeling you pressuring me to join you.

0:21.9

And I remember the texting tutor did not go well. So we were wondering if it was going to

0:28.1

fragment the relationship or if they were going to be able to come back from it. So Mo, give us all

0:32.3

the details. So this was back in January and Julianne's best friend made a new year's resolution to

0:37.1

get healthy,

0:37.9

lose some weight, and a friend kept pressuring her to join her weight loss journey, but

0:41.7

Julianne was happy with her body. She didn't want any part of it. So we helped Julianne set

0:45.3

boundaries without texting tutor, but a friend responded with just a thumbs up. So the situation

0:50.4

escalated when Julianne's friend sent her a heavily filtered photo, making her look 20 to 30 pounds lighter with the message saying, quote, see, this is what you could look like in a few months.

0:59.9

End quote.

1:00.7

Julianne was hurt by her message and started questioning their friendship.

1:03.8

We advised Julianne to maintain her boundaries by not addressing the photo or weight loss requests.

1:08.6

And what has happened since?

1:10.0

Here's the update.

1:15.0

It says, Hibert Show. I bet you weren't expecting this, but as of today,

1:20.0

it's me who needs to apologize to my former best friend. I'll catch you up to speed because I do need your advice. We didn't really talk for a few days after she sent the photo of me edited

1:24.4

to look smaller. I was struggling on how to handle the situation.

1:28.1

I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I was really hurt.

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