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Hello, this is six minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil and I'm

Georgina. January is often the time when people make New Year's resolutions

things they want to start or stop doing in the new year.

Have you made any resolutions for 2021, Georgina?

Well, for a start, Neil, I'm definitely going on a diet.

Over Christmas, I really piled on the pounds with all that chocolate.

Yes not to mention Christmas pudding I'd already put on extra weight during lockdown

then even more over Christmas so I definitely need to diet in

2021. It's curious that we both made resolutions to lose weight isn't it? I mean most

people overeat a bit at Christmas then diet in January.

What are you saying Georgina? Do you think we're worried people will call us fat?

It wouldn't be so surprising Neil after all incidents of fat shaming are on the rise.

That's what it's called when someone is criticized or humiliated for being fat.

In this program we'll be asking where the attitudes behind fat shaming come from.

We'll be hearing how anti-fat attitudes are often implicit or unconscious.

Hang on though, Neil. Having a second slice of Christmas cake is hardly the same as being fat, much less obese.

That's true Georgina. The word obese describes a person who's very overweight,

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