The man (Andrew) and woman are ____.

close friends
husband and wife
Siblings

Andrew found out about his new diet ___.

through unwanted mail
from a friend
on TV

From the conversation, we can infer that Andrew ____.

hasn't gone running yet
has started a new exercise program
just joined a fitness center

The problem with eating at night is that ____.

you feel hungrier in the morning hours
your blood pressure increases because of the extra fat
The body isn't active to use up the extra calories

The woman knows Andrew is a regular customer at McDonalds

because ____.
Andrew has hamburgers in the refrigerator
he is a well-known customer at the restaurant
the manager dropped off some food at his house












Andrew's Sister: Hey, Andrew! An . . . ? Andrew. [ What? ] Andrew.

Andrew: What? What's going on?

Andrew's Sister: What happened to YOU?

Andrew: You mean my hair? You like my hair?

Andrew's Sister: Uh, I think you know what I mean, Andrew. Do you
want me to be honest? [ What? ] Okay. Andrew. You've put on, like,
a ton of weight since I saw you at Christmas time. What on earth
happened to you?

Andrew: Why are you always so blunt?

Andrew's Sister: Well, I'm your big sister. I'm . . . what am I? Three
years older than you, and I can be blunt if I want. Besides, you used
to say stuff like that to me all of the time. You used to call
me fatso all the time when I was little.

Andrew: Oh, yeah, well, to be honest, uh . . . , I started changing my

life . . . . yesterday. [ Oh good! ] I'm on the Wafu Diet.

Andrew's Sister: What? I've never even heard of the Wafu Diet.
What is that?

Andrew: Ah, it's too difficult to explain. I found information about it

in my junk mail the other day . . .

Andrew's Sister: What? You read your junk mail? No one reads
their junk mail.

Andrew: . . . and I signed up for it, and it only cost $490.

Andrew's Sister: You're serious? [ Yeah. ] Four hundred and ninety

bucks? [ Yeah. ] Like every month or every week or . . . ?

Andrew: I didn't check that . . . ah, ah, but, but, but, but . . . I think .
..

Andrew's Sister: Listen. I think you're getting scammed, and it

sounds really stupid, so listen. I'm not fat anymore, so trust me. I . . .
if you want to lose weight, you need to do it the right way.

Andrew: Well, like what?

Andrew's Sister: Well, okay.

Andrew: Okay, uh, well, look. Look at my running shoes over there.

Andrew's Sister: Andrew. They're still in the box. ( Well . . . ). Never

used. Besides exercise, yeah, exercise is wonderful. It's great, but
you also need to learn how to eat right. For example, you need to
eat smaller portions. And, and you can't load up your plate with
seconds and thirds like you always used to do at the family parties.

Andrew: Well, okay. I'll just get a bigger plate!

Andrew's Sister: Andrew! That won't help. Next [ Oh, next? ]. Oh

yeah. So, first of all, smaller portions [ Okay. ] Then, you need to
make sure you eat a good, well-balanced breakfast first thing in the
morning [ I do that. ] and then you follow that up with smaller meals
throughout the day, cause, you know what? If you skip breakfast,
then throughout the day, you feel like you need to make up it by
overeating at lunch and dinner and lots of snacks. [ Uh . . . ]

Andrew's Sister: Anyway, um, oh yeah. Don't eat late at night.

[ What? Like what? ] Well, you know a lot of people . . . they want a .
. . they want a late night snake and stuff like that, but a lot of times,
that's really, really high-calorie stuff like ice cream and things, and
your body's not active to burn it off, so you just store all those
calories as fat. You have to throw away . . . Oh my gosh! [ What? ]
That's all you have in your freezer! You've only got ice cream in here!
You're going to have to throw that all away?

Andrew: It's low-calorie (ice cream).

Andrew's Sister: Low cal. No, it's not low-cal. Look right here.
Andrew! That's all the food you've got in here is ice cream.

Andrew: Well, what else, what else?

Andrew's Sister: Also, what else are you eating? [ Well, you know . .
.] I mean, seriously. All you eat is ice cream? Oh, oh, oh. Look in
your trash. You go to McDonalds every day. Every day you're eating
at fast food? [ Well . . .] Okay, you got to cut out the fast food. When
you know the manger of McDonalds by name, and he's your
best buddy on Facebook, you know that you're going to McDonalds
or any fast food place too much.

Andrew: Uh, this is going to be tough.

 Andrew's Sister: Yeah. It' probably will be. But you also need to eat
a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables [ Oh, well. ]; cut way back on
sugar. No more sugary drinks like those five gallons of Coke you
drink every day.

Andrew: I don't drink five gallons.

Andrew's Sister: Close enough. Look at the size of those cups!

How many times do you refill them?

Andrew: Well, then, drink what?

Andrew's Sister: Water! [ Water? ] It's really good for you.

Andrew: Oh, this is going to be tough.

Andrew's Sister: It might be.

Vocabulary and Sample Sentences

• blunt (adjective): direct
- Ashley is always very blunt about her feelings towards other
people.
• fatso (noun): fat or heavy (not polite)
- Kids at school always used to call me fatso. It was a hard time in
my life.
• scam (verb; also noun): to cheat or deceive someone
- A few dishonest companies scam people into buying things they
don't need.
• portion (noun): amount of food, serving
- I sometimes overeat at this restaurant because their portions are
very generous.
• load up (verb): fill
- I know this is an all-you-can-eat restaurant, but you don't have
to load up on all those fatty foods.
• cut out (verb): stop or remove
- If you want to really lose weight, you need to cut out the cakes and
cookies after every meal.
• buddy (noun): close friend
- You and your buddy drink way to much soda with your meals.
• tough (adjective): difficult
- It's sometimes tough not to overeat during the holidays.
• cut back on something (verb): reduce the amount of something
- You should cut back on soda and drink water instead.