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Earlier this year, DJ Khaled turned heads by publicly joining Weight Watchers and dropping 26 pounds. But when he talked to the New York Post’s Page Six, he was adamant about the wording of his accomplishment. Don’t call it losing weight, he admonished: “I got rid of. I don’t lose,” said the performer and record exec. “All I do is win—you know what I mean.”
Turns out, Mr. Khaled isn’t the only one who’s grown more particular about the terminology surrounding weight loss.

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