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"I mentioned last week that one of the benefits (or detriments&amp;amp;#8212;depending on how you look at it) of being single again is that I&amp;amp;#8217;m back at the gym. Here I would love to be able to say that I&amp;amp;#8217;m also eating better, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m actually writing this after having just consumed several tacos, with extra sour cream--that I purchased from a truck. Fitness, my first step to attracting a mate, has become a priority again. No more girlfriend belly! &amp;amp;#8220;Girlfriend Belly?&amp;amp;#8221; you ask. &amp;amp;#8220;What the heck is that?&amp;amp;#8221; Well, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll tell you. Soon after I ended things with Ms. Canada, I was out with my friend Juliet. We were ragging on each other, as friends do, and she pointed to my (very slight) paunch, and referred to it as my &amp;amp;#8220;Girlfriend Belly.&amp;amp;#8221; Apparently, in Juliet&amp;amp;#8217;s world, when a boy gets a girlfriend, he no longer has to keep himself as fit (because you love us for who we are, now what we look like, right? Right? RIGHT?), and lets himself go a little. Juliet was exactly right. Her very mean, and very correct assessment of my new situation (I prefer to call it &amp;amp;#8220;post-abs&amp;amp;#8221; as opposed to &amp;amp;#8220;flab&amp;amp;#8221;) got me thinking of other things that happen to guys after a particularly bad breakup. Have you seen any of these? Ex-Girlfriend Hair You dumped him. He cried. That was not a turn on. Later that week your friend Julie saw him on campus, looking drunk and a little pale. &amp;amp;#8220;What happened to his hair?&amp;amp;#8221; she asks. Ex-Girlfriend Hair is what happened, Julie, you gossipy little jerk. This is a unique condition where the hair takes the shape of whatever awful arrangement of bed/pillows we&amp;amp;#8217;ve been sleeping/sobbing in after a recent dumping. Ex-Girlfriend Hair is aided by not washing, conditioning, and much treatment by a delicious mixture of sweat, tears and the blood from our fingers rendered raw from texting you. Boring Blisters These are the blisters on his thumb, and certain parts of his hands that are the result of playing a new video game for tens of hours straight. Dumped Liver Only noticed by doctors, and the occasional mortician, dumped liver occurs when we drown our sorrows in Heineken, Kahlua, vodka, and then whatever grain alcohol we can get our hands on. What&amp;#x27;s your relationship affliction? How about your guy&amp;#x27;s? More on Fitness at Glamour.com 5 Easy, Filling Dinner Recipes Under 500 Calories Health Rules for Every Woman Why You May Want to Ditch Artificial Sweeteners (And, 3 Smart Ways to Stop Sweet Cravings) More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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