They sign $10,000 affidavits saying that they won't ask for anything financial. We tell the men not to give them cash, not to pay their rent, not to buy them a car. You can buy gifts, jewelry, pretty much anything you want as long as it's out of the goodness of your heart and no one has swayed you or tipped you off to do it. Then the four-to-one rule is the most important rule. Every four times he gives to you, you have to give back at a lesser value. Whether he takes you to dinner, drinks, dancing, whatever -- you have to give back by making him dinner, baking him cookies, something domestic that would be appreciative to him that he can't do for himself or he doesn't want to do for himself. So you just give back at a lesser value. I'll give you an example. I do my boyfriend's taxes every year. I enter it into his computer on his spreadsheets. Now he has two apartment buildings, and he hates to sit at the computer and do this. Every year -- at tax time -- I spend a full day doing this for him. Now that's a way to give back to him. I buy the groceries and he takes us out for dinner. I cook during the week, and he takes us out for dinner during the weekend. So we find a balance.

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The first size-friendly resort opened in Mexico's lovely Riviera Maya in the summer of 2003. This size-friendly travel agency, according to Travel & Leisure, "advises overweight vacationers on how to avoid being charged for two airplane seats and how to find the most accommodating cruise lines." There are dating services, too. Business Week last week noted that "the number of accredited U.S. weight-loss camps has nearly doubled in the past five years." The women's gym Curves has an astonishing 9,000 franchises.

The Silicon Valley of the fat economy is Durham, N.C. As part of its "Obesity, Inc." series, the New York Times in May noted how weight-reduction had replaced tobacco as a key local industry. Reporter Stephanie Saul dubbed Durham a "Lourdes for the obese." A series of diet houses—Rice Diet Program, the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, and Structure House—along with associated retail, hotel, and medical businesses, pump more than $50 million into the local economy annually.

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