It's been a while since I've had a craving for pancakes, so I baked some for my wife and myself.

Ebata: "The calorie content of flour is a little hard to ignore, but dieting is easy because all I have to do is not eat it.

When I muttered that, my wife and second daughter heard in the living room , and,

That seemed to make them mad.

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Ebata: "No, unlike English, if you don't eat, you will definitely lose weight. Dieting is easier than English."

Wife: "If you study English hard, you will definitely be able to do it, but with dieting, no matter how much we endure, the effects don't show up".

It was just the usual parallel argument.

After that,

"I just don't 'study English,'" -- my wife made excuses.