I always get heavier the more I lose. What am I?
Weight loss
When you lose weight, the scale number drops, but colloquially people talk about the pounds they have 'lost', making them lighter, yet the riddle plays on a semantic reversal where losing weight conceptually adds to your success or journey.
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