C7 - Sunday News, September 6, 1981

Gi women
THINKING SLIM

| was slim for a little while

By JEAN NIDETCH

Janet can't understand
what happened. After years
of self deception, she finally

faced up to the fact that she’

was overweight. She joined a
weight loss plan and after
five long months on the food
plan proudly reached her
goal of 133 pounds. And
there she remained — for six
weeks and three days
exactly.

Then suddenly she began
to gain, until now, several
months later, she is within 10
pounds of her starting
weight. She just can’t un-
derstand how it could have
happened.

Talking to Janet, I get a
clearer picture of the
situation. The key lies in
certain * recurrent phrases.
When she talks about being
fat, she is usually self-
abusive. She uses phrases
like, “I ate myself fat.” “T let
myself go.’ But when she is
talking about her bref
transformation into a_ thin
self, it's as if she is talking
about another person: “!] was
thin for a litthe while. I
lucked out. Don't ask me
how I did it, but anyway, it
didn’t last.”

Occasionally, Janet even
uses the third person in
talking about her slim self:
“That thin me, she really
looked terrific.”

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Janet’s problem is that,
while she is more than ready
to accept responsibility for
being fat, she rejects the
credit of her thin self. She
sees that fat self as her “real”
self; the “thin” self was
illusory and temporary, a
fluke, a product of luck or
someone else's” en-
couragement. Of course,
this is nonsense. As anyone
who knew her at the time
will confirm, Janet worked
very. very hard to lose those
pounds.

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Then why is she reluctant
to accept the credit she so
richly deserves? Because to
accept credit means to
accept responsiblilty for
remaining slim after weight
loss and this Janet is not
ready to do. This is more
understandable when we
stop to realize what ac-
cepting such a responsibility
means.

Taking it upon ourselves

to eat correctly, within

reasonable limits, at every
meal of every day of every

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year for the rest of our lives.
That kind of responsibility
can seem awesome. But it
really isn’t on a_ sensible
weight-loss program that
teaches you not only how to
eat the proper amounts but
how to enjoy that limitation.

There may come a time
when Janet will think highly
enough of herelf to want to
accept the rewards and
responsiblities that come
with being a slim person. For
everything worth having in
this world has its price, as

most of us have learned.
considering the
alternatives carefully, for a
lifetime of slimness, that
price does not seem too high

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