C4 - Sunday News, July 12, 1981

(Terry Peters photo)

PROFESSIONAL snooker player John Beare lines up
West 15th Street. Along with John was his brother Jimmy who fs the

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There’s no doubt that a
family member’s response to
our weight control -efforts
can affect our success in los-
ing weight. Sometimes, how-
ever, we may go too far and
placé ALL the responsibility

_for failure on our family.

Linda thinks she has fig-
ured out why she can't lose
weight. Her three young
children are home from
school for summer vacation.

“They upset my whole
schedule. First, I have to
take them shopping with me,
and they throw every kind of
cookie into the cart. Then,
they must have cones from
the ice cream truck. Of
course, 1 end up buying one

for myself, too. And the re-
frigerator is stocked with
sweet drinks and sodas for
hot summer days.”

Marge is convinced that
her overweight is her
husband's fault. “He likes to
do business entertaining at
home,” she says. “I enjoy
cooking and having people
over, but those big meals
and cocktails are adding
extra pounds.”

Does our success really
depend upon someone else?
Or are we looking for an
excuse to justify our inability
to make the change for
ourselves?

Let's return to Linda. She
says her children keep her

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from losing weight during
the summer. But what about
the rest of the year, when
they’re in school during the
day? Well, Linda does have
other excuses: her part-time
job (“It’s the coffee breaks”),
her visiting relatives (“We
take them to a lot of restau-
rants”)...

Marge is ignoring the
obvious: SHE prepares the
meals. What's to prevent her
from changing some of her
cooking habits and broil and
bake instead of fry? Cutting
down on sauces and oils?
Serving fresh fruit for dessert
and having club soda for her-
self while others have
cocktails?

Both Linda and Marge sce

er demonstration at the Legion Hall at 123
1980 Canadian amateur snooker champion.

lame the family

themselves as “victims” of
other people and of their
surroundings. By reinforcing
this concept, they are help-
ing to make change impossi-
ble.

I stress to them and to
you: The first step that leads
to successful weight loss is to
accept responsibility for
your actions. Once you say,
“Losing weight is up to me,”
then you can break the old
pattern of resignation and
substitute a positive plan of
action instead. Of course,
thinking you're = successful
won't make you a success.
Imagining success as a real,
personal goal, however,
helps to make it happen.

more .

A lefthanded person has to
deal with more than
righthanded scissors, reports
a University of Michigan
study: he has to deal with
stress.

“Perhaps the conflict of
being a lefthanded child in a
righthanded world produces
disturbances,” suggests
research-teqgm member
Ernest Harburg. Because of
this, lefties apparently

smoke more, drink more and ~

are more emotional and
antisocial! than righthanders.

The researchers surveyed
a group of more than 500
adults and found that fewer
than half of those who were

righthanded smoked,
whereas 60 percent of the
lefties did. Whén they
looked at alcohol con-
sumption, they found that
lefthanders once again
outdistanced their
righthanded counterparts.

And, says righthander
Harburg, ‘‘Lefthanded
people between 18 and 40
scored higher on _ the
emotionality scale. They
were also less sociable.”
However, ~temperament
differénces decline as- lef-
thanders get older. As they
learn to cope, or give up and
join the righthanded
majority.

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