THINKING SLIM

The problems of a perfectionist

By JEAN NIDETCH

If you've been having
trouble losing weight,
perhaps it’s because you're
too much of a perfectionist.

“Who, me?” you ask. °

can get in the way of being
perfect in any enterprise,
especially in weight loss.
Perfectionism stems from
the same “all or nothing”
attitude which is the reason
many of us got fat in the first

apple strudel completely,
then, by golly we'll eat ALL
of it. If we can't be a size 7,
then we'll be a size 27. If we
can't stick to our weight loss
program 100 per cent, then
we'll

‘all or nothing” syndrome is
a far more modest plan than
those you have tned (and
failed at) in the past - to aim
your sights, not at being
perfect, but at being better.

C7 - Sunday, May 16, 1982 - North Shore News

walk, and walk before we
can run, just so, success in
weight loss comes in small,
graduaj steps that, in the
long run, add up to slim
thinking and living.

eating that caused weight
gain, perhaps a realistic goal
at the beginning would be
simply to maintain your yo-
yoing weight at a steady
level for a few weeks, before

eat ourselves into What matters in this plan So, when you plan your beginning a slow but steady
perfectionist? Sure. I’m so Place. We'd like to be unconsciousness. If we can't is not that you instantly weight loss program, don't _ loss.
‘perfect’. I can't even bend perfect; in reality we are be perfectly happy, we can attain some distant, “bite off more than you can If you're a non-stop
over to tie my shoelaces!” human, and imperfect. So at least be perfectly idealized goal, but that you chew”, if you'll pardon the snacker, resolve to limit
But consider, I said “per- we give up and go “whole miserable. make slow but = steady expression! If past strenuous yourself to three meals a day
fectionist’, not “perfect”. hog” in the other direction. What I am suggesting for progress toward it. Just as we

And being a perfectionist

If we can't pass up the

the overweight victims of the

weight loss plans have ac-

with two planned snacks.

have to creep before we can

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