THINKING SLIM

Battling urge to binge

By JEAN NIDETCH

Penelope, heroine of
clsssical mythology, spent
her time in a i
pursuit. By day, she sat at
her loom, weaving a web of
legendary beauty and
fragility. But every night, she
would return in secret and
unravel the work of the day
before.

Penelope had good reason
for her actions. She was
seeking to delay an un-
wanted marriage, which she
had promised to enter imto
when the web was finished.
Yet how many of us are
secret Penelopes for far less
logical reasons.?

Binge eating is not an
unusual problem, it is one of
the most common reasons
for diet failure. Definitions
of binge eating tend to be
very personal, ranging from
an unplanned = second
helping to a “lost weekend”
of uncontrolled eating. But
whatever their personal
definitions, bingers agree on

several points.

Bingeing is done in
response to a strong craving
and is both unplanned and
uncontrolled.

Dr. Richard B. Stuart,
psychological director of
Weight Watchers In-
ternational, Inc. has created
a five-step plan to combat
the urge to binge, whatever
the circumstances that set
off this kind of eating. Step
one of Dr. Stuart's plan is to
distract yourself from cating,
either by changing your

activity (turning off the
television, engaging in a
hand-craft) or your en-
vironment (leaving the

room, going for a walk).

If Step One fails to drive
the urge to eat from your
mind, try Step Two: resolve
to wait 10 minutes before
giving in. This proves to
yourself that you do have at
least some degree of control
over your eating, and
chances are, after 10
minutes, the craving will
either pass or a distraction

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will come along that will
prevent the binge.

If you absolutely must eat,
having done Step Three will
minimize the damage.
Prepare ahead something
acceptable to eat that will
not ruin your weight loss
plan.

The bulkier and chewier
the planned snack, the
better; the idea is to satisfy
the need to chew and
swallow without actually
“cheating”. If the urge to
binge on something sinful
sti! hasn't passed by this
time, take the fourth step:
make “cheating” as in-
convenient as possible.

Take only oa small portion
of whatever you crave and
close and replace food
containers, pref y in the
back of the higMest cup-
boards.

Set yourself a place at the
table, sit down, and eat
slowly and deliberately.
Then leave the area and
involve yourself with
something else. Do your best

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to make eating more a
bother than tt 1s worth.
Finally, remember Step
Five: kee your eating m
perspective. One slip does
not a diet disaster make:
only when you allow
negative thoughts to take
over and give up completely
will you really unravel your
efforts and have to start
over. Use these five simple
steps to keep from being a
secret Penelope.

CS - Sunday, May 73, 1982 - North Shore News

T-shirt bandit
easy to spot

ST. LOUIS (UPD — If you
want to be a stickup man,
don't wear a T-shirt with
your name on it.

A man, carrying an
automatic pistol and wearing
a T-shirt with the name
“James” pnnted on the back,
and accompanied by a
woman Wednesday robbed
the Stadium Park West
Garage of about $188.

About three minutes after
the holdup, a descnption of
the robbers was broadcast
over the palhice radio.

Officer Gary Barta took a
guess at the direction the
robbers might be headed and
as he drove down a street, he
saw a couple fitting the
description of the suspects
headed toward him.

Barta ordered the couple
to halt and he on the ground.
As they did, Barta noticed
the man’s T-shirt. On the
back of the shirt was the
name “James.”

Barta arrested the couple
and recovered the money
and the weapon.

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