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The Diet Bore.
You probably know a diet bore: there's at least one in every
office, every group, and at every get-together. It's almost
always female - men lose weight too but don't seem to feel the
same compulsion to convert the entire world. Blame it on our
innate female need to change everyone else.
The diet bore is the one who knows the caloric count of every
morsel you eat, and makes sure you know it too. She can expound,
at length, on the relative merits of sugar, salt, protein and
carbohydrates. She actually knows the difference (and explains
it ad nauseum) between mono and unsaturated fats, transfats, and
essential fats. She knows what's good for you and what terrible
things will happen if you actually eat what's on your plate.
She's the one who makes you cringe in a restaurant as she
meticulously quizzes the poor waitress about how everything is
prepared and cooked. She demands special substitutions and
omissions and then complains that her meal is bland. She carries
salt and sugar substitutes in her tote along
with her trusty
food value books and a calculator to loudly total the calories
and carbs she (and you) has consumed.
She causes more of us to fall of our diets than Ronald McDonald
and Colonel Sanders combined because she makes the whole concept
of losing weight so damned boring that we don't want anything to
do with it.
As we happily pig out on our spaghetti and meat balls (with
garlic toast), we can take comfort in noting that the diet bore,
despite the breadth of her knowledge and her too public weight
control efforts, is always a little heavier than she should be.
Maybe she bores herself too?
About the author:
Virginia Bola is a licensed psychologist and admitted diet
fanatic specializing in the effects of attitudes and motivation
on individual goals. She recently published a
psychologically-based workbook, "Diet with an Attitude" which
develops mental skills for permanent weight control. Reach her
at http://www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html
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