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Diet Is No Diet at All
omen wear diet blinders. Screening out Calorie Control Council in Atlanta. She may try
much of the taste， smell， and enjoyment of food， eliminating \"bad\" foods--things like chocolate，
the blinders leave us focused on how much body cake， peanut butter， beer， and steak. She may try
fat particular foods will create. So we look at eating particular foods almost exclusively--
cake and see fat hips. We look at fried chicken going on grapefruit diets， cabbage soup diets，
and see fat thighs. We look at cheesecake and and olive-and-egg diets. She may skip meals. Or
see a fat behind， slash calories. At any rate， it all comes down to
When wearing such blinders， we tend to tab- the same thing: She deprives herself until the
ulate and calculate. A slice of cake now plus pounds drop off. And then she begins eating
some aerobics tonight minus breakfast tomorrow normally again.
equals an \"l-can-live-with-that\" tummy or You d think that with all this dieting， women
thighs. We re so used to the blinders， which would get thinner. We don t. In fact， we get
most of us have worn since adolescence， that we fatter. In the mid-1970s， 26 percent of women
wouldn t dream of leaving home without them. age 20 and older were obese， meaning that they
Yet， if we want to become successful fat-fighters， were 20 percent above their desirable weight as
we must discard them. \"Although we think diets defined in the Metropolitan Life Insurance
are making us thinner， \"all they really do in the Company height/weight table. By the early
long run is make us fatter，\" says Debra Water- 1990s， the percentage swelled to 35 percent. Ba-
house， R.D.， a San Francisco nutritionist and sically， dieting doesn t work. Half of those who
author of Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell. lose weight by cutting c ，dories regain or exceed
their weight within a year. The long-term num-
Yes， Diets Are Fattening bers are even more dismal. \"Ninety-five percent
of women who lose weight regain it all within
The average woman who diets starts a new five years，\" says Sue Cummings， R.D.， assistant
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