For those of us who don’t get the “Times” and don’t know Joan Morris, here is an excerpt from her column. – Myrna
Excerpt from article (San Ramon Valley Times, July 2, page C3):
A lifetime deal for ‘temp’ diet
There comes a time in every dieter’s life when she or he must ask: “When does it end?”
The dieting, I mean. When do we stop counting calories? When do we say we’ve reached a perfect weight and no longer need to monitor the fat grams?
And the answer, of course is never. Feel free to curse and kick something now.
Even though I’ve been doing this for a while, it’s still hard to shake the secret dream I harbor that one day, I can be “normal” again.
(…) That’s a tough concept for dieters to accept, and one of the reasons I get complaints from people that I shouldn’t call this the Times “Diet” Club. Diet implies short term. It shouldn’t, but it does. We shouldn’t even consider the short term. We should be talking about eating this way – eating the healthful way – for life.
(…) “Diet” should be just another word for life. This is our diet; this is our life. We make healthful choices. We work to cut the fat. We exercise. We eat to live, not the other way around.
(…) We have to be aware of what we eat and what damage or benefit we may do to our bodies. We may not like it, but we can’t go back. This is now our normal.
(…) We may never be able to leave the house without making sure we have low-fat snacks in our pockets and there’s plenty of salad in the fridge for tonight, we also don’t have to live with the consequences of eating all the wrong things just because we can.
