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- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
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- From: jsl+@pitt.edu (John S Lundberg)
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:20:23 GMT
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- In article <98520@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >Know what? I'd love to meet someone formerly fat who followed X diet plan
- >and kept the weight off permanently -- or for even 10 years. I still haven't.
- >I've heard about them, and TV diet ads display them, but I haven't met one
- >personally yet.
-
- You could wait 10 years and meet me...
-
- I have a friend who lost about 80 lbs in the late 1970s on one of the
- liquid diets. He's kept it off since then by being very careful of
- what he eats and living a very active life.
-
- I know another person who both quit smoking and lost about 50 lbs and
- has maintained both of those changes for about the same period of time.
- He's been walking the same .9 mile loop every day for years and says
- that it's like brushing his teeth in the morning--just something he
- does.
-
- I also know people who've never been able to manage to sustain a weight
- loss but who seem to be well-adapted to being overweight.
-
- I think Calvin Trillin has written about a friend of his ("Fats Goldberg")
- who lost a lot of weight and kept it off by allowing himself 1 day/week
- to cheat. I think he also can eat anything he wants when in Kansas City
- (he normally lives in New York).
-
- It's been done.
- --
- John Lundberg
-