The Diet Bore
ByVirginia Bola, PsyD
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?
Virginia Bola is a licensed psychologist
and an admitted diet fanatic. She specializes
in therapeutic reframing and the effects
of attitudes and motivation on individual
goals. The author of The Wolf at the Door:
An Unemployment Survival Manual, and a
free ezine, The Worker's Edge, she recently
published a psychologically-based weight
control e-workbook, "Diet with an
Attitude" which develops mental skills
towards the goal of permanent weight control.
She can be reached at http://www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html
She provides support and guidance in use
of the workbook through her regular blog,
http://dietwithanattitude.blogspot.com
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