The Diet Bore.
By: Virginia 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 www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html. She provides support and guidance in use of the workbook through her regular blog, dietwithanattitude.blogspot.com
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