Herald & Lantern 1 August 'B4 9

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I am devoting today's column to excuses. We all us& them. Some of us are more experienced than others and have indeed perfected the "Art of the Excuse". / j Weight coro6l brings with it a vasL^fegree of rationalization/ justification. liuitanuiuuiiy jujiii ila nun ,

explanations and exaggerations, i.e.. EXCUSES. Listed below are some I've heard lately. •THE WEEKEND is coming up, so I'll wait and start my, diet on Monday, ,44990?) •My husband/wife likes me the way I am. (Really? Do you?) •Nobody really cares about me so I might as well eat ; at least that makes me 1 happy. (Does it?7 •Everything on the table looked so nice, I didn't want to hurt the host's/hostess' feelings. (What about your /feelings? ) •I know I should lose weight but it's SO hard and nobody understands (I do. ) •I would join a support group to lose weight but there's always someone there that I can't stand. (Hmm! ) •I WOULD join a weight control group but I know they wouldn't accept me and then I'd have a bigger problem. (You do.) •Sometimes I get so nervous that food is the only thing I've found to calm me down. (Try prayer.) •I'm too old (young, busy, inactive, happy, sad) to be bothered dieting. (No one is.) $ •I can't seem to find the right diet for me - I know there's one out there somewhere. (Yes, there is.) •Everybody seems to be able to £at more than I and still stay slim. I don't know why I don't have NORMAL metabolism (Yours is more efficient. ) •I DO NOT eat junk, I eat only good food. (Too much good food does as much harm as a little bad food." 13th Cent.-Anon.) •I have fat genes. ( Watch them shrink.) •I'll lose it later. (Start now.) •I'm pleasingly plump (stout, chubby, not tall enough, just not well distributed, voluptuous, etc. ) ( Euphenisms don't hide split suims.) •I'm Italian (Russian, Spanish, French, Irish, German, Dutch, etc.). (Our poor maligned anchestors!) •I'm single, so when I'm lonely I eat. (See below.) •I'm married, so when I'm lonely I eat. ( Interesting ) •BECAUSE OF an old injury, I can't exercise enough to keep my pounds in check. ( If all you can do is get out of bed, do it with a smile.) •My children (in-laws, husband, wife, friends, neighbors, dog, cat, etc.) get on my nerves and food helps. (Excess food hurts.) Have you used any of the above excuses/ Do you have some others? It's most important to recognize an excuse as just

an excuse and not to look for a deeper meaning. EXCUSES TEND to freeze us where we are. By their use we invite stagna tion of personality and retard our emotional growth. If we begin to believe our

excuses, we damage ourselves physically by not dealing with the problem If we don't believe our trusted excuses, then we damage ourselves spiritually. Most excuses start out innocently enough They don't always

end up that way. If you need help with a weight loss plan, write to Ruth A Wanbert. do of this newspaper. Box 430. Cape May Court House. NJ 08210 For a personal reply, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

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