The most basic thing to get on with after your job or during it is how you look and feel. It is unthinkable that a woman bent on “having it all” would want to be fat, or even plump, so I am now going to give you my diet rules. I’m not a doctor, but a longtime, hardened-criminal-case dieter like me possibly knows as much about diet as many people, including doctors, who write books and magazine articles on the subject. Many doctors don’t know anything about nutrition, incidentally. You’re supposed to check with a doctor before you begin a diet. Okay, check. He won’t have any magic to get you through the diet, but he can give you his blessing.
There is really only one diet rule you need to remember. Here it comes: To lose weight you can’t eat as much as you have been eating. To keep it off, you still can’t eat as much as you have been eating. It is that simple . . . and that simply awful! How you go about not eating as much is what all those hundreds of thousands of written words are about. On some diets, protein is the star everything up to and including rattlesnake meat is okay if it’s protein while others declare that that much protein will kill you! Certain diet mavens recommend grains and cereals (that’s the stave-offyour-first-heart-attack-with-roughage crowd), while my diet guru, Dr. Robert Atkins, believes all those carbohydrates in grains would do in hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) people like me. There are Ana evangelists and banana haters, egg promoters and egg detractors, dairy-food enthusiasts and dairy-food denigrators. . . .you know all about the controversy, so how do you work out diet and lifetime eating plan for you?