DON’T FALL FOR FALLACIES!
You can easily talk yourself out of dieting by falling for one of those old fallacies that women hug to their (ample) bosoms, namely:
“What I really need is a new girdle.”
“To be slim and svelte, all you need to do is to ooze yourself into our Streamliner Stretch.” Sez the ad. “Pooh!” sez we. Common courtesy should tell you that you have to meet a two-way stretch half-way. No sixteen-ounce trifle of satin and elastic is going to cope with 160 pounds of womanhood, and stay svelte. Science is wonderful, my dear, but it’s not that good!
“I really need my extra weight for reserve.”
We freely admit that camels are said to store up extra fat for reserve in their humps. Camels lead hard lives. But when were you last in the Sahara Desert?
“I haven’t the will power to go on a reducing diet.”
It isn’t will power so much as choice power that’s needed. We complimented a girl recently for sticking so faithfully to a diet. “Honestly, it isn’t a bit hard now,” she said. “I simply looked myself in the eye one day and asked, ‘Well, which do you choose—to step into a nifty 36 without alterations? Or fudge cake?’ After I really set my mind on the 36, the fudge cake just bored me.” (There must be a moral here somewhere.)
“Oh, well, I’ll start on a diet ... next week.”
All we can say to this is that statistics (and human nature) prove that you won’t.