“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.
THE CASE OF MRS. PLENTEOUS
So far we’ve been appealing to your good looks. Here goes for a try at your good sense. (You must have some, or you wouldn’t still be reading.) We refer to good sense about health.
Some women are beautiful, some are healthy, some are both, and some are neither. And into the last class fall (or roll) the definitely overweight.
