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DEAR DIARY






                                                                          By: Rachel Esses


         DIET BAGGAGE
         Do YOU have it?


         Have you ever heard this term, “diet          t      *OBCJMJUZ UP DPNNJU PS TUJDL UP
         baggage”?  I don’t know if it exists or       something long term in the hopes of
         if I made it up but it’s real.  I can tell    finding something better
         within ten minutes of meeting with a          t      *OBCJMJUZ UP USVTU UIF QSBDUJUJPOFS

         new client whether he or she suffers
         from this  “condition”. Symptoms may          If you recognized yourself in 2 or
         include (but are not limited to):             more of the above, you may have diet
         t      $POGVTJPO  BCPVU  XIBU  EJFU  UP       baggage.  Diet baggage comes from
         trust or choose, even AFTER choosing          having been on many different diets
         one                                           and being so burned out that you no
                                    Bulletin
         t      ćJOLJOH TPNF GPPE HSPVQT BSF           longer trust or are fully willing to give
         always bad, even if limited                   yourself over to a new plan.  Someone
         t      ćJOLJOH TPNF GPPE HSPVQT BSF           who has diet baggage also has many

         always good, even unlimited                   ideas and principals accumulated
         t      'SFRVFOU  TXJUDIJOH  GSPN  QMBO        from past dieting and is unwilling
         to plan in the hopes of finding “the          to let them go, even if they weren’t
         best one”                                     working. As one of my favorite sayings
         t      3FBEJOH VQ PO EJFUT GSPN OPO           HPFT  ićF  EFĕOJUJPO  PG  JOTBOJUZ  JT
         reliable sources such as the internet or      doing something over and over and

         magazines                                     expecting different results”.  Here are
                                                       some scenarios: (Names have been











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