WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEONIESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1974, PAGE 7 BIRD'S VIEW I won't Look I I still get on the scales every now and then but now I don't look at the dial any more. I don't hâve to, I can tel by the way the scaies creak that I'm getting overweight. In the past year I have comne to sympathize with the thousands of people who are constantly fighting the calories. 0f course on television and in the newspapers there are hundreds of ads about diets and diet foods and sugar substitutes and the like and I used to cringe and think how terrible it would be to have to eat some of the food advertised. I'm stiil cringing but now I'm eating. Suddenly with the phenomenal rise in the price of sugar it doesn't seem rid- iculous to cut down or use a substitute. But I guess 1 really can't blamne my spare tire completely on sugar. What 1 really need is a substitute for- such spare tire builders as: pizza, freshly baked rols, lasagna, rumn and coke, and french fries. You finaily have to face that awful moment of truth. when you dig out a piece of clothing that you bought only last summer and discover it won't fit. Pretending it shrunk over the winter doesn't solve the problem. Blamning some poor littie Jananese tailon won't help either. The only an- swer is to stnip, walk over to a full length mirror and tel younself you're fat! I began to suspect I was putting on a few pounds when one day 1 touched by beily button with my index finger and it disappeared right up to the second knuckle. No wonder belly dancers can hold jewels in thene, I had roomn for a large chunk of coal. Not that I would have done it. I get enough furmy looks without running anound with a piece of coal in my navel. Stnangely enough att the fat producing foods I eat don't have calorie free substitutes. I once tried low-cal soft drinks but they seemned to leave a furry feeling on my tongue and I get that enough as it is on those monnings after. I have yet to see a low-cal pizza and the only way for me to go easy on the calories in the bakery is to break both arms before I "Wakin the doo0-. Mlid, youjg4)'ýsmii iùhseý delightful aromas is probably good for a couple of hundred calories. I arn just discovering having to watch what you eat can be a terrible predicarnent. Those few individuals left in the w~old Who can eat what they want really don't uriderstand a id when you go to their homes for dinner they think nothing of giving you a pile of mashed potatoes large enough to sustain a horse for a month of hard labour. I seldomn eat any kind of a dessert at home but eating out at a friends is always good for a dessert. It 'can be something as simple as a large piece of apple pie with three scoops of ice cream to some kind of special peach flambe with so many calories you can hear it crackling. 1 thmnk Black Forest cake has to be the most delicious and the worst for diets. It's difficult to exp1ain to your hostess why you're crying your eyes out while you wolf down her Black Forest cake. That one piece of cake means two days of jogging and a week of skim milk for dinners. A1 too used to kid people about going on diets and the other night I heard Johnny Carson rib a guest about being on a diet. She said she was on a new diet where she could eat anything she wanted - but her doctor said she couldn't swallow. A year ago 1 might have thought that rather hum- erous but now it just brings unpleasant memnories of ail the things I like but can't eat. l've also discovered that dieting can also be more expen- sive than buying regular food. 1 think the food producers *Brooklin Spring Fair BOARD DANCE Oldtymne and Modern Saturday September 14,1974 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Brooklin Memorial Arena Music by O. Sellick $2.00 per person - bar privileges The Honourable Williamn Newman said that he has been informed by the Mini- ster of Natural Resources that a provincial grant of $1,800.00 has been approved to the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority for the Claremont Conservation Area. This Area comprises 397 acres of land in Lots il and 12. Concession VII, in the Township of Pickering, Coun- ty of Ontario. The Authority proposes to carry out further capital improvements associated with the Conservation Field Centre. This wil include building construction and general development wuxk. and canners know they've got you by the fat ohmn and con- sequently feel no remorse i jacking up the prices on diet foods. The tailors win out no matter which way you go, If you get fed up and say to heck with the diet you wmnd up mak- ing many trips to the tailor's. to get clothes let out and eventually buying new ones. When you stand in front of the mirror one day and decide to diet you 'stWl wind up going to the tailor's to have your clothes taken in. Yes. in, the last year I have discovered that fat is flot beautiful, but it sure is expensive. Now if I could just fig- ure out how many calories in a helping of mouldI three week old left over spaghetti...... CURLING ýMEMBERSHIP'S 1974-1975 SEASON- *LIMITED NUMBER OF OPENINGS AVAl LABLE FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN *BONSPI ELS *WOMENS CURLING *MENS CURLING *MIXED CURLING FOR APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION CALL 668- 5021 mtitîyÜCuringclub 815 BROCK STR EET NORTHI, P.O. BOX 34 WHITBY, ONTARIO (416) 668-5021 Beat Your Friends to the Good Seats your seasons tickets Seasons tickets are Aduits $40.00, right now and re oeive a special discount. 20 home games Thursday nights at the Iroquois Arena. Studente $24.00 and Children aldrs Uyý $1 6.00. We have many surprises in store for you. Nite", Game time 8:00 P. ""T-Shirt rNite",i Nite" and many many more. 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