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has btii,lt It t , 9 i . classes offered in and
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Mrs. Mem meets weekly with the
classes when,s h motivates andtries to en-
courage the ppeople*enrolled in her classes to
better themselves bath mentally and
Physicallr'by 41104Tig. to the program. She
does this by giving them a little something
to think about at each meeting that will help
them get through the next week, deals with
problems areas and how to avoid the mun-
chies.
She,,a lsoteaches her classes how to go out
for di!'nerr to a restauraunt or to a friend's'
and still stick to the program.
Mrs. McLeod often relates the problems
she had and still has, in her battle to lose
weight.
Once, she went out for dinner with her
husband to a restauraunt and asked for a
veal eutiet without the sauce, mashed
potatos instead of french fries and tomato
slices.
A half hour later, the waitress brought the
food and it Wasn't anywhere near what she
had ordered. On her plate was a large veal
cutlet smothered in mouth-watering sauce,
a heaping pile of golden browned french
fries and a large pile of green beans.
Her husband urged her to eat the meal
and not to bother the busy waitress. But
Mrs. McLeod knew that if she ate the meal
she would dread every mouthful.
She returned the meal to the waitress and
20 minutes ` later her meal arrived. It was
cold but the way she wanted it.
Cheating or taking a break from your diet
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also 'tett the up- new friends
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pend your *et while you are,visiting th+e
Wu sit down oti the cotiCh and you fold
that yon are sitting right beside ai bowl Ofdip
with tel.and carrot. sticks. You ask your
hosted •hat •kind of dile: it is and she
automat is y replies. "Don't worry, it's
low.►get dip. I made it myself;".
You then settle into your seat and com-
mence gobbling up the low cal dip. When the
bowl is empty and the garnishes are gone
you decide to ask how the dip was made.
• Your hostess replies, diet mayonnaise, four
spices and four cups of sour cream.
You cringe at the thought of stepping on
the scales as you realize how many calories
you have eaten in such a short period of
time.
According to Mrs. McLeod, when you are
dieting you have to be tactful but you have to
ask what the ingredients are before you eat
anything when you are visiting friends.
Doesn't that look good, how did you make
it? is a good approach. When your hostess
tells you she used 1/2 pound of butter and ic-
ing sugar, you will know that the snack is"
not for you, no matter how good it looks.'
"Don't settle for second best where your
weight is concerned. If you do that often
enough, the next time you go visiting the
person will more often than not have
something.prepared that you will be allowed •
to eat," said Mrs. McLeod.
The tendency for people who are losing
weight is for them to cut down for a few days
and then go on a binge. People have set
goals and rules for the way they live.
If you walk through your kitchen and you
spot' a slice of lemon meringue pie on the
counter, you should go out of the room for 10
minutes until the craving passes. Then, im-
agine how that piece of lemon pie will look
on their weigh scale or in their diary.
The rule to follow between meals is to put
Countdown is a weight loss and weight control group that was founded in 1979 by Valerie
McLeod of Kincardine, She lost 104 pounds and as a result of her dieting experiences, she
started her own weight loss program: She is seen here, with a few of the articles of clothing
she used to wear before she lost the weight. She is also shown awarding Steve Berry a com-
modation for losing 58 pounds in nine weeks. It may not have put Steve in the Guiness book
of World Records, but it -has made him a big man around town without the extra weight.
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Mrs. McLeod teaches her students. to
think about calories as pleasure units, and
whether they feel that good after eating that
bag of chips or chocolate bar. •
She deals °with holidays at her weekly
meetings before the holiday arrives. Easter
is the next chocolaty holiday and all ,Easter
items are loaded with calories. One'Easter °
creme egg has 636 calories and jelly beans
have 102 calories per ounce.
One ounce of jelly beans translates into
eight little colored balls of sugar. Also,, the
little foil bunnies that you can buy in a cor-
ner store have 175 calories and they only
take two bites before they are gone.
With Easter only being a day long holiday
the pressures not to eat aren't that intense.
However Mrs. McLeod cautions her pupils
and tells them to use what they have learned
in their battle against the Easter bunny.
"Mothers tell their children never to go in-
to their purses, yet when the kids put their
Easter or Halloween treats in the closets
and the parents go into them, it's the same
thing as a child going into his mother's
purse. After all, we had our treats when we
were kids," she said:
A veteran meter, Mrs. McLeod went to
her weight loss meetings, got up in front of
the 40 or so people and told of her closet
eating habit. Then, a number of other people
in her group came out of the closet.
One lady told the group how she would
hide chocolate bars underneath her mat-
tress and eat them when her husband was
asleep.
Another lady would tape chocolate bars to
the back of the toilet and go in and eat them
at her leisure.
The next lady told of how she had bought a
dozen donuts and she wanted to heat one up
in the Microwave. She heated one while her
husband was in the washroom brushing his
teeth.
Her husband came out of the washroom
and asked her what she had been eating. She
vehemently denied lifting anything to hei,c;,
lips. Her husband told her to go and look i
the mirror and sure enough, she had whi
donut powder all over her face.
Her husband' caught her eating on the si'
and that made her face' up to the fact that.
she had to honest with herself.
A number of people who have tried t
Countdown program are experienc
tremendous results. Her most success
dieters are Mark Doherty and SteVe Be
Doherty lost 80 pounds and Berry lost
pounds in nine weeks following the Co '
down diet plan.
"I used to eat a lot of pizza, chips a
drink a lot otireee, thenI started dieting
L ate frui ••'rcelery, radishes and oth
vegetables," said Steve Berry. -;..
Berry was induced into dieting by h4
friend Mark Doherty: As it turned out, Mar
was enrolled let the Countdown program
•.he was losing weight: Everyone was co
plimenting him and Steve wanted some
the notority that went along with los'
weight.
Berry took it upon himself to lose and t
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weeks.
McLeod recently opened ya course
Seaforth when 27 women, joined. After otic'
week, they lost a total of 861/2 pounds. 0
woman lost 191/2 pounds of that total herself?{i.
Mrs. McLeod says she's hoping to staff
classes in Oshawa and Bowmanville in the
near future.
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