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erything from diet candy to grapefruit.
“1’d get bored, and tired, and just start eating,” Jenkins said. “I’d pick (the weight) up all over again.”
“Fat people are not happy people,” she declared, musing over some of the stereotyping. “Inwardly, we don’t like ourselves for being overweight.
“Clothes never look right, no matter what you wear,” she continued. “I’d go places, and look to see if I was the biggest person there. If someone was bigger, I’d feel a little better.”
Determined To Change
Last summer, Jenkins weighed 215 pounds.
“Last Fourth of July, we went to D.C. to see the fireworks,” she said. “There were lots of steps to climb. It was really tiring.”
On September 1, 1983, she joined the Conway Diet program in Culpeper, a day she remembers like a smoker recalls a last cigarette. She’s been changing ever since.
“I’ve broken a lot of old habits,” Jenkins said. “I’ve learned new ways to cook things. I avoid fried foods, starchy things like noodles, and gravy.”
The Conway Diet program specifies that a person limit his or her food consumption to 1,000 calories a day, Jenkins explained. “You concentrate on what you can eat,” she said. Selections from all four food groups are included in the diet.
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