“If you start early, dieting can become a lifestyle,” says Bulik.
“I plan to have protein,veggies and fruitat meals.
“I don’t know if it’s a diet, or just healthy living.”
“We sit down instead of standing at the kitchen counter.
The rest of the day, Dolan says, “I don’t focus on food too much.
I enjoy it, but I don’t ritualize it.”
“That’s a lot of power for one little number.”
“If I want a bag of chips, I’ll have it.
I don’t deny myself,” Dolan says.
“Everyone needs Dairy Queen once in a while, right?”
At a party, she says, she’ll choose a glass of wine over cake.
“I might take a forkful of icing,” she says.
And she knows when going whole hog is the happy choice.
“On holidays like Thanksgiving, I indulge.
I can enjoy it because it’s about being with my family,” she says.
“I thank my mother for that,” says the stay-at-home mom in Toms River, New Jersey.
Food and body image are not her issuesexcept to the extent that other women single her out.
I was embarrassed and uncomfortable.
I would never comment on what other women weigh or eat.”
“Give your body time to recover and your nextworkoutwill be of a higher quality.”
