In January, many of us pledge to shed excess weight, but as we all know, that’s easier said than done.

Enter Elizabeth Taylor. Now granted she had some issues with 8 marriages (or husbands, as she married one man twice) and several Betty Ford pill addiction visits.

Here is Elizabeth Taylor at 5'2 and 180+ around my age, in her early 50s.



The woman in this article, from 2020, also tried "French Women Don't Get Fat"!! I did that to lose 42 lbs of baby weight in 2005, but I tried it again last year and gained weight from too many delicious French recipes, I guess, especially the quiches. The baked apples with cinnamon and the pears in red wine were amazing, though. Plus having a drink of champagne every day made it easier to drink moar and moar so I had to cut out the alcohol.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/...th-liz-taylor/

"Finally, I stumbled upon one called French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano. Its breezy tone assured me that I didn’t have to change my entire personality just to lose weight. A Frenchwoman wouldn’t dream of moving faster than a languid sashay, let alone do “reps.” How absurd!

It was the Francophilic pep talk that I needed, and it got results. But to address the steady upward creep of the scale in my 40s, I need more than the mental image of “being French.”

Enter the American movie star Elizabeth Taylor, one of the most celebrated beauties of all time. Unlike the prototypical Frenchwoman, she did get fat, especially during her marriage to politician John Warner from 1976 to 1982. Stuck at home in Washington, D.C. while Warner worked long hours, Taylor turned to comfort food (and other substances) for solace. “Eating became one of the most pleasant activities I could find to fill the lonely hours and I ate and drank with abandon,” she wrote later."



She did say she splurged one day a week. She once ate a whole pizza and a hot fudge sundae!

Her was the new, slim, Elizabeth Taylor:



Of course, like most women, Taylor’s weight continued to seesaw throughout the rest of her life, but there’s no denying these techniques worked for her in the mid-1980s.

Now I'm eating scrambled eggs and strawberries. My meal schedule was messed up today since I bought 2 protein bars I ate at 3am. Dry toast? Yuck. I'd rather just skip the bread.

Nice

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eat 1200 calories at most a day and you lose weight

They didn't have that in the 80s lol.