New Year, New Diet?
As January comes, so do New Year’s Resolutions. But they won’t last. According to the U.S. News & World Report, those non-binding personal resolutions fail at a staggering rate of 80%. Your local gym will briefly see a boost in members and attendance. Customers will drift to the fresh veggies aisle from the candy section and the tempting freezers filled with microwaveable, pizza-infused, carbohydrate creations. You get the idea. But by the second week of February, most people will have dropped the ball.
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What is interesting though is that half of the population actually wants to be healthier! As reported by Statista, a leading provider of market and consumer data, America’s top New Year’s Resolutions for 2020 were as follows: managing finances better (51%), eating healthier (51%), being more active (50%), and losing weight (42%).
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There are obviously many different approaches to weight loss and it’s really about what works for you. But if you want to know how to be “90-60-90,” the supposed measurements of a perfect woman, you may want to look into a diet of the woman who started the craze: Marilyn Monroe!
According to “The Bombshell Manual of Style,” a 2001 book by Laren Stover, Marilyn Monroe’s diet plan went as follows:
Breakfast
- 8:00 A.M. Orange juice or stewed prunes
- Cereal, well-cooked
- Toast (white), 2 slices, crisp, with butter
- Milk or weak cocoa, 1 cup
- 10:00 A.M. Milk, 1 cup, and 1 cracker
Lunch or Supper
1:00 P.M. Choice of
- Egg, 1 (boiled, poached, shirred or scrambled)
- Or cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons
Choice of
- Potato, 1, baked or mashed
- Or spaghetti, boiled with tomato or butter (no cheese)
- Or noodles, ½ cup (boiled), add milk (no cheese)
- Toast or bread (white), stale, 1 slice, with butter
- Jell-O or cooked fruit
3:30 P.M. Milk, 1 cup, and 1 cracker
Dinner
6:30 P.M. Choice of
- Lean beef (boil, broil or roast)
- Or chicken
- Or lamb chop
- Or sweetbread
- Or fish
- Or chicken liver
- Potato, 1(any way but fried)
Choice of
- ½ cup of tomatoes, beets, carrots, spinach, string beans or peas, pureed or strained
- Bread (white), 1 slice with butter
- Dessert: junket, custard, tapioca pudding or rice pudding or baked apple
11:00 P.M. Eggnog
Finishing the day off with eggnog strikes me as a particularly seasonal thing to do. But remember, you don’t have to be “90-60-90.” You just have to be you.
