Is “Fat” A Dirty Word?:
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have evaporated or passed out of the body into the toilet—but
how could it be put ont Could food react chemically with
other food, double in density and volume, and solidify into
even heavier and denser hard fat? (Fielding 64)
After listing all she has eaten that day, she realises that she has
followed four different diets—Scarsdale, F-plan, Hay, and Anti-Cellulite Raw
Food—with “slight variations” made to each. This means that she had basically
eaten whatever she wanted and tried to forcibly ascribe it to a fad diet; for
example, the Mars Bar she ate for breakfast was a “slight Variation on specified
half grapefruit” (Fielding 65). She muses on her failure to stick to any proper
diet plan while munching on a chocolate croissant, and swears to Start a new diet
the next day. It is a vicious cycle where Bridget wants to lose weight to get a
boyfriend but overeats because of the anxiety of not having a boyfriend and
ending up “all alone, half-eaten by an Alsatian,” which, in tum, gives her the
added anxiety of going on a diet to los