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[quote=Anonymous]PP 19:42 back with other thoughts.

There really was a diet culture in the 70s and 80s. Even my always-thin and fashionable mom would announce that she was “watching her figure” if for any reason she felt she was getting “flabby” or I guess gaining a very few lbs. (and I mean like 2 lbs).

Ladies always had scales in their bathrooms. Both of my grandmothers did. My mom did. It was a thin g to weigh yourself.

There was always a “diet plate” on restaurant or diner menus: cottage cheese atop a bed of iceberg lettuce and two canned peaches as a topping.

Diet pills called “reducing pills” or “water pills” were advertised and easily available at drugstores. My high school friend and I bought diet pills for fun + took them every day while we vacationed at the beach so we’d look good in our bikinis. I might have weighed 112 lbs and wanted to be 110 or something ridiculous like that.

Sizes were SO different. I couldn’t wait to be able to fit in “teenager-sized” clothes that then started at size 3, circa 1980. Size 3 was tough to find and there was even a store called 5-7-9 that only sold these very small sizes.[/quote]

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