Slimmer
Tripp’s wife heard of a breakthrough, life-changing diet. She consulted the dietician, saying, “Please make me slimmer! I can see how I’ve been overweight for so long.” So the dietician agreed to work with her. Things went well for a while, and then she began to overeat once again. Tripp’s wife thought that if she followed the diet long enough, and exact enough, she would have a breakthrough and wake up slimmer. It didn’t happen that way, so she fell off the diet.
The dietician assured her that he was still willing to work with her and help her achieve their goal. Yet, Tripp’s wife said to herself, “Since I am already off this diet, I will indulge in all sorts of food. But one day I shall return to the diet, follow it rigidly, get my breakthrough—and wake up slimmer! Meanwhile, I must find what it is that is making me fat.”