Word: corte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many women, Nancy Cort longed to be the size she was at age 18 -- size 8, to be precise -- 28 years and dozens of pounds ago. The Westport, Conn., schoolteacher enrolled in a weight-loss program, dropped 35 lbs. and then, with just 15 lbs. more to go, decided to call a halt to her dieting. "I thought about what I could maintain, what I could be successful at," says Cort. "Sure, I'd like to be a size 8, but then I would have to exercise more." Her conclusion: "I'm content being a size...
...American woman content to be more than she can be? That sounds like heresy in a society where self-perfection (i.e., thinness) is virtually the state religion. Yet Cort typifies a new and healthier attitude toward dieting that is gradually taking hold in the American psyche. More men and women are trading in wispy dreams for a solid reality. They are picking up their forks, forsaking the latest diet fads and deciding to shrink their expectations more than their bodies...