Celebrity Diet Tip: Elizabeth Taylor

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And so begins a new weekly feature on All The Rage, in which we learn moderation from a celebrity. They get paid to look good. They must have some decent advice, right? This tasty tidbit from Dame Elizabeth Taylor comes from a NY Times interview in May of 1986.
‘’You have to try to get your head at the right place,’’ Miss Taylor said. ‘’Where you can make it click. Without that inner click it doesn’t matter how many fad diets you go on.’’

Miss Taylor said she now keeps her weight down by eating carefully but always allowing herself one day a week to ‘’pig out.’’

She elaborated: ‘’Fried chicken. Mashed potatoes. With lots of gravy. Lima beans. Corn. Chocolate cake of some kind. But then the next two days you really have to watch it.’’

She added, ‘’It’s not like alcohol. Life on a total diet for the rest of one’s life would be totally depressing.’’