Our weight may not always be what it seems There are many diets used today, some have proven to be healthy while others have proven to be unhealthy. Natalie, like many other people, gives diets an unrealistic expectation when it comes to losing weight. People want to believe that eating fewer calories will help them lose weight, but some never stop to consider what can happen to the body when they eat fewer calories than recommended. We also need to take a look at foods that contain chemicals known to cause cancer. Additionally, physical and emotional stress can also impact the way the body digests food, making it more difficult for anyone trying to lose weight or at least avoid gaining it. In Natalie's short story "The Fat Lady Sings", published in "The Oprah Magazine" in August 2002, she made many references to the need to diet even at a young age. At the age of nine, after spending periods of two to six weeks in hospital, Natalie explained that she “had grown from undernourished thinness into moderate plumpness” (Kusz. 2002). We must ask whether she felt undernourished because during her hospitalization she ate a balanced diet that was different from what she was used to. Both Natalie and her younger sister were both overweight, so their mother gave them an egg for breakfast, bread and mortadella for dinner, and a tiny dinner (Kusz. 2002). to what they were given to eat based on USDA information, Natalie or her sister would have gotten enough calories throughout the day based on their mother's diet. One egg has about seventy calories, while lunch calories were about three hundred and fifty-nine calories... middle of the paper... it wasn't written in her story, but she wrote about all the crises she lived through. I personally have found that when a person is trying to lose weight, they often expect it lose weight quickly. Natalie also expected this as she writes that she saw sudden weight loss at first, but she didn't explain that when you start the diet you actually lose a few pounds. of water weight before lbs. they begin to slowly come apart. During this time people start to see less and less progress and often stop because they don't see the desired results. Once he stopped struggling with his weight and simply chewed, swallowed and continued in full consciousness” (Kusz, 2002). Mary Maxfield said: “Have faith in yourself. Trust your body. Meet your needs” (Graff, 2015) and once she did this, Natalie felt she had become fitter than ever.