Timaru O.S. Club

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32217, 9 February 1970, Page 2

Timaru O.S. Club

(From Our Own Reporter) i TIMARU, Feb. 8. A new dub, which is likely to carry a lot of weight in the community, has been formed by a group of women who feel they are too fat. It is the O.S. Club and it held its first meeting recently.

Twenty women whose weights range up to 19st, constituted a formidable array of foundation members. The president and driving force behind the club is Mrs C. T. McCabe. “The club is for those women who weigh too much and who seek a remedy,” she said today. The principle is being observed that it is easier to do some things, such as dieting, in a group rather than individually. “Weigh-in”

“At our meetings we have a weigh-in, and woe betide anyone who has not lost weight since the previous meeting,” Mrs McCabe said. The penalty for such a crime is the wearing of a large bib with the word “Piggy” emblazoned across the front in embroidery. The club, which has a great membership potential in Timaru, particularly in the over-40 age group, meets in the lounge of St Patrick’s Hall, where a register of weights is kept. “This fortnightly weigh-in is the best incentive for the women to be firm about their eating habits, and with this looming up, one tends to have second thoughts before eating those things which induce extra poundage,” said Mrs McCabe. Former Shapelinesa

The women were resolved to lose weight and regain their former shapely figures, she said. For guidance and encouragement they were enlisting the help of qualified persons, such as a doctor who would give a talk on the right types of food and exercise. A hospital dietitian was calculating special recipes which give a balanced diet yet are low in calories and a corsetiere was to give them advice about the correct fitting of foundation garments and the best types available, Mrs McCabe said.

Ideally, Mrs McCabe said, the O.S. Club would run out of members, as they would have dieted away their right to join.