Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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The Fat Te; Dilemma al loud rumble of your stomach which, much to your embar- rassment, those sitting around you can hear. Finally it's lunch time! You didn't have enough time to make lunch so you're going to buy something even though the Macke food does not appeal to you. You're in luck though, one of your friends has a car and invites you to go out to lunch. Of course you im- mediately grab at the invitation, pleased at the thought of an appealing meal. You end up at MacDonalds where you pro- ceed to order a Big Mac, Large Fries, Milk Shake and an Apple Pie. All during your next class, you sit their thinking why and how you ate so much and of all the calories you just consumed. School's over and you walk in your front door hungry again so you search your kitchen for something to eat. All you can come up with is a bowl of froot- loops so you give in and sit down in front of the T. V. to eat it. Later you're sitting in front of the television again and Mom calls you to dinner. You grum- ble and groan but trudge up- stairs. All through dinner, your tastebuds are sending wild messages to your brain. Your brain is saying what is this junk ? It tastes so different, it's not heavily salted or heavily sug- ared, it's not greasy, it's not fat- ty and it's not just sitting heavily in your stomach ... why it must be nutritious! Well dinner is over and it's time to hit the books, but you find'you just can't do your homework with- out something in your mouth so you go into the kitchen and pop some popcorn and get something to drink. Now you're set. You finish your homework as well as the pop- corn so you hit the sack. Next thing you know it is 7:00 AM and you're rushing frantically around again ... You need to go on a diet If 1. You're gaining weight eve though you've been setting th scales back. 2. You need a shoehorn to ge into your favorite jeans. 3. Your dad's extra large shirts f you. 4. Your boyfriend won't let you si on his lap anymore or your girl friend suggests you go to the lib rary instead of to lunch. 5. You're on a bus and two peo pie get up to offer you a sea instead of one. 6. You haven't seen your toes ir three months. 7. When you look in the mirro you can count your chins or both hands. 8. Suddenly the doors seerr much narrower. 9. It gets harder and harder tc get one leg past another. 10. People turn sideways in the hall to get by you. 11. Your shadow seems to cause an eclipse. 12. You find yourself shcjpping ct maternity stores.

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The Fats of To diet or not to diet, that is the question. Yorktown students pon- der over this question for days, months, and even years. Dieting is one of the prime sub- jects to talk about at Yorktown. Students seem to love to gossip about who is getting fat or thin, who looks good, who looks awful, and so on. They also love talking about which diets they have tried and failed, or succeeded at. Diet- ing is something we each have to decide for ourselves, but with the added importance of being thin, dieting is becoming more and more a fact of life. € y -x V A 3° VjjlOX KcuL o- 33£Trl3 3 $ Od oC,- • 4- v ' ’ ■ - nJo TMIS r in l£ JCXL AXJULAix CxjX'XX. CoJLC xtnnJL. Dieting A day in the life of a junk foca junkie: Oh my gosh, you've over- slept again and have about five minutes to grab some- thing to eat, so you start look- ing frantically around. An egg ... no, a piece of toast no, bacon, ... no; they all take too long! Ah ha! ... a chocolate covered dough- nut, so you grab a couple and run out the door. It's second period now and already your stomach is growling and telling you it's hungry, but lunch is two periods away so you grin and bear it. Your teacher has just given you something to read so the classroom is suddenly silent except for the occasion ■fr'r-

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Doin' the beach binae in BirdwelIs and OP From the minute the doors open in September, Yorktown students are dreaming about Beach Week. Beach Week iso strange phenomenon as of yet not understood by scientists. En- masse, huge mobs of young people make an aestival ex- odus to Ocean City, Rehobeth, Nags Head, Virginia Beach, and numerous other seaside re- sorts. What is it that draws the teenagers in such teeming mul- titudes9 Well, it is probably the sun, the surf, the warm sand, the good friends, the craziness, or simply the freedom away from parents. Upon arriving, you unpack your Sunshine House shirts from last year, your OPs, Birdwells, i backless sundresses, and the j old standby cutoffs, and put on j the clothes that really mean the beach. After that, there is noth- ing to do but kick back anc catch some rays, or catch a few waves if the mood strikes you. If the munchies hit, roll up your sleeves and dig into the crab pot, or grab a carton of french fries from the boardwalk. There are parties every night, the blen- ders are always busy, and the stereos are always cranked Books have been set aside, and there are no schedules to keep Finally, it's time to climb into ; the car for the long road trip back home. Yorktowners mov leave the beach, but the beach never seems very far from their thoughts. The memories last a long time, and they sustain you j through the long, cold, difficult year. Stoics Nikk Carla. Carroll, Kim. and Marie always take themselves seriously Fresh out of the surf, Susan Andrews and Shari Schindler show off their savage tans. Cuddles — On a rainy day, Katie likes to curl up with a good friend. Winging it, Kim Attempts the first ransat- lantic frisbee toss. Amy Dugovich bummed out on the beach 18