At first, she ate only meat and veggies and cut out rice, but did not thereby slim down. Hsiao-chen then had to adopt more extreme methods to lose weight. She skipped breakfast, and ate only bread or a few cookies for lunch. She would avoid dinner by lying and saying that she had eaten with classmates after school.
一開始，她只吃菜而不吃飯，卻沒因此瘦下來，小珍不得不以更強烈的方式減重：她不吃早餐，午餐只吃一個麵包或幾塊餅乾裹腹，晚餐時，則謊稱放學後已和同學吃過了而不上飯桌。