Lose 40 Pounds in 80 Days
> ALCOHOL, WATER AND SALTSo it isn't the beer or whisky in itself that's bad - it's your own fault for overdoing it, just as though you overdid eating roast beef and got "food-drunk."
Stand up all night and drink ginger ale and see what happens.
"Nothing in excess," said Socrates, and that applies to food and alcohol just as much as anything else.
Some people are bolstered up by alcohol. It livens them up. It makes them move and talk faster. They burn up calories at a livelier rate.
That is, until they fall asleep on the host's bed.
Does alcohol make burglars? I asked the sheriff of Dallas, Texas, Bill Decker, and he told me thieves are too smart to drink before a robbery.
"They want their full senses so they won't make a mistake," said Bill.
Bill doesn't drink, either, just to keep pace with them. "Now, after the robbery, well, that's different," he added. "It might take the jitters out of them then."
Like most people, I suppose, they enjoy relaxing over a drink after a big day's - or night's - work.
I'M 70% WATER
I'm a pretty watery character. But then, so are you. All of us are.
I learned that I'm 70% water, which was why I could lose so much weight during a steam bath. It was also why I could gain when I drank too much water, buttermilk, ginger ale, or "tall ones."
And why, within a very short time after a steam bath, I gained all my water weight back.
I didn't even have to drink water to get it back - because so many foods are more than half water.
Heavy drinkers are often abnormally puffed up. It is water being absorbed into the system and held in salt-laden fat that does it. It's "edema," that medical term again, that puffs you up. Why, a Fatso is really nothing but a tank on two legs!
Watch an old beer drinker. He is always dousing salt into his beer, eating salty nuts, salty pretzels - anything to hold the beer inside him.
If he didn't have salt maybe lots of that beer would leave him in a hurry.
Bar nibblers are fine for the cash register, but bad for Fatty. Good for Skinny to give him false weight.
GAINING THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS
I now discovered why I actually gained weight the first seven days of my dieting.
~~~~I didn't know about salt, so I continued to use a lot. It held water in my fat. My fat was struggling for nourishment, and so held on tight to the water. And I held on tight to the fat.
Soon I found I had gained on my diet.
Naturally I was worried. I figured I was headed straight for the sideshow. But I held on, at my doctor's advice, and soon the fat couldn't hold the water any longer, and began to drop it off in globules.
I started down.
So if you gain weight during the start of a diet, don't let this worry you.
How's your water content today?
P.S. - Still at 190-it's getting harder now to lose. I'm down where excess fat is a thing of rarity.
A LITTLE WHISKY ISN'T RISKY
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