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Lose 40 Pounds in 80 Days

It was that overworked word, "know-how," that did the job during the war.

I decided to apply "know-how" to my food problem.

It was lack of knowledge of what went into my stomach, I now realized, that had made me a 230-lb. fatty.

The thing to do, then, was to study calories and vitamins until I could scan the bill of fare anywhere and rattle off a low-calorie meal such as:

"Cup of consommı, tossed vinegar salad, lean filet, small baked potato, one dab of butter only, peas but not creamed; some green vegetable; moderate supply of bread; some cheddar cheese and black coffee!"

Sounds as though this is what Tar Baby, the horse, might order - but it comes to little more than 500 calories!

I could just as well have ordered:

"Split pea soup with lentils; fried chicken and French fries; white gravy with biscuits and jelly on the side; head lettuce with Thousand Island dressing and roquefort cheese; mince pie topped off with ice cream; a glass or two of milk; coffee with cream and sugar!"

A good deal more than 1,500 calories!



THE ONE-MEAL-A-DAY FALLACY

I soon learned the fallacy of one meal a day.

Not only are you perpetually hungry when you skim over the breakfast with toast and the luncheon with a sandwich and milk-you're slowed up.

Light meals slow you up because they don't supply you with enough energy!

Being slowed up due to lack of high-test foods, you are like a car with low-test gas. You can't go so fast. In going slow, you burn up less calories.

A steam engine that is filled only once a day with coal works best right after the coal is dumped in, but if it must nurse the coal for 24 hours, it won't function smoothly. It's liable to go by spurts.

The same was true with me, I found. A low intake of my own "coal" at breakfast made me faint and droopy near lunch time; after lunch, the smallness of this second intake made me less peppy during the afternoon.

I had to slow down, burn less energy, in order to have enough calories left to get me through the day. Then at night, when I didn't need it, I ate a big meal and overloaded.

With three balanced meals, on the other hand, I could move fast all day long. Instead of getting weak off and on, I had pep perpetually.

I was beginning to catch on to this diet business at last-with the help of my doctor. Yes, sir, three normal meals per day thin you faster than one big one, but I didn't know that until he told me. So here's the best advice I can give anyone who wants to diet:

Always see your doctor first!


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