Lose Weight Program > Graduate to Healthier Diets

Unless you want to lose 200 or 300 pounds, like the obese patients already mentioned (isn't it grand to know that other people are so much fatter than you?), a ten-day course of the Miracle Diet will very probably register a highly satisfactory initial weight loss and entitle you to graduate to a more moderate and conventional reducing diet.



We hate to keep emphasizing the advisability of having your doctor check you over before starting on any diet, but better be safe than sorry!

A 1,000-calorie diet offers you an ample variety of satisfying foods and it can be continued indefinitely until you arrive at your ideal weight-moreover, it reduces weight fast enough to please many, probably the majority of reducers. If you are fairly active, a 1,250-calorie diet may suit your preferences. Choose your own diet according to the speed with which you want to reduce, remembering that the predicted weight loss at the head of each diet is an average guide and that your results may vary slightly from it.

For many people, a 1,500-calorie diet brings about a weight loss that is gradual but sufficiently rapid to satisfy them. It is, also, a basic diet that can be used as a guide to maintaining your weight at the desired level after you have reached your ideal. After you have achieved your ideal figure on a course of Miracle or 1,OOO-calorie diets, you can keep slim by jumping to the 1,500-calorie level or even more if you continue to show a weight loss. It isn't enough to lose fat; you want to keep it lost, and these graduated diets enable you to do so.

We beg of you, do not be alarmed by the figures given alongside the foods in the diets. If you prefer to follow the diets exactly as given you can ignore the figures.

More than likely, though, you will want to vary the foods in the diets. One man's strawberries are another man's hives. The figures enable you to substitute foods more to your liking (or more likely to be found on your pantry shelf) by turning to the Two-Minute Calorie-Counting Table and choosing different foods of the same class (i.e., meats for meats, vegetables for vegetables, etc.) that have approximately the same distribution of carbohydrate, fat, and protein calories. Thus you are assured of calories of the right kind, with plenty of the fat-burning weight-reducing proteins emphasized in the new reducing diets.

The first 1,000 calorie diet - we give you three at this level contains more protein than any of the others in this group, and because of the whipping up of metabolism by proteins it is slightly more efficient.













Are you ready now to take your M.D. (Master of Diet) degree? A 1,500-calorie-a-day diet allows you enough good things to satisfy almost anybody, particularly if you have followed the stricter diets for a while and conditioned your stomach so that it is perfectly happy on less food. Roast chicken, steak, bread, butter, vegetables, and fruits - doesn't sound much like starvation, does it?

Yet even 1,500 calories is still a reducing diet for the great majority of people. A sedentary person who has enough steam to get out of bed and wander around the house, maybe plucking a weed or two from the garden and shooing Japanese beetles from the shrubbery, will lose (these are averages, again) about an ounce and a half a day.

Don't sneer at an ounce and a half. It's all you get in a jigger. If you gained an ounce and a half a day, one year from now you would weigh thirty-four pounds more than you do right now - and wouldn't that be something! Obviously, if you lose an ounce and a half a day you will weigh thirty-four pounds less. If you are active and do moderately hard work, you can lose nearly four ounces a day at the 1,500-calorie level.

Use the 1,500-calorie diet if you prefer a gradual thinning to swift shrinkage. Use it, too, to retain your slim figure once you've gained it. If you merely want to hold your weight, but continue to lose. On a 1,500-calorie diet, step it up 100 calories or so at a time until the bathroom scales hold stationary.







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