Lose 40 Pounds in 80 Days

I learned to check my weight every three days. It varies too much daily to check it accurately.

The accurate checking time, I discovered, is just before breakfast after the morning bathroom. Then you are "accurate." That's when they check you in hospitals, you know.

For one thing, just staying in bed changes your weight. You burn up calories just sleeping through the night, and if that isn't a pleasant way to get rid of calories I don't know what is! A night's sleep leaves you from 1 to 1 1/2 pounds lighter by morning.

Then, when you eat during the day, you naturally add weight.

On humid days a person weighs more because his body can't get rid of as much water through perspiration, and after all, two glasses of water weigh in at around a pound. Even so, though, that water won't stay with you if you don't eat a lot of salt. It finally comes through, even though it may stay longer on rainy days. Your weight is likely to be less on days with low humidity.

Another thing I learned was that the food I eat today takes 36 hours before it is in my system in the form of weight.

My weight today has increased or decreased according to what I ate 36 hours ago.

This is another reason why it's best for me to weight myself every three days to get the true picture.



MORE "INSIDE" FACTS

Fat, they tell me, remains longest in the stomach, because it takes so long to digest. That's why it gives you that full feeling. Only trouble is, it's highest in calories.

Foods with high protein values, such as milk, eggs, cheese, meat, and fish stay next longest in the stomach. They give you the full feeling also, but aren't so high in calories.

Carbohydrates - starch and sugar - burn up real fast in the system. This is why the candy boys can honestly advertise candy bars "for a quick pick-up."

Yes, in burning up fast, carbohydrates give you immediate energy - but there's always a joker in the deck, it seems. Because carbohydrates, being quickest to shoot the works, leave the stomach empty the quickest and make you get hungry sooner, so that you're apt to overeat.

Like Strongheart's food, then, yours should be the proper combination of all three of these things - proteins, carbohydrates, and even some little fat, which you accidentally get from meat.

I said accidentally. I still trim my fat.



I VARY MY FOODS DAILY

When I get starch-hungry, I may indulge in some spaghetti - and overdo it - but then I go light on everything else for that day.

Another time I may get "candy-hungry" and have my bar of Baby Ruth, but then I make sure I don't catch myself dunking any doughnuts that day. And when I do have doughnuts (I love 'em, and an old flame never dies), I skip something else.

I like toast and jam, too - but when I go overboard on this, I go light on the baked spuds. I try to balance my diet to keep a little of everything going into me.

I like variety.

I eat peanuts, have an occasional cocktail, even an ale off and on. I eat pork roasts, even fried chicken and gravy. But I am darned sure not mixing them all into the same 1,500-calorie day, or it wouldn't be a 1,500-calorie day any more. When there are no more seats in the balcony, you don't catch me selling standing room to peanuts and potato chips!

Result; I'm down to 200 pounds!


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