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Eating before bedtime doesn't put on any more weight than eating at any other time of the day, I soon found out.

It isn't when you eat those calories but how many that puts on the tonnage.

Eating and then lying down to rest doesn't make the food turn to fat any more than standing up and running a mile after eating.

When you eat isn't as important as how much you eat. I quote again from Poor Elmer's Almanac:

Exercise keeps muscles loose,

But in itself does not reduce!

And:

If your excess weight you'd overthrow,
Switch your calories from high to low!


WILL I REGAIN MY WEIGHT?

I have often heard my fat friends say, "Yeah, I lost 20 pounds last summer, but I gained it back."

"How come?" I asked my doc.

He told me that you must remain your reduced size and weight for at least three months, to get your body adjusted to the new weight and size.

After that, chances of going back up are at a minimum.

This merely means that after three months your system says, "I guess old Fatty is sincere this time. Okay, Fatso, you win. Maybe we better adjust our metabolism to the New Look."

So if you go on a 1,500 calorie diet for two months and go down 20 or so pounds, I found that soon you can he eating almost as much as before and still remain at the new lowered weight.

Dieting isn't something that must be too permanent.

Your metabolism is now adjusted to your new weight. It goes up slightly when you overeat, and so protects you from overweight. It goes down slightly when you don't eat as much as you should.

If you go back to overeating, it does this for a time-but like a rubber band, if you overdo the idea, it will soon fail to bounce back. It gets tired burning up the extra foods. Like the rubber band, it won't go quite back to its original form.

Nope-dieting need not be permanent, but it's like having a good wife; if you want to hang onto her, you keep one eye always cocked slightly to watch her! Just watch your diet the same way.


THIS ONE AMUSED ME


Another thing I learned was that it takes about 20 calories every time you eat a meal. That is, 20 calories of energy to eat and digest that meal.

The movements of your arms shoving in food, your munching molars, your digestive organs, burn up some 20 calories.

Eating a 300-calorie piece of apple pie may use up 20 calories, but you're still 280 on the fatty side.

Celery is 5 calories. Eat a good, tough, stringy stalk of celery, burn up 20 calories doing it-and you've spent 15 calories digesting it!

Shades of Duncan Hines!


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