Lose 40 Pounds in 80 Days
> WEIGHT LOSS IGNORANCEI even lost a quarter size in my hats and a full size in my shoes.
Evidently I was really devoid of salt, since my fat boy's puffy face went down, too.
In fact, my size 17 collars began to look like something around the neck of a Mexicon burro from San Luis Potosi.
Another sure sign was this: I knew I was getting thin because my fat friends began to look fatter.
As I looked at them together, heads bent over a table at the Athletic Club, gulping down their 300-calorie soups with 350-calorie sandwiches, they reminded me of Sliding Billy Watson's Beef Trust.
Funny how losing weight affects your eyesight. You can see large objects, such as the southern end of a fat boy going north, much more clearly.
They were all heavyweights to me now. Like aged wrestlers. Poor flabby hulks who were once "men of distinction."
When they got up and went out all in a line I felt like running out ahead and yelling, "Hold your horses! Here come the elephants!"
I felt sorry for them.
I LEARN THE "DANGER FOODS"
Every day I learned something new about myself and what went into me.
Funny, I had to wait half a lifetime before I suddenly decided to find out what made me function. I'd read all those books about "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia" and "Inside U.S.A.," but I didn't know anything about "Inside Elmer."
I've had radios and clocks apart. I know one gasoline from the other, and which makes my car go best; one type of coal from another and which makes my furnace burn best; but it took me almost half my lifetime before I decided to find out what made me go best.
I learned there were "danger foods" for fatties.
Take that dab of hotel butter sitting there in front of you while some slow waiter takes your order and goes away for a nice long visit with the chef in the kitchen. Soon that dab is gone. Comes another. Each counts 25 calories at least.
I soon learned hard butter is more fattening because it takes more to cover a slab of bread. So I used soft butter - a little spreads so much faster and farther.
That hotel roll. Then the other one. Then more. Each roll with the butter totals to 100. It doesn't take many rolls to make a spare tire.
I often ate a meal waiting for a meal.
In dieting, I didn't really drop any single food. I merely varied them, but I kept certain "danger foods" apart, like you keep two scrappy friends apart in the same party.
I wouldn't go mixing French fries with bread and butter and spaghetti and apple pie and Tom Collins.
I'd take any one in stride. But never all together. Bread and butter, Torn Collins, doughnuts - all fine in their places, but keep them separated.
Take them in stride was my motto, just like the toughie who says, "I'll lick you all - one at a time!"
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