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Lose 40 Pounds in 80 Days

Now I'm going to get real technical. Many diet queens just don't quite agree on this one, but here it is.

You can "think away" your fat. Before you laugh, listen.

Hard thinking is really work and burns up energy. Of course, worry burns up more calories than peaceful thoughts. A worried frown burns more calories than a smile-but keep on smiling.

That's why the great worriers are generally thin people. Fatties are too overloaded to think very fast. They'd rather snooze. Ever see a hippopotamus with a worried look? A Hollywood glamour gal once said that her reducing method was to "stay up late nights and worry a lot."

You see, there's a scientific saying: where there's a will there's a way. Many doctors say, "If he'd only decide to live I could help him." Some hospitals today won't operate if you say, "I don't think I'll come through."

It's mind over matter. That psychosomatic stuff we hear so much about today.

I better call a halt on this kind of talk, though. My wife thinks I'm nuts.



HOW TO KNOW FAT FOODS

I heard one "professional fatty"-the kind that makes a career out of it, you know--once say:

"If it tastes good-it's fattening."

Lots of truth to that, I guess. Like the fellow who said if he liked something it was bound to be "illegal, immoral, or fattening."

At the same time, all foods are fattening, if you eat enough of them: it's just a question of overdoing. Sometimes the solution to a problem is a good deal simpler than it seems.

It's like the story of the fellow who went to his doctor and said he had a buzzing sound in his ears, and his eyes were popping.

The doctor gave him three months to live. So the chap sold everything he owned, took the money, and decided to live Riley's life for three months.

He went into a store and bought several brand new suits. Went up to the shirt counter to get half a dozen new shirts. "I wear size 16," he said.

The salesman measured him. "Sixteen, you say, sir?" said the salesman. "Why, mister, you're a full size 17. Why, if you wear size 16, you'll have buzzing in your ears and your eyes will pop!"

(Okay, okay-my wife says she heard it before, too!)

P.S.-I'm under 195!


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