Diet and health : with key to the calories . mportantfor all of you. (I shall also tell you morefully about this in the last chapter.) No Fundsfor ilie Red Crom 80 DIET AND HEALTH Maintenance The maintenance diet is one which main- Diet tains you at your present weight, , you are not gaining or losing. You may be over or under normal, but are staying there. The intake equals the outgo. When you eat less than your maintenancediet, you are going to supply the deficiencywith your own fat. So commit yourself on your honor that youare going to reduce or perish—no joke; youcant tell how near you
Diet and health : with key to the calories . mportantfor all of you. (I shall also tell you morefully about this in the last chapter.) No Fundsfor ilie Red Crom 80 DIET AND HEALTH Maintenance The maintenance diet is one which main- Diet tains you at your present weight, , you are not gaining or losing. You may be over or under normal, but are staying there. The intake equals the outgo. When you eat less than your maintenancediet, you are going to supply the deficiencywith your own fat. So commit yourself on your honor that youare going to reduce or perish—no joke; youcant tell how near you are to it if you aremuch overweight. There are two generalstages of fatty heart. In the first stage theheart is surrounded by a blanket of fat, and^ it also penetrates between the muscles. Later, if it goes on too long, the heart muscle itselfGood-night! degenerates to fat, then-Shakespeare warns you to make thy bodyless, hence thy grace more; leave gonnandiz-ing, and know that the grave doth gape forthee thrice wider than for other AT LAST! HOW TO REDUCE 81 Second Order Your stomach, long used to an excess offood for your needs—it may not be a largeamount—but still, I repeat, being used to anexcess of food for your needs, your stomachmust be disciplined. It is undoubtedly dis-tended, as it should not be. A good way to show it that you are masteris to fast for at least one day—drink nothingbut pure water, hot or cold, as you prefer. Itwill protest vociferously and will tell all itsfriends, the different organs of your body,how you are persecuting it, and they will jointhe league against you and decide they willoust you from your position, and you will feellike—^but dont mind it; it will soon knowthat you mean business, and, much chastenedand considerably contracted, will take thenext day a very small amount of food verygratefully. If you do not want to be so severe with it,you can allow it five glasses of hot or coldskim millc or buttermilk, one every threehour
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