ays can be repeated once a week if necessary in order to
keep the stomach in good order. Fruit juice, one-quarter glass, or fresh
fruit, can be substituted for the skim milk, and you may prefer it.

[Sidenote: _But You Do Not Have To_]

You could keep on this for some time, or fast for some time, and
probably be much benefited. I fasted five days once, or rather
fruit-juiced five days. I lost about ten pounds, I think, and my heart,
which had begun to carry on, was relieved.

[Sidenote: _Sob Stuff_]

It was during that period of which I have spoken, and of which I am
ashamed; for I had my M.D. degree then and should have known better. But
you know we have good authority that it is easier to teach twenty what
were good to be done than to be one of twenty to follow our own
teaching.

_Third Order_

[Sidenote: _You Are Down to Business_]

[Sidenote: _And Maybe Diabetes_]

Now you will have to reckon on the amount of food or number of calories
you need per day. Review the rule I have given. You find for your age
and _normal weight_ that you will need, let us say for example, 2200
calories. You have probably been consuming twice that amount and either
storing it away as fat or as disease. (It is surprising how small an
excess will gradually add up pounds of fat. For instance, three pats of
butter or three medium chocolate creams a day, if over the maintenance
limit, would add approximately _27 pounds a year_ to your weight!)

Now you are to reduce your maintenance diet--the 2200 calories we are
taking for example--to 1200 calories--quite a comfortable lot, you will
find.

You will be surprised how much 1200 calories will be if the food is
judiciously selected.

[Sidenote: _After All, Hunger Is Much More Agreeable Than Apoplexy_]

You may be hungry at first, but you will soon become accustomed to the
change. I find that dry lemon or orange peel, or those little aromatic
breath sweeteners, just a tiny bit, seem to stop the hunger pangs; or
you may have a cup of fat-free bouillon or half an apple, or other low
calorie food. (Count the calories here.)

One thousand calories less food per day equals four ounces of fat lost
daily--approximately 8 pounds per month. If you do not want to lose so
fast, do not cut down so much.

_Fourth Order_

[Sidenote: _You Register Joy_]

You may eat just what you like--candy, pie, cake, fat meat, butter,
cream--but--_count your calories!_ You can't have many nor large