Part 14 (1/2)
Each of our Upside-Down Diet meals will start with a bowl of ice cream or a chocolate eclair Follow this with a small fish dish or oysters, clams or shrimp with a chocolate sauce This will have the effect of raising your blood sugar level abruptly, and by the time the main course of oatmeal, corn flakes or Fruit Loops with buttermilk coreedy, but after the book is published I have high hopes that it will be made into a movie
Thin for Christht There's no sense buying a new suit and then having it hang on me after I've lost twenty pounds That's about what I'll probably lose, twenty pounds
Unlike so in for any crazy diets I weigh tooto count calories or watch carbohydrates, fats and proteins I' to cut down on food
It's ti All my shoes seeht theht on er and wider
The only thing I' to cut out completely is ice creaht but after that, that's it No more ice cream until I drop twenty pounds Or bread I knoho makes the best loaf of bread in America and I eat tooI'll do is cut out second helpings When I' ”Couldn't eat another bite,” I'll say
It's the e person would probably wait until after Christht but not oing to start right nowtoood idea to drink a glass of water before a lasses because I want to drop off soht in a hurry The kids will all be hoe]In his Hacker boat, on Lake George , ”Boy, Dad, you've really put on soht since suoing to take off, beginning tomorrow, is that for the second day in a row I popped the top button on ht be that I just happened to get two bad buttons but I don't think so Anyway, I' to make it easier on the pants
For the past fewwider ties because ether and button the way they used to The wide tie helps fill the gap so that people don't see a big expanse of shi+rt in front Thank goodness I'll be able to go back to wearing thin ties again pretty soon
It's going to seeet Sonize reat, Andy,” everyone will be saying
The least I ever weighed after I got out of college was 183 pounds The hed was yesterday when I hit 221 without even reat paunch that sticks out, I gain weight all over Even my ears are heavier
It's easy to see why a lot of people aren't as successful at losing weight as I'o for so to do it the old-fashi+oned way and si After I've lost twenty pounds, I may write a book about it
Come to think of it, later today I may call my publisher and ask if they'd be interested in a book about ht loss How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Days, How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Days, I ive or take a few days I ive or take a few days
It ood idea if I started a diary the saht Maybe I'll start the diary tomorrow, too, then I'll have the book done at the sahter
Of course, I don't want to get too thin I don't want to look drawn Doctors advise against going up and down too fast, so I don't want to overdo it Maybe I'll have an occasional dish of ice creaet too thin too soon If I lose weight gradually, it ht away, either I wouldn't want to finish the book before I'e to Eat No nu the kind or aht will ever convince ht
I don't have a potbelly or great globs of fat hanging froht There's too ht now I'm up around 210 That may not sound bad but I'm not six foot three
No one has ever been able to prove the extent to which we can alter the course of our lives by resolve Nine tie to Eat 215 215 lose weight, but at the end of the year the chances are I'hed when the year started That's if I' I had found the answer I had read a good book by a doctor who taught at Harvard and he convinced ht was a simple one You are fat for just one reason You take in more calories than you burn The doctor conceded that some people burn calories faster than others and that differences in our rates of ht than others The fact reh too much, it's because you eat too much There are a few h people to be worth talking about
What the doctor didn't talk about, because he was a nutritionist and not a psychiatrist, was so in ht people that affects the appetite My appetite keeps ht to consuood so I want e to take it
I hate to be in a rooarette sarettes but I understand how difficult it ot no business feeling superior to so
There have been periods in e to eat for short, intense periods when I devote practicallynot to, but it doesn't last Overeating is as much a part of my personality as blue eyes and wide feet I can notoo e the Irish look of ht charts in a doctor's office, I laugh According to theh 145 pounds They'd have et down to 145 pounds the day the doctor starts s about overeating are too depressing to contemplate butter is certainly one of the purest, most delicious foods ever made It's made with such a wholesome and natural collaboration between man and cow, too It seeood cooks who love to use so s we shouldn't eat
Years ago I learned that bourbon was fattening All alcoholic beverages are high in calories It sees as different as butter and bourbon could produce the sa whether the fat produced on my frame by bourbon would look any better or worse than that produced by butter
Everything about being fat seems so unfair
Sodium-Restricted Diet Last week I went toup for ht is up, my cholesterol is up and my blood pressure is up
My doctor is also ht
As I was leaving, he handed me these two brochures This one, from the American Heart association, is called SODIUM-RESTRICTED SODIUM-RESTRICTED DIET and the other was put out by the Morton Salt Company With due respect to my doctor, let me say in the nicest way I know and the other was put out by the Morton Salt Company With due respect to my doctor, let me say in the nicest way I kno-these pa to help someone with a diet, you don't tell them how much salt there is in one ounce of Animal Crackers, 5 5/6th of an ounce of Shredded Wheat or in half a bouillon cube Its been years since I had half a bouillon cube for dinner
If you followed the advice in this booklet, you'd be eating off a scale I'm suspicious of the Morton Salt pa salt, are they really going to help someone use less of it?
Sodiu salt ”sodiuwhy do they try toit sodiu it the Morton Sodium Company
They list the sodium content of strawberries Half a cup of strawberries has one e person doesn't have any idea what a e person
And how do you measure half a cup of strawberries? Here's the half cup markdo I mash them down, Morton?
I like salt I'm the kind of person who puts salt on his sodium If I followed the advice of Morton and the American Heart association, there wouldn't be much I could eat And if I do take their advice, don't expect to be seeing as much of me in the future because there won't be as much of me to see
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”Do not use any salt substitute that your doctor has not reco is to keep in touch with your physician”
Why is the Aood with doctors? Or are they doctors?
My doctor is busy He doesn't want rams of low-sodium dietetic peanut butter He's so busy I'll bet he never even read the paiven it to s that are bad for you Eleven hundred dollars a pound would make anyone sick
I must admit, there are a couple of surprises in here
Listen to this: ”You ly to season a dish-one stalk of celery to a pot of stew”
The other day at a party I ate two stalks of celery so, if I'm not on next week because I dropped dead, you'll knoas that second stalk of celery that did me in
On People and Places Thanks, Pal Ernie Pyle, rote the book Brave Men, Brave Men, was the best kind of brave htless, macho kind of bravado that is sometimes mistaken for bravery He was a war correspondent as afraid of being killed but did what he had to do in spite of it was the best kind of brave htless, macho kind of bravado that is sometimes mistaken for bravery He was a war correspondent as afraid of being killed but did what he had to do in spite of it
Mostly, Ernie stayed right with the infantry On the scrubby little island of Ie shi+ up with the infantry when he was shot dead by a japanese o
Almost everyone has heard of Ernie Pyle but in case you don't knohy he was so widely read and so ht I'd offer a little toast to theyou
Unlike most correspondents, Ernie never offered any opinion about inning or losing the war He just told little stories about the ers on his typewriter keys that told more about the victories and defeats of World War II than all the official communiques ever issued