[Sidenote:  Nature Always Counts]

Tell loudly and frequently to all your friends that you realize that it is unpatriotic to be fat while many thousands are starving, that you are going to reduce to normal, and will be there in the allotted time.  If you belong to a club, round up the overweights and form a section.  Call it the “Watch Your Weight—­Anti-Kaiser Class.”  Tax the members sufficiently to buy a good, accurate pair of scales.  Meet once a week to weigh.  Wear approximately the same weight clothes, and weigh at the same time in relation to eating.  Do this whether or not you belong to a club.  Once or twice a week is often enough to weigh.  Scales vary, so try to use the same ones.

Don’t be discouraged if some day after you have dieted well you seem to have gained.  Nature sometimes seems fiendish that way.  The excess weight is probably due to a retention of water, and will not be permanent.  However, don’t depend upon this too often!  Usually, if you have gained when you think you ought not to, it is because Nature has been counting calories and you haven’t.

Have the members listed on a weight chart conspicuously placed near the scales, and record accurately the weight weekly.

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|            WATCH YOUR WEIGHT ANTI-KAISER CLASS        |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
|                  |Normal|          Weight on          |
+------------------+------+-----------------------------+
|  Members’ Names  |Weight|Date|Date|Date|Date|Date|Date|
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|                  |      |    |    |    |    |    |    |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|                  |      |    |    |    |    |    |    |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|                  |      |    |    |    |    |    |    |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|                  |      |    |    |    |    |    |    |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|                  |      |    |    |    |    |    |    |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
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[Sidenote:  No Funds for the Red Cross]
Those not reducing at least one pound per week to
be fined soundly and the proceeds given to the Red
Cross.  That won’t be a good way to raise
funds for the chapter, though, for there will be no
fines after the first week or so, when the members
find what their maintenance diet should be and are
consuming less than that.
I will explain this maintenance diet business. 
You shameless thin ones, call back your more polite
comrades—­this is important for all of you. 
(I shall also tell you more fully about this in the
last chapter.)
[Sidenote:  Maintenance Diet]
The maintenance diet is one which maintains you at
your present weight, i.e., you are not gaining
or losing.  You may be over or under normal, but
are staying there.  The intake equals the outgo.