Vegetable soup, or bouillon, no fat;
       or small oyster cocktail 25 C.
     Lean meat, or “unthinking” lobster
       or fish, 5 or 6 oz 300 C.
     Large serving of uncooked lettuce or
       cabbage, practically 00 C.
     Mayonnaise or oil, 1/2 dsp 50 C.
     1 large dish tomatoes, or cauliflower,
       or string beans, or carrots, or turnips
       (I hate turnips—­just put them
       down so you can see you can have
       them if you like) 25 C.
     1 medium slice bread, or 1 medium
       potato 100 C.
     1 pat butter 100 C.
     100 calories of your husband’s dessert 100 C.
     Water 00 C.
     1 cup cereal coffee, clear, practically 00 C.
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     Total 700 C.

SUMMARY

Breakfast 75 C.
Luncheon including salad 375 C.
Dinner 700 C.
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1150 C.

That leaves me 50 more calories to total 1200, to take before retiring if I am hungry.  You should leave this 50 calories to take before retiring, because if you are hungry you will find it very difficult to go to sleep.

A small cup of hot skimmed milk tends to be a sedative.  Hunger, like cold feet, is hard to go to sleep on.

[Sidenote:  For Both Sexes]

If there is one thing more important than another, it is thorough mastication.

[Sidenote:  Sometimes I Take More Than 100 Calories of My Husband’s Dessert.  I Love Fat Men, But I Don’t Want to Be Married to ’Em]

This applies to the thin as well as to the fat, and to the child as well as to the adult.  Take a moderate mouthful and rassel with it until it is automatically swallowed.  Chew until it is all gone before you put any more in your mouth.  There is no better way of jollying yourself into thinking that you have had all you want than this Fletcherizing habit, and it takes the same time to consume one-half the amount of food you have been in the habit of eating.

I will allow you all the water you want, in reason; in fact, I advise it while you are reducing, both at the meals and between meals.  The only precaution is that at the meals it should not be drunk while food is in the mouth, for this would tend to lessen thorough mastication.

Now, Madam and Madam’s husband, when are you going to begin this important business of reducing?  After the holidays?  Tomorrow? No!  Right now. The sooner you get started, the better.  The chief thing to do, and the hardest, is to get started and to get the habit.  After the first three days you will not dread it; in fact; you will feel so much better that you will not be willing to go back to your old habits of overeating.