Diet and Health - With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters
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[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 helpings, you see; but isn't it comforting to know that you can eat these things? Maybe some meal you would rather have a 350-calorie piece of luscious pie, with a delicious 150-calorie tablespoonful of whipped cream on it, than all the succulent vegetables Luther Burbank could grow in California. My idea of heaven is a place with me and mine on a cloud of whipped cream. [Sidenote: _You Registered Too High_] |
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