_Don't "taste"!_ You will find the second taste much harder to resist
than the first. If you have allowed in your daily program something
between meals (a good plan), take it, but not otherwise.

Try not to overeat at any time, and thus undo the work that perhaps has
taken you two or three days to accomplish. It will be all right
occasionally, possibly one day a week, to eat up to your maintenance
diet, but don't, I beg of you, go over it so that you will gain.

You will be tempted quite frequently, and you will have to choose
whether you will enjoy yourself hugely in the twenty minutes or so that
you will be consuming the excess calories, or whether you will dislike
yourself cordially for the two or three days you lose by your lack of
will power.

[Sidenote: _I Ought Not to Do This_]

I am afraid I am going to tell a story. I feel as though I were, and I
don't want to. It is one I heard years ago at a teachers' convention at
Riverside, when I was a tender, unsuspecting young school teacher, so
it is perfectly good, albeit senile--and it illustrates my point so
well--so well--well, you have to put yourself in the place of the little
chaps, Billie and Johnnie, of the kindergarten.

[Sidenote: _A Little Anatomical Story_]

It seems it was customary to bring a lunch, and Little-new-boy had come
without one. Teacher asked Billie would he share? No, sturdily; not he.
But little Johnnie, he would. Some time later, Johnnie, with a frantic
waving of his hand, and with just pride in his generosity, informed the