caloric value, hence are low in fat-producing properties, and can be
consumed with indiscretion, properly masticated.

It is better while you are reducing to stay away from the dining table
when you do not expect to eat. If you are rooming, get a tiny sterno
outfit, some substitute or coffee, some canned or dry milk, some sugar
if you use it, and you can make a hot drink in your room and be
independent for your breakfast and your evening meal, when you decide
some day to go without that. Do not take more than 100 calories for your
breakfast. That leaves you 1100 calories to be divided during the day if
you go on a 1200 calorie schedule. I suggest the following distribution
of the calories:

Breakfast 100 C's.
Lunch 350 "
Tea 100 "
Dinner 650 "

You can reverse the dinner and lunch if you desire. If you do so then
have your 100 calories I have allowed for tea time to take just before
you retire. On a 1200 calorie schedule arranged as I have it you will
not be hungry, I assure you. It will not be more than three or four days
before your stomach will be shrunk and this amount I have allowed you
will almost seem like overeating! That is the big idea. Shrink your
stomach. Go on a fast or low calorie day for a day if necessary to get
started. See page 81.

I can safely say that any up and around adult will reduce on 1200
calories, for that will not supply the basal metabolism, i.e., the
body's internal activities, such as the beating of the heart,