Vegetable soup, or bouillon, no fat; or small oyster cocktail25 C.
Lean meat, or "unthinking" lobster or fish, 5 or 6 oz300 C.
Large serving of uncooked lettuce or cabbage, practically00 C.
Mayonnaise or oil, 1/2 dsp50 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 potato100 C.
1 pat butter100 C.
100 calories of your husband's dessert100 C.
Water00 C.
1 cup cereal coffee, clear, practically00 C.
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Total700 C.

SUMMARY

Breakfast75 C.
Luncheon including salad375 C.
Dinner700 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.

For Both Sexes

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

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.