How Much Weight Do You Want To Lose Fast?

Want to go on a Four-Day Reducing Diet? Or a Six-Day, a Seven-Day, a Nine-Day, or an Eighteen-Day Diet?

Fine—if you do it with your eyes open.  There are a few facts about short-term reducing diets that must be offered for the record.

To begin with, the notion that any diet, faithfully followed for eight or nine or any other short period of days, can permanently solve your weight worries is a cruel and inhuman illusion. It is certainly true that you can reduce your weight gratifyingly and safely by following such diets—but what happens afterward?

If you revert to your old eating habits after nine days’ abstemiousness, first thing you know you'll have to repeat the limited diet all over again, and this alternation can go on until St. Peter weighs you in.

There is nothing to equal short-term reducing diets in getting you started on your weight reducing program. Many of the popular ones, however, run for too short a

period to get your weight down to ideal level.

Even if you should achieve an ideal figure in a week (which is only possible if you are within ten pounds or so of your ideal weight) you aren't going to hold those gains—we mean, hold those losses—unless you continue to exercise some dietary control. Those of us who put on weight easily may just as well make up our minds to enlist for the duration.

That sounds bad, but it really isn't. Once you have achieved the weight loss you desire, you will find that a

diet of moderately low calories will enable you to keep your figure and your appetite on intimately friendly terms. That is why we give you not only a rapid reducing diet, but other more liberal diets that you can graduate to and live with happily ever after.

Another difficulty with short-term diets is that although you lose weight on them, you may never know it. It sometimes takes as long as 16 days for a fat loss actually to register on your scales—this because retention of water in the tissues may be unusually persistent. In such a case, obviously, eight or nine days isn't enough time for the body to complete its readjustments and show the loss of real fat that actually occurs. Within a couple of weeks, however, you will show a weight loss with pleasing suddenness.

You undoubtedly have in mind a certain number of pounds you would like to shed. Ten, twenty, thirty? And you are entitled to ask, "How many days will I have to follow a specific diet to lose those pounds?"

Unfortunately, an average person has no physical existence anywhere in nature. Certainly you are not average; scour the cosmos and you are lucky if you can find some person who is even a reasonable facsimile of yourself. The human body is the most complex and variable instrument in nature. Not even your physician can tell you with mathematical exactness how many ounces or fractions thereof you will lose per day on a given diet. But you yourself can arrive at an answer that is satisfactory for all practical purposes

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