The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-21
TOREDUCE ONES SIZE.
HOW A FAT MAN GOT RID OF HIS
sUPERFLUOUS FLESH.

A1Roo 81 Food 10 10 Av0A0o0-NOt guam.
tity, but Qualify. the Cause of Cor
puisnce-Sons Figurss Which Tell the
s.ery-Kssping It Up.
New York is . great place in which to have
friends and NOT - thAR for months. A
Tribune reporter realised this the other day
when be ran across frisnd whom he had not
INST N . year. But tbs fact Of the meeting
did not strike the Newspaper man 50 oddly a
the change in the others appearance The
frisnd was nearly i've fest nine in height,
absut % years old, and apparently neither
fst nor thin. He was . man whom one would
call simply in good condition. That was
singular enough, for only year or 30 before
the reporter had noted that his friend was I'M
pleasantly and unsr.cstully stout His fat
seemed to settle in hts waist and checks. Now
hs was piump-nothing more.
"ChAnxsdY the friend repeated after the
reporter. "Yss, I should think 50. Decent
looking kind 0t . spectacle now, although not
pretty, OF courss! I'll tell you how I did it.
I made up my mind would no Ion &. be SO
unsraccfully fat and determined to try
Banting. / had half starved myself before
this, but il had done no good. concluded,
therefors, that it was not the amount Of food
ate but the quality, so I changed my diet,
and here l am
what is thu processF
Il gave up sugar and all sweet things
bread 20 ssJes beer and sweet wines, milk
butter and parsnips That is, I did 20 at first
ate dry toast, underdone beef, or any other
kind OF meat; any kind OF vegetables except
po.s-2r md psrsnips, salads, fish, and, in
fact $ thing pleased except what was for
iii L was hard at first, Of course, and
L ID II. O-,.isss l could hava had the nerve to
~. - sweet things and milk entirely, but
JIoiniSod took just enough milk and
III II IL. nv coffee at breakfast to make it
pslsta5's, and that little indulgence did not
see.n ID kurs me l lost Aesh rapidly. Hers
are tins figures which have in my pocket
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS weight, for weighed my
self in q Turkish bath"
LOOK ON THIS PICTURE, ETC, ETC.
You may think, continued the reduced
weight, that 147k net, or say 40 with ones
clothes on, Is not too much flesh for . man
i've feet eight and . quarter inches tall. That
u true-N The tat were evenly distributed
over ones body. But when il was concen-
trated in my waist and my cheeks it is very
disagreeabls. In fact, before began this
system Of diet could not stoop comfortably
to button my shoss; - I could not keep q
valet, that was . nuisance. By October II,
1884, when, - you -. I bad brought my
self down twslvs and one half pounds, I was
entirely comfortable. Neither NY cheeks nor
my stomach were pulRed out I reduced my
waistband two inches.
During this Tine I did not change my man.
nsr Of life did not take much exercise,
anyway, neither do Itahs cold baths-both Of
which thinss are good to reduce Assh I am
told don't suppose w.lksa over three
quarters Of . mile . day, and my daily
bath Il Of moderate Temperature. 1t was
all in ~ quality Of Tie feod atA"
what did you eat, aAywayr
For breakfast, - I say, I compromised on
the coffee, and tsok dry tnass, besfsssak, egg.
in any shape, and frus according to my
taste, Fer lunchsOn il was generally cold
French dressing. For dinner any kind of
soup, fsh, underdons best or mutton with all
vegetables except potatoes and parsnips; a
salad With any kind Of game; then fruit and
. cup Of black eol1ss WITH Jast . bit Of sugar
| in IT. drank elarst, heck, or sauterne, but
no champagne; and I made no difference in
my drinks between meals except that I took
my liquor straight without water OF suger.
SWhsn I had come down to 185 pounds, net
weight Twas satisfied, and have kept myself
there ever since. Expsrinsnting with different
kinds Of fsrbiddsn thing eonvinces mo that
milk and sugar, broad and potatoes breed
oorpulencs Fat meat O butter, In my case,
makes no difference; or, at least, no great
difference. And there are reasons for not
| following tho regimen Of Banting too closely.
When had brought myself down twslve and
I . half pounds in six weeks, from September
5th to October 18th, began to have neuralgia
in my head. I had taken no cold and had
| not BEEN worried. II occurred to me that it
might b the change OF diet. So I began
to eat butter and fat meat in moderation
| The neuralgia left me. Several times since
/ have tried . strict adherence to the system,
and the neuralgia has always returned. So
now I eat butter and fat as please. also
eat ice-cream, or some other sweet thing, for
dessert twice a week, and take my cocktail
in the morning or any other time of day l
choose. But 1 weigh myself often, and when
tip the scales at 1854 net drop the desserts
! entirely TIL am back at 135 pounds"
GOING TO KEEP IT UP.
Shall you keep it ups" queri-i the TO
! porter.
"Oh, yea 1t pays. BY refraining from
| sweets have no stuffy feeling after dinner,
and a quarter of lump OF sugar in my
! blsck coffee gives me a pleasant desire for q
smoke That makes life worth living. The
| hardest struggle had was over milk, for
/ loved . glass OF it before going to bed inn
mensely But in . couple Of months my
1 desire grew less, and now don't pine for it.
| find boilsd rice . good substitute for potato.
-Banting's system On she whole il the east
ct. 1t reqnires only little sh-denial. But
! who ever wants to follow it should do two
things: weigh himself, net weight every
week The difference in size then is noticea-
BILE in pounds, and the patient is encouraged
to keep on with his regimen. Secondly,
| don't 90 too far. A woman should always
'bant' under physicians care, and man
should let up on the severity Of his self
denial as soon as he feels bad. Here, by the
/ way is Bantinss table Of what men should
| weigh when they are neither too fat nor toe
lean: ~