Evening star., 1944-03-17
This and That
By Charles E. Tracepeu.

By Charles E. TraceUeH.
Mrs. Yolanda Bonifant was on a diet.
Not that she particularly needed to
reduce, but she thought she did.
Nothing Is either good or bad, but
thinking makes it so; Yolanda had had
the urge to reduce for long time;
something about pencil slim" skirts,
and how they hang.
Beginning a diet, as many persons
know, is interesting, even exciting, if
one is too fat.
The scales come into play every day,
often to the dismay of the patient, for
sometimes one seems to gain weight.
rather than lose it.
This is what is called water reten-
ton" After few days the scales show
loss OF weight, II the reducer sticks to
his diet.
Yolanda Bonifant began bravely
enough.
She did the thing scientifically, with
due care to get enough proteins, and a
little carbohydrate, and all the necessary
vitamins and minerals.
Friends didn't think she needed to
reduce. Her long, slim lines were per-
feet. But Yolanda thought otherwise.
There Is a certain interest, even ex-
element, in the reducing diet Ask any
one who has tried one. The trouble
comes in keeping it up.
So many factors make for falling
by the wayside. One of these is ones
friends. Dear friends Immediately start
to look for faults and flaws.
BY the second day they are sure the
patient Is going to expire. When a real
loss Of weight is manifest, they begin
to wonder audibly whether the sufferer
will ever be able to get 1t back again.
They always know some one who, fol-
lowing diet. began to grow thinner
and thinner. and couldn't stop.
Mrs. Bonifant began we'll, and kept on
at an equable pace.
Try as hard as she could, however,
she was not able to lose an ounce!
Something must be the matter with
the SCALE" she thought.
She went all over her diet, item by
item, and found it was correct Theo-
retically, she ought to be losing at the
rate Of 2 pounds week.
A week went by, and she weighed
exactly 142 pounds, just what she started
with; there was no gainsaying the testi-
mony of the scales.
A second week went by not very rap
idly, because the days go rather slowly
when one is reducing In fact, re-
ducing diet is sure way to give ones
self more time.
At the end of this week, the scales
showed-exactly 142 pounds!
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Yolanda was disgusted.
After Jonas Bonifant had gone down
to the Office, she went back to the kitch-
en- and made herself big bacon sand
wich, with fried eggs.
1t tasted mighty swell.
Dieting will do that for any one. One
always has good appetite when dieting
At lunch she ate her usual reducing
meal but an hour later, on dropping
down to the drugstore for some items
she succumbed to the lure of the
counter.
There she consumed three cups of
| coffee, big sandwich and fine piece
Of pumpkin pie.
This she topped off with an ice cream
| soda, guaranteed in any book in dieting
| to add at least 400 calorleS to the daily
| intake.
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We'll" exclaimed Yolanda, surveying
herself in the mirror, III bet I will
weigh at least $50 pounds tomorrow! !!
At dinner she thought she might as
we'll eat good one, since the damage
had been done already. So she added
at least 800 calories to the diet.
All told, according to the best COM
| putations, she had eaten some $500
calories worth over and above the daily
reducing diet of 1000 calories
The next morning, bright and early
she hoped upon the scales, and gave
startled squawk Of pleasure.
The reducing diet" was working ut
last-she now weighed 140 pounds!