Fun of Getting Thin

G. Blythe Samuel

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Stuck with a few extra pounds around the middle? Feeling like the pudge will never budge? Twentieth-century fitness guru Samuel G. Blythe points out that losing weight doesn't have to be drudgery -- instead, the weight loss journey can be looked at as one of life's great adventures. This guide to shedding pounds and finding happiness along the way remains timely and relevant today.

Informations

• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781775413523
• Langue: English

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THE FUN OF GETTING THIN
HOW TO BE HAPPY AND REDUCE THE WAIST LINE
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SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
 
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The Fun of Getting Thin How To Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line From a 1912 edition.
ISBN 978-1-775413-52-3
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Contents
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Chapter I - Fat Chapter II - The So-Called Cures Chapter III - Facing the Tissue
Chapter I - Fat
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A fat man is a joke; and a fat woman is two jokes—one on herself andthe other on her husband. Half the comedy in the world is predicatedon the paunch. At that, the human race is divided into but twoclasses—fat people who are trying to get thin and thin people who aretrying to get fat.
Fat, the doctors say, is fatal. I move to amend by striking out thelast two letters of the indictment. Fat is fat. It isn't any morefatal to be reasonably fat than to be reasonably thin, but it's adarned sight more uncomfortable. So far as being unreasonably thin orunreasonably fat is concerned, I suppose the thin person has the longend of it. I never was thin, so I don't know. However, I have beenfat—notice that "have been"? And if there is any phase of humanenjoyment, any part of life, any occupation, avocation, divertisement,pleasure or pain where the fat man has the better of it in any regard,I failed to discover it in the twenty years during which I looked likethe rear end of a hack and had all the bodily characteristics of a baleof hay.
When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line ofhuman endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent,directly or indirectly, in the assay. The personal equation is theruling equation. Women want to be thinner because they will lookbetter—and so do men. Likewise, women want to be plumper because theywill look better—and so do men. This holds up to forty years. Afterthat it doesn't make much difference whether either men or women lookany better than they have been looking, so far as the great end and aimof all life is concerned. Consequently fat men and fat women afterforty want to be thinner for reasons of health and comfort, or quit andresign themselves to their further years of obesity.