Forget The Total Amount
	Forget the total amount you are eating of the foods you are allowed. Concentrate only on the carbohydrate-loaded foods; they are the only ones you need to worry about. So you see, though you may eat with sinful-seeming freedom, you will still be in a position to worry if worry you must. You can also worry, in a very minor way, about drinking. Needless to say, if you have a Drinking Problem, you have more to worry about than your weight, and this book will not be of much help. But if you are only concerned with the odd glass, the ritual cocktail hour, or the big party, a glance at the Alcoholic Beverages Chart will cheer you. It has never before been known to cheer dieters, because 1 gram of alcohol contains 7 calories. But we said you could drink on this diet, and we meant it. As the table shows, the number of carbohydrates per average drink is comparatively low, with the exception of beer, ale, sweet wines, and liqueurs. This admits liquor, within reason and with the discretion which will naturally accompany the thinking man's drinking even if he is not overweight, to the low carbohydrate dieter's list of pleasures. Why, then, do so many non-teetotallers put on weight? For one thing, they eat while they're drinking. They eat tasty bits of things spread on bread (12 grams carbohydrate per slice) and piled on tiny crackers (much lower, around 3 each, but they still add up by the handful). They eat delightful specialties-of-the-house which have been rolled in breadcrumbs (more than 8 grams per ounce). They eat potato crisps uncountable, which average 1 gram per crisp, and they frequently dip these into spreads which have been made with cornstarch or flour. There is also the possibility, presently under investigation, that because alcohol is absorbed much more swiftly into the system than solid foods, its calories can be immediately utilized to supply some of the body's energy needs. By the time food calories are available fewer of them are required, and thus more are left over to settle down upon the waistlines of the unwary. Next: The Wise Can Continue To Drink