Self-Control Equals Pounds Off
	On the other hand, if you are capable of a normal degree of self-control, you can launch yourself on the low carbohydrate diet with every assurance that pounds will start leaving you almost at once-often by the end of the second day. This alone is enough to boost the morale of the veteran dieter who has known the long agony of sweating out other diets-the weeks of waiting for the scales to prove what a good, self-denying boy (or girl) he has been. But there are other advantages to this diet which no approach to the problem has ever before offered. Look at the meals you can eat! Observe that if you have been fighting for status as a fledgling gourmet, this diet in no way keeps you out of the club. You will find that the simple steak, crisply browned outside and rosy within, oozing delectable no-carbohydrate juices, is ideal for your purposes, but by no means all you are entitled to. You, or whoever cooks for you, can go high cuisine with wines, with herbs, with spices. With butter and cream. Malnourished reader, refugee from a thousand and one nights of sleepless fantasy about real food-on this diet you can have it. And as for drinking, it's all true-on this diet you can drink. You can drink anything but beer, really sweet wines, or heavy liqueurs. It may cost a little more, or you may learn to drink a little less, but if you are ready to cooperate in these slight modifications, then the world of the convivial is still wide open to you. Creme de cacao-type ladies are perhaps the only ones who may be in for a real struggle as they try to make do with an after-dinner brandy instead of the vastly richer brew of their pre-diet choice. Now, let's see how it works, and why. Next: The History of the Low Carbohydrate Diet