to a retention of water, and will not be permanent.
However, don't depend upon this too often! Usually, if you have gained
when you think you ought not to, it is because Nature has been counting
calories and you haven't.

Have the members listed on a weight chart conspicuously placed near the
scales, and record accurately the weight weekly.

+-------------------------------------------------------+
| WATCH YOUR WEIGHT ANTI-KAISER CLASS |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |Normal| Weight on |
+------------------+------+-----------------------------+
| Members' Names |Weight|Date|Date|Date|Date|Date|Date|
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | | | | | | | |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | | | | | | | |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | | | | | | | |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | | | | | | | |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | | | | | | | |
+------------------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+

[Sidenote: _No Funds for the Red Cross_]

Those not reducing at least one pound per week to be fined soundly and
the proceeds given to the Red Cross. That won't be a good way to raise
funds for the chapter, though, for there will be no fines after the
first week or so, when the members find what their maintenance diet
should be and are consuming less than that.

I will explain this maintenance diet business. You shameless thin ones,
call back your more polite comrades--this is important for all of you.
(I shall also tell you more fully about this in the last chapter.)

[Sidenote: _Maintenance Diet_]

The maintenance diet is one which maintains you at your present weight,
_i.e.,_ you are not gaining or losing. You may be over or under normal,
but are staying there. The intake equals the outgo.

When you eat less than your maintenance diet, you are going to supply
the deficiency with your own fat.

So commit yourself on your honor that you are going to reduce or
perish--no joke; you can't tell how near you are to it if yo