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Reducing Secrets
That Really Worked
OUT here in Hollywood, where keeping slender often means keeping your job, rather than being a mere matter of having an alluring feminine figure, there are more panaceas to stave off the demon avoirdupois than one could hope to try in a life time. Most of them are high priced: most of them stress the minimum of effort, physical and mental, that they require. There are diets, plain, fancy, and freak. There are baths and massages. There are pills and powders. The woman faced with the urgent problem of losing a considerable amount of excess weight is quite naturally bewildered when she asks herself the all-important question: "How?"
In my case, as I related in Radio Mirror last month, I was faced with the immediate necessity of shelving twenty pounds. My picture contract depended upon doing it — and doing it at once. There certainly was no dearth of "experts" eager to take on the task for me at sums ranging from a few dollars to a few thousand. But it seemed to me that their methods were designed to appeal to flabby minds as well as to flabby bodies, for in almost every case they were to take all the effort. That didn't sound like common sense to me, for in my professional experience I had learned that it's pretty generally true nothing worth while ever is accomplished or gained without effort.
There was no reason, as far as I could see, why sound common sense shouldn't be as valuable a guide-post to reducing as to anything else. Certainly I'd never found any substitute for it. So I thrust aside all the tempting whispers of the beautiful little booklets advertising the merits of this easy system and that one, and worked out a program of my own.
It seemed to me that a simple course of exercise and a (Continued on page 62)
Above, Marion illustrates the first step toward a perfect figure. A glass of hot water and the juice of one lemon as soon as you get up in the morning. Next come the setting up exercises, of which there are seven, described in detail in the article. Five of the most graphic are illustrated here. At the right is number two, for the hips, which reach the correct proportions after a little of this.
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