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MC-5, 1180 Broadway, New Vork 1, N. Y. {Continued from page 18) the size of his waistline (then 38). The British writer candidly concluded: "Liberace could afford to lose a couple of stone." (That's twenty-eight pounds, in American measurements.) Recently, when Liberace visited England, the newspapers raved about how well he looked. Said the newspaperman who'd formerly criticized him: "You look about 1000 percent better than you used to. What did you do to yourself?" Liberace smiled and said, "I took your advice, and lost a couple of stone." Actually, he did better than that. In three months, he lost forty pounds! "I decided to reduce for two reasons," says Liberace. "I didn't have the energy I needed — I was listless, short-winded, and I tired easily. My added weight made me look older than I actually was — asked to guess my age, people would add a couple of years to what it was." (Actually, he's 38, now looks several years younger.) "Friends said, 'You're getting fat.' A few even started to call me 'Fatso.' "I finally decided to reduce when 1 wanted to take out additional insurance. My doctor gave me a clean bill of health, but strongly recommended that I lose weight. He said that, while my overweight hadn't injured my health so far, it could become dangerous in time. He gave me a thorough physical examination, including metabolism tests, and said I would thrive on a high-protein diet." Now, Liberace had been on other diets in the past. Sometimes he'd lost as much as twenty pounds. He's tried almost every kind of freak diet, including pills. They worked for a while. But, as soon as the diet was over, the appetite would come back, and with it the weight. "It was partly a mental thing," he explains. "I call those diets I used to go on 'starvation diets.' They make you feel deprived. When the diet is over and you want to stop feeling deprived, you go back to the same eating habits as before." 1 his time, Liberace's doctor gave him no special pills. There was no printed list saying he had to eat grapes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But the diet placed the following restrictions on Liberace: No potatoes, no rolls, no biscuits, no breadno starches of any kind. For Lee, this was a bit of a hardship, since he had always loved spaghetti and pastas, and used to eat them about three times a week, particularly at family meals. There were to be no desserts except fresh fruits and, once in a while, gelatins. But the banana cream pies he had always enjoyed were definitely banished. So were all other cream pies. He's always loved creamed soups. Any soup, so long as it was cream-of-something. All such soups were banished. Substituted were simple, clear broths. Prohibited were the midnight snacks which had formerly been dear to Liberace's heart. He used to have a sandwich, a piece of pie, candy or cookies before he retired. The following morning, he would awaken feeling logy. Coffee would often constitute his entire breakfast. With the midnight snacks eliminated, Liberace found himself waking up hungry. For breakfast, he'd have eggs, plenty of fruit, and coffee. With starches and sweets completely eliminated, he could even have butter on his eggs. "The difference between my diet and most diets," Lee says, "was that there were not so many difficult things to do. For instance, I didn't have to spread tasteless dressing 'substitutes' on my salads. And I was not told that I'd have to go hungry most of the time. Quite the contrary!" Knowing Liberace's fondness for food, his doctor had said, "You can eat whenever you are hungry — ^provided you stick to proteins, fresh fruits, and raw salads." "At first," said Liberace, "I ate every two hours. One thing that made it easier for me to stick to my diet was that I was on tour at the time. I could pick my proteins— meat, fish, fowl or eggs — from anything the restaurants served. And I could tell my waiters, 'No bread, rolls or potatoes, please.' Yes," he grins. "I could tell that to my waiters — but it didn't always work. There were those who said, 'But the rolls are wonderfully hot,' or, "The baked potato is delicious.' And those who didn't say anything, but brought French-fried onions and fried potatoes with every meat order. "I found that if I ate my salad first, then the meat, I could develop some will power. If the waiters were particularly persuasive, I'd say: 'After I've eaten what I should, if I'm still hungry, then I'll eat the fried potatoes.' But, after I'd eaten a good salad and meat, I no longer wanted them. "However, I had a rude shock, the first week. When I got on those bathroom scales one morning, I discovered that — on my reducing diet — I'd gained three pounds! I was in Chicago at the time, and at once made an appointment to see a doctor friend of mine. 'My doctor in California,' I told him, 'believes that I can lose weight, even though I eat whenever I am hungry. I have been following his instructions, and now look at me! I've gained, instead of losing.' "My friend reassured me. 'You have to give your system time to adjust itself to the new diet,' he said. 'It sometimes takes a week, ten days, possibly even two weeks. But, if you continue to foUow directions, you should soon see an improvement.' " The second week was more reassuring. Each time Liberace stepped on the scales, he found he was losing. Day after day, he lost weight. Soon his clothes were so loose on him that he had to have a couple of suits altered. His skin and complexion began to take on a glow. Previously, his skin had often "broken out" from the effect of too many sweets. Now that no longer happened. In two months' time, he lost about thirtythree pounds. Instead of looking flabby, he began to look trim and slim. As he noted that his muscles were beginning to tone up, Liberace came to the conclusion that he ought to help build up his muscular development. "Not through weight-lifting," he laughs. "That develops the wrong muscles for a pianist. But I decided to go in for simple calisthenics." He started with three very simple exercises: Push-ups, leg-raises, and bending exercises. Push-ups, familiar to every Army man, consist of lying with your face facing the floor, and then pushing yourself up on your elbows. For the leg-raises, you lie on a flat bench and raise your legs. The bending exercises consist of bending from the waist, and touching the tips of the toes with the extended hands. On tour at the time, Liberace would breakfast at his hotel, rehearse, then start his daily exercises. He'd continue them till they became an effort to do. At first, he could do only five or six exercises at a time. Later, he was able to do each exercise twenty times without becoming shortwinded or exhausted. But he never tried to do a half hour's calisthenics all at one time. He'd exercise for ten minutes or so at a time, then again later in the day. Soon his friends and the members of his group suggested that he go with them to various gymnasiums. He followed their suggestion, and added steam baths and