The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line
1912
The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line
1912
The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line, published in 1912 by Samuel G. Blythe, is a self-help book that addresses obesity and weight management. Through his personal journey, Blythe shares his struggles with weight gain and the ineffective diets he tried, ultimately leading to a successful transformation where he lost over fifty pounds. The book emphasizes the importance of willpower, self-control, and a balanced approach to eating, blending humor with candid reflections on the challenges of weight loss.
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“If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost--it is fought off, beaten off.””
— Samuel G. Blythe
“And if there is any phase of human enjoyment, any part of life, any occupation, avocation, divertisement, pleasure or pain where the fat man has the better of it in any regard, I failed to discover it in the twenty years during which I looked like the rear end of a hack and had all the bodily characteristics of a bale of hay.””
— Samuel G. Blythe
“When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.””
— Samuel G. Blythe
“I make no claims. I have set down the facts; and the only warning advice or admonition I have to give is that any person who makes up his mind to try this method and things he isn't in for the hardest struggle of his life would do well not to try. This isn't frolic. It's a fight.””
— Samuel G. Blythe
