Show Tedious Business of Losing Weight Demands Regularity By ALCIA HART HARTSo So y you u shudder to think about the pounds the holiday festivities festivities festivities ties are likely to add to your figure Well it wont won't be so bad if you youk keep ep on doing your exercises every day Skipping your routines is as likely to put pounds on you as all the good to eat that are in store So give yourself 8 a present by trying these new exercises Remember that the girl who rolls back and forth on the floor loor 50 times every very morning certainly will have slimmer hips at the end of one month than a woman who goes to toa toa toa a redu reducing salon once a week and does a few exercises now and then between visits Regularity is what counts most in the tedious business of losing weight Devote 15 minutes a day now flow to r reducing diming routines es not skipping skipping skipping skip skip- ping even one day and you certainly certainly certainly will look slimmer long before beforetime beforetime beforetime time to buy new new- spring clothes If after the Christmas holidays your stomach isn't as flat as you would like to have it repeat this exercise ten times a day for two weeks then 20 times a day for the following month Sit on the edge of a low table or bed with right leg outstretched and the left foot resting on the floor Now Kow keeping right knee straight bend forward and try to reach right toes with fingertips You may not be able to touch them for days das and days but keep tr try try- Ing lug Reverse sitting on the opposite opposite opposite site side Lide of the bed with right foot on the floor loor and nd touch toes of left fo foot t. t Lie on your stomach on a bea bed bedor or the floor with elbows bent and hands palms hands palms down down between between chest chestand chestand chestand and floor Keeping legs straight raise yourself upward until elbows are straight and all of your weight is on hands and toes Notice how this makes stomach muscles tense Turn over resting on your back Bend knees so 0 weight of the legs is on balls baIls of the feet and supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting your hips with your hands raise yourself upward until stomach atom atom- ach Is on on an even line with your knees Hold the position for ten seconds relax and repeat five times Umes After one week do this ten times a day If you want to reduce your thighs and strengthen your back muscles at the same time stand erect with your weight on your left foot Raise your right leg as u high as possible bend right knee clasping it with both hands and draY draw it t in toward your body Pull toward you u until the the- in muscles your leg feel strained t tr Ined and tense Relax and repeat five times Reverse standing on right foot stretching left leg outward then bending left knee and clasping it with both hands |