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have absolutely disappeared, and those were the disagreeable part of the 

 experiment." There have been times when he has felt severely hungry and 

 at such times he has tended to look on the dark side of the whole situation and 

 feel that he was more deficient in his work than really was the case. 



February 5, 1918. — Goes around with vest unbuttoned to reheve strain on 

 stomach. Squad A went to Pec's to a turkey dinner and everyone "stuffed 

 to the limit." Gul could not eat cake. 



February 6, 1918.— Ate an extra large serving of food at dinner. Vomited 

 up his dinner last night. Vea remarks: "I don't see how Gul eats so much." 



February 8, 1918.— "I have had more 'pep' but have been eating so much 

 that any advantage of more food has been offset by the extremely large 

 quantity. My physical work is below par because 1 am eating so nauch. 

 Food is repulsive after meals. Yet I do not think that I eat to the limit. 

 I am chewing something all the time, however. This week is a spree; then I 

 will work back to a lower diet of about two meals per day. This has been 

 my usual custom, and I think it is one reason why it was hard for me to 



cut down." 



Allen S. Peabody (Pea). 



October 27, 1917.— "Yesterday noon following the race I felt real hungry." 



November 10, 1917.— "For the past few days I have taken bran at the 

 table and it has physicked me." Can think of nothing in experiment which 

 has caused him discomfort, ebctcept that immediately after meals for about 

 an hour and a half he feels very hungry; has noticed this more on days when 

 the dinner or supper has been rather light; on days when bulky food was served 

 has not noticed it so much. Never feels hungry before or after breakfast. 

 Likes everything. 



November 12, 1917. — Does not fed right m stomach (after free Sunday). 



December 13, 1917. — With present diet thinks he could continue indefinitely. 



January 12, 1918.— "I do not feel nearly so good as when I was eating 

 during vacation. I was working hard and eating then.^^ I gained 22 pounds 

 during vacation. This morning I am down 14 pounds. " 



February 2, 1918.— In November, when the greatest reduction in diet oc- 

 curred, felt hungry all the time. With the diet received 10 days before 

 Christmas and again during last 5 days, he could continue indefinitely with- 

 out discomfort; weight loss now 11.5 per cent. Suffered most discomfort 

 during period of losing weight. When enough food was given to maintain 

 weight, experienced very little discomfort; thinks with diet slightly above 

 present could subsist indefinitely without suffering. 



February 6, 1918.— Ate lightly to-night. 



February 8, 1918. — "I have an insatiable appetite. I eat all I can hold 

 and then want more. I eat until there is great fullness in the stomach and 

 it hurts me and still I want more. Wednesday morning I went to sleep 

 in class after the Tuesday evening banquet at Peckham's. I believe I am 

 eating too much, of course, and I have httle inchnation to move, but after 

 I get started I have lots more 'pep ' than I used to have during the experi- 

 ment. Now I have to rise to urinate between 3 and 6 a. m., and I did not 

 have to do it when on the diet. " • u 



May 22, 1918.— Thinks he is eating about normally, considering as nor- 

 mal" his diet before experiment. As he manages the dining hall, he some- 

 times does not eat much breakfast, but has a little tendency to eat between 

 meals. Thinks the amount no more than normal; not nearly so much as he 

 ate just after experiment was over. He ate no pastries and cakes for a period 

 of four or five weeks when in training. In ten days before Christmas and dur- 

 ing last week in January when holding weight level and not reducing, thought 



