This is a wonderful book. It is a combination of encouragement, hard facts and strategies for success. Her personal story of going from self-destructive eating and obesity to a healthy and fit size 12 is incredibly inspirational. It has empowered me to make lasting changes for my own health.Her approach centers around health and fitness. She guides you to step up your metabolism by eating regularly and exercising, to eat well without getting bored, to set healthy boundaries around treats, holidays and pressure from others. She has a section at the end for moms, and a chapter dedicated to "the dreaded plateau".
The basic approach in this book is nutrition and exercise. More specifically, she asks you to eat about every three hours, which works out to be breakfast-snack-lunch-snack-dinner-snack, while limiting your consumption of calories and fat. She encourages you to begin exercising by gradually increasing your activity level, challenging yourself along the way; she started by walking and now runs races and plays for a soccer team.
It's very sensible; it's calories consumed versus calories burned. Yet, the magic is in how she teaches you to be successful, how to plan to succeed. I love how she says there's no "on track" and "off track"; there's no "wagon" to fall off of. There's just Life -- and You, and how you navigate all the bumps and detours that are inevitable. The goal is not to be perfectly behaved; the goal is to do things better when you can, and make the best choices whenever possible.
She also touches on the emotional aspects of overweight and eating. She suggests a few writing exercises to explore it, but I think that serious exploration is going to take more than that. She herself had a shrink,and recommends getting professional help if it seems necessary.
One beautiful thing is how she encourages you to not put off the things you think you'll get to do when you lose the weight. Go ahead; run that race, take that dance class. Be the person you want to become -- now!
There are a few little things I could criticize this book for, but I will only mention one. Many words and lifestyle references in this book are specifically Australian, and as such it uses the metric system. I think that the publisher should create a U.S. edition with measurements and occasions that are more understandable and relevant to us. Well, I suppose it doesn't hurt to make the effort to do a little translation work; I did. Hmmm... I suppose I could edit that edition... Anyone at Bantam listening?
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AJ Rochester has always been a lazy girl. She knows how hard it is to lose weight and exercise, and keep inspired about it to boot, especially when she'd much rather curl up with some chippies and watch Carson on Queer Eye. After losing a staggering 45 kilos, and writing about it in her bestselling CONFESSIONS OF A REFORMED DIETER, hundreds of desperate women wanted to know how she did it. Now in paperback - THE LAZY GIRL'S GUIDE TO LOSING WEIGHT AND GETTING FIT is a simple, step-by-step program and details the nuts and bolts of how AJ lost weight - and continues to help others to do. There s no starvation, no low carb torture, and no weights and measures - AJ focuses on achievable goals, having fun and loving yourself while you make the biggest changes in your life.Lazy girls will love AJ s insights on:* getting started* the basics and what, how much and when to eat* the serious issue of emotional eating and how to combat it* popular diets and why they don't work* fine-tuning your new lifestyle* living a normal life and keeping on track* getting off the weight loss plateau* fit kids, not fat kids* stepping outside your comfort zone with exercise* a 4-week eating plan and 12-week exercise guide* food diary* Q & A and recipes.
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