Product Description

Now you can find your inner thinner chick with the exercise, diet, and image secrets of the most enviable bodies

They've got the bodies you covet: long, lean, muscular, healthy . . . it's easy to assume that skinny chicks look great effortlessly. But as twenty-one fit and fabulous women divulge in The Secrets of Skinny Chicks, they have to work hard at it every day-no excuses!

Personal trainer Karen Bridson-who was once overweight herself-demystifies the fitness and diet secrets of women with fantastic bodies and offers easy-to-stick-to game plans to create a healthy lifestyle that works for you. By following her fifty secrets you'll learn how to:

Get in touch with the negative thoughts involved with overeating and develop a "skinny state of mind"
Incorporate your favorite "cheat foods" into your new, healthy diet every day (really!), so you'll never feel deprived
Plan a cardio and strength-training regimen so invigorating you'll actually love to work out
Listen to your body's cues that tell you when you're hungry and when you've had enough
The Secrets of Skinny Chicks provides the tools to finally, once and for all, make a lifelong commitment to living a healthy life and loving your body-flaws and all! With the help of this book, you can stop being afraid of that denim monster in your closet, reach back into the abyss that is your wardrobe, and let those skinny jeans see the light of day!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36994 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Now you can find your inner thinner chick with the exercise, diet, and image secrets of the most enviable bodies. In "The Secrets of Skinny Chicks", award-winning women's health journalist Karen Bridson profiles 25 svelte women - including models, actors, athletes and regular folks - to reveal exactly what it is each one does to look so great. These women share with you their tips for planning menus, exercising, and staying motivated as well as advice on boosting metabolism. You will learn how to adapt these secrets into your own life safely and realistically.

From the Inside Flap
In the tradition of bestsellers such as Thin for Life (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), this book takes a lifestyles approach
Teaches readers how to create their own "Skinny Chick Plan" with nutrition and exercise plans flexible enough to fit their lives
Includes "The Skinny Chick Guide to Eating Out" and "The What-to-Eat-When-You-Have-to-Cheat Sheet" so readers can still enjoy dinner with friends without obsessing over what they can't have off the menu
Advice from experts, including nutritionists, trainers, and medical doctors, helps readers set healthy goals and plan realistic, effective programs for maximum and lasting results

From the Back Cover
When delving into the new diet and exercise trend, rarely do women take a good, hard, honest look at exactly what fit and fabulous women eat and how much exercise they get on a regular basis. THE SECRETS OF SKINNY CHICKS, by Karen Bridson, demystifies the life of thin women and gives readers the information to do just what the women whose bodies they covet do - when it doesn't come naturally.

As a formerly overweight woman-turned-exercise guru, personal trainer Bridson, has made it her mission in life to find out what these women do to look so amazing, and has modeled her lifestyle on their approaches. In THE SECRETS OF SKINNY CHICKS women are shown how to eat healthfully, be in touch with their eating styles, gain control of food in their lives, and develop an eating and exercise plan that will help them to achieve their weight and body goals for life. The book also includes:
The "What-to-Eat-When-You-Have-to-Cheat" Sheet
The Skinny Chicks Guide to Eating Out
Advice about boosting metabolism, preferable "fad" diets
Nutrition and exercise plans that keep the weight off without dieting
In THE SECRETS OF SKINNY CHICKS twenty-five women, including models, actors, athletes and regular women, share how they lose weight and keep it off. As a journalist and nutritionist, Bridson compiles the exercise regimens, eating menus, and mindsets of the best bodies in Hollywood, and in real life, into a safe and realistic plan for real women to follow.

Customer Reviews

A no-nonsense guide to getting thin once and for all
I found this a very inspirational book that told you the simple facts of what you needed to do to lose weight. The nutritional advice was clear and simple advocating sensible eating patterns without cutting out food groups. The simple message was you have to eat less and exercise more to lose weight and that this has to be a permanent lifestyle commitment. If you want to be slim you simply cannot eat cake, full stop.

I like how each of the 50 secrets was examined in detail and came with an explanation of how to apply this to your life. I also thought the information about overcoming emotional and comfort eating was a welcome change in a diet book.

Overall I would strongly recommend this book so long as your ready to hear the tough reality and are not just looking for a quick fix.

best book ive read in a long time!
if your fed up of making excuses and want to slim by watching calories rather than fad diets, this is for you. all the sections make sense. it shows you how 10 different women keep slim by what they eat and what they do exercise wise, it then goes into their 50 top tips which covers emotional eating, calories, how to eat out and exercise. it also covers the importance of carbs, protein and fats. id say it covers everything. if you think this time you want to make a good go of it, without the fads and actually come out of denial and look how the slim live, its def for you. i wont be buying anymore fad diet books!