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Eat what you want! Forget a diet of celery and water. Today's Skinny girls eat what they want. From full-fat salad dressing to chocolate chip cookies, the Skinny way of eating lets you indulge in your favorite foods and still fit into your perfect little black dress. Sound too good to be true? Authors Robin Aronson and Melissa Clark thought so too until they developed this simple yet satisfying way of eating. With the Skinny You Can: Resist the urge to eat too much. Enjoy meals as never before and feel great about it. And if you absolutely must fit into your little black dress by the weekend, there's a fast-track plan to get you there. Book jacket.
Author Notes
Melissa Clark is a staff writer for the New York Times where she writes the popular column "A Good Appetite," and stars in a weekly complementary video series. The winner of James Beard and IACP Awards, she is a regular on Today and NPR The Splendid Table, The Leonard Lopate Show. Melissa earned an MFA in writing from Columbia. (Publisher Provided)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The brilliance of this fun-to-read munching manifesto is its ability to adapt itself to the vagaries of real-world eating; the writer-editor authors understand the temptations of workaday life and lazy weekends and provide practical tips that allow even dieting dropouts a bit of the leeway they crave. Underscoring the importance of portion size, the duo explains how to avoid recreational eating. In light-hearted prose aimed at women, the authors suggest eating "like a food writer"-sampling favorite foods and discarding the rest. Convinced that the lion?s share of overeating stems from boredom, they explain how "breaking a food rut at home" can jump-start dieting results. "The Skinny on Drinks" may be the most valuable chapter, as it reminds readers just how many pounds those Cosmos and Frappuccinos can pack on. Packed with little black dress-friendly recipes that are simple to whip up, this upbeat guide is fun enough to bring any veteran calorie counter back from the dieting doldrums. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal Review
Food writer Clark (Chef, Interrupted) and health writer Aronson (The Whole Pregnancy Handbook) collaborate on this guide for women looking to lose those last few pounds and keep the weight off. An appealing presentation effectively combines different fonts, lists, conversational bubbles, and sidebars to catch and hold the reader's attention. The main points of each chapter are summarized in a section called "The Takeaway." The authors write in a bouncy, conversational style that makes the reader feel as if she is sitting with a group of women at a lunch table discussing healthy eating tips. Deciding which food is most wanted and then eating it accordingly; reducing portion sizes; and substituting fresh vegetables, whole grains, and lower-fat alternatives whenever possible count among the authors' suggestions. Most of these commonsense recommendations provide moderate solutions that avoid strict food restrictions or laborious weighing and measuring. Approximately 80 pages of recipes and a two-week sample meal plan appear toward the end. Recommended for public libraries.-Crystal Renfro, Lib. & Information Ctr., Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Perfect Little Black Dress | p. 10 |
| Chapter 1 Happy Skinny | p. 15 |
| Chapter 2 Eat What You Want | p. 24 |
| Chapter 3 Eat When You're Hungry | p. 34 |
| Chapter 4 Eat Like a Food Writer | p. 45 |
| Chapter 5 It's All About Portions | p. 56 |
| Chapter 6 Zen and the Art of the Meal | p. 65 |
| Chapter 7 What Every Skinny Girl Needs | p. 79 |
| Chapter 8 Ladies Who Lunch The Skinny Way | p. 95 |
| Chapter 9 Let's Do Dinner | p. 107 |
| Chapter 10 The Skinny on Drinks | p. 120 |
| Chapter 11 The Balance Beam | p. 129 |
| Emergency! The Two-Week LBD Plan | p. 138 |
| The Skinny Recipes | p. 141 |
| The Skinny 2-Week Meal Plan | p. 227 |
| Glossary | p. 242 |
| Index | p. 248 |
