This IS Why You're Fat

Now that spring is slowly approaching......(did I mention it was SLOWLY approaching?) it is time to get back into a presentable form. Otherwise there will be no bikini on this body. And that would just be depressing. SO today I downloaded Jackie Warner's new book This is why You're fat onto my i pad kindle app. So far I have only made it through the first chapter and it is showing clear signs of promise. Here is the summary of the book that sold me.....(thanks google prouducts!)

By Jackie Warner - Grand Central Publishing (2010) - Hardback - 320 pages

"Being fat isn't your fault; staying fat is." That's what Jackie Warner, America's favorite no-nonsense celebrity fitness trainer tells her own clients, and that's why no one delivers better results than Jackie does. Now for the first time, Jackie shares her revolutionary program, showing readers the best ways to drop pounds and inches fast, "without "grueling workouts or deprivation, and keep them off for good! Her two-tiered approach provides a complete nutritional makeover and a failure-proof condensed workout routine PLUS all the emotional support and encouragement you need to get to the finish line and beyond. With Jackie's core principles, you'll discover once and for all which behaviors are making you fat, and which can finally make you thin forever-and some may surprise you: - ADD""TO LOSE: In Jackie's 2-week jump start, no food is off-limits. You'll actually "add" food to your diet in order to lose weight. - CHEATING IS ALLOWED: Eat clean for 5 days, and then indulge in whatever you want over the weekend! - FAT IS NOT THE ENEMY: Fat doesn't make you fat; sugar does! Nothing you eat should contain over 9 grams of sugar - SKIP THE CRUNCHES: They just build muscle under the fat. Discover the fastest way to burn calories, tone muscle, and spark your metabolism for rapid fat loss - LESS (EXERCISE) IS MORE: Workouts shouldn't take over your day-give Jackie 20-minutes and you'll see results. Find out today why THIS IS WHY YOUR FAT (AND HOW TO GET THIN FOREVER) is your first and last stop on the way to the new fit and healthy you!
(via googleprouducts.com)


Does it work? Only time will tell. Better get back to reading. Maybe I should have purchased the book on tape.....hmmmm.

Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York

So I am starting a book club. But not a regular book club. A picture book club. Like any book that has more pictures than words qualifies. Think of it as a coffee table book club.......Here is my first attempt to shed light on the world of coffee table books.

Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York

Now, since this is just a picture book club, I just look at the pictures. So here are some reviews from people whom are much more important than I.

From The New Yorker:
New York’s storefronts constitute the city’s vernacular architecture, shaping the look and feel of the five boroughs no less than more celebrated elements of the skyline. These unfussy, elegant, and richly colored photographs of butcher shops, bakeries, fabric wholesalers, cuchifritos stands, stationery and sporting-goods stores, laundromats, groceries, and dive bars give connoisseurs of signage, folk typography, and ambient erosion much to pore over. Shops that opened in the nineteen-seventies now look as ancient as those dating back to the twenties. The tone is elegiac as much as it is celebratory; interviews with shop owners make it clear how close to extinction many of them stand, and the photographers report that nearly a third of these businesses have gone under in the time that it took to make the book.

Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York...Available at Amazon. Take a look for yourself. You won't be sorry.