| Faced with the task (challenge) of losing 30 pounds, I | | | | me. |
| turned to my trustworthy Google to look for a good | | | | An important discussion in Wake Up that I found |
| approach to take. After several discoveries of "quick | | | | especially revealing was how important nutrition and |
| weight loss" spams I finally found some comfort in | | | | healthy foods are to any weight loss effort. I just can't |
| Michelle Pearl's book, Wake Up! You're Never Going to | | | | get into counting calories (which I don't understand |
| Look Like That: How to be Happier, Healthier and | | | | anyhow) or reading package labels to figure out the |
| Imperfectly Fit. | | | | significance of this percentage or that percentage of |
| Two discoveries were especially comforting. First that | | | | vitamin A, C, D or something. Alphabet soup is better |
| quick weight loss promises are a scam because the | | | | eaten than pondered. |
| only sure way to shed pounds and keep them off is | | | | Pearl eats the same thing for breakfast and lunch |
| slow and steady. Another comforting discovery is that | | | | every day. That way she doesn't have to make |
| there is no one-size fits-all approach to weight loss but | | | | different decisions each day or count calories or |
| that success is best achieved by tailoring workouts | | | | configure proteins and vitamin balances into her diet. |
| and eating habits to your body, lifestyle and | | | | She fixes a different evening meal each day so her |
| environment. Now that makes sense to me! | | | | family is not dragged into her personal eating regiment. |
| Pearl stresses that the person who makes lifestyle | | | | Now that makes a lot of sense to me and was very |
| changes slowly over time and understands that weight | | | | helpful. |
| loss won't be easy will drop pounds and keep them | | | | I never cared for the Biggest Loser so was not |
| off. The important thing, Pearl adds, is to have realistic | | | | impacted one way or another by her criticism of the |
| expectations and in the end be happy with what you | | | | show or Jillian Michaels, except to cheer her on when |
| achieve and with the new imperfect you. | | | | criticizing the show for exploiting obese people. That is |
| The author, who herself lost 100 pounds and kept it off, | | | | certainly the case. I must confess, though, in getting |
| is a certified group fitness instructor who operates an | | | | some satisfaction form visiting Pearl's antibiggestloser |
| online subscription exercise service. | | | | blog. |
| Besides telling her own story in Wake Up, Pearl tells | | | | The fact that you read this far in the review suggests |
| the stories of seven Imperfectly Fit Superstars who | | | | you very likely have a weight problem, or have a |
| each reveal how they lost weight. Each had a | | | | friend with a weight problem. If so, you too might |
| different method, one or parts of which might work for | | | | benefit from reading this wonderful book. |