Posts tagged workout
October 17, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, beautiful, diet, fashion models, father, fearless, goals, happiness, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, media industry, positive thinking, relationships, self awareness, stepfather, trauma, workout
Rock What You’ve Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty From Someone Who’s Been There and Back
By Katherine Schwarzenegger
Published September 14, 2010 (Hardcover) Voice
“When did life turn into a constant beauty pageant?” Katherine Schwarzenegger asks in her book Rock What You’ve Got. Smart book. Substantive. So before you start hearing her father’s voice saying “I’ll be back,” in your head, listen up. If you’ve got a daughter – maybe even if you just are a daughter – you’ll relate to a lot in her hot pink and purple book. I’m interviewing Katherine tomorrow about her book at my home studio.
Only two percent of women describe themselves as beautiful. Which may mean that those women are the models you see in fashion magazines. The average fashion model is over six feet tall and weighs far less than 120 pounds. The average American woman is five feet four inches tall and weighs 140 pounds. Less than five-percent of all women have the body they see in those mags. Read the rest of this entry »
June 29, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged fashion, fat, happiness, healthy diet, inspiration, looking thin, non-fat, optimism, passion, physical health, positive thinking, workout
How To Never Look Fat Again: Over 1,000 Ways to Dress Thinner – Without Dieting!
By Charla Krupp
Published March 10, 2010 (Hardcover) Springboard Press
Know what I had for dessert tonight? How To Never Look Fat Again! Delicious, goes down sweet, and puts no calories on. Takes them off actually – without dieting!
Charla Krupp argues that it’s not about vanity to choose products and clothes to look younger and trimmer – not in this youth-obsessed culture! I used to look better naked Read the rest of this entry »
April 28, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged dancing, diet, lose weight, run, walk-off, weight management, work-off, workout, workout plan
Thin Thighs in 30 Days
By Wendy Stehling
Published April 29, 2010 (Paperback) Tarcher/Penguin
They called me Thunder Thighs in high school. Even though I weighed six pounds less back then than I do now, most of my weight was on my thighs.
Thin thighs? My ass!
Now, I hear that I have Dancer’s Legs. I like that better, but my thighs are still about an inch bigger around than they were last year just prior to bathing suit time. You too? What are we going to do about it! Read the rest of this entry »
April 16, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged dating, fearless, goals, happiness, inspiration, passion, positive thinking, relationships, self awareness, the one, workout
It’s Not Him, It’s You: The Truth You May Not Want But Need To Hear
By Christie Hartman, PhD
Oh great. It’s my fault.
Again? It’s my fault that every guy I’m attracted to either has another woman or trunks full of addictions or extreme mother issues? Read the rest of this entry »
April 6, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, angels, dancing, father, fearless, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, manifest, mother, on-the-air, positive thinking, rape, relationships, self awareness, stepfather, trauma, workout, writing
The Shift: Taking Your Life From Ambition to Meaning
By Dr Wayne W. Dyer
Published March 1, 2010 (Hardcover) Hay House
Wayne sent me his movie to watch – and I will – but I always read the book first. The Shift gently reminds me of who I am, who we all are, really. Dr Wayne Dyer takes us from the stage of being nothing and everything, an aspect of Oneness…to the Ego, of Edging God Out..to finding the true Meaning of Life. He calls up the scriptures, the beloved words from every culture, poets and philosophers. He reminds us that when we are ready, we will see who our teachers are, and we will open to them.
The Shift arrived a few days ago, but today, it was the only book I wanted to read. Read the rest of this entry »
February 12, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged child rape, divorce, humor, love, marriage, memoir, nice Jewish guy, rape, starter marriage, stepfather, storytelling, suicide attempt, trauma, workout, writing
How To Get Divorced By 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage
By Sascha Rothchild
Published January 26, 2010 (Paperback) A Plume Original
If you’ve known me awhile, you know I’ve been divorced nearly seven years from a man with whom I had two sons. But you may not know that I was married before. For precisely three-years and one-week. They call them starter marriages now. I’ve got about twenty years on Sascha Rothchild, but she was smarter – and funnier. She was the one who wrote How To Get Divorced By 30.
Sascha’s hilarious, strikingly non-chronological account of how she married – and divorced – the obvious guy at the obvious time – hits a bit close to home. She opens the book with Read the rest of this entry »
January 19, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged acting young, aging, airport, dancing, fearless, goals, happiness, how not to act old, how to be young, inspiration, optimism, positive thinking, self awareness, sons, strangers, workout
How Not To Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame
By Pamela Redmond Satran
Published August 4, 2009 (Paperback) Harper Paperbacks
Where has this book been hiding? How Not To Act Old by Pamela Redmond Satran is ROLF hysterical. Good thing, because it was midnight, and I hadn’t read a book yet. I dug it out of my stacks, and now I have read HNTAO – and I have to say, this is a controversial topic. If you say you act younger or look younger than you are, people start throwing things at you, like dirty looks.
But it’s very very funny.
Want to know why I’m typing with my thumbs right now? Number 56. Read the rest of this entry »
January 12, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, angels, career, dancing, fearless, goals, happiness, healing, hip guide, inspiration, meditation, optimism, passion, positive thinking, rape, relationships, self awareness, therapy, trampoline, trauma, workout
Add More ~ing To Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
By Gabrielle Bernstein
Published January 12, 2010 (Paperback) QNY
Flying back from New York, I read a book whose cover showed a young blonde balanced on a skateboard on a trafficked city street, wearing angel wings. Having just been in my Manhattan hometown, I imagined the shoot — fearing, somewhat — for the angel, with cabs, cars and buses lumbering past her. But having read Add More ~ing to Your Life, I knew this chick could swing it.
Gabrielle Bernstein is the angel. She’s a new breed of self-help authors. Read the rest of this entry »
January 1, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, Baryshnikov, CEO, choreography, dance, dancing, fearless, Gregory Hines, inspiration, love, manifest, Martha Graham, MBA, optimism, passion, radio industry, relationships, self awareness, workout
The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together
By Twyla Tharp
Published November 24, 2009 (Hardcover) Simon and Schuster
“Collaboration is the buzzword of the new millennium.” So begins The Collaborative Habit, and when author/choreographer Twyla Tharp blends in the dance, I find it irresistible.
The lone hero, she says, are yesterday’s role models. Read the rest of this entry »
December 24, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, diet, goals, happiness, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, Italian sauce, lasagna, lose weight, manifest, self awareness, therapy, workout
Your Inner Skinny
By Joy Bauer
Published December 29th, 2009 (Paperback) William Morrow Cookbooks
It is ironic, I suppose, that as I read Joy Bauer’s newest diet book, I am assembling a lasagna, made with a recipe for sauce handed down to me from my stepfather’s Italian relatives. It’s a recipe I typed out as a kid, on a Remington typewriter on lined, holey school paper. I guess the holy part is right. It is Christmas Eve, and this lasagna is my annual menu.
But Joy’s book contains recipes I could totally eat. Things like Read the rest of this entry »
