Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes

Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes
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Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes
Teresa Tapp , and Barbara Smalley
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345484045
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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Less is more, even in excercise! In her new book Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes, Teresa Tapp reveals her signature T-Tapp Workout, and teaches you how to "use your body as a machine so you can lose inches quick, build bone density, and condition your heart, all with only 8 repetitions and no equipment." Watch our exclusive video with Teresa, featuring a quick demonstration that you can do at your desk!

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Book Description

“The T-Tapp system is the ideal anti-aging workout. Highly recommended!”
–Nicholas Perricone, M.D., New York Times bestselling author

The most efficient and effective workout you’ll ever do!

Imagine an exercise program that requires no equipment, no weights, and no bands. There is no jumping or stress to your joints. Yet everyone gets results regardless of fitness level! Created by renowned fitness expert Teresa Tapp, the revolutionary T-Tapp Workout reshapes your body while it fires up your metabolism. All you need is four square feet of space and just 15 minutes a day in order to see a dramatic loss of inches.

How does it work? T-Tapp’s unique sequence of comprehensive, compound muscle movements works the muscles layer by layer, from the inside out, to cinch, tighten, and tone them and burn fat better. Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes is the complete introduction to this amazing program. By doing Teresa Tapp’s signature 15-minute workout, or the extended 45-minute workout, you can:
• lose a clothing size–in just two weeks
• flatten your belly without doing a single crunch
• develop strength and improve bone density without lifting a single weight
• build sleek muscles and improve posture
• lower blood pressure and cholesterol the natural way
• improve blood-sugar levels in type 2 diabetes

The no-impact workout is safe for those with shoulder, hip, knee, neck, and back concerns, and is also effective for those with conditions such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, and multiple sclerosis. With T-Tapp you’re building a better body–inside and out.

Completely illustrated with step-by-step photographs that show how to do the exercises, Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes also includes inspiring testimonials and an easy-to-follow food plan. If you want real results–real fast–tap into the power of T-Tapp!

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She has sold over three million workout videos. Her nationwide seminars attract crowds of 1,500 plus. Her website receives more than 90,000 hits a day, mostly from T-Tappers who support one another through thick and thin–literally. Yet, despite this phenomenal success, chances are that you haven’t heard of Teresa Tapp, creator of the revolutionary T-Tapp fitness program. That’s about to change.

T-Tapp is the most efficient and effective workout you’ll ever do. It requires no equipment, no weights, and no bands. There is no jumping to stress your joints. Everyone gets results regardless of fitness level and you never need to do more than eight repetitions of any movement. T-Tapp reshapes your body while it fires up your metabolism so that it burns fat faster. All you need is four square feet of space and just 15 to 45 minutes a day in order to see a dramatic loss of inches. Most T-Tappers see results within seven days. How does this happen? T-Tapp’s unique sequence of comprehensive, compound muscle movements work the muscles layer by layer, from the inside out, to cinch in, tighten, tone, and burn fat better.

Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes is the complete introduction to this amazing program. It includes Teresa Tapp’s signature 15-minute workout, as well as an extended 45-minute workout for those who want a higher level of fitness–or faster results! No matter which you choose, you can

• lose a clothing size–in just two weeks
• flatten your belly without doing a single crunch
• develop strength and improve bone density without lifting a single weight
• build sleek muscles and improve posture
• lower blood pressure and cholesterol the natural way

Recent medical studies even show that T-Tapp improves blood-sugar levels in type 2 diabetics. Plus, the no-impact workout is safe for those with shoulder, hip, knee, neck, and back concerns–it may even alleviate chronic pain. Additionally, T-Tapp is effective as a wellness workout for such conditions as arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, and multiple sclerosis. So with T-Tapp you build a better body–inside and out.

Completely illustrated with step-by-step photographs that show how to do the exercises, as well as incredible before-and-after photographs, many in full color, of real-life T-Tappers, Fit and Fabulous in 15 Minutes also includes inspiring testimonials and an easy-to-follow food plan that lets you eat the food you love without guilt or ever going hungry. If you want real results–real fast–tap into the power of T-Tapp!

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Fit and Sexy For Life: The Hormone-Free Plan for Staying Slim, Strong, and Fabulous in Your Forties, Fifties, and Beyond

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Heather
Heidi
Real Life Fit Living - That I can use everyday
Same old same old
Fabulous after forty

Fit and Sexy For Life: The Hormone-Free Plan for Staying Slim, Strong, and Fabulous in Your Forties, Fifties, and Beyond
Kathy Kaehler
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Release Date: 2007-03-20

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Who says you can’t stay sexy forever? Kathy Kaehler’s breakthrough fitness plan shows you how to look and feel your best at any age.

Celebrity trainer, career woman, and mom Kathy Kaehler knows first-hand how women’s bodies change as they get older. Suddenly you don’t have as much energy as you used to and the numbers on the scale are creeping up. Maybe you’re feeling moody for no reason, or experiencing the first signs of menopause. But you can take control of your body and your life! In her new book, Kathy presents the first ever fitness-based program for managing this transition—and shows how to maintain your shape, your sparkle, and your sizzle through your forties, fifties, and beyond.

Until now, women haven’t had a good option for coping with menopause—and hormone replacement therapy, natural or not, comes with a host of risks and side-effects. But Kathy’s Fit and Sexy regimen provides a hormone-free way to fire up your metabolism, boost your energy, stave off hotflashes, and start feeling fabulous. With daily workouts that focus on cardio and strength conditioning, and a simple eating plan tailored to women over forty, her program gives you everything you need to melt pounds, build muscle, and decrease your risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer, and other health concerns. Kathy also shares her special “Take Five” workouts—five-minute blasts that offer a quick-fix cure to:

Boost your libido
Find more energy
Stop a hot flash
Sleep like a baby
And more

Packed with the very latest information on women’s health, Fit and Sexy for Life offers a completely natural way to look and feel healthy and sensational for years to come.

Customer Reviews:

Heather.......2007-05-31

I loved this book. Especially since I will soon be entering the 40 generation and there is so much anxiety and uneasiness of what will happen during the menopause period that it was very refreshing to read such a healthy, happy, and natural way of looking at menopause/perimenopause period... It helps ease the anxiety..... And the exercises are good refreshers and easy to incorporate into everyday life...Great book

Heidi.......2007-05-31

This is a great book with tons of information. It really helps put together a way to fit in exercise with all of our busy schedules!! Not to mention how to continue it thought out your life.

Real Life Fit Living - That I can use everyday.......2007-05-30

Fabulous book that has good solid information on fitness and nutrition for life. Honestly and frankly discusses the physical and emotional problems many of us experience in our forties and beyond; including discussion on ways to alleviate those symptoms. The exercises are easy to follow and can be done in your own home without buying lots of expensive equipment. This is a great lifetime plan!
Jean, BS;Medical Technology, MS;Health Science Administration

Same old same old.......2007-05-26

I had high hopes for this book, and was disappointed. It offers nothing new, just rehashes the same information that can be found in countless other health/fitness books. It might be helpful to you if you've never bought a book on this subject matter before, but if you've already read and/or owned books on health and fitness for women, save your money. I only wish I'd had the time to really look closely at this book before my 30 day window of opportunity to return it had passed.

Fabulous after forty.......2007-05-20

Great book! This should be a staple for women over forty who want to stay fit and feel great. Being a personal trainer and pilates instructor myself,
I found the information regarding exercise and nutrition to be very practical, and easy to fit into any lifestyle, which is key to staying with any program. Kathy Kaehler is role model for us all; balancing family, career, and womanhood. Hurrah!

6 Weeks to a Hollywood Body: Look Fit and Feel Fabulous with the Secrets of the Stars

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Good solid information
No B.S.-- just results! Only fitness book I've ever stuck with.
Must have the time, discipline, and patience to make this work
A Good Book From A Good Trainer
Pretty Close to Hollywood

6 Weeks to a Hollywood Body: Look Fit and Feel Fabulous with the Secrets of the Stars
Steve Zim , and Mark Laska
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Paperback

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As featured in SELF and on Weekend Today

"Steve Zim's plan helped me drop my body fat more quickly than with any other program I've ever tried. I couldn't be more pleased."
--Jessica Biel, star of The Illusionist

In 6 Weeks to a Hollywood Body, the top Hollywood trainer and Weekend Today show fitness expert Steve Zim unlocks the secrets of the stars and shows you how to have a Hollywood body of your own. Want to add shape and strength to your legs? Have a great butt? Make your back and arms stronger and leaner? Develop an amazing chest or breasts? After you've completed the easy-to-follow Hollywood Body program in six short weeks, you'll be runway ready for your grand entrance and you'll look amazing and feel healthier and happier than ever before. In this book, Steve Zim reveals the three keys to his Hollywood Body system:

HOLLYWOOD NUTRITION: The easy and effective Hollywood Body way to supercharge your metabolism with protein, good carbs, and good fats

HOLLYWOOD HEART: Ramp up your cardio health and melt away fat and inches the Hollywood Body way

HOLLYWOOD SCULPT: A revolutionary set of all-new Hollywood Body exercises designed to sculpt and reshape your muscles

This proven program works no matter what your body type is. So get started--your Hollywood body awaits you!

Customer Reviews:

Good solid information.......2007-10-04

This book contains good solid diet and exercise strategies, that mirror the information given in other recent diet and exercise books such as The Abs Diet and 5 Factor Diet/Fitness. My only complaint about this book is that with the way the author structured the book you find yourself in the middle of your workout madly flipping pages to try to find out where the next exercise is! For this reason I prefer to use the above mentioned books for my regular workouts, but this is a good book for when you get bored with other routines.

No B.S.-- just results! Only fitness book I've ever stuck with........2007-06-12

I used to hate exercise, but I hit 35, and I knew I needed to do something. I couldn't afford a personal trainer, but this book is almost like having one (minus the cheerleading). Ok, so I was a little leary of the title, but once I started reading, I was hooked. This isn't just a book of exercises. Rational, realistic approach to good overall health, not just weight loss (though his fat-reduction program showed results within just a few days).Idiot-proof once you get the exercises down. Workouts are planned for you (by body type, by day) so there's no guess work. Shows you where to start regardless of your fitness level. Great combination of sculpting and stretching to ensure you get the shape you want. The program focuses on nutrition, free weights and an exercise ball plus cardio, so you can work out virtually anywhere. Thanks to this book, for the first time in my life, I look forward to working out. It's helped me better understand my body, adjust my lifestyle, and it feels terrific!

Must have the time, discipline, and patience to make this work.......2007-04-18

I had a month off of work and I started using this book. I just started week 4 and I feel better than I have in years and After 2 weeks I noticed a difference. Already I'm looking forward to the end of week 4 and then 6. If I was working full time the regiment from this book would take more discipline than I have, but if you have the time it works. In my opinion the truly best part is the workout schedule set over a 6 week period. It mixes it up and keeps your body from figuring out what's gonna happen next. A close 2nd is the nutrition guide which is not super in depth but is easily understood. I am 26 and have found great benefit in the way I feel in terms of my health after the first 2 weeks. I am also a pretty thin guy. My one gripe about the book is that there are 2 or 3 exercises for me anyway that should have been labeled advanced. I could not do them more than 3 or 4 reps at first.

A Good Book From A Good Trainer.......2007-03-15

I liked "Hot Point Fitness" and when I stuck with it, got good results. This is a lot of the same material, but organized more effectively for different body types. I think his philosophy of lots of variety, stretching, and spot-training is effective and easy to follow.

The nutrition info is definitely not as well-organized or detailed as the cardio & work-out aspects of Steve's program, and at times is downright contradictory ("forgo yogurt"...then 2 pages later..."one of your meals should consist of yogurt"). It's also pretty strict and unrealistic for most people (I suspect) who cannot be total slaves to their food intake.

Pretty Close to Hollywood.......2007-01-12

I purchased this book because I was such a fan of Steve Zim's last book "Hot Point Fitness", but was ready for a new equally intense program. What I like about this book is it keeps your workouts changing constantly. There is absolutely no way you can get bored because you are always switching up the routine. I also like that there are seperate plans to follow for not only males and females, but also for each specific body type. Unlike Zim's previous book, you could also perform each workout outside of the gym. With a set of weights, a matt, and a fitness ball, these exercises could be done just about anywhere. Please note, if you really want to see results, you must follow not only the workouts, but the very specific diet as well, which is pretty tough.

Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous

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Strength Training Over 50
Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous
Outstanding book for active people over 50
Very disappointing
Fitness for Boomers

Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous
D. Cristine Caivano
Manufacturer: Barron''s Educational Series
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Strength Training Over Fifty focuses on the health needs of more senior men and women. Men and women lose as much as 20-40% of their muscle mass, beginning in their 30's. This muscle loss, often thought of as an irreversible part of aging, is really the result of disuse. Strength-building enables you to regain this lost muscle. It is the key to feeling and looking great after 50. With over 80 explicitly described exercises and 350 color photographs, this user-friendly book will teach you what you need to know to get started, get strong, and stay motivated.

Get started with reassuring advice if you are just returning to training.
Stand straighter (and have a trim waist) by strengthening your core.
Improve functional strength, making all the actions of daily life easier.
Learn which muscles can be strengthened to alleviate specific problems such as back pain or achy knees.
Improve your balance.
Exercise safely, even with arthritis, osteoporosis, or if you are over 65 years old.
Learn about nutrition, motivation, and how to design your own work-out.
Follow extended exercise programs, including sessions for exercise on the road, a 15-minute work-out, and one to protect and strengthen your lower back.

From the foreword by Michael George, fitness expert and trainer to Richard Dreyfus, Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore, and James Spader:

"This fun and challenging book will help the older trainer rediscover” his or her body, beginning with the basics: posture, breathing, and motivation...Start training with this book and you'll never look back-I promise you."

About The Author:
D. Cristine Caivano (MA Columbia University) is an exercise/movement therapist in private practice in NYC. A former dancer and teacher, her work now focuses exclusively on the needs of the over-50-year old exerciser.

Customer Reviews:

Strength Training Over 50.......2007-08-03

This is a great book! It is packed full of pictures, explanation of anatomy and a multi-leveled program of getting fit and staying fit.

Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous.......2007-07-16

Staying Fit and Fabulous is certainly a challenge over 50 and this book is an amazing tool for success. It shouldn't even be evaluated with the perky-chatty books it shares the shelves with. The book is quite well thought out from the medical illustrations which help me focus and visualize, to the spiral spine of the book inself which lays flat as I coordinate my excercise routines. I find myself using it to help "cure" my aches and pains from simple daily chores and have finally found how to relieve that backache at the end of the day. I am amazed how dramatically my posture, energy and stamina have improved. I have been singing the praises of this handbook since the day I found it.

Outstanding book for active people over 50.......2007-06-27

Great book on training for the over 50 set. I bought 4 copies after the first one. My physical therapist wanted one, my Mother at 89 took my first copy. I also bought my health consious sister a copy. Outstanding mterial. Cris does a wnderful job making fitness fun and easy to understand. Everyone over 50 needs a copy!

Don

Very disappointing.......2007-06-10

I am 73, and as a person who has worked out all his life, I would not characterize this book as a work on strength training. It barely qualifies, at a very basic level, as a fitness manual. Also I think that some of the exercises outlined are ill advised for someone who is elderly and frail.

If you have ever worked out in the past, are over 50 and want to get back in shape, this isn't the book for you. You already know much more than you will find here. I returned this book.

Fitness for Boomers.......2006-05-25

As a 52-year-old who has always shunned weight training for fear of injury, I think this book is terrific, for three main reasons:
1) The authors realize that many older exercisers are very out of shape and/or recovering from past and present injuries, and their exercises are shown in several variations, from very easy to moderately difficult;
2) There is a lot of emphasis on core body strength and proper form, which not only helps you do the exercises safely but also improves your posture (which I think is one of the best ways to look younger (have you ever noticed how you can tell someone's age without seeing their face, just by observing how they stand, walk and sit?)
3) It's hardcover, but with a spiral spine, so you can lay the book open flat on the floor next to you as you do the exercises (why aren't all fitness books made like this?)
Even people in their 70's, 80's and beyond can benefit from this book.

Fit and Fabulous After 40: A 5-Part Program for Turning Back the Clock

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Easy to follow, all bases covered.
Practical guide
If you're 40 or plus and wondering where your body went...
fit & fabulous after 40
Good value

Fit and Fabulous After 40: A 5-Part Program for Turning Back the Clock
Denise Austin
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Fitness celebrity and former gymnast Denise Austin always took care of her body. "In my 20s, however, I was more concerned with looking good in a bikini," she admits. "These days I'm focused on feeling good and staying healthy--and if I can still get away with wearing a bikini, that's a bonus!" Writing at age 43, she reminds us that 40 certainly isn't the end of the road--in fact, we probably have another 40 years or more to look forward to.

In Fit and Fabulous After 40, Austin shows us how to "turn back the clock" with exercise (aerobic, stretching, balance, and strength training), diet, health, beauty, and a positive outlook. She challenges us to set a weekly goal in each area for four weeks and provides sample programs in all areas. Photographs illustrate a good selection of strength-training, yoga, and Pilates-inspired exercises, and she provides a workout log to keep you on track.

Her dietary suggestions emphasize a balance of 50 to 55 percent complex carbohydrates, 20 to 25 percent protein, and 25 percent fat, keeping portions moderate and including lots of fruits and vegetables. She describes 10 "nutritional powerhouses" that have been shown to have anti-aging benefits, such as soy, blueberries, oatmeal, and flaxseed, with tips for including more of these in your diet. She also describes 10 "age accelerators" that you'd be wise to avoid, such as breakfast "desserts," fatty meats, creamy salad dressings, and stick margarine. She includes dozens of helpful (and sometimes entertaining) tips, such as "Don't go [to a fast-food restaurant] when you're hungry--you'll order fries." A meal plan with sample recipes makes her suggestions easy to follow.

Her health tips include 6 "body-sense strategies," 10 "must-have medical tests," breathing exercises, and instructions for how to do Kegels (exercises for the pelvic-floor muscles that help prevent incontinence and improve sexual response). She also offers skin, hair, and nail tips. If you think of Denise Austin as just a perky exercise leader, you'll be thoroughly impressed by the amount of helpful, sensible information in Fit and Fabulous. --Joan Price

Book Description

America’s favorite fitness expert presents a breakthrough program to win the war against aging–a battle she has personally fought and won.

We all know that aging is inevitable–but how gracefully you age is up to you. Scientific research shows that we can turn back the clock through a targeted regimen of age-busting exercise and nutrition. Now, in Fit and Fabulous After 40, award-winning fitness expert Denise Austin presents her own revolutionary, sure-fire plan to help you stay healthy, strong, slim, and fabulous–no matter what your age! By exercising for just thirty minutes a day, using cutting-edge techniques such as yoga and Pilates-based exercises, and eating for maximum health and vitality, you can build strength, shed extra pounds, improve flexibility and balance, and look years younger. Fit and Fabulous After 40 includes:

Easy-to-follow workout plans for every day of the week
Fat-blasting, toning exercises to target specific areas of the body
Weekly nutrient-packed meal plans with delicious slimming recipes
Denise’s personal vitamin and supplement regimen
Invaluable advice on common health concerns for women, such as menopause, breast cancer, and heart disease
Special beauty tips–including anti-wrinkle exercises!

Designed to fit even the most hectic schedules, and easily tailored to individual health concerns, Fit and Fabulous After 40 offers a modern, realistic fountain of youth for every woman.

Customer Reviews:

Easy to follow, all bases covered........2007-09-21

This book is fantastic! The eating program has menus and shopping lists, and the workout portion is easy to follow with step by step photos. My favorite part is it's broken down into babysteps, so you're not overwhelmed. Lots of common sense in this book, and lots of encouragement.

Practical guide.......2007-08-27

For women over 40 this is a good start or a better building block. I started exerciseing with a local gym recently and have refered this book to them for we women over 40. I was not in shape when I started and this was challenging enough to not get discourged. Great job!

If you're 40 or plus and wondering where your body went..........2006-05-20

this book is for you. I will admit, I am not a big fan of Denise Austin in general, but this book has given me comfort in knowing that I'm not screwing up, my body is just changing. And this books is helping me change right along with it, making the adjustments I need to, to be fit and fabulous. Just two years ago people were commenting on my slimness, that was my 40th birthday, now at 42, nothing is where I left it! But I'm confident this book will help me get the pieces back where they belong and that I'm going to feel wonderful again, both emotionally and physically. And she's real, there's no gimmicks just good education about getting older, common sense and things that anyone can do. THANK YOU DENISE!!!

fit & fabulous after 40.......2005-08-31

book is great, lets you know exactly what to do to be in shape 40yrs. plus. You go on longer in better shape

Good value.......2004-03-25

I see now the book's on sale. Lots of ideas and tips in here. Nothing earth shaking, but good ideas on how to implement all the things we know we need to do. I like that it's comprehensive--a little bit about a lot of things--skin care, diet, exercise, emotional tips, health, etc. Ms. Austin is inspirational because she is loaded with "can-do" attitude. So overall, a good value.

Body for Life for Women: 12 Weeks to a Firm, Fit, Fabulous Body at Any Age

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Body for Life for Women: 12 Weeks to a Firm, Fit, Fabulous Body at Any Age
Pamela Peeke
Manufacturer: Audio Renaissance
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Release Date: 2005-03-24

Book Description

The bestselling Body-for-Life program is now tailored just for women-to help them achieve dramatic weight loss and body-changing fitness in just 12 weeks!The #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-LIFE helped hundreds of thousands of people the world over to build stronger bodies and enjoy a higher quality of life. Now Dr. Pamela Peeke, bestselling author of Fight Fat After Forty, adapts the unique insights of the Body-for-LIFE program to the specific hormonal, metabolic, and physiological requirements of women so they can achieve the same rapid, life-transforming results. Dr. Peeke draws on cutting-edge research as she fashions a 12-week eating, exercise, and emotional health program, specially tailored to women. Those who read Dr. Peeke's first book, or who have seen her in her numerous television appearances on Oprah, Larry King, Dateline, Primetime, Today, and other shows know how inspirational she can be-and never more than in this audio program, motivating, cajoling, and instructing her readers to make the changes that will produce a lifetime of mental and physical fitness.

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An average book
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Fabulous Fit
Judith Rasband , and Elizabeth L. Liechty
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Not an alteration book.......2006-08-01

Don't be misled by the title or other reviews. This is not a pattern alteration book (though each body anomaly has a useless little picture of one pattern piece with little pictures of scissors all around it showing where they want you to cut said pattern piece.) This book can be helpful as long as you understand what it really does and this is what you are looking for.

The book basically lists each body type and then shows you 5 or so garments that would be a good choice for covering the body flaw. As one reviewer said, many of the garments shown are not currently in style, but that is not to be counted against the book as much as it is against the garment industry. Some styles cover certain body shapes better than others and it is unfortunate for you when the style that looks best on you is not currently in-vogue.

The book is helpful in steering you to make correct garment choices for your body characteristics. The challenge is to purchase or make these garments in up-to-date looking patterns.

If you are looking for an excellent pattern alteration book, look no further than the excellent "Fast Fit" by Sandra Betzina.

By the way, don't pay any more than 10 or so dollars for this book.

An average book.......2003-09-15

I bought this book for my sewing class; however, I don't like it because it doesn't have as much substance as the "Fitting & Pattern Alterations" book. In addition, it is over-priced. I like chapters 2 and 3 best out of the whole book. There is a typo on page 3, bullet #4. Most of the clothing sketches are dated; I've hardly seen anyone who dresses in those styles that were illustrated in the book. I personally don't believe that anyone can wear any style because each person has a different figure shape, height and weight. As for the style tip, I'd rather pick up a good how to dress fashion book.

Fitting Isn't Easy.......2002-01-20

No matter how a sewer tries, learning to fit can be a difficult task. Judith Rasband tries to explain fitting in a different way than the other fit books do. It is worthwhile reading to explore a different point of view on the subject.

Nice book.......2001-06-28

At last! Something that makes sense over the different body shapes! And to think of showing you what to wear in order to emphasize/de-emphasize certain areas.

Well written, thought out, etc. Even down to how different RTW (ready to wear) sizes are from regular patterns.

This is a great book covering the seam method........1998-04-18

I would highly recommend this book to anyone seeking better fit in dressmaking. The seam method of pattern alteration is pretty easy and straightforward. Judith presents alterations for the bodice, skirt, and pants. With the information in this book, you can alter your pattern for square or sloping shoulders, wide or narrow hips/waist, thin arms, rounded back, and many other necessary alterations. I did not find the bust alteration to be very helpful to me, however. I prefer other methods, but I often use the seam method for widening my waist and hips in my own patterns. Additionally, Judith offers style suggestions to flatter various figures. It is an interesting and useful book!

Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too: Eating to Be Sexy, Fit, and Fabulous!

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Jumping on the Improve You Bandwagon
A must read!!
High Restaruant Style!
Fabulous Mediterranean Food
Eat healthy, eat happy!

Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too: Eating to Be Sexy, Fit, and Fabulous!
Melissa Kelly , and Eve Adamson
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Hardcover

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French women smoke. Mediterranean women look like Sophia Loren. Who would you rather live like? Talented chef and sensualist Heidi Insalata Krahling shows that not only does a Mediterranean diet help women stay slim, this nutritious, sensual, heart–healthy diet nurtures the soul and leads to a long, fulfilling life.

Mireille Guiliano has hit a nerve with her New York Times bestselling French Women Don't Get Fat. American women are fed up with a diet–crazy culture that relies on guilt, low self–esteem and the say 'no' to food mentality. Most of us would like nothing better than to eat like the French – rich, fatty, buttery foods, red meat, bread, cheese – instead of like the typical dieting American staple of cardboard–flavoured low–carb, low fat 'health bars'. But while French women might not get fat, a healthy diet of nicotine and frog legs is hardly the key to a long, happy life.

Here's where Heidi Insalata Krahling, a respected chef and dedicated sensualist, will step in and teach American women to live healthy, spiritually rewarding, fulfilling – and thin! – lives.

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For centuries, Mediterranean women -- from classic beauty Helen of Troy to our own ""reel""-time goddess Sophia Loren -- have known the secret of healthy eating, living, and being. Mediterranean women have long embraced a natural vitality, sensual earthiness, grace, and warmth that allows them to be authentically themselves, to live long, spiritually rewarding -- and thin! -- lives, freed from empty calories, empty diet promises, impossible standards, and a ""say no to food"" mentality.

Thanks to the influence of cooking lessons in her Italian grandmother's kitchen, Melissa Kelly, co-owner and executive chef of Primo Restaurant, revels in sharing how every woman can extract the essence of the Mediterranean spirit and make it uniquely her own. From the cuisines of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, women learn how to maintain a healthy weight even as they discover and delight in the Mediterranean approach to food: the joy of the colors, textures, aromas, and flavors.

In addition, science now confirms that eating the Mediterranean way, getting most of the fat in your diet from olive oil instead of from meat and other sources of animal fats, is heart-healthy, immune-boosting . . . and, yes, slimming, too!

Mediterranean is a way of living, a celebration of family and togetherness woven with pleasure, laughter, and sensual delight. Flavor, variety, abundance, love of family, and soulful adventure are what Mediterranean women embody. Chef Kelly helps women bring these traditional qualities of Mediterranean hearth and health into their own homes.

Overflowing with a cornucopia of more than one hundred diverse and mouth-watering recipes, as well as a detailed menu planner, Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too gives women delicious food to eat in the context of an easy-to-follow plan. While sampling everything from traditional Hummus to Quick-Cooked Salmon with Fall Vegetable Pistou, to exploring the complex and satisfying layering of flavors in Prosciutto, Fennel, and Pear Salad with Persimmon Vinaigrette, you'll join women in enjoying the timeless, artful Mediterranean way of eating well and living a long, sensuous, beautiful life. Opa!

Customer Reviews:

Jumping on the Improve You Bandwagon.......2007-03-29

Chef Kelly has wonderful and interesting recipes. Given the glut of "diet" books on the market, it's hard to see this as a serious or innovative diet book. Ms. Kelly exults so in down to earth living that writing a book about being sexy and fabulous seems to contradict the persona she promotes. I picked up her book because I wanted to read her ideas about preparing Mediterranean food. This book is fun but not comprehensive by any means. I especially liked her recipes for various condiments to be used to perk up dishes.

There is a lot of condescension and stereotyping in her writing, as an earlier reader commented. Why does she assume her readers are reluctant to try new foods or haven't heard of certain ingredients, or don't eat with their families, or subsist on fast and other fake foods? It's naive to think families with working parents are going to prepare little plates of yummy things for a meal just after arriving home from work, helping with homework, and before leaving for Little League, ballet and music lessons.

Also, it may seem to boost her "diet" concept to remind us how slim she is, but her mantra is simplistic. I kept wondering: Has she experienced any of the real life issues which which make being thin difficult (travelling for work, childbirth, health issues, middle age, hours spent serving others and not oneself, heredity, etc). Wow, I found myself thinking, I too would like to live in a small town, have a huge garden, put up produce and create new recipes - what fun! But alas, I grow flowers and herbs in an exurban plot, try a new recipe on the weekends and will have to look forward to visiting one of Ms. Kelly's wonderful sounding restaurants in my travels....

A must read!!.......2007-02-22

This book absolutely changed the way I think about eating. If nothing else, Kelly's straight forward and easygoing approach will have you slowing down at mealtime and appreciating your food in a new way.

While the scope of the book is very broad, that is exactly what I liked about the book. The recipes and way of eating are not limiting but more of a guideline. Much of the text is a bit repeptitive, but the principles are worth repeating.

High Restaruant Style!.......2006-12-06

A wonderful book featuring high restaurant style for Mediterranean foods. There's a great 7-day meal planner that emphasizes portion control. If this book is too 'high style' for you, the 'down home' Mediterranean cooking featured in Mary El-Baz's "Easy and Healthful Mediterranean Cooking" may round out your cookbook bookshelf.

Fabulous Mediterranean Food.......2006-07-03

This book is an inspiring addition to food and lifestyle books--Chef Melissa Kelly offers wise advice on what--and how--to eat, noting the flawed and dysfunctional relationship many Americans (myself included) have with food. Some of her key points are obvious: eat fresh, quality foods that are well-prepared, and slow down long enough to enjoy them (and realize when you've had enough). Fresh really is better--I've tried several recipes from the book, and find them easy to manage (though not simple), beautiful to look at, and delicious. My children (ages 6 and 3) are hooked on Kelly's pasta alla puttanesca recipe (I did cut down on the red pepper flakes). Kelly encourages a small glass of wine with dinner--the book is big on flavor, and low on restriction. I feel like I'm learning about food all over again, and I'm inspired by Chef Kelly to eat to be sexy, fit, and fabulous.

Eat healthy, eat happy!.......2006-06-27

The medical community's been telling us for a long time that the Mediterranean way of eating--lots of fresh veggies and fruits and whole grains, not so much meat, and olive oil--is good for the heart and for longevity. In her book, Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too, chef Melissa Kelly reminds us, with exuberance, that we eat not only for sustenance but also for pleasure. We like to eat!

James Beard Award-winning chef Kelly takes readers on a tantalizing journey through the tastes of the Mediterranean. Far more diverse than being Italian or Greek, the recipes of the region are not bound by the borders of countries. Rather, they draw from the rich resources of all the lands that border the Mediterranean Sea and from the sea itself.

With chef Kelly's recipes and guidance, I can make elegant, sophisticated dinners for guests or simple, serve-yourself meals for my family. I'm not likely to sell my 15 year-old daughter on braised rabbit, but she's a big fan of salmon (three recipes in the book) and wants me to prepare the Pomegranate-Glazed Pork Tenderloin so she can buy the pomegranates (fruit that's always fascinated her). And she can make a number of dishes by herself, even shopping for fresh ingredients at our local Farmer's Market.

Enjoy your food! Eat what you like! Such simple concepts, yet ones that have lost context for us in our crazy lives where meals are often an odd junction between science and haste--counting grams of this and calories of that jumbled in the rush to get something to eat. If we are what we eat, as the saying goes, then I'm all for eating to be sexy, fit, and fabulous. Aren't you?

Superfoods for Life: 250 Anti-Aging Recipes for Foods That Keep You Feeling Fit and Fabulous

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Superfoods for Life: 250 Anti-Aging Recipes for Foods That Keep You Feeling Fit and Fabulous
Dolores Stewart Riccio
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No one can deny the countless benefits of a healthy diet. When we eat right, we feel better, we look better, we even experience renewed youth and vitality. Now, Superfoods for Life makes proper nutrition easy-and delicious-while offering a complete list of special anti-aging foods. It includes 250 simple and appetizing recipes, packed with the nutrients your body needs and prepared with easy-to-find ingredients. With Superfoods for Life, eating healthfully-and staying young-never tasted so good. The New York Times Book Review on Superfoods: "Increasingly, nutritional science is affirming much, if not all, of the thinking that once seemed to reside only on the fringe, in particular ideas about the power of some nutrients to help the body resist cancer and heart disease. Ms. Riccio takes many of the foods, particularly fruits, vegetables, grains, and fish, known to have especially healthful properties and methodically provides recipes for them...the recipes manage to seem more appetizing, less like medicine, than those in many a book with its eye on today's health fervor."

The Healthy Bride Guide: Be Fit and Fabulous From This Day Forward

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An invaluable plain-terms guide to being good to one's body

The Healthy Bride Guide: Be Fit and Fabulous From This Day Forward
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Preparing for a wedding is stressful enough for the budding bride without falling into the “buff bride” syndrome — that scary program of crash diets and exhausting exercises. The Healthy Bride Guide offers a welcome alternative. Author Christi Masi’s program emphasizes establishing lifestyle changes that can endure long-term. She starts brides off by incorporating gradually a fitness routine and a healthy diet into their daily schedule. The chapter on nutrition covers needs assessments, keeping a well-stocked kitchen, creating meal plans, eating properly, and tracking progress. The chapter on stress includes stretches and exercises, as well as advice from recent brides, their moms, and experts in the field. By program’s end, not only will brides be in better shape and feel better about themselves, they will have created a fitness routine that will keep them — and their family — in great health from the honeymoon on.

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An invaluable plain-terms guide to being good to one's body.......2006-03-07

Written by a personal trainer and a certified nutritionist, The Healthy Bride Guide: Be Fit And Fabulous From This Day Forward is an exercise and nutrition guide written especially for women striving not only to look and feel their best for their big wedding day, but also to transform their lifestyle with their new spouse in a positive manner. Chapters offer health assessments for tracking one's progress, a suggested exercise program to improve strength, cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility, a plain-English guide to good nutrition and tailoring the right amounts of nutrients, carbs, fat, and fiber in one's diet to promote weight loss, a workout program especially for travelers or those limited to small spaces, tips for staying motivated, and much more. Charts and simple black-and-white diagrams clearly illustrate The Healthy Bride Guide: Be Fit And Fabulous From This Day Forward, an invaluable plain-terms guide to being good to one's body.

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