The Real Skinny: Seven Secrets of Successful Dieting & Weight Loss

By Rose Cain

The Real Skinny takes the reader on a funny and often poignant journey through the common pitfalls and most powerful principles of successful dieting and weight loss.

Rose Cain is a certified personal trainer and a licensed educator in England & the USA.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rose Cain
• Release date: May 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476435879

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The Real Skinny: Seven Secrets of Successful Dieting & Weight Loss

By Rose Cain

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Copyright 2011 Rose Cain

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The Real Skinny: Seven Secrets of Successful Dieting & Weight Loss© 2011

Rose Cain NCSF-CPT.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or scanned or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author.

The names, characters, places, and events are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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THE REAL SKINNY

SEVEN SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL DIETING & WEIGHT LOSS

"Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only,

but the mind and spirit as well… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone,

but the whole being and outlook of a man."

James H. West

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CHAPTER ONE

IT’S IN THE BODY

Kellie is the girl you see in the gym who looks like she belongs on the cover of a health and fitness magazine. She’s got great legs, toned arms, a flat stomach and none of those pesky ‘problem’ areas anywhere. Despite the grunts and groans of the steroid-fueled muscle men around her, Kellie moves through the gym looking confident and totally at ease. She uses the work-out machines that look like giant medieval instruments of torture, and tosses smallish looking weights around with nothing less than finesse. Kellie, like the really annoying beautiful people that you see on all those television infomercials, causes our collective selves to sigh inwardly and wish that we were even close to looking like that. Kellie is a skinny chick. Not skin and bones skinny: I just mean that she’s sleek, toned, lean and disgustingly healthy. I, on the other hand, am an exercise newbie with more than a few pounds of excess weight to lose. Mere mortals like you and I often wonder if women like Kellie were sent to Earth just to make the rest of us look (and feel) bad. It’s not that she is doing it on purpose; it’s just that I can’t open a magazine, watch the television, or glance up at a billboard without being confronted by her ever-fit and slender body, her perfect skin, hair and teeth: skinny chick is queen! I often watch the Skinny Chicks that I meet and wonder: How on earth does she have it all together like that? Who has time? But when it comes to losing weight I think I can compete. I’ve lost weight hundreds of times, but it just keeps on finding me again. If you must know I wasn’t always this size; I’ve been gifted with all these extra pounds for my long service in the field of childbirth, deadly-boring desk jockey jobs and for the on-going consumption of a certain item of baked goods, which shall remain nameless. I am pretty sure I can get this 20, 30, well maybe 50lbs off again, if I ever figure out exactly what it takes to do that. So far I’ve had to concede that maybe exercise (or rather the lack of it) is part of my problem. In a moment of madness I joined the local gym, and I do try to work-out every week-day. But I can’t do aerobics. Oh no! Sadly I have to say that I have the coordination of a drunken elephant, so I