The Fit Or Fat Woman

This book puts together all the essentials of exercise, diet, and strength building the way women want them.

This empowering exercise guide is big on attitude, giving plus-size women the motivation and information they need to move their bodies and improve their health. Hanne Blank, proud fat girl and personal trainer, understands the physical and emotional roadblocks that overweight women face in the word of exercise. In this one-of-a-kind guide that combines exercise advice with a refusal to fat-bash, Hanne shows readers how to choose workout options from WiiFit to extreme sports, avoid common sports injuries, get proper nutrition, source plus-size work out gear, and more.

Part of the Confessions Universe, a series of interconnected stand-alone YA and NA novels featuring protagonists that struggle to overcome the burdens and drawbacks of a specific issue (drugs, eating disorders, trauma, etc.) and how that issue affects their personal, mental, psychological, and romantic lives. Real. Honest. Uncensored. Smart and ambitious Season Minett was homeschooled, got accepted into college at 16, graduated with a B.A. in English at 20, got a job at a prestigious magazine at 21, and isn't afraid to go after what she wants. Twenty-two-year-old Season has it made and everyone knows it. Except Season herself. People can gush over her all day long, but Season knows they're just being nice. In reality, she's accomplished nothing. She doesn't work hard enough, can't get her book published, and worst of all at 5'6, 180 pounds with a thirty-two inch waist, a forty-four inch hip, and arms too big for her body, she's fat and ugly. She's such a disappointment that after her mother divorced Season's dad, she went to live with her new, younger boyfriend and left Season to mother the rest of her siblings. So Season is quite bewildered when the guy she sees every weekend at the bookstore shows serious interest in her. And she ends up liking him. A lot. Season's not naive enough to think love will solve all her problems though. In fact, love seems to be making everything worse because her food obsession is growing more and more out of her control. But that's impossible. There's nothing wrong with counting calories and wanting to be thin. There's nothing wrong with trying to be as perfect as everyone thinks she is. A fat girl can't develop an eating disorder, let alone have one. Right?

In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them. The book explores the phenomenon of 'hyper(in)visibility', the seemingly paradoxical social position of being paid exceptional attention while simultaneously being erased.

A popular fitness expert presents a complete program for exercising and training that refutes widespread weight-loss fallacies while explaining how to lower body fat and improve health.

Fit or fat? That is the question that Covert Bailey has dieters everywhere asking themselves. The Complete Fit or Fat "RM" Book combines four of Bailey's bestselling titles -- The New Fit or Fat "RM", The Fit or Fat "RM" Woman, The Fit or Far "RM" Target Diet, and Fit or Fat "RM" Target Recipes -- to give the reader a comprehensive guide to going from fatness to fitness. This book examines the misconceptions we all have on such things as the "perfect" shape, healthy eating, effective and enjoyable exercise, and the basic truths of physiology that can help or hinder our efforts to lose weight, and keep it off. There are also plenty of tools to help you keep track of your own progress -- food analysis charts, Weekly Record of Exercise Minutes charts, and Maintenance records, plus tables that break down the nutritional value of your favorite foods. This is the ideal tool for anyone serious about making a fitness lifestyle change.

America's acclaimed father of fitness returns with an updated, dramatic new approach, guiding a whole new health-conscious generation from fat to fit.

"If I have to listen to one more 18-year-old in a leotard telling me to 'work it harder,' I'm going to scream!" Finally, a fitness plan for real women! Aerobo-bunnies got you down? In the high-impact world of extreme diet and fitness guides, those of us over 40 can sometimes seem left behind. Well, no more. Finally, there's a weight-loss guide for real women. Fit Not Fat at 40-Plus is the only diet and fitness guide that has analyzed the complex roles of metabolism, hormone changes, physical challenges, and stress in women's post-40 weight gain, and devised a quick-start, easy follow-through plan for immediate results. You will: Never get bored again! Sample hundreds of exciting new exercises, 10-minute workouts, motivational secrets, and insider tricks, everything from how to remain sweat-free to how to look like a pro at your first African dance or yoga class. Boost your metabolism around the clock! More than 100 step-by-step photos of easy-to-follow muscle-building exercises show you how to boost your calorie-burning power by 15 percent-- an extra 300 calories a day--even when you're sleeping! Banish pain and discomfort! Choose from more than 25 specific fitness prescriptions to help relieve everything from asthma and diabetes to osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Blast cravings and eat all day! Build your 40-Plus Eating Plan around mouthwatering recipes, 14 days of interchangeable meal plans, and the only diet you'll ever need to lose weight, prevent disease, and manage your blood sugar, designed by a dietitian from the Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard University. Kick your feet up--and lose even more weight! Learn why destressing is your new mandatory weight-loss strategy, and choose from 50 luxurious mini-escapes in the Relax and Recharge Plan-- because you deserve it! In just 1 week, you'll be on your way to shedding pounds, years, and worries. Leave the sweating, injuries, and fad-diet frustrations to those aerobo-bunnies--this plan is for you!