Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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Lucy Edge

What happens when an urban girl swaps her kitten heels in the city for karma in the country? 
 
It is a big year for Lucy - she has met the love of her life and they're planning to trade the city rat race for a Norfolk farmhouse, get married, and try for a baby. 
 
But country life isn't quite what Lucy imagined. Sure, there's time to stop and chat, but where does she find the people to stop and chat to? 
 
She has almost had it up to here when, one day, she stumbles across a local yoga club. There - in a small room above Knit and Knatter - she finds the laughter, friendship and wisdom to steer her through whatever dramas life throws at her. 
 
A funny and heart-warming true story about one woman's search for love and friendship in the lotus position.

The Handbag and Wellies Yoga Club

Pauline Quirke

Pauline Quirke was a skinny child, a slim teenager, a curvy woman, then &shy;- according to her bathroom scales (curse them) - just plain fat. Yes, the 'F' word. Tipping the scales at nearly 20 stone, with creaking knees and a dodgy ankle to boot, at the beginning of 2011 Pauline had reached a crisis point. Something had to change, and fast. 
 
It was never going to be an easy ride, but with her trademark warmth and sense of humour, Pauline recounts the highs and lows of the rollercoaster year in which she whips herself, and her life, into shape - with a fair few tales from her celebrated forty-year acting career thrown into the bargain. She reveals all: from the strain of working long hours away from home on one of Britain's most popular soaps to renewing her wedding vows and reuniting with her Birds of a Feather co-stars; from battling the bulge and facing the naysayers to rediscovering the joys of airline travel . . . without a seatbelt extension. 
 
Honest and revealing, Where Have I Gone? is brimming with brilliantly funny anecdotes and truly moving moments. So put your feet up and join Pauline as she embarks on the most incredible year of her life.

Where Have I Gone?

Alison Bechdel

**A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK** 
**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021** 
 
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home comes this Christmas's must-gift graphic novel. 
 
All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret... 
 
The secret to superhuman strength. 
 
She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weightlifting - you name it, she's tried it. "Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!" 
 
But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupe-sized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it . . . 
 
'The Secret to Superhuman Strength practically glows with a beguiling mixture of intellect, warmth and humour' Daily Telegraph 
 
In this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. Truly, a must-gift book this Christmas.

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Sunny Sea Gold

Sunny Sea Gold started fighting a binge eating disorder in her teens. But most books on the topic were aimed at older women, women she had a hard time relating to. Calling on top psychiatrists, nutritionists, and fitness experts, Sunny offers real advice to a new generation fighting an age-old war. With humor and compassion from someone who's seen it all, Food: The Good Girl's Drug is about experiences shared by many women-whether they've been struggling with compulsive overeating their whole lives, or have just admitted to themselves, that yes, it's more than just a bad habit.

Food: The Good Girl's Drug

How To Stop Using Food to Control Your Feelings

Shauna Reid

In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Today, 8,000 miles, seven years and twelve-and-a-half stone later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be. 
 
In turn hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl follows the twists and turns of Shauna's lard-busting adventure as she curbs the calories and learns to love the gym. There are travel tales from Red Square to Reykjavik, plus romance and intrigue as she meets the man of her dreams during a pub quiz in Glasgow. As her UK visa rapidly runs out, will she be deported back to Australia or will love triumph? 
 
Entertaining and action-packed, this is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a weight-loss superhero to inspire us all.

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl

Alice Liveing

In 2017 Alice had over half a million followers on Instagram, she had celebrity PT clients, appeared on the cover of Women&rsquo;s Health magazine, and even achieved her third Sunday Times bestseller. She was celebrated as the embodiment of health, but that was the furthest thing from the truth. 
 
Now, having recovered from her disordered approach to food and fitness, Alice tells the intimate story of what led to her darkest moments of restriction, the ultimatum that forced her to change, and how she overcame those demons using her four pillars of fitness: Why, What, When and How, which teach us to move based on how you feel rather than how you look. 
 
This is a vital, powerful and life-affirming book for any women who has struggled with their body image and wants to feel happy and confident in their own skin.

Give Me Strength

How I Turned My Back on Restriction, Nurtured the Body I Love, and How You Can Too

A J Rochester

'I love food.  Even worse, I love junk food.  If lard could be double deep-fried I would eat it.  If I could deep-fry headache pills I would.  So it's no wonder I'm now the size of a small yet economically viable continent...'When A. J. Rochester is selected to feature in a television series on obesity, she is at first appalled and then resolved.  At 109 kilos (17 stone), she knows she needs to lose weight - not because she yearns to become a twiglet but so she can keep up with her little boy and turn her life around at last.  But after years of fighting a losing battle with the flab, A. J. knows she needs a miracle.  So she decides to ditch the 'quick-fix' diets and the faddy exercise equipment and try a new approach - one that involves discovering her own inner strengths.  It may not be easy - but it pays off. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter charts the highs, lows and plateaus of A. J.'s incredible journey, from overcoming an early setback - waking up in hospital with a broken leg after a drunken binge - to the triumph of shedding the first, and last, kilo.

Confessions of a Reformed Dieter

Vaclav Smil

In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today: Why are some of the world’s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations? Why is food waste a colossal 1,000kcal per person daily, and how can we solve that? Could we all go vegan and be healthy? Should we? How will we feed the ballooning population without killing the planet? 
 
How Food Really Works shows how we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. Ultimately, this data-based, rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future.

How to Feed the World

A Factful Guide

Libby DeLana

One morning, Libby DeLana left her New England home to go for a walk. She did the same thing the next day, and the next. It became a daily habit that has culminated in her walking the equivalent of the earth's circumference. She walked through some major life milestones – and into her second act. 
 
In Do Walk, Libby shares the transformative nature of this simple yet powerful practice. She reveals how walking each day provides the time and space to reconnect with the world; to process thoughts, improve wellbeing, and unlock creativity. It is the ultimate navigational tool that helps us to see who we are, and where we want to go. 
 
This inspiring and reflective guide is an invitation to step outside and see where the path takes us... 
 
‘A moving and wise book that powerfully conveys a simple truth: that putting one foot in front of the other is a transformative act. DeLana writes with insight, heart, and wit about love, loss, work, creativity, and the mysteries of being human.’ Cheryl Strayed, international bestselling author of Wild 
 
‘Do Walk is a refreshing reminder that daily exercise isn't so much about sweat and exertion as it is about commitment and exploration of nature and of self. DeLana's evocative prose allows us to walk next to her. This book helped me examine parts of my life but, more than anything, it made me want to lace up and head outside in search for a new path of my own.’ Charlie Engle, endurance runner and author 
 
‘Who knew that a daily walk could be a transformational experience? Libby DeLana shares her inspiring stories and best practice in this special book. So much of the wisdom in Do Walk has stayed with me long after finishing it.’ Cheryl Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of Take Time for Your Life 
 
‘Do Walk has wildly impacted my life and inspired me to make some changes… I would’ve never thought that I’d find gratitude in walking.’ Alex Elle, New York Times bestselling author of How We Heal 
 
'Libby shares stories and lessons learned from the daily walk she has taken each morning since 2011. May it inspire your own peregrinations; be they morning, noon, or long after midnight.' Suleika Jaouad, Isolation Journals 
 
©2021 Libby DeLana (P)2021 Do Books Audio

Do Walk – Navigate earth, mind and body. Step by step

Sháá Wasmund

Have you ever dreamt of doing something new - setting up a business, getting in shape, or writing a novel - but haven't gotten round to actually doing it? Does 'now' never feel like a good time to start? The time has come. 
 
In January 2015, entrepreneur and bestselling author Sháá Wasmund made a decision: to finally get what she wanted. Years after packing in her business (and her salary) to take the plunge, life is everything she hoped it would be. As she discovered, the key to getting what you want is within reach. 
 
Building on her many years of professional experience and inspired by her own personal challenges and sh*t-fixing moments, How to Fix Your Sh*t is your pocket life coach. In this simple and systematic guide, Wasmund will empower you to conquer fear, ditch the excuses and start living your best life today.

How to Fix Your Sh*t

A Straightforward Guide to a Better Life

Ed Victor

Literary agents are famous for lunching, and there is no more famous agent than Ed Victor. If Ed can lose weight without changing his lifestyle, so can anyone.The Obvious Diet recognises that the rules we make ourselves are the rules we are most likely to stick to. It shows how to devise an eating regime that is based on avoiding your own particular weaknesses, whether that is carbohydrates, animal fats or sugar. It works because, rather than imposing a rigid plan from on high, it allows you to mix and match elements from different diets to suit your own lifestyle. And with ideas, tips and plenty of recipes from Ed's celebrity friends and clients, including a foreword from Nigella Lawson, the book also provides lots of glamorous anecdotes and inspiration to help you stick to your plan. Dieting has never been this interesting!

The Obvious Diet

Your Personal Way to lose Weight Fast - Without Changing Your Lifestyle

Angela Liddon

One of the trailblazers of plant-based cooking, Angela Liddon's irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for this type of food. Her phenomenally popular blog and bestselling debut, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, have amassed millions of fans worldwide, eager for her latest recipes. 
 
Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up cookbook, Liddon shares creative, accessible and delicious ideas that are perfect for busy lifestyles, promising to make plant-based eating convenient every day of the week, not forgetting special occasions. 
 
Filled with more than 100 family-friendly recipes, including simple smoothies, breakfasts, snacks and staples, you'll find meals and treats that everyone will love, such as Homemade Sunflower Seed Butter, Lentil-Mushroom Bolognese, Sweet Potato Casserole, Rainbow Quinoa Salad, Ultimate Flourless Brownies and Cookie Dough Balls. Oh She Glows Every Day also includes useful store-cupboard suggestions and tips for kid-, allergy-, and freezer-friendly cooking. 
 
A beautiful go-to cookbook from one of the internet's most popular voices in food, Oh She Glows Every Day proves that it's possible to cook simple, nourishing and tasty meals - even on a busy schedule.

Oh She Glows Every Day

Quick and simply satisfying plant-based recipes

Bonnie Tsui

'A jewel of a book, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it' James Nestor, bestselling of author of Breath 
 
'Glorious' The New York Times 
 
 Take a dive into the deep and discover what it is about water that seduces us, heals us and brings us together. 
 
Join writer and swimmer Bonnie Tsui as she explores the unique skill of swimming from the five angles of survival, wellbeing, community, competition and flow. Propelled by stories of polar swim champions, a Baghdad swim club, Olympian athletes and modern-day samurai swimmers, Why We Swim takes us around the globe in a remarkable, all-encompassing account of the world of swimming. This is a joyous meditation on our innate connection to water and a true celebration of the wonders of swimming.

Why We Swim

Mireille Guiliano

The bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano offers the perfect combination of delicious, balanced recipes. 
 
French Women Don’t Get Fat was a mould-breaking book that unlocked the secrets of 'The French paradox' and sold well over a million copies worldwide. By letter, by email, in person, readers have inundated Mireille Guiliano with requests for more advice. Her answer: this buoyant book full of advice, ideas and fresh, French recipes for each season.

French Women For All Seasons

A Year of Secrets, Recipes & Pleasure

Bruce Byron

Bruce Byron is a popular character in The Bill. He's about three to four stones overweight, nearing fifty and, in his own words, a heart attack waiting to happen. 
 
'You see, I have a weight issue - the issue being that I have too much of it. Currently in the UK around six in ten men are medically defined as overweight and one in six as obese. Obesity in the UK has more than doubled in the past eighteen years, amongst blokes it's tripled and with this come increased risks to our health including heart disease - the UK's biggest killer. According to my friends at the British Heart Foundation, heart disease kills one in five males. It is responsible for 32% of premature deaths in males. Someone in the UK has a heart attack every two minutes. That could be me. 
 
So, here we are. This is the documented journey of a soon to be fifty-year-old, seriously overweight man who works long hours and wants to be around to see his children grow up, a man who wants to play and do exciting activities with my family, enjoy growing old with my beautiful wife and be around long enough to enjoy the rewards of our very hard-earned success. 
 
Today's the day I stop making excuses.'

Fat Bloke Slims

How I Lost Three Stone

Jan de Vries

Best-selling author and world-renowned naturopath Jan de Vries has become increasingly aware of the damage that today's environment has had on the five senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing and vision. Man's immune system is under constant attack by viruses, allergies, bacteria, pollution, food, water and air. As Jan de Vries says in his introduction, 'If you lose your senses you lose your sense of living'; this book will help you to live again.

The Five Senses

Sam Briggs

INCLUDES AN UPDATED CHAPTER ON THE 2020 SEASON 
 
You don't get biceps like Briggs by giving up when the going gets tough... 
 
 CrossFit superstar Sam Briggs, aka 'The Engine', is a true hero in the sport, with a level of endurance unparalleled in the game. This is the story of how she got to the top, and battled with everything she had to stay there. 
 
 Sam's memoir takes in the whole story, from being kicked out of ballet lessons as a child but being accepted on the boys' sports teams, to working as a firefighter in West Yorkshire for ten years, tackling dangerous and adrenaline-fueled situations on a daily basis, and to taking up CrossFit at the comparatively ancient age of 27. Sam tells of what it took to become champion a mere three years later, and after a year out with a broken patella. Despite the numerous setbacks and debilitating injuries that have plagued her in the years that followed, when most other athletes would have thrown in the towel, Sam has fought, and continues to fight, to be the very best that she can be. 
 
Start Your Engines is the story of how, with a combination of grit, training and dogged motivation, it's never too late to achieve your dreams.

Start Your Engines

My Unstoppable CrossFit Journey

Kate Ferdinand

Kate's aim is to make every woman feel body-beautiful whatever their size, in this book she shares how she has grown to love her own body, and how everyone can do the same. 
 
She has always loved exercise, for both the mental and physical benefits, and has developed this plan to make exercise fun and achievable for everyone. Her 21-day plan consists of 20-minute HIIT style routines which alternate between upper, lower, and full body exercises so that every muscle group is worked but never burned out. 
 
Alongside the workouts Kate also reveals how she motivates herself, fits in exercise in around her busy family life, how she combats her anxieties and she even reveals her favourite energy-boosting recipes.

Fitter, Happier, Healthier

Discover the strength of your mind and body at home

Lisa Riley

Lisa Riley's weight-loss story is truly remarkable. After years wearing size-30 clothes and convincing herself she was 'fat but happy', she finally got a wake-up call when diabetes threatened. Two years later, she's 12 stone lighter, significantly healthier and the weight is gone for good. 
 
Lisa's many devoted fans are desperate to know how she did it. In this inspirational book, Lisa shares her story, along with a simple 8-day eating plan to kick off the diet, 75 delicious low-carb recipes, everyday fitness tips and unflinching advice for anyone keen to follow in her footsteps. Lisa credits her success to the power of honesty - only when she was 100% honest with herself did the pounds finally fall away. With Lisa's help, readers can put the fibs and excuses behind them, kick the bad habits and achieve the body and health they've always wanted.

Lisa Riley's Honesty Diet

Change your life in just 8 days

Gok Wan

With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. 
 
Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love - and Gok was so well loved that by the time he was a teenager he weighed 21 stone. Being Asian and gay as well, Gok felt lonely and out of place. He was an easy target for bullies and suffered terribly at their hands. 
 
In a moment of inspiration, he decided to reinvent himself with his first style makeover and a larger-than-life personality to go with it. But his next move was to lose a devastating ten stone in nine months. In Through Thick and Thin, for the first time, Gok reveals all about that life changing period. 
 
The lessons Gok learnt during this time helped him bounce back to become a stylist to the stars, every woman's best friend and a national treasure. In this intimate memoir Gok tells his full story in his own words. Whether he's recounting the horrors of childhood bullying or riotous anecdotes about his loving family, behind the scenes in the fashion world or TV shows, Gok's voice jumps off the page with all the honesty, wit and warmth we've come to know and love him for.

Through Thick and Thin

My Autobiography

Naomi Moriyama

William Doyle

In Japan, people live longer than anywhere else on Earth; obesity is virtually unknown, and 40-year-old women look like they're 20. The secret: Japanese homestyle cooking, and an approach to eating that is not about self-deprivation, but about celebrating and savouring food. 
 
Raised in Tokyo and on her grandparents' mountainside farm, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college student, and promptly gained 25 pounds eating an American diet. Returning home for the holidays, she found that the weight melted off as she returned to the healthy, soulful food of her mother's tiny kitchen: satisfying soups, fresh vegetables, delicate grilled fish; mouthwatering meals that never left her feeling hungry. 
 
Filled with delicious healthy recipes and evocative reminiscences, this book is for all those who are tired of counting calories and carbs, and finding themselves on diets that don't work. Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat offers a delightfully fresh and easy approach to weight loss and promises readers a healthier, slimmer, and longer lifestyle.

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat

Delicious slimming and anti-ageing secrets

Jenni Murray

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to make connections between her weight and health issues and told herself that she was fat and happy. She was certainly fat. But the happy part was an Oscar-worthy performance. In private she lived with a growing sense of fear and misery that her weight would probably kill her before she made it to seventy. Interwoven with the science, social history and psychology of weight management, Fat Cow, Fat Chance is a refreshingly honest account of what it's like to be fat when society dictates that skinny is the norm. It asks why we overeat and why, when the weight is finally lost through dieting, do we simply pile the pounds back on again? How do we help young people become comfortable with the way they look? What are the consequences of the obesity epidemic for an already overstretched NHS? And, whilst fat shaming is so often called out, why is it that shouting 'fat cow' at a woman in the street hasn't been included in the list of hate crimes? Fusing politics, science and personal pain, this is a powerful exploration of our battle with obesity.

Fat Cow, Fat Chance

The science and psychology of size

Alex Renton

Vital stories for hungry minds. 
 
In the first official book from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Food Programme, award-winning writer Alex Renton tells the stories of 13 key staples such as spice, oil, cocoa, bread and tomatoes, exploring their history, evolution and how our ever-growing hunger for them continues to alter our world. Look at food in a new light - as a weapon, an art form, a tool of revolution, but also a bringer of pure happiness. 
 
Discover a kaleidoscope of fascinating facts and curiosities, including the forgotten joys of lard, the secret to perfect chips and how our love of pepper led to piracy.

The Food Programme: 13 Foods that Shape Our World

How Our Hunger has Changed the Past, Present and Future

In Inner Harmony Jan De Vries tells hoe we can achieve a harmonious balance between the three bodies of man-the physical, the mental and the emotional-to gain optimum health. Drawing on over forty years of experience spent dealing with patients who have lost their zest for life and joy of living he is able to refer to case histories and explain hoe the problems can be overcome. The twenty-two chapters in this book cover a wealth of information on how the reader can help himself through many differnt health comp-laints. The author refers throughout to dietary management and natural remedies to help resolve the health problems. Jan de Vries has pinpointed many typical complaits of today`s society with an under-standing that can only be ascribed to the vast experience and know-ledge that he has gained in treating thousands of people worldwide. Wtitten in an easy style, Inner Harmony contains a very positive approach to the problems prevalent worldwide in today`s society.

Inner Harmony

Achieving Physical, Mental and Emotional Well-Being

In this controversial book Jan de Vries considers modern miracles as well as the 'miracle of Lourdes'. He discusses witch doctors and what he has personally witnessed in the Far East. He warns against exorcism and talks of the many 'possessed' people he has treated. He also shares with his readers some of the mysterious ways that alternative medicine has worked 'miracles' for thousands of patients.

The Miracle of Life

Marisa Meltzer

'A life-changing book' Viv Groskop 
 
Marisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food. 
 
Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Queens who defiantly lost 70 pounds after she was mistaken for being pregnant. Taking everything she learned from this experience, in 1963 she founded Weight Watchers, a company that has shaped decades of diet culture. 
 
When Marisa reads Jean's obituary, she feels a moment of intense connection. Curious about the woman and her legacy, she signs up for a year of Weight Watchers; counting points, weighing in and listening to her fellow members struggle with their bodies. 
 
This is Big is a biography of an idiosyncratic entrepreneur whose impact is still felt strongly today. It is a history of dieting and body politics for anyone who has agonised over their weight or defiantly tried not to do so. And it is Marisa's funny and thoughtful journey towards a different way to live in the world. 
 
'This is the anti-diet book I've been waiting for' Daisy Buchanan

This is Big

How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me)

Rosemary Conley

Rosemary Conley is one of the UK's most successful and best-loved diet and fitness experts. Rosemary Conley's Secrets of Staying Young is the book that she's been plannint to write for 20 years. In it she shares some of her own experiences of looking and feeling young as the years pass, as well as giving advice on diet; exercise (Including a special section of exercises for the over-70s, an age group that is often overlooked in beauty and fitness books); dressing for your age and shape, and gives medical advice about HRT, plastic surgery and how to stay fit despite the changes in your body. 
 
Rosemary Conley's Secrets of Staying Young is not only a practical and useful guide for women, but also a very personal story of how she has maintained her health and stayed looking youthful throughout the years.

The Secrets of Staying Young

Jonathan Safran Foer

Most books about the environmental crisis are densely academic, depressingly doom-laden and crammed with impersonal statistics. We are the Weather is different - accessible, immediate and with a single clear solution that individual readers can put into practice straight away. 
 
A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Giving up meat is incredibly hard and nobody is perfect - but just cutting back is much easier and still has a huge positive effect on the environment. Cutting out meat for just part of the day is enough to change the world. 
 
With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Foer frames this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life.

We are the Weather

Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Jacqueline Williams

In this, the third book in the fantastic Handbag series, Jacqueline Williams explodes the myths of many popular diets and tells you the facts you need to know. If you wake up in the morning and realise you are not only having a bad hair day, but also a fat day, then this is the book for you. 
 
Included are top tips for wearing clothes to flatter your shape, sticking to your diet, turning a shopping trip into a work-out, finding food with zero calories and eating out without pigging out. All this plus the Girly Bum Barometer and how to lose weight without leaving the sofa. 
 
You need never have a fat day again.

The Handbag Book Of Diet Emergencies

Kate Santon

Perfect Weight Loss is essential reading for anyone who wants to shed a few pounds. Based on the idea that real success comes from making small and sustainable lifestyle changes rather than trusting faddish diets, it demystifies the process of losing weight and offers sensible and intelligent advice on everything from preparing nutritious food to exercising effectively. Whether you're keen to slim down so you can fit into that favourite pair of jeans or just want to eat more healthily, Perfect Weight Loss has all you need to know. 
 
The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on eveything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

Perfect Weight Loss

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