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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
How to Use My, Ada Howard’s, Novel as a Diet Book
1. Don’t keep doing what you’ve always been doing
2. Make a plan: Set clear, multiple, and changing goals
3. Weigh yourself daily
4. Be a role model
5. Don’t attack your own team; don’t let anyone on your team attack you
6. Identify and learn from iconic diet books
7. Walk thirty minutes a day—every day
8. See your doctor
9. Do the DNA test
10. Budget: Plan to afford the feeding, exercising, and dressing of you
11. Get eight hours of sleep nightly
12. Eat breakfast
13. Self-medicate with art: Quash boredom and anxiety
14. Consider surgery
15. Keep a food diary and a body journal
16. Add a second exercise three times a week
17. Drink eight glasses of water daily
18. Eat sitting down
19. Eat slowly
20. Find a snack you like that likes you
21. Access the power of quick fixes: poems, fingernail polish, and waxing
22. Add a Zen exercise: hooping, water jogging, watsu, and yoga
23. Don’t be afraid to look cheap—in restaurants
24. Manage portion sizes
25. Eat every three hours
26. Savor Hot and Cold, the power of herbal teas and flavored ice cubes
27. Don’t initiate change you can’t stick with for five years
28. Find and create DNA-based go-to meals: a homemade and healthy house specialty and a healthy and palatable frozen dinner
29. Use consultants: trainers, masseuses, nutrionists, and priests
30. Massage your own feet
31. Drink cautiously: no juice, no soft drinks, no food coloring, no corn syrup, no fake sugar; examine alcohol and caffeine intake
32. Bathe to calm or bathe to excite: recipes for baths
33. Invent DNA-based care packages that work for you and yours
34. Don’t stay off the wagon when you fall off the wagon—and you will fall off the wagon
35. Get therapy
36. Create your own spa day
37. Get better hair
38. Fake it till you make it: fine foundations and wide smiles
39. Update beauty rituals and tools
40. Shop for your future self
41. Take one bite of anything and never more than two bites of anything decadent
42. Uni up: get yourself a uniform, for day and for night
43. Front-load: Eat before you go to parties; drink water before meals
44. Draw a map of your body
45. Update your goals
46. Create your own spa week
47. Get better hair down there
48. Seize the proper props: scarves, shoes, purses, sunglasses, and respect
49. Don’t stop short of your goal
50. Celebrate dappled beauty daily: the power of the imperfect and good-enough
51. Cultivate new interests
52. Make a health and beauty calendar
53. Do it for you
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright
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