101 Things to Do Before You Diet

Apr 21, 2025 2:23 PM

Author:Mimi Spencer

From the co-author (with Michael Mosley) of the bestselling The Fast Diet, a feel-good, fun book that reveals the secrets that will make a difference to how you look and feel about yourself. Because looking great isn't just about losing weight!

Ways to eat, ways to cheat. What to wear, what to ditch.

This sassy, funny and practical book by style guru Mimi Spencer includes how to find the perfect jeans; fix your fattening habits; avoid calorie ambush; and learn to give good photo. It also reveals the secrets of solution lingerie; and why you need one diet dress.

Mimi will help you make the most of what you've got, and see that the woman you are now is just as fabulous as the woman you want to be.Like your ideal best friend, she'll help you release your thinner self without all the depressing self-denial, guilty weigh-ins and tyranny of faddy food plans.

Reviews

A thoughtful book for those fed up with structured meal-plan diets and complicated rules.

—— The Times

Admirably sensible...Practical and pleasingly eccentric, this is the least irritating self-help book of the year.

—— Daily Mail

A snacky, fun and encouraging guide to accepting ourselves as we are . . . With life-changing advice, laid-back nutritional nuggets and anti-celebrity thinness treatises, this is a multi-vitamin treat for soul and body.

—— Good Housekeeping

[A] no-nonsense guide to shifting pounds and looking fantastic.

—— NOW magazine

A pleasure to read . . . her tone is as sweet and light as a sugar substitute.

—— London Lite

Exploring her own marriage has given Baum a unique vantage point from which to investigate the private intricacies of other people's arrangements . . . Her ability to sit in the midst of those arguments and unpick their various strands makes her work compelling, as does her willingness to self-interrogate

—— Times

This delightful, acrobatic book is funny, thought-provoking and rigorous at the same time. An effervescent and timely meditation on marriage

—— Darian Leader

Devorah Baum brings her literary understandings, psychoanalytic scholarship and great aplomb to the marriage conundrum. It's very funny too. Who wouldn't want to marry Devorah?

—— Susie Orbach

On Marriage is characterized by this kind of agile curiosity . . . Baum holds [marriage] up as a seduction

—— Rebecca Mead , The New Yorker

Because marriage doesn't always bring out the best in us, it makes us wonder what the best in us might be. It is part of the extraordinary wit and wisdom of Baum's remarkable book to show us what kind of romance, and experiment in living, we have wanted marriage to be

—— Adam Phillips

Everything you thought you knew about conjugal beds, secrets, feuds, confessions, triangulations and solaces will be pleasurably complicated by Devorah Baum's wryly insightful tell - all regarding the infinite perversity of marriage - including her own, mine, and probably yours

—— Laura Kipnis

On Marriage is a hugely thought-provoking, witty, warm tour around every significant writer and thinker on love to have emerged since Adam and Eve. Baum is a charming guide to the wisdom of her inspiring judiciously curated cohort

—— Alain de Botton

Baum looks at marriage from multiple angles, legal and political, social and narrative, its interminability and its dailiness . . . it can be funny or tragic or both. Baum’s methodology is to look at what is missing – a philosophy of marriage, a clear idea of what this dominant structure is and how it influences lives. Lovely

—— The White Review

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