Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting » (Original)

Bethenny Frankel began her TV career in 2005 when she earned the title of ?break-out star? on NBC's Martha Stewart Apprentice and finished as runner-up in the competition. After graduating from The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts in New York, Bethenny created bethennybakes®, a company that offers a line of wheat, egg and dairy free baked goods. She now highlights her healthy lifestyle as one of the stars of The Real Housewives of NYC on Bravo.

She stole the show in the runaway hit The Real Housewives of New York City, but Bethenny Frankel's passion has always been enjoying healthful, natural foods and sharing that love: whether she was cooking for Hollywood A-listers, launching her successful company BethennyBakes, providing delicious recipes to Health, or working with leading lifestyle and food companies.

Naturally Thin shows how anyone can banish their Heavy Habits, embrace Thin Thoughts, and enjoy satisfying meals, snacks, and drinks without the guilt. Armed with Bethenny's rules, readers will say:

• I know when I am really hungry

• When I'm really hungry, I look for high-volume, fiber-rich foods

• I can have any food I want

• I love the taste of real food

With more than thirty simple, delicious recipes (including her famous SkinnyGirl Margarita), a one-week program to jump-start readers on the Naturally Thin lifestyle, and warm, witty encouragement on every page, Frankel serves up a book for a healthier and thinner life.

Publishers Weekly

Best known from reality TV (The Real Housewives of New York City), "natural foods chef" and entrepreneur Frankel wants unhappy dieters to know that everyone is "naturally thin," they've simply got to change some habits and learn "to think like a naturally thin person." The bulk of this self-help is devoted to ten rules, each outlined in a friendly but no-nonsense chapter. Rooted in Frankel's own struggles ("twenty years suffering through diet hell"), her rules include some familiar ideas smartly recast ("Your diet is a bank account" is a personal-finance gloss on "you are what you eat") and each has a couple recipes attached (Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms). Much of her advice, however, boils down to eating less: other chapters look at moderation, mindful eating and portion size, with some helpful guides to measuring and eyeballing (though it's hard to see why "Downsize Now!" and "Cancel Your Membership in the Clean Plate Club" require separate chapters). A detailed 7-day starter plan fills out the volume. Fans of Frankel's televised adventures will likely be charmed by her strong, direct voice, and her brassy self-regard is nicely tempered by a we're-in-this-together camaraderie.
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Introduction: Who I Am and What This Book Is All About 1

Part 1 The Rules

1 Your Diet is a Bank Account 19

2 You Can Have it All, Just Not All at Once 32

3 Taste Everything, Eat Nothing 42

4 Pay Attention 53

5 Downsize Now! 63

6 Cancel Your Membership in the Clean Plate Club 78

7 Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself 89

8 Know Thyself 99

9 Get Real 113

10 Good for You 129

Part 2 The Naturally Thin Program

11 The Naturally Thin Program: Setting It Up 143

12 Day One: Monday 163

13 Day Two: Tuesday 182

14 Day Three: Wednesday 198

15 Day Four: Thursday 209

16 Day Five: Friday 224

17 Day Six: Saturday 240

18 Day Seven: Sunday 253

19 Going Forward 264

Appendix 267

Acknowledgments 277

Index 281