Author:Jacqueline Shannon,Robyn Flipse
Every bride wants to look perfect on her wedding day.
It's the one day you're guaranteed to be the centre of attention. And the last thing you wants is to walk down the aisle feeling everyone's eyes fixed on your straining seams. Whether you've got one year until the big day or just one month, THE WEDDING DRESS DIET, with its safe and sane diet and exercise plan, is packed with advice and suggestions to help every bride look and feel fantastic.
- Lose weight without sacrificing the energy you'll need in the run-up to the big day
- Tone up and get your hair and skin looking great
- Adapt your diet and excercise plan to the amount of time left until your wedding
- Select the perfect wedding dress for your body shape
- Indulge on your honeymoon - and still avoid the bloated-in-a-bikini- on-the-beach look
No bride should even think about getting married wthout it!
...A deliciously funny yet practical diet book....Covers all the bases from how to pick out a wedding dress to suit a bride's figure to how to calculate a healthy weight for her height.
—— USA Today...This book is full of sane advice from a humorous and humane registered dietitian and a co-author with an upbeat, motivational attitude. The anecdotes are all up-to-the-minute - even Sophie Rhys-Jones prenuptial regimen is included (it involved seaweed wraps) - and the authors offer tips that extend beyond crash diets. To wit: how to choose a dress that minimizes figure flaws; how to pose for photos; how to set up a 'slim kitchen'.
—— New York Daily NewsThe[ir] book is no magic bullet--the weight loss plans inside advocate a balanced diet and exercise. But the book also includes helpful tips on managing wedding-related stress, handling potentially disastrous pre-wedding eating events and finding the right wedding dress for your figure.
—— LA TimesThe Presence is a fragment of autobiography written from the most private part of a poet's heart, with a pen dipped in blood and tears. That it transcends this to become both elegiac and celebratory, to inhabit both the suffered present and the beloved past, places it almost beyond the scope of routine criticism.
—— Daily TelegraphHauntingly poignant... One hopes that he comes before long to share the happiness this wise, funny, heart rending little book brings to its readers
—— Daily TelegraphFull of memorable images... As Abse performs the strange and also strangely valuable work of mourning, he offers, with The Presence, wit and balm
—— Financial TimesElegy and eulogy, full of kindness and understanding of our common vulnerablility, this lovely book is a very rich boon
—— The TimesReading this book is like having a chat with your friends or with other mums at the crèche or the school gate.
—— Mothers and BabiesA no-nonsense guide to running a family – whatever your personality.
—— Easy LivingIn this memoir she describes her eccentric, dangerous, wonderful bohemian parents...Blackburn emerged from this turmoil as a fine writer, and this book is full of understanding and reconciliation
—— Margaret Drabble , New Statesmana rich account...brilliant vignettes
—— Camilla Long , Sunday TimesThis piercing memoir paints in vivid colours Julia Blackburn's nightmarish childhood
—— Alison Flood , The TelegraphBlackburn tells us about these things in a compelling authorial voice which is by turns numb and incredibly sensitive
—— William Leith , Evening StandardBrutally honest book ...deeply moving testament to the love that can somehow survive
—— Aimee Shalan , GuardianAn extraordinary family memoir... A bohemian classic
—— Week