January 2013

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Schuler, Lou, and Cassandra E. Forsythe. The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift like a Man, Look like a Goddess. New York: Avery, 2007. Print.

Got this from the library after seeing it mentioned somewhere (wish I could remember where – perhaps the Fit Fatties forum?).  I was prepared to ignore the diet sections but was afraid I’d be triggered by them, but fortunately they started off with things like “you probably aren’t eating enough”, “eat more protein” (but not that carbs are bad), and “eat five or six meals a day”.  That eased my mind.  The exercises seem basic but not easy; this is *real* weight lifting!  There’s a good variety and the workouts start fairly simple with only five exercises.  I have been sick for weeks with a string of colds, but I’ve done two partial workouts and enjoyed them.  I look forward to doing it more regularly.

Recommended by someone on the new message board I’m on, plus two friends were reading it for their book club.  Some of the reviews made me think I wouldn’t like it, but perhaps because they set my expectations low, I found I did like it.

It’s told as a series of emails from one man to another, after he finds his old friend has included him and elements of his life in a book he wrote.

Picked it up, read a chapter, almost returned it.  Picked it up again in the car another day and finished it within the hour.  Entertaining, very similar to the first two books; amazingly so, considering they are different authors.

I didn’t enjoy this as much as the first of her books I read, but perhaps I was only reading that one because I had to for book club.

About half-way through I got more interested and finished it quickly.