The Dog Diet: What my dog taught me about Shedding Pounds, Licking Stress, and
Getting A New Leash On Life
Patti Lawson
Memoir
276 pages
copyright: 2006
isbn: 0-7573-0394-3
We live in a diet-obsessed age, when we lose five pounds just to gain ten,
delude ourselves that the next exercise contraption we buy from that midnight
infomercial will finally take that extra inch off our thighs, and become
convinced that the latest diet fad of beet soup and goat's milk will help us
look good in a bikini. But now you can forget the Zone, Atkins and South Beach!
It turns out that the ultimate weight-loss plan is owning a dog: Man (and
woman's) best friend is the fail proof personal trainer-dietician-nutritionist
you've been looking for you all your life.
That's just what Patti Lawson found in her dog, Sadie.
A diet-obsessed, single lawyer, Patti spent the winter indulging in multiple
brands of chocolate while mourning the demise of her latest relationship.
Spring found her pudgy and pitiful, when Fate - and a fortuitous trip to
PetSmart - brought rascally puppy Sadie into Patti's petless, pristine, if a
bit sterile, life. Since that day life hasn't been the same for Patti or Sadie.
A life that began together with 3:00 a. m. walks through the park, incessant
barking and stolen moments of trying to eat just a crumb of breakfast without
puppy-interference soon morphed into a partnership of exercise and healthy
eating with the added bonus that Sadie taught Patti a thing or two about
letting go and stopping to smell the roses.
A memoir-cum-diet, The Dog Diet takes a tongue-in-cheek look at our obsession
with weight loss and will have you laughing out loud asyou recognize your own
dysfunctional relationship with food. In the process you'll learn a simple and
natural method for shedding unwanted pounds without the usual stress and
disappointments that go along with typical dieting regimens.
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