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  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780553820195
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99

101 Things to Do Before You Diet




The ultimate feel-good lifestyle book for women from the co-author (with Michael Mosley) of bestseller The Fast Diet : because looking great isn't just about losing weight.

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.

  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780553820195
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Mimi Spencer

Mimi Spencer is a prizewinning fashion and beauty journalist. She has a column in You magazine and writes for Observer Woman, Grazia and many other magazines and newspapers.

She was editor of ES Magazine for two years following six years as Fashion Editor for the Evening Standard. She lives in Brighton with her two children and a barrister husband.


Photography (c) Danny Elwes

Praise for 101 Things to Do Before You Diet

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

London Lite

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

The Times

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

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

Daily Mail