Fitness Junkie
  • Published: 15 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101974070
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99

Fitness Junkie

A Novel

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From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt--through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes--to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds.

A GMA SUMMER MUST-READ! From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt—through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes—to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds.

"When Janey Sweet … navigates topless yoga and ruthless cycling classes in Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza's satire, she realizes she’s better off without the green juice."
—Us Weekly

When Janey Sweet, CEO of a couture wedding gown company, is photographed in the front row of a fashion show eating a bruffin--the delicious love child of a brioche and a muffin--her best friend and business partner gives her an ultimatum: lose thirty pounds or lose your job. Sure, Janey has gained some weight since her divorce, and no, her beautifully cut trousers don't fit like they used to, so Janey throws herself headlong into the world of the fitness revolution, signing up for a shockingly expensive workout pass, baring it all for Free the Nipple yoga, and spinning to the screams of a Lycra-clad instructor with rage issues. As Janey eschews carbs, pays thousands of dollars to wellness gurus, and is harassed by her very own fitness bracelet, she can't help but wonder: Did she really need to lose weight in the first place?
  • Published: 15 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101974070
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the authors

Lucy Sykes

Lucy Sykes moved from London to New York City in 1997 and took the fashion world by storm. She was Fashion Director at Marie Claire magazine for six years and, most recently, Fashion Director for renttherunway.com.

Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza is an award-winning journalist, editor, digital content strategist and author. She is the Travel Editor of Yahoo and currently a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Elle.com.

Praise for Fitness Junkie

  • "There are no funnier, wittier people in all the land than Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza. --Ruthie Friedlander, InStyle
  • "Fitness Junkie is a deliciously fun romp through the bizarre and cultlike workouts of the superrich, from naked yoga to clay diets to private island wellness retreats. Funny, frothy and delicious."--Jane Green, author of Falling
  • "A hilarious tale about one woman's attempt to do whatever it takes -- juicing, clay diets, private island wellness retreats -- to lose 30 lbs." --People
  • "The Devil Wears Prada of the wellness world. . . . It's about time the New York City fitness scene--booming in 2017 like never before--got its roman à clef."--Well+Good
  • "When Janey Sweet. . . . navigates topless yoga and ruthless cycling classes in Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza's satire, she realizes she's better off without the green juice."--Us Weekly
  • "Takes aim squarely at the way in which our weight- and fitness-obsessed culture infiltrates our daily lives. . . . Fitness Junkie will make you laugh as much as it will make you think."--Shanee Edwards, SheKnows

    • and was barely able to exhale. Fitness Junkie moves furiously through the torturous extremes women subject themselves to, all in the name of pleasing someone else. Sykes and Piazza work their magic through the eyes of a woman more like yourself. Read this and you will never eat cronuts with a side of guilt again." —Maureen Sherry, author of Opening Belle

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