Ada's Rules
A Sexy Skinny Novel
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2012
352 pages
978-1-4088-3307-0 (ISBN)
Description
'A wonderful, warm and funny novel about a woman taking control of her life. Truly inspiring' Katie Fforde
'I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it. I read it in one sitting' Jane Green, author of The Patchwork Marriage
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Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at the day care centre where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing, wayward parents. It's no wonder she can't find time to take care of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him...
Then it comes: the announcement of her twenty-five-year college reunion in twelve months' time, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. It sets Ada thinking about the thrills of young love lost, and the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and she decides it's high time to change her body, and her life.
So she starts laying down some rules. The first rule is: Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing. And so begins her unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love...
For anyone who has ever found themselves at a crossroads, with one hand in their pocket and the other in the cookie jar, Ada's Rules is a warm, funny and soulfully wise novel about falling back in love with the life you have.
'I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it. I read it in one sitting' Jane Green, author of The Patchwork Marriage
______________________
Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at the day care centre where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing, wayward parents. It's no wonder she can't find time to take care of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him...
Then it comes: the announcement of her twenty-five-year college reunion in twelve months' time, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. It sets Ada thinking about the thrills of young love lost, and the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and she decides it's high time to change her body, and her life.
So she starts laying down some rules. The first rule is: Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing. And so begins her unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love...
For anyone who has ever found themselves at a crossroads, with one hand in their pocket and the other in the cookie jar, Ada's Rules is a warm, funny and soulfully wise novel about falling back in love with the life you have.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3307-0 (9781408833070)
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07/2012
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Person
Alice Randall was born in Detroit, grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Harvard. She is the author of New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. She is also an award-winning songwriter, and the first black woman in history to write a number one country song. Randall is currently Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville with her husband. She recently lost over fifty pounds following her own rules.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1 Don't keep doing what you've always been doing
- 2 Make a plan: Set clear, multiple, and changing goals
- 3 Weigh yourself daily
- 4 Be a role model
- 5 Don't attack your own team
- don't let anyone on your team attack you
- 6 Identify and learn from iconic diet books
- 7 Walk thirty minutes a day-every day
- 8 See your doctor
- 9 Do the DNA test
- 10 Budget: Plan to afford the feeding, exercising, and dressing of you
- 11 Get eight hours of sleep nightly
- 12 Eat breakfast
- 13 Self-medicate with art: Quash boredom and anxiety
- 14 Consider surgery
- 15 Keep a food diary and a body journal
- 16 Add a second exercise three times a week
- 17 Drink eight glasses of water daily
- 18 Eat sitting down
- 19 Eat slowly
- 20 Find a snack you like that likes you
- 21 Access the power of quick fixes: poems, fingernail polish, and waxing
- 22 Add a Zen exercise: hooping, water jogging, watsu, and yoga
- 23 Don't be afraid to look cheap-in restaurants
- 24 Manage portion sizes
- 25 Eat every three hours
- 26 Savor Hot and Cold, the power of herbal teas and flavored ice cubes
- 27 Don't initiate change you can't stick with for five years
- 28 Find and create DNA-based go-to meals
- 29 Use consultants: trainers, masseuses, nutrionists, and priests
- 30 Massage your own feet
- 31 Drink cautiously: no juice, no soft drinks, no food coloring, no corn syrup, no fake sugar
- examine alcohol and caffeine intake
- 32 Bathe to calm or bathe to excite: recipes for baths
- 33 Invent DNA-based care packages that work for you and yours
- 34 Don't stay off the wagon when you fall off the wagon-and you will fall off the wagon
- 35 Get therapy
- 36 Create your own spa day
- 37 Get better hair
- 38 Fake it till you make it: fine foundations and wide smiles
- 39 Update beauty rituals and tools
- 40 Shop for your future self
- 41 Take one bite of anything and never more than two bites of anything decadent
- 42 Uni up: get yourself a uniform, for day and for night
- 43 Front-load: Eat before you go to parties
- drink water before meals
- 44 Draw a map of your body
- 45 Update your goals
- 46 Create your own spa week
- 47 Get better hair down there
- 48 Seize the proper props: scarves, shoes, purses, sunglasses, and respect
- 49 Don't stop short of your goal
- 50 Celebrate dappled beauty daily: the power of the imperfect and good-enough
- 51 Cultivate new interests
- 52 Make a health and beauty calendar
- 53 Do it for you
- How to use my, Ada Howard's, novel as a diet book
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Imprint
