It was a day like any other day when Janey Sweet meets her best friend and business partner, Beau, for breakfast at one of New York's trendiest restaurants. She is shocked when Beau tells Janey that she needs to lose weight if she wants to continue working for their wedding dress business. He is giving her six months to lose thirty pounds. The betrayal hurts Janey more than her divorce did. Beau has been her best friend since they were eight years old. Janey calls on her best girlfriend from college, CJ, to be her guide in this crazy world that surrounds weight loss. From topless yoga to crazy drink concoctions and a trip to a crazy-expensive wellness retreat in St. Lucia, Janey explores every option available to her to get the weight off and get back to work. Along her way, Janey meets some great people, like Stella the Shaman who introduces her to an exclusive workout club. And the incredibly hot, incredibly young, owner of a juice shop. While Janey was forced to take the time off to lose the weight she ends up focusing on other areas of her life that have long been neglected. What Janey realizes is that her relationship with Beau has been broken for a very long time. Will they be able to get past this and does Janey even really want to?
While Fitness Junkie is meant to be satirical there is a lot of hard-hitting (and hysterical) truths found within the book's pages. I really liked Janey. She seemed more down to earth than your average high-powered CEO. She was genuinely blindsided by Beau at that breakfast. I totally get it - negative comments about a person's weight is never a good feeling no matter how much you weigh. There were so many things that I laughed at because I could relate - Beau gives Janey a "FitWand" as a gift the day after their breakfast and I just had to laugh. I admittedly am devoted to my FitBit -but I think that I would have to ditch my FitBit if it ever started talking out loud. Everything that Janey did was a bit exaggerated, but I know that there are some people out there who take fitness to extremes. Like the fad diet of eating CLAY? Or the special ingredient in a super-secret herbal tea? (Click here for spoilers). I was really pleased with the way the book ended. Janey got the ending that she deserved and I am glad that the authors did right by her.
Bottom Line - Fitness Junkie was a fun and entertaining read. Even though I have been working hard to lose weight this year I haven't gone to the extremes that are mentioned throughout the book. There is no secret to losing weight, all you have to do is eat less and move more. Really.
Details:
- Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
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- Pages: 304
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
- Publishing Date:
- 7/11/2017
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