Get smart, get moving! Most of us want to be fit and healthy, but get stuck in a rut—we just don’t have the will power to get up and move. What is the incentive for you to get off that couch and work out when you have all three seasons of Game of Thrones waiting for you? Almost everyone wants to be fit, but they just can’t muster up the effort to do so. If you are like them, then this book is for you. The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Being Fit is about the first few steps you need to take to go from a sedentary lifestyle to an active one, because that’s the biggest challenge for a couch potato—movement! It’s all about finding the balance in your life. This book will show you how exercise can take the guise of several daily activities—be it shopping or going on a picnic—and how eating right can solve half your problems. The easy and effective exercise routines contained here will get you fit in no time. The body can be beautiful if you know how to put it to use and have fun doing so. And this is exactly what this book will show you.

Written in a light-hearted yet authoritative way, this is the essential guide for every girl who wants to improve her life and her health.

Lazy girls, rejoice! How to lose weight, get fit, stay motivated and have your cake and eat it, too. AJ Rochester is the laziest girl in the world. She knows better than anyone how hard it is to lose weight. If there is a shortcut, or any way to cheat, AJ knows about it. If there is a way to lose weight, eat the food she loves and still drink champagne, AJ has done it. AJ managed to lose a staggering 45 kilos and still eat choccies — just not the whole lot, and not every day. After writing her bestselling memoir, Confessions of a Reformed Dieter,AJ was deluged with emails and letters from women thanking her for inspiring them with her story and asking her for the lowdown on exactly how she did it. The Lazy Girl’s Guide is everything AJ knows about losing weight, getting fit and feeling good about it. Funny, simple and effective, it focuses on realistic goals, having fun and loving yourself while you make one of the biggest changes in your life.

When Matilda Green, bestselling author of The Lazy Girl's Guide to Living a Beautiful Life, found herself facing some hard times, she knew she needed to do something to boost her happiness and her self-esteem. But what? So she set out on a journey of discovery, embracing gratitude, mindfulness and meditation techniques, and learning how to be kind to others and to herself. In The Feel Good Guide, Matilda pulls together everything she has learnt and shares her own experiences, in the hope that it will help others too. This practical resource, full of helpful tips and real talk, comes complete with an action plan in every chapter to get your own journey kick-started. As Matilda says, this isn't so much about changing who you are as it is about loving who you are. It's about celebrating yourself, embracing and being proud of the person you have grown to be, and finding the right tools to help you remember just how awesome you really are.

Millions of people visit Whole30.com every month and share their stories of weight loss and lifestyle makeovers. Hundreds of thousands of them have read It Starts With Food, which explains the science behind the program. At last, The Whole30 provides the step-by-step, recipe-by-recipe guidebook that will allow millions of people to experience the transformation of their entire life in just one month.

Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely bond with a free-spirited Australian girl, a born adventurer who spurs Rachel on to a yearlong odyssey that takes her to three continents, fills her life with newfound friends, and gives birth to a previously unrealized passion for adventure. As her journey takes her to Australia and South America, Rachel discovers and embraces her love of travel and unlocks more truths about herself than she ever realized she was seeking. Along the way, the erstwhile good girl finally learns to do something she’s never done before: simply live for the moment.

Find out ways to get your body into shape as effortlessly as possible, offering short-term practical solutions and long-term advice to get the results you want.

Racing Weight is a proven weight-management program designed specifically for endurance athletes. Revealing new research and drawing from the best practices of elite athletes, coach and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald lays out six easy steps to help cyclists, triathletes, and runners lose weight without harming their training. This comprehensive and science-based program shows athletes the best ways to lose weight and avoid the common lifestyle and training hang-ups that keep new PRs out of reach. The updated Racing Weight program helps athletes: Improve diet quality Manage appetite Balance energy sources Easily monitor weight and performance Time nutrition throughout the day Train to getand staylean Racing Weight offers practical tools to make weight management easy. Fitzgerald’s no-nonsense Diet Quality Score improves diet without counting calories. Racing Weight superfoods are diet foods high in the nutrients athletes need for training. Supplemental strength training workouts can accelerate changes in body composition. Daily food diaries from 18 pro athletes reveal how the elites maintain an athletic diet while managing appetite. Athletes know that every extra pound wastes energy and hurts performance. With Racing Weight, cyclists, triathletes, and runners have a simple program and practical tools to hit their target numbers on both the race course and the scale.

Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream became reality. Karp loved her job as an executive assistant and signed the lease on a tiny cottage near the beach. And then the Great Recession hit. Karp, like millions of others, lost her job. In the six months between the day she was laid off and the day she was forced out onto the street, Karp scrambled for temp work and filed hundreds of job applications, only to find all doors closed. When she inherited a thirty-foot travel trailer after her father's suicide, Karp parked it in a Walmart parking lot and began to blog about her search for work and a way back.

Let's fit Pilates into your life rather your life into Pilates. No mat, no gym, no fuss. Lazy Girl Pilates Morning takes you from wake-up to leaving the house with Pilates exercises along the way.Meet your instructor... your fearless leader, ultimate Lazy Girl, and new bestie: Kara Tatelbaum. Can I tell you a secret? I think Pilates takes itself way too seriously and failed my first Pilates certification due to a nasty margarita hangover. Hold on- don't judge! I grew to be one of the most sought out instructors in NYC with a private client list to die for, teaching at exclusive spas, gyms, and clubs. Twenty years later, I'm a busy working mom with two young kids. Lazy Girl Pilates has served both my clients and my own need to work the core and keep it real. I may not be Joe Pilates' star student, but there are already many books and manuals written by the head of the class. I'm the mom with the cheat sheet. The fun one with the six-pack. The Lazy Girl with the margarita and the Magic Circle.