The Champagne Diet: Eat, Drink, and Celebrate Your Way to a Healthy Mind and Body!

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What if you stopped waiting for your body to change before you allowed yourself to enjoy your life? What if you stopped treating the number on the scale like a measure of your worth? And what if taking care of yourself could come from a place of love—not punishment? The Champagne Diet is for the woman who is tired of fighting with her body, tired of putting her life on hold until she loses the weight, and very tired of believing that becoming “better” requires becoming smaller. This isn't really a book about champagne. And despite the title, it's not a diet book. It's a book about learning to live well. It's about taking care of your health without making your body your enemy. It's about examining the beliefs you've attached to weight, beauty, confidence, and worth—and beginning to separate who you are from what you see in the mirror. And it's about leaving room for pleasure. Because you should be able to take care of yourself and celebrate yourself. You should be able to make choices that support your health without obsessing over perfection. And you certainly shouldn't have to postpone the good stuff until you've reached some imaginary finish line. Inside The Champagne Diet , Cara Alwill invites you to rethink your relationship with food, your body, and yourself through her signature mix of personal stories, humor, encouragement, and a little bit of bubbly. You'll be reminded that your body was never supposed to be a prerequisite for your happiness. You don't have to earn the dress. You don't have to earn the photograph. You don't have to earn the celebration. And you definitely don't have to earn the champagne. Your life is happening now. It's time to raise a glass to it. “The Champagne Diet will resonate with every woman with its realistic and simple approach to dieting. Alwill delivers a personal, relatable, and funny guide to shedding pounds without deprivation.” — Kim Barnouin, co-author of Skinny Bitch