How to Eat Like a Hot Chick: Lose the guilt, find the fabulous

by Jodi Lipper, Cerina Vincent

Sassy, irreverent and in-your-face, this is every hot chick’s guide to having your cake and eating it. Learn how to eat confidently, without any apologies, and still manage to look gorgeous. Originally a self-published success, How to Eat Like a Hot Chick will make every woman feel sexy and beautiful. It offers real-life examples on how to take pleasure in food without adhering to complicated diets or self-denial. In the style of the bestseller Skinny Bitch (except who wants the stress of being a vegan?), the authors take a hilarious, glam-girl, take-no-prisoners approach to looking and feeling your best. Hot chicks don’t deny themselves anything. Hot chicks don’t ever apologise. Hot chicks simply enjoy their food and learn to make the right choices every day so that they remain hot. Packed full of sassy wit and goodwill to spare, the authors reveal the secrets of what hot chicks really eat. From which cocktails will keep you light on your feet well past midnight, and exactly what you should (and shouldn’t) eat on a date to how to avoid pigging-out when you’re down in the dumps or hungover. The authors understand that sometimes you’re going to slip up – you’re only human after all, but their simple rule is that if you wolf down that big piece of chocolate cake ‘just know that you’ll be eating a ton of spinach for dinner’. Dozens of smart ideas and healthier food options, as well as lists of foods to avoid at all costs make How to Eat Like a Hot Chick every girl’s best friend. Slimming down and loving yourself is easier (and more fun) than you ever thought possible. • Brilliant breakfast ideas to stop you reaching out for that bacon sandwich mid-morning and keep you looking svelte all day. • Snacking suggestions to keep those hunger pangs at bay without piling on the pounds. • How to make smart choices in restaurants so that you can indulge and still remain the hot chick that you are. • Great advice for nights out to ensure that when the party’s over, you’re still looking hot.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Food, Chick Lit

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

About the author

Jodi Lipper is a New York Times bestselling writer who partners with high profile experts and celebrities to garner major publishing deals and translate their experiences and expertise into highly effective and marketable books. Jodi has co-written several notable memoirs as well as prescriptive books about business, human performance, relationships, parenting, beauty, lifestyle, diet and fitness, and personal and professional development.
Before becoming a full time writer, Jodi edited mostly fiction at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, where she worked with numerous #1 New York Times best sellers such as Jodi Picoult, Brad Thor, Dan Brown, and Vince Flynn. This experience coupled with her work as an author on her own trio of best sellers has given Jodi unique insight into the entire publishing process. She knows how to write the type of proposals and manuscripts that editors respond to in a highly versatile style that captures each author’s unique voice. This is one reason the industry’s top publishers and agents repeatedly hire Jodi to collaborate on their books.

Reviews

[Summer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Guys? I mean, ahem, ladies? 90% of the "offensive crap" written in this book was a JOKE. All that's meant to be taken literally are a few novel ideas:

1) Being on a perpetual diet indicates that you're somehow punishing yourself and that you are not entitled to the same foods everyone else is. So screw the diet and just adjust some of your daily habits in order to feel healthier, happier, and yeah, HOTTER.

2) Everybody goes to the zoo sometime - everybody's had at least one time when they get so stressed out that they come home at the end of the week and eat those 4 slices of pizza left in the fridge with 6 cupcakes from last night's dinner party and then get out of bed at 12:00 a.m. to make a Jack-In-The-Box run for some 99 cent tacos and a shake. All they're saying is that there are ways to control these binge freak-outs, or you can let yourself scarf down the calorie equivalent of a wedding cake tier and then easily get it together before Monday morning comes around. Yes, they like to giggle and smirk about sex and boys in between the content about eating. So what? If you can stop being so offended for a moment, you'll see their real message is: Don't panic. You're still in control. Just because you screwed up tonight doesn't mean tomorrow has to be the same way. Forgive yourself and move on.

3) Don't buy into gimmicks, and be smart about what you put in your body. Unlike Skinny Bitch, which is basically a meat-hater's guide to brainwashing people into veganism, there's nothing these ladies are trying to sell you (well, maybe spinach!) and there's no lifestyle of their own they're trying to promote. They make suggestions, and at one point tell you to figure out your OWN triggers and then follow the book's advice on how to stabilize them. They don't like fast food, but again, they understand that you're human, life can't be planned, and that some things can't be avoided. Its all a matter of balance.

Overall, I absolutely loved the fact that it was very forgiving and really irreverent. It's sort of a playful slap and flirty wink to all those holier-than-thou texts on eating that make you feel like you're taking sedatives rather than gaining a few tips on how to eat. They don't take themselves seriously, and they definitely don't take the realm of diets seriously; they simply use some common sense and a few easy tricks for combating all of life's stresses.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in an afternoon, it's really short but full of good advice. The cover image of a pinup girl made me toss it into my pile at Borders, and I'm so glad I did. It was all about embracing how hot you are and living life accordingly, which means only eating things that make you feel hot, like fresh fruits and veggies and not disgusting things like fast food. It's very realistic, taking into account that hot chicks go out and party, like to eat comfort foods from time to time and that we should never apologize for indulging or for how we look, as long as we're living balanced, and that indulgences are only indulgences, not every day occurances.

I LOVED this book, I want every woman I know to read it!!

[Melissa Young · Rating 1 out of 5]

These women occasionally stumble upon something smart but otherwise just overuse the word "hot" and try to insert some new phrase or another into pop culture but sadly fail. After reading only half this book, I felt like my IQ had dropped several points from the sheer stupidity these two had put into print.

[Baroness · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing new just an OK summer read.

[Mary BookHounds · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually a decent diet book for twentysomethings that have never had to diet. This is humorously written in a real way (lots of four letter words) which sounds like advice your really hot (in a Paris HIlton way) best friend would tell you how to get hot as well.

[Elisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute quick read. Lots of fun and fluffy. Good information but nothing I didn't already know yet presented in a fun style.

[Sonia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute book, pretty much as realistic as you can get about eating and living in balance between vanity, pleasure, and health. Plus, they offer some useful recipes and tips.

[Rebecca Fletcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let's be honest, I don't think anyone is expecting prize-winning literature from this book. It was an amusing, light read, so long as you didn't read too much into a lot of what it was saying. I do feel that at least a little bit of research might have been nice (I would be intrigued to see what a medical professional thought of their diet suggestions), but I'm super sure it's not hot to frown at the details — I should just eat some more spinach and remember to drink more water.

Cute if you're just looking at losing weight, fluff if you've ever calorie counted.

[Sarah Frost · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was nothing more than a book of dieting reminders for the simple-minded. The tips and language were SO outdated. While advising readers to stay away from food filled with chemicals and artificial fillers, they recommended the use of Pam and I Can't Believe it's Not Real Butter. The word "retarded" was even used to describe certain bad foods or dieting mishaps. Overall I feel like I wasted time that could have been spent reading something more substantial.

[Ashlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took so many notes but also found that I actually do indeed "Eat like a Hot Chick". If you want a fun diet tips book this is the one for you. Just a warning though, their is cursing in it frequently. But, you'll have so much fun reading it you won't care.

[April · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm pretty certain I wasn't this book's target audience. Nothing new here about weight loss: moderation, choose this over that, exercise, treat yourself, forgive yourself. See I saved you from having to read 164 more pages!

[Michele · Rating 2 out of 5]

Outdated with some of its food suggestions.

[Kell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a shining example of self publishing being picked up by a publishing house and becoming a success. Lipper and Vincent have pitched the tone just right - the balance of seriousness versus lightheartedness is spot on, and the advice is all common sense.

To be honest, most of the information will already be well known to established "dieters", but this is presented not as a diet, but as a way of life that can be maintained with minimal effort. It does have some jargony phrases, one or two of which are a little annoying on occasion, for example, repeated talk of "this is your heyday" reminded me distinctly of Miss Jean Brodie in her Prime, but it's enough of a fun and easy read that it doesn't bother one too much as you flip the pages.

The best thing about Eating Like a Hot Chick is that it extols the virtues of having a little bit of what you fancy - nothing is out of bounds, providing you follow up a lunchtime binge on chocolate cake with a pound of spinach for dinner! It also points out that starving yourself is, as we already knew, not Hot - Hot Chicks enjoy their food!

[Cupcakencorset · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has some good advice in it and is written in a “girlfriends” tone, supposedly to encourage women to embrace their inner “hot chicks” and to live life large, while taking care of themselves. A great premise, but the tone became annoying about a third of the way through it, as the authors start to sound like Valley girls, ten years after their teens have ended. There were cracks in the “we’re all hot, so let’s live like it, regardless of what the world thinks” philosophy stated by the authors, as you see the authors are focused on women being hot in order to attract and keep men. How ’bout being “hot” because it can be a great way to approach life? With or without a romantic interest?

[Kimberly Rahi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pure rubbish. Though this kept me laughing... mostly to keep from crying. These girls tell us at the beginning that they are not nutritionists and it only proves that anyone can write any genre of book regardless of talent or factual information. For anyone looking for healthy eating tips PLEASE do not read this. Try "You on a Diet" by Dr. Oz. Mehmet. At least he explains why your body needs certain nutrients to function and what sources they can be derived from.

If your wanting a quick, fun book (I use the term book loosely... teenage term paper maybe) then this is it. Try not to count they times they use the phrases "f-ton" and "hot" because it will only drive you insane.

Happy Readings as always my lovelies -- Kimmie

[Jessica Duverneay · Rating 1 out of 5]

i picked this up just because it had a sweet vargas girl on the cover and i wanted to avoid filling out job applications while at the public library. i spent about 15 minutes on this insulting misogynistic crap before hating harper colins publishers and the authors for writing such trash. the worst line in the whole book? in the "snacking" section, while discussing night eating after providing approved night snacks, they posture: "Or you could just unbutton your man's pants and occupy your mouth that way." WHAT?!? this book is fucking stupid. and thats about as smart as i can get while discussing this disgusting pile of nonsense.

[Polina · Rating 4 out of 5]

it is hard to review a book i would not normally read impartially, but what it promises i believe it delivers well. even though with my diet i am thankfully well beyond the need for this book's advise, i appreciated its easy conversational style, including profanities and references to sex. reading it made me feel like talking to the girly girl type girlfriends that i never had so it was entertaining in that regard. i did pick up a few tit bits of wisdom for myself and feel better equipped to make smarter food choices when traveling or dining out, as well as advise my friends who eat normal SAD diets on the small changes that can be made for a healthier lifestyle

[Anne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book isn't really earth shattering, it's all things that we already know, but it does make you think! There are some great points made and I have used many of the tips. What I couldn't get over was that it sounded like it was written by two ditzy bimbos with one brain. Why was everything we and us? "Chicken makes us itchy." "We love peanut butter" etc. Can they not think for themselves? Do they have to consult each other before they decide what to think and then do they have to think the same exact thought?

[Anita Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a fun, fast read!!!! Nothing groundbreaking in terms of what to eat and what not to eat, but these ladies flat-out state that they're not nutritionists or health experts in any way. Loved the writing style!!!! This book made me feel like I was getting healthy eating advice from Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.... I was laughing the whole time! It's not just a book about eating healthy, but having fun and loving yourself and being fabulous. Every chick should read this! :-)

[Jessy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Josh and I are reading this together on our commute to and from work. Even though it is written for women (hence the hot chick part) it has a lot of good info about different foods. I like the attitude the authors have toward food - its not about starving yourself. If you are craving something, then eat it, just have a little bit and eat healthy the rest of the day. Simple as that. Helps keep us motivated about a healthier lifestyle. Plus, the two authors are hilarious.

[Natalie · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a fun, quick, silly read, but a lot of the tips in terms of diet are actually terrible advice. The writers are not nutritionists by any means (nor do they claim to be), so don't look to this book for solid health guidance. It's kind of like reading a discussion of diet tips over (lots of) martinis with your girlfriends. Although, I think my girlfriends give better advice than this, but whateves.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not intot the self help thing, and when you read the books they dont feel like a self help thing ..... it's funny and you can really relate to everything in them. The glossary section cracks me up, and the whole spinach thing is hilarious ... go eat a pound of spinach LOL In the end ... of our everyasy lives, and everyday issues, we are all Hot Chicks! no matter our size, our color .... its a must read, again and again!

[Tawnie Caballero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hey Ladies...this is the perfect diet book. It offers you everyday tips for eating healthy and staying satisfied. It is also SUPER funny!!! This book not only helpd with eating but it's a major self-esteem booster and we ALL need that from time to time. This is a very quick and fun read. Definitley check it out!!

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is not technically a diet book but it is a great read with NORMAL tips that don't make you sad that you actually eat. Although the symbols and catch phrases are a TAD obnoxious, some things are just hilarious.

This book made me: eat more spinach, buy flax seed, take fish oil pills and love the fact that I love brunch.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A random commentary on simple eating rules. It was written very much in the 'chick-lit' category - and provides amusing commentary about when it is and isn't ok to eat greasy spoon food from a diner and how to counter act that with your every day eating habits, i.e. greasy hung-over breakfast? then eat a pound of spinach for dinner. Funny Book.

[Meredith Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

i can't say i read this book completely; i skimmed through it, reading what i found pertinent to me. some of the tips were kind of obvious but there were other ones that were basic that i didn't even think about. i don't know if i'll ever completely "eat like a hot chick" but i'll keep some of the authors' tips and ideas in mind.

[Just_jenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was an extremely funny, tongue & cheek read. Those who picked it up thinking it was going to be solid advice on weight loss should have realized by the end of the glossary at the beginning that this book is more or less meant to be a girlfriends guide to simple ideas on how to sneak in healthy habits where you can. Nothing more.

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again, not so much a diet book but a 'you should do this to be fabulous book'. Funny, entertaining, quick read. Good reminder that you can be healthy AND have fun (and that being healthy will keep you looking good!)

[Audra · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must read for every woman! This book gives good advice on good food to eat and when to eat it. It also gives some recipes along the way. This is probably a good book to keep on your permanent bookshelf.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is hilarious!!! The kicker is that it's helpful as well. Really, these girls are straight, pull-no-punches honest without making you feel bad. I bought a copy for everyone in my office and we laugh about it all the time. Very fun read.