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Run Fat Bitch Run [Paperback]

Ruth Field (Author)
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Publication Date: 5 Jan 2012

Is there a large arse-shaped dent in your sofa? Unwatched workout DVDs gathering dust on your shelves? An eye-wateringly expensive (and rarely used) gym membership burning a hole in your bank account? Does the sight of your wobbly thighs leave you cowering under the duvet?

Then it's time you faced the truth: the only option is to lace up and hit the ground running.

Straight-talking, funny and brutally honest, RUN FAT BITCH RUN will give you - yes, you - the push you need to get out of the door, pounding the pavements and shedding pounds in no time.

Hate running? No worries. RUN FAT BITCH RUN will give you all the tools you need to transform that passion into real motivation.

Locate your inner grit and long-lost energy

Follow a fuss-free and completely foolproof beginners' programme

Throw away the scales, stock up on pasta and enjoy carbs without guilt

If you want to lose weight, get fit and become an ass-kicking, gets-things-done superwoman, there's only one thing left to do ... RUN!

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Sphere (5 Jan 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184744542X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847445421
  • Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 2 x 23.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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If you're stuck in an exercise rut, this book will give you a rather rude kick up the backside . . . it certainly shamed us into lacing up our Nikes! (Closer )

Amusingly vicious . . . Excellent advice all round. (Emma Thompson )

Ruth is an inspiring running-buddy . . . By the time I unpack my summer wardrobe, I'm sure my inner Grit Doctor will be my best friend (Flic Everett Daily Express 20120227)

A witty, no-nonsense read, it had us dusting off our trainers within seconds. Trust us when we say you'll be up and running in no time at all. (Grazia 20120327)

Refreshingly free of new-age jargon and psychoanalysis. It's about determination and the pursuit of the 'happy effect.' (Herald Sun (Australia) )

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A tough-love exercise programme for the terminally unmotivated. When all else has failed, RUN!
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88 of 97 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars I just...don't like her 29 Mar 2012
By E. Watson
Format:Paperback
The problem with this book is, it's split into two parts. Ruth Field combines some very interesting ideas with a really horrible, negative attitude. I agree with her premise, that some people need a boot to get started but she comes acros as really smug and rude with it.

So much of this book jarred with me. She encourages you to hate your body, to stand in front of the mirror (naked) and chant 'I'm a fat bitch'...why? Probably everyone who bought this book (for £10.99, mental) bought it because they are already unhappy with themselves - why make it worse? She then attempts to lighten the tone with 'oh, come on, it's just a laugh - I laugh at myself when I'm chanting this, it makes me megalolz, it's so funny ROFLcopter' but it's not funny, and it's not helpful.

She even admits herself that she was never fat, that she was slightly overweight due to a few lunches that she ate while training to be a barrister ( you may as well get this fact into your brain now, she talks about it enough), so really, she has never struggled with a long-term weight problem. And a lot of her methods are backed up by her family - I don't know about you, but I reckon my family would back me up if I wrote a book too. It probably wouldn't make for very accurate case studies but it would probs shift some books (£10.99 a copy, bonkers).

Oh, I am trying so hard not to be annoyed by this book because I really do think the tough love approach would work well. But if you are looking for someone to identify with you and to understand how tricky weight loss can be, then this book is not for you. Spend your £10.99 on something lovely, like flowers.
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45 of 51 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars I don't think it works for unfit fat older women 17 Jan 2012
By B. Bampton
Format:Paperback
I'm 60 and 3 stone overweight. My attention was caught by the extracts in the times but I'm disappointed with the book. To begin, with I'm struggling to read it at all because a lot of it is in a really odd spidery script!
Ruth is unrealistic. She admits she was really into sport at school and never fat, and her mother played squash and netball after her kids were born and was active into her 40s. How can she relate to somebody like me who was always last to be picked for school sports? Her husband could run 4 miles after just 6 weeks - the furthest I have ever run in my entire life without stopping is half a mile and that was after 4 months training for a charity race. She talks about finding attractive circuits with little or no concrete that are fairly flat and start and end at the front door. I live in the country and I can't do that. (Her mother apparently lives in the Virginia Water park?)
All of these points are excuses but probably my main problem is that I don't respond to the stick, I just hibernate. Like Ruth I have an inner Grit Doctor. She gets me up at 3am to take my mother to the bathroom but she'll never get me to run at 6am on an empty stomach in the dark.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration 15 April 2012
By Sway
Format:Paperback
This book tells you what your best friend won't! I never understood why runners ran - what's the point unless you're going somewhere? This book has taught me to appreciate learning to enjoy walking to be able to progress to running and becoming fitter and healthier. Worth reading for the wit alone!
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