How to eat like a Hot Chick
For women everywhere, it seems like everything
they do in life is to achieve one ultimate goal –
to be a hot chick. We get our hair done so we
look hot, buy clothes that make us feel hot,
and goodness knows we don’t wear those stiletto boots
because they make our feet feel good – we do it because
they add to our hotness. So it’s certainly safe to assume
that we diet because let’s face it - we want to be hot!
But rarely do diets every really make us really feel hot. We’re grumpy because we’re starving, we feel fat and gross when we cave in and have a piece of cake, and then we feel even worse when we realize that piece of cake was actually half of a cake.
And the frosting smattered on our face from inhaling said cake? Not hot.
Thankfully, the mystery to being a hot chick has been solved by authors Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent in their book, titled How to Eat Like a Hot Chick. In the book, the women share their own experiences, combining a wit and wisdom that women can relate to, without being put off by it.
Both authors are hot chicks in their own right too, may we add, which is actually what makes them such authorities on the subject. What makes them so relatable is that both women confess to having succumbed to the fad diets and pressure to be thin, and both found themselves suffering the same woes that women of all shapes and sizes suffer – the feeling of being insecure, unattractive, and frankly - just not hot.
“We’re like most other women,” explains Vincent. “We tried every single diet on the planet, and most diets out there just make you feel like crap.” And at the root of these diets is an embedded fear of food. “They make you scared to eat a piece of bread or a banana!” she exclaims.
“It’s just no way to live,” chimes Lipper. The moral of their story is simple: chocolate cake for breakfast and a pound of spinach for dinner. Not literally, but the concept is clear in that one statement. Moderation is key, and own the choices you make.
“We’re not nutritionists, and we’re not experts,” confesses Vincent. “But we are experts in the sense that we have tried everything, and nothing else works.”
But this, they tell us, has worked for both of them. They made themselves aware of what was going in their bodies – not from a calorie-counting way, but from a “what makes me feel good?” sort of way. They have found ways to treat themselves to dessert, without making McDonald’s or Dairy Queen the source of their breakfast, lunch and dinner. The key, they agree, is cutting back in other areas so you can balance it all out.
It’s simple: if you’re going to have chocolate cake for dessert, then enjoy it. But counter that with a salad or some other healthy meals later, so your day isn’t full of fattening foods that don’t make your body feel good after you eat them.
And feeling good is directly related to confidence. And confidence is the key factor in a woman’s hotness. Not her hair, not her pant size – confidence.
When they themselves finally made the decision to stop
the madness and start embracing their heyday, they
realized that not dieting is what worked.
The idea for the mentality started with the friendship that Vincent and Lipper shared. They found themselves suffering from worrying too much about what they ate, even though at the time, they had no reason to. Maxim even declared Vincent as having “the best body we ever photographed – period.” But like most women, they both suffered insecurities that were often tied back to food. They’re insecurities that Lipper insists that even perfect-looking Hollywood types feel (but just don’t talk about).
So what did Lipper and Vincent do? They turned to each other to get over it.
“It started through our friendship,” Vincent recalls. “We realized that we were both spending too much time counting calories and skipping parties going to the gym, obsessing over our bodies and trying to be perfect. And that’s really no way to live.”
“It was kind of like, forget it - we’re hot. Let’s just send that out to the universe, and see what happens,” Lipper recalls. “And literally, it seemed like everything in our lives changed overnight – from the attention we were getting with guys, to our relationships with our families, to our work lives.”
Everything changed, she explains, from just removing that one obsessive thing that was putting a damper on their heyday.
Though what you put in your body heavily determines how you feel (because how hot do you feel after a cheeseburger?), don’t be fooled into think that hot chicks are made by balanced eating alone. No no, hot chicks don’t stay stagnant. They are movers and shakers – literally!
“Exercise is very important for the hot chick lifestyle - not just to burn calories, but to make it a habit so you feel better,” explains Vincent. “When you don’t do it, you feel like something’s missing.” She also emphasizes that exercise helps battle stress and anxiety – two things that do not make for a hot chick.
Lipper believes that a lack of exercise is directly related to not feeling your hottest – not only because of the stress and anxiety factors, but because of the calories it burns and the way it keeps your metabolism moving.
ADVERTISEMENT |
Sure, it may seem like the same ol’ advice from every other diet and exercise magazine – but it’s not. Lipper and Vincent aren’t telling you how many calories to eat, they’re not giving you meal plans to follow, and they’re not giving you a one-size-fits-all workout program that will take two hours out of your day. After all, hot chicks are busy chicks, and with jobs and families and friends, who has that much time?
What they want to do, however, is empower women. With making references to women feeling their hottest, referring to deprivation as “being Mary Kate” and talking about foods that have hidden calories as being “f_cked up,” Lipper and Vincent become less of a lecturer and more of a best friend.
Which is often just what women need to conquer weight loss.
“We really helped each other get over all of these insecurities and low self esteem and body issues,” Lipper says of their writing style, “so we wanted to become that sort of friend for every woman.” And at the risk of sounding cheesy, she says, “we wanted to do for all of these women what we did for each other.”
And just as friends do, they hope to eventually help women embrace the hotness within themselves in all aspects of their lives. They just started with a book about food because they could see that food issues really are at the center of a lot of our internal issues. “We wrote this first one about food because we know that for so many women, they can’t be confident in themselves until they are confident in what they are eating,” Lipper explains. “Everything stems from there.” And from there, they say, stems a life of hotness.
