Beautiful Bodies by Kimberly Rae Miller

Author:Kimberly Rae Miller [Miller, Kimberly Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503935174
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2017-07-25T07:00:00+00:00

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1. A high-protein diet created by French doctor Pierre Dukan. The Dukan Diet rose to fame when it was rumored that Kate Middleton used the plan to prepare for her 2011 nuptials to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

FIFTY POUNDS TO GALILEE

You can never stop dieting. There’s no end—there’s just finding a plan of starving yourself that you can live with for the rest of your life. And that’s the hard part, figuring out how to not gain weight again.

My first mistake was telling Roy that I just wanted to enjoy Thanksgiving through my Christmas birthday. I promised us that I’d head right back to the gym and martinet dieting once the holidays were over. I cut out pictures of fitness models from the dozen or so magazines I read each month and glued them to the resolution board above my work desk at home. Ever since my college days, I’ve been making a collage of my goals to keep reminding me of what I wanted to achieve that year. It’s a bit silly, but it works—I’ve achieved every one of the goals I’ve ever set for myself. Except having the body I want.

Roy peeked over my shoulder at my little arts-and-crafts project.

“Is that the kind of body you want?” he said. I was sitting on the edge of the bed with the board on my lap, adding a picture of a woman with a solid six-pack and well-defined arms.

“Yeah. Do you think I can do it?”

“She’s a fitness model; you need to remember that. This is what she does for a living.” I was expecting him to say yes. This was not yes. This was the same guy who only months ago wasn’t sure if my ass was a deal breaker, and now he was worried that I wanted to be too fit?

“I know, but if I work hard.”

He stared at the picture. “I don’t know if you have that body type . . . You would have to be very strict about your eating. And exercise like a demon.”

I didn’t know if there was much stricter that I could get with my eating. In my teen years there’d been a few times when I’d kept my calories under five hundred, but I was a grown-up. I couldn’t function and work and think on fewer than eight hundred calories a day. Even that wasn’t really sustainable.

“I am strict.”

“I know, you look amazing,” he said. I think sincerely, but I still took it as lip service. “I just don’t want you to set yourself up for disappointment. I can tell you that that woman has a naturally thin body type. Putting muscle on is probably her biggest challenge. You have very different builds.”

“I can do it,” I told him, ending the discussion.

I was smaller than I’ve ever been—I was never a size six as an adult; even in my thin periods I was always an eight—and now that I knew I could get that small, I just wanted to keep getting smaller.

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