The Sound of One Thigh Clapping
by Clair, MeredithFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-11-15
Publisher(s): Workman Pub Co
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Summary
The rigors of Ornish, reduced to seventeen syllables. Weight Watchers in three lines of enigmatic verse. The paradoxof Atkins-shed pounds while wolfing down cheese, eggs, and meat-distilled to a Zen-like utterance. Or call it the path to losing oneself, in the language of finding oneself. Inspired by a weight loss guru's pithy sayings-Craving is the root of all suffering, Self-esteem = Sodium-Meredith Clair, an inveterate dieter, explores the connection between diet and haiku, eacha discipline that insists on cutting out excess, stripping down to the bare essentials, and counting, be it calories or syllables. The result is The Sound of One Thigh Clapping, a collection of tiny, hilarious moments in the epic journey to reach the Land of the Thin.
Author Biography
Meredith Clair weighs in at a 10:00 a.m. Brooklyn Weight Watchers meeting every Saturday morning. If life as a haiku poet ever loses its appeal, Ms. Clair finds solace in the thought that (a) starvation = weight loss, and (b) she can always fall back on her career as a lawyer
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. iv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Tao of Dough: The Empty Promise of Carbohydrates | p. 10 |
| Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: The Challenge of Exercise | p. 34 |
| The Not So Noble Truth: Meditations on Jealousy | p. 51 |
| Confucius Say: Beware the Fad Diet Trap! | p. 67 |
| When Hungry, I Eat: Packing a Healthy Bento Box for the Journey | p. 87 |
| Enlightenupment: Clawing Our Way to Thin | p. 106 |
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