You’re probably already reading Dietgirl, aka the amazing Shauna Reid, who lost half her weight and has been blogging about it since 2001. So you probably already know that she wrote a book called The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, and you probably already know that you should buy it and read it before the end of the year. (It’s available in the UK right now and will be out in Australia and New Zealand on February 1st. North Americans can order it from Amazon Canada. If you don’t live in any of those places, swallow the postage and packing fees to import it and make it the first book you read next year like I have.)

However, there must be some things you don’t know about Dietgirl, so I set out to discover them. Once we figured out the time difference, I pretended to be a journalist and chatted it up with DG on instant messenger about the book, the blog, and the possibilities of Lycra.

Dietgirl:

Hiya there!

PastaQueen:

Hey!

Dietgirl:

Good morning.

PastaQueen:

Thanks for agreeing to answer my stupid questions.

Dietgirl:

Hehe my [...]

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Last Wednesday I called into the Elastic Waist blog’s video show, The Daily Special. Or actually, they called me and then we pretended like I was calling them. Sorry to spoil the magic for you. I have not yet watched it. I must have eaten so much chicken in the past couple years that I have now become one. However, you are not me, so you can watch it here without the fear of looking like an idiot. Or check out the embedded link below.

Thanks to everyone at EW for the invite! You guys were great. I promise I shall watch it someday, probably after consuming a lot of liquor.

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I was interviewed by Jimmy Moore of his blog Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb today. You can read me try to be funny, knowledgeable and encouraging (while inserting shameless plugs for my book) over here.

If you’re visiting for the first time from Jimmy’s site, welcome! You can check out some of my best entries here.

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