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The Sound of One Thigh Clapping: Haiku for a Thinner You

AUTHOR: Meredith Clair
ISBN: 0761131426
SHORT DESCRIPTION: "There are haiku on the sad truth about food: Chocolate passes too quickly over the tongue, preferring the hips. "And what she calls "Enlightenupment": See smiling Buddha. Popular, happy, and fat. Pass the Krispy Kremes. "On bedrock nutritional...

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The Sound of One Thigh Clapping: Haiku for a Thinner You
- Book Review, by Meredith Clair

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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.

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Book Review

The Sound of One Thigh Clapping: Haiku for a Thinner You
- Book Reviews, by Meredith Clair

The Sound of One Thigh Clapping: Haiku for a Thinner You

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The rigors of Ornish, reduced to seventeen syllables. Weight Watchers in three lines of enigmatic verse. The paradox of 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, each a 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 the 10:00 a.m. Saturday Weight Watchers meeting in Park Slope, Brooklyn. If her life as a haiku poet ever loses its appeal, she finds solace in the thought that (a) starvation = weight loss, and (b) she can always fall back on her career as a lawyer.

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