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The Dog Diet, a Memoir: What My Dog Taught Me about Shedding Pounds, Licking Stress and Getting a New Leash on Life
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Boy does Ms. Lawson know dogs! Fantastic book for dog lovers and anyone who wants to stay in shape and lighten up their lives to boot!
--Richard Simmons

We live in a diet-obsessed age, when we lose five pounds just to gain ten, delude ourselves that the next exercise contraption we buy from that midnight infomercial will finally take that extra inch off our thighs, and become convinced that the latest diet fad of beet soup and goats milk will help us look good in a bikini. But now you can forget the Zone, Atkins and South Beach! It turns out that the ultimate weight-loss plan is owning a dog: Man (and womans) best friend is the fail proof personal trainer-dietician-nutritionist youve been looking for you all your life.

Thats just what Patti Lawson found in her dog, Sadie.

A diet-obsessed, single lawyer, Patti spent the winter indulging in multiple brands of chocolate while mourning the demise of her latest relationship. Spring found her pudgy and pitiful, when Fate - and a fortuitous trip to PetSmart - brought rascally puppy Sadie into Pattis petless, pristine, if a bit sterile, life. Since that day life hasnt been the same for Patti or Sadie.

A life that began together with 3:00 a.m. walks through the park, incessant barking and stolen moments of trying to eat just a crumb of breakfast without puppy-interference soon morphed into a partnership of exercise and healthy eating with the added bonus that Sadie taught Patti a thing or two about letting go and stopping to smell the roses.

A memoir-cum-diet, The Dog Diet takes a tongue-in-cheek look at our obsession with weight loss and will have you laughing out loud as you recognize your own dysfunctional relationship with food. In the process youll learn a simple and natural method for shedding unwanted pounds without the usual stress and disappointments that go along with typical dieting regimens.

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Table of Contents To my wonderful dog Sadie and to Betty Wilson - photo 1

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To my wonderful dog Sadie and to Betty Wilson who brought Sadie into - photo 2

To my wonderful dog, Sadie,
and to
Betty Wilson, who brought
Sadie into my life.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To these people I offer my greatest thanks:

Rodney, my rock, and the best dad Sadie could ever have.

My fantastic agent, Barbara Ellis, and the Scribes Literary Agency. She loved my project as much as I did and worked tirelessly to get it out there.

My editor, Elisabeth Rinaldi, whose dog Luna made it possible for her to understand my book from the very beginning. You were the editor from heaven!

My wonderful publicists, Kim Weiss at HCI and Rose Carrano in New York City. Thank you both for tolerating all my million marketing ideas and working so hard to get my book out to the world.

My publisher, HCI, you were my soul mate on this project.

My best friend, critic, editor, fellow lawyer, traveling sidekick and cheerleader, Season Atkinson. You are invaluable.

Patrick Grace and the Life Writing Class in Charleston, West Virginia. Your encouragement and support made The Dog Diet go from an idea to reality.

Judy Katz, Katz Creative, New York City. Your enthusiasm, knowledge and faith in my book are phenomenal.

Gina Crisp, who became my friend through the writing of this book and whose lovely mountain cabin provided the perfect place for me to write.

My secretary, Pam Rudiger. Without your assistance I could never have gotten everything done.

Doug Imbrogno and the Charleston Gazette. You gave me a chance by publishing my first travel story and making my column become a reality.

Mark Shaw and the Books for Life Foundation, Aspen, Colorado. Your guidance and advice were priceless.

Karin Vingle-Fuller, fellow columnist, friend and supporter. Thanks for all the inspiration.

Shelby Sharps, steadfast friend, who told me for years I should be writing that down.

All the fantastic people I met and learned from at writing conferences, including Tim Bete, Craig Wilson, Michael Larsen and Dave Lieber.

Julie Anne Parks and Lynn Chandler Willis of the Triad Writers Workshop, Greensboro, North Carolina. You were the first out-siders to critique The Dog Diet and affirm my belief in the project.

Mikki Voisard, fellow author and dog enthusiast. Your support and advice early on gave me hope and led me to my artist, your husband, David Voisard, who, though 3,000 miles away, captured the spirit of Sadie and our story in his wonderful illustrations.

A special thanks and my gratitude to the PetSmart Love-A-Pet Adoption program, without which I would never have found Sadie.

And last, but by no means least, my parents, Bill and Joanne Lawson. Your love, support and willingness to read all my writing over the years means everything.

INTRODUCTION

Bridget Jones had nothing on me. I got up and weighed myself in the middle of the night more times than I care to remember. I kept meticulous records of my meals and intake of calories, fat, protein, fiber and carbohydratesexcept for the things I ate standing up, in the car or very late at night. Grapefruit diet, juice diet, egg diet, 4-Day Diet, no-carb diet, all-carb diet, no-meat diet, steak diet, cabbage soup diet, broth diet, tea diet, fasting... I tried them all. At any given time, along with a friend or two, I was trying out a new diet. I bought every diet supplement on the market as long as it had a guaranteed or your money back promise.

Id spend hours in the grocery store filling my cart with endless combinations of foods that were going to do it for me this time. After Id reach the checkout, the process would start all over again, as I would grab and throw into my cart each and every magazine that even hinted of diet secrets that I was missing out on. Each time a new miracle was discovered, alas, the foods I had just stocked up on were not the right ones. Okay, Id say. Eat these and just start this new strategy next week.

And on and on it went.

My obsession did not begin and end with food, however. I hired personal trainers, I ran, I walked, I stretched, I huffed and puffed, and I exhausted not only myself, but also everyone around me. I joined gyms and bought exercise equipment. I wore out a treadmill and kept an extra set of free weights in my car trunk for overnight stays. I joined contests and had before and after photos takenor maybe I should say before and before photos. I once even tore a photo out of a family reunion scrapbook because I was too fat that year. I jumped on trampolines, ran up steps, stretched rubber bands, wrapped my thighs in plastic, suffered in steam rooms and walked across pools with ankle weights on. I had a collection of ab rollers, thigh masters and sauna suits.

I even associated major events in my life with whatever was or was not going into my mouth at the time. First wedding? Oh yes, I was on the champagne-only diet. (The champagne diet also served as a good excuse for that first-wedding fiasco.) Graduation from law school? Sure I look happy in the photonot only had I just gotten my law degree, I had spent the last two weeks on cabbage soup and had entered that blissful euphoria I imagine people must experience just before starving to death. First divorce? The 4-Day Dietalmost longer than my marriage.

Its true that misery loves company. I pulled and dragged along anyone I could on these diet adventures. My friend Marty and I would go to a juice-fasting spa in Key West. We never experienced the joy of a cheeseburger in paradise; however, we can tell you all about happy hours with potato water and sneaking into the spas kitchen late at night for a morsel of solid food in the form of a grapefruit section. There was my mother, who sent me a refrigerator magnet that said Square Meals Make Round People and convinced me the key to dieting was in drinking apple cider vinegar first thing each morning. Bobi, my best friend, and I would live on coffee for days, often because we had no money for anything else, but that is another story. Julie and I gorged on fat-free foods; my sister and I lived for weeks on Alba 77 milkshakes. Season and I experienced a nearly illegal high eating bacon, eggs, real mayonnaise and cheeseburgers without buns.

And so it went until a little dog taught me some big lessons about life. I met her one sunny Saturday when, during a crazy period of my life, I cruised up to our local PetSmart in my pristine Mercedes convertible. Now, understand, this is a car I have never even let one person drink a clear liquid in, yet in a matter of less than an hour I found myself tooling back down the highway with a dog kennel on the backseat. In that kennel was a little black and tan dog that I had promised to take care of for one night.

I eventually named her Sadie, and she not only became my best friend, she ended my crazy quest for the ultimate diet secret. With Sadie I lost the weight I had lost over and over again for many years... and this time I lost it for good. With Sadie I let go of the obsession for perfection and started enjoying my life in the most unexpected ways. Sadie pulled me from a bleak depression, lightened up my mind and my body as well.

So, if you are like I was, youre probably wondering, But what did you do? What should I eat? While this book will have some food suggestions, it goes way beyond these. You will see how to rev up your metabolism and slow down your life. I will show you how Sadie taught me to find joy in simple things, and in doing so, I found out that I was not a number on a scale, a perfectly balanced meal or a five-mile run. I hope my experience of saving a small dog, who in turn saved me, will inspire you, encourage you and most of all make you laughat yourself!

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