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To-Read Weight Loss ChallengeStarted: 3/1/18
Starting to-read Book Count: 1851
End to-read Book Count: 1841
# of Diets: 10
Progress: 10 of 10
Completed: 6/16/18
In real life, I was trying to lose 10 lbs, so I guess I'll pick that, though it's low.
The Zone Diet
◈ 1) Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list. PNR
◈ 2) Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list. Parasol Protectorate or The Selection
◈ 3) Pick a number between 1 and 5. 3
◈ 4) Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
i) At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost (1/24/18) ~ Night Huntress #3
ii) Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews (3/12/18) ~ Kate Daniels #2
iii) Dark Desire by Christine Feehan (3/16/18) ~ Dark #2
◈ 5) Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)
The Selection by Kierra Cass
#1 The Selection (2/26/18)
#2 The Elite (3/5/18)
#3 The One (6/16/18)
◈ 6) Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected.
i) The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (1/2/18) ~ 310 pages
ii) Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews (1/5/18) ~ 365 pages
Mod
I'm in need of this challenge and really really would like to get my To-Read into Onderland.(I actually ended up in Onderland just by deleting a bunch of books I did not want to read from my to read list, but whatever, I still want to do this)
So, here we go.
Starting: 89
Current: 86
Goal: Under 100 ✔
And I'm going to start with
Detox:
Wow, a lot of my to-read list is from my high school days and may just need to be purged. Ugh.
Alright, next. I get most of my books from the library, so it's going to be
The Cabbage Soup Diet
1. Princess of the Midnight Ball ✔ 4/24
2. Daughter of the Forest ✔ 4/29
3. The Way of Kings ✔ 5/18
4. Son of the Shadows ✔ 6/19
5.
Most of the books I read are also audiobooks, so I'll be doing
The Sleeping Beauty Diet
1. Six of Crows ✔ 4/15
2. Crooked Kingdom ✔ 4/18
3. Of Beast and Beauty ✔ 4/27
Then we will go with one of the bigger ones.
The Zone Diet
Genre: Romance
1. Defiance ✔ 6/4
2.
3.
Series: Shades of Magic
1. A Darker Shade of Magic
2. A Gathering of Shadows
3. A Conjuring of Light
Number: 4
1.
2.
Mod
Start Date: 01/01/19TBR Start: 550+
TBR Goal: 500
End Date: 6/30/19
TBR Count: 476
Atkins Diet
500+ page books since I often put off reading longer books
[1] Cress by Marissa Meyer
[2] My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
[3] Winter by Marissa Meyer
[4] Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling
[5] The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
South Beach Diet
books with green covers
[1] The Mage's Trick by Ilana Waters
[2] Lost Gods by Brom
[3] Midnight Reynolds and the Spectral Transformer by Catherine Holt
[4] The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
[5] Coal by Constance Burris
Banana Diet
books that start with Q [or have a Q word anywhere in the title]
[1] Queen of Chaos by Kat Ross
[2] Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy by Erica Friedman
[3] The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen by Delia Sherman
[4] The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! by Tom Cardamone
[5] A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
The Cabbage Soup Diet
books on your to-read list that you got for free
[1] Unicorns Don't Come to Black People by Shekina Spears
[2] Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
[3] The Bride of the Blue Wind by Victoria Goddard
[4] Nyssa Glass and the Juliet Dilemma by H.L. Burke
[5] Nyssa Glass and the Cutpurse Kid by H.L. Burke
Mod
starting- 63
ending- 68
Vegetarian Diet
select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
ending- 68
Vegetarian Diet
select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
Mod
I am so in need of this challenge. This is open ended so I'll aim to go through all of the diets!Starter TBR list count: 3007
Aimed for: 2000
Current TBR List Count: 1472 (28/6/23)
Achieved original but will continue to complete as new aim is 1000
Duration: Open
Atkins Diet(view spoiler)
Graphic Novels
16/22
Read:
Unread:
Vegetarian Diet(view spoiler)
So I've found I have a lot of animal covers...especially people riding horses, birds & dragons...?
16/26
Read:
Unread:
Weight Watchers Diet(view spoiler)
1) Select 3 books from your to-read list that have buddy reads.
2) Read along with your buddies!
South Beach Diet(view spoiler)
Will do several varieties of this prompt...
Green Covers 3/11
Unread:
Authors starting with "G" 1/6
Read:
Unread:
Vegetables on the Cover 2/6
Read:
Unread:
Titles starting with "G" 6/19
Read:
Unread:
Mediterranean Diet(view spoiler)
Foreign Authors 4/6
Read:
Unread:
Banana Diet(view spoiler)
Titles starting with "R" 11/22
Read:
]
Unread:
Finished Diets
The Cabbage Soup Diet(view spoiler)
Freebies 10/10
Read:
Raw Food Diet(view spoiler)
Self-published 5/5
The Sleeping Beauty Diet(view spoiler)
Audio Books 5/5
Detox(view spoiler)
The Delete Pile! 1000+/?
… Won't put all here as run out of characters!The Zone Diet(view spoiler)
Genre - Historical Non-Fiction 3/3
Read:
Series Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy 3/3
200-299 Pages 2/2
As I just discovered my TBR pile is around 600 books, I think I'd best sign up for this one! lol.start: 600
End: 450
Diet: Trying for all
39/150
Atkins
-science fiction
1 Artemis *read 30/12/2-18*
2 The Burning City
3 Burning Tower
4 The Dispossessed * read 06/09/2019
5 Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic FreakShow *read 11/12/2018*
The Zone
Genre: Classic literature
1. Frankenstein
2. The Age of Innocence
3. Decline And Fall
Series: Agent of Hel - Jaqueline Carey
1. Dark Currents
2. Autumn Bones
3. Poison Fruit
Number 2
1. Trial by Treason
2. Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting
Vegetarian
1. Life of Pi
2. Station Eleven
3. War and Peace
4. Rasputin: A Short Life
5. The Hunger Games
Weight Watchers
South Beach Diet
1. Grass
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Visual Factfinder Rocks And Fossils by Belinda Gallagher
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
5. Dandelion Wine
Raw Food Diet
Mediterranean Diet
1. Verity (USA)
2. Lolita (Russia)
3. The Little Prince (France)
4. The Odyssey (Greece)
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Banana Diet
Letter M
1. Manhattan In Reverse
2. Mistress Of The Empire
3. Madame Bovary
4. Les Misérables
5. Mostly Harmless
The Sleeping Beauty Diet
1
2 The Diary of a Nobody *read 8/12/2016*
3 The Chimes - *read 5/12/2018*
The Cabbage Soup Diet
Fairy books:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Detox
1. The Ballad of Johnny Arcane
2. The Shadow Palace
3. Sheriff and Priest
4. Paths of Anguish
5. A Fool There Was
Mod
Starting Over January 1stDuration: Open
Diets
Atkins Diet [
"Atkins low carb diet program uses a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss."
This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
3) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
The Zone Diet [
"The Zone Diet aims for a nutritional balance of 40% carbohydrates, 30% fats, and 30% protein each time we eat. The focus is also on controlling insulin levels, which result in more successful weight loss and body weight control."
This diet is a more balanced approach that spreads the weight loss to various issues in your to-read list.
1) Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list.
2) Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list.
3) Pick a number between 1 and 5.
4) Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
5) Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)
6) Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected. (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books).
(hide spoiler)]
Vegetarian Diet [
"The term vegetarian generally means a person who does not consume animal products; this includes land and sea animals. Most vegetarians generally do consume eggs and dairy products (milk products)."
This diet helps you eliminate animal books from your to-read list.
1) Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
2) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
Weight Watchers Diet [
"Weight Watchers focuses on losing weight through diet, exercise, and a support network."
This diet helps you lose to-read weight with the help of others.
1) Select 3 books from your to-read list that have buddy reads.
2) Read along with your buddies!
(hide spoiler)]
South Beach Diet [
"The South Beach Diet focuses on the control of insulin levels, and the benefits of unrefined slow carbohydrates versus fast carbs."
This diet helps reduce the bulk of your to-read list while allowing lots of greens.
1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
2) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
Raw Food Diet [
"The Raw Food Diet, or Raw Foodism, involves consuming foods and drinks which are not processed, are completely plant-based, and ideally organic."
This diet will help you process non-processed books in your to-read list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
2) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
Mediterranean Diet [
"The Mediterranean Diet is Southern European, and more specifically focuses on the nutritional habits of the people of Crete, Greece, and southern Italy. Nowadays, Spain, southern France, and Portugal are also included; even though Portugal does not touch the Mediterranean Sea."
This diet focuses on eating healthy from regions that may not be your own.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
2) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
Banana Diet [
"The Morning Banana Diet is a weight loss diet. It was popular in Japan in 2008, causing shortages of bananas in food stores. The diet plan allows consumption of unlimited bananas with room temperature water or a serving of milk for breakfast."
This diet plan picks a very random grouping of books to eliminate.
1) Pick a random letter of the alphabet - link
2) Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter. (Or all books if there are less than 5.)
3) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
The Sleeping Beauty Diet [
"Elvis was reputedly a fan of the Sleeping Beauty diet, which eschews sensible weight loss methods like eating less and exercising more in favour of simply sedating its followers for days at a time. After all, you can't eat burgers whie you're asleep, can you?"
This diet focuses on relaxing you while you sleep your way to weight loss.
1) Choose 3 books from your to-read list.
2) Listen to them in audio form!
(hide spoiler)]
The Cabbage Soup Diet [
"Popular with hardcore dieters for years, the Cabbage Soup Diet is a quick fix solution and considered by many to be a bit of a miracle that can help people lose up to10 pounds in a single week."
This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!
(hide spoiler)]
Detox [
"Drink plenty of water, detox water, lemon water, or try these caffeine-free drink ideas. Rest. Be sure to get enough sleep. Breathe and relax."
This diet helps you eliminate books that you don't want to read anymore.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
2) Delete them!
Finished my first four diets so I'm gonna go again! I am also going to backdate the start to July 1st and hope to finish by the end of the year.start date: 7/1/19
tbr start #: 476
tbr goal #: 400
finish date: 8/29/19
tbr: no idea what my tbr was at that time [several months ago now] but now it's at 411! almost there!
Vegetarian Diet
Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals.
1. The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur by Stant Litore
2. Heart of Stone by Lisa Edmonds
3. Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls by Anita Ganeri
4. A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by Kelley Armstrong
5. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Banana Diet
Pick a random letter of the alphabet - M. Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter
1. The Martian by Andy Weir
2. The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
3. Midway by Melanie Karsak
4. Mutiny at Vesta by R.E. Stearns
5. Midnight Reynolds and the Phantom Circus by Catherine Holt
The Sleeping Beauty Diet
Choose
1. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
2. Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume 1 by Matt Fitton
3. Slashback by Rob Thurman
4. Dark Harvest Magic by Jayne Faith
5. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Cabbage Soup Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
1. Stone Cold Magic by Jayne Faith
2. Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen
3. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
4. The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
5. The Good Fight by Scott Bachmann
I'm eating less, as it were, so now I guess I need to exercise more! My owned TBR is at 188, and I'd like it at 140 by the end of the year (this does count single issues of comics, so not quite as difficult). Starting out with two diets:Atkins: My protein type will be Buffy tie-in novels.
1. The Book of Fours
2. Prophecies
3. Dark Times
4. King of the Dead
5. Original Sins
Zone Diet: my series will be Cemetery of Forgotten Books (3 books), my genre will be fantasy, and my number is 3.
1. The Angel's Game (DNF)
2. The Prisoner of Heaven (DNF)
3. The Labyrinth of the Spirits (DNF)
4. Uptown Local and Other Interventions
5. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
6. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
7. The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (384 pages)
8. Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures (336 pages)
I forgot all about this and it turns out I've been done for months.
To Read Weight Loss Challenge, started July 16, 2019Cabbage Soup Diet:
3/5
Linked when read
1. Calamity Jayne Book 1—Kathleen Bacus
2. Until Death Do Us Tart Holly Plum 2/29/20
3. A Dead Husband-Anna Celeste Burke
4. The Fiesta Burger Murder Rosie A. Point 5/11/20
5. Blueberry Cupcake Mystery Naomi Miller 10/9/19
Atkins Choose books to be your protein books (cozy mysteries)
1. Peach Clobbered: A Georgia B&B Mystery Anna Gerard 7/23/19
2. Cold Turkey Shelley Freydont 7/25/19
3. Red Velvet Cupcake Murder Joanne Fluke 7/26/19
4. Penne Dreadful Catherine Bruns 8/1/19
5. Death of a Kitchen Diva Lee Hollis 8/11/19
Vegetarian (animal cozies)
1. Dial C For Chihuahua Waverly Curtis 7/18/19
2. The Time for Murder is Meow T.C. LoTempio 8/6/19
3. Bark If It’s Murder V.M. Burns 8/28/19
4. Something Borrowed, Something Mewed Bethany Blake 9/18/19
5. Left Fur Dead J.M.Griffin 5/1/20
South Beach 5 green books (titles or authors start with G)
1. A Thread of Darkness Sally Goldenbaum 8/9/19
2. By Book or By Crook Eva Gates 8/25/19
3. The Girl With Nine Lives E. Earle 2/6/20
4. Death at the Café Alison Golden 3/14/20
5. Ghostly Paws Leighann Dobbs 4/21/20
Banana (random letter was L)
1. A Lime to Kill Summer Prescott 7/31/19
2. Last Pen Standing Vivian Conroy 9/17/19
3. Last Gasp Karen Chester 10/22/19
4. Libraries and Larceny Danielle Collins 2/14/20
5. Lost and Fondue Avery Aames 2/17/20
Finished this challenge last year but I think I'll go for it again!Starting July 27, 2019
Atkins Diet
Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (ARCs) (5 books) **COMPLETED**
The Zone Diet **COMPLETED**
1) Read 3 books from a genre (nonfiction: race relations)
2) Complete the The Witcher series
3)Read 2 books that are at least 300 pages **COMPLETED**
Vegetarian Diet **COMPLETED**
Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals.
Weight Watchers **COMPLETED**
Select 3 books from your to-read list that have buddy reads.
South Beach Diet **COMPLETED**
Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
Raw Food Diet **COMPLETED**
Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
Mediterranean Diet **COMPLETED**
Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
Banana Diet **COMPLETED**
Read 5 books that begin with the letter "N"
Sleeping Beauty Diet **COMPLETED**
Listen to 3 audiobooks
Cabbage Soup Diet **COMPLETED**
Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
Detox Diet **COMPLETED**
Delete 5 books from your TBR that you do not want to read anymore.
Mod
Congratulations Devann ( and welcome back)
This is a fun challenge idea, especially going into a new year when people tend to think about weight loss. Maybe it will inspire me to shed a few actual pounds as well, lol. :P✧ To-Read Weight Loss Challenge ✧
--COMPLETED--
Starting "to-read" book count: 845
Desired end "to-read" book count: 800
(Realistically, I'm always adding to my TBR, so rather than stick to a specific end number on that shelf, I'll aim to "lose" at least 45 books total.)
Actual end "to-read" book count: 805
Duration: Open
⇢ Start Date: December 28, 2019
⇢ Completion Date: January 16, 2021
COMPLETED: 52/45
➤➤➤
I'm going to start with a nice, simple detox to prepare for future diets.
✧Detox #1✧ COMPLETED
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
2) Delete them!
1. The Clockwork Scarab (added 6/6/14; deleted 12/28/19)
2. The Iron King (added 6/6/14; deleted 12/28/19)
3. Aurelia (added 6/6/14; deleted 12/28/19)
4. Just Ella (added 7/3/14; deleted 12/28/19)
5. Monument 14 (added 7/10/14; deleted 12/28/19)
So...I guess I had a lot more detoxing to do than I thought. 😅
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(view spoiler)
✧South Beach Diet✧
1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
2) Read!
1. Doon (added 6/4/14; read 12/31/19) ★★
2. The Princess Bride (added 2/12/15; read 7/21/20) ★★★
3. The Perilous Gard (added 6/11/16; read 11/10/20) ★★★
4. Girl in Blue (added 9/18/15; read 12/8/20) ★★
5. Sophie Simon Solves Them All by Lisa Graff (added 7/10/14; read 1/16/21) ★
✧The Sleeping Beauty Diet✧ COMPLETED
1) Choose 3 books from your to-read list.
2) Listen to them in audio form!
1. The Thief (added 9/18/15; read 1/28/20) ★★
2. Redwall (added 8/8/19; read 3/11/20) ★★
3. The Amulet of Samarkand (added 3/13/15; read 3/29/20) ★★★
✧The Cabbage Soup Diet✧ COMPLETED
This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!
1. Of Beast and Beauty (free through Libby app)
(added 5/18/19; read 7/30/20) ★★★★★
2. The Rest of the Story (free through Libby app)
(added 6/27/19; read 8/22/20) ★★
3. Under a Painted Sky (free through Libby app)
(added 1/8/15; read 9/14/20) ★★★★
4. Summerlost (free from public library)
(added 3/24/16; read 9/22/20) ★★★
5. Starflight (free through Libby app)
(added 5/3/15; read 9/26/20) ★★★
*Completed Four Diets to Earn an Emerald Coin!
Mod
1) List your starting to-read book count 27483 (I'm so guilty)2) List your desired end to-read book count 27000 (or lower if I can)
3) Choose a diet method (going to attempt them all, let's face it I need the help)
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.
Diet the first!
Atkins Diet [
"Atkins low carb diet program uses a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss."
This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books
Fantasy
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
3) Read!
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Mod
Mod
I love a challenge, so I'll give this a go. To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Starting To-Read Count: 905
Target Count: 700
Starting Date: 1st January 2020
Finish Date:
Atkins Diet
Classics
✔1. Catch-22 15/6/22
✔2. The Picture of Dorian Gray 18/3/20
✔3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels 21/8/20
✔4. Twelfth Night 16/3/20
✔5. War and Peace 19/12/20
The Zone Diet
Children's books
✔1. The Truth 31/1/20
✔2. A Little Princess 12/6/20
✔3. The Last Battle 31/12/20
✔4. Five Children and It 11/1/20
✔5. Cat on the Mat 15/1/20
✔6. The Tale of Peter Rabbit 20/2/20
✔Percy Jackson and the Olympians
✔1. The Titan's Curse 22/2/20
✔2. The Battle of the Labyrinth 19/3/20
✔3. The Last Olympian 28/4/20
Vegetarian Diet
Animals
✔1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 22/6/20
2. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
✔3. The Horse and His Boy 26/2/20
✔4. The Murmur of Bees 28/7/20
✔5. The Homeless Kitten 10/5/20
✔6. The Rescued Kitten 30/1/20
Mediterranean Diet
Authors born in a different country
1. The Rainmaker by John Grisham (USA)
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Sweden)
✔3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canada) 22/5/21
✔4. The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer (Ireland) 15/7/20
5. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty (Austrailia)
✔6. The Last Fairy-Apple Tree by Emily Rodda (Austrailia) 17/1/20
Banana Diet
T
✔1. The Taming of the Shrew 3/6/20
✔2. The Two Towers 5/2/20
✔3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 6/12/20
✔4. The Silver Chair 20/12/20
✔5. The Lost Colony 20/2/21
The Sleeping Beauty Diet
Audiobooks
✔1. The Beach 10/1/19
✔2. The Fellowship of the Ring 4/1/19
✔3. Bleak House 1/6/21
✔4. The Metamorphosis 16/1/20
✔5. The Return of the King 11/2/20
✔6. Schindler's List 15/2/20
✔7. The Witches 20/2/20
The Cabbage Soup Diet
Free books
✔1. Ozma of Oz 13/1/20
✔2. The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis 15/1/20
✔3. Too Close to Home 17/2/20
✔4. The Unicorn 19/2/20
✔5. Devour 27/3/20
Detox
Delete unwanted books
✔1. Someone Like You (Deleted 3/1/20)
✔2. That Summer (Deleted 3/1/20)
✔3. Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth (Deleted 3/1/20)
✔4. We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars (Deleted 3/1/20)
✔5. Winter Warmers (Deleted 9/2/20)
✔6. 100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide (Deleted 9/2/20)
Mod
Drowsy's Diet - Joined 11/13/20Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count 8
2) List your desired end to-read book count
3) Choose a diet method Cabbage Soup & Sleeping Beauty
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal
The Cabbage Soup Diet "Popular with hardcore dieters for years, the Cabbage Soup Diet is a quick fix solution and considered by many to be a bit of a miracle that can help people lose up to10 pounds in a single week."
This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!
1. Shatter 12/09/20 (library)
2.Beyond the Veil TBR
3.
4.
5.
The Sleeping Beauty Diet "Elvis was reputedly a fan of the Sleeping Beauty diet, which eschews sensible weight loss methods like eating less and exercising more in favour of simply sedating its followers for days at a time. After all, you can't eat burgers whie you're asleep, can you?"
This diet focuses on relaxing you while you sleep your way to weight loss.
1) Choose 3 books from your to-read list.
2) Listen to them in audio form!
1.The Beautiful complete 11/17/20
2. This Savage Song complete 11/19/20
3.This Coven Won't Break completed 12/02/20
Open-EndedStarting 1-5-24
Finished 3-30-24
To-Read Weight Loss Challenge
Starting TBR= 6356
Ending TBR Goal= 6323 --actually 6278!
33 out of 33
Atkins Diet= read Non-Fiction DONE
1) Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus! Erich Origen 2-2-24 (#79)
2) Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities Russell Ash 2-11-24 (#373)
3) GET THEE TO A PUNNERY: An Anthology of International Assaults Upon The English Language Richard Lederer 2-18-24 (#409)
4) Anarchy in Action Colin Ward 3-10-24 (#692)
5) Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned Jacob M. Appel 3-19-24 (#564)
Vegetarian= about Animals DONE
1) Posy Linda Newbery 1-31-24 (#61)
2) Straydog Kathe Koja 2-11-24 (#2442)
3) The Great Texas Hamster Drive Eric A. Kimmel 3-8-24 (#5812)
4) Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen Candace Fleming 3-19-24 (#4245)
5) The Shy Little Kitten Cathleen Schurr 3-30-24 (#2624)
Mediterranean= Author from not-USA DONE
1) F this Test: Even More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers Richard Benson 1-9-24 (Born in England) (#14)
2) What I Believe Bertrand Russell 1-28-24 (Born in Wales) (#6073)
3) Fuddles Frans Vischer 2-2-24 (grew up in Holland) (#8)
4) The Cat Who Came in from the Cold Deric Longden 2-7-24 (England) (#2)
5) Doña Bárbara Rómulo Gallegos 2-11-24 (from Venezuela) (#6316)
Banana= Title starts with K DONE
1) A Kitten Tale Eric Rohmann 2-2-24 (#63)
K9 Scent Detection: My Favorite Judge Lives in a Kennel Jan Kaldenbach 2-18-24 (#966)
2) Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother Norma Dunning 2-29-24 (#6270)
3) Killed at the Whim of a Hat Colin Cotterill 3-19-24 (#932)
4) Koala Lou Mem Fox 3-23-24 (#1084)
5) Kidnapped at the Capital Ron Roy 3-30-24 (#1342)
Sleeping Beauty=audio book DONE
1) About Average Andrew Clements 2-3-24 (#3568)
2) The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins Anne Curzan 2-29-24 (#69)
3) Knuffle Bunny and Other Stories About Families Cari Best 3-30-24 (#1242)
Cabbage= Free DONE
1) Lost and Found Andrew Clements 1-10-24 (#3568)
2) Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets: An Unusual Alphabet Sara O'Leary 1-17-24 (#5982)
3) When I Was Eight Christy Jordan-Fenton 1-22-24 (#6318)
4) Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret Bob Shea 1-31-24 (#11)
5) Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry Kim Chinquee 1031-24 (#266)
Detox=Don't want to read any more DONE
1) The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics Barron H. Lerner 1-9-24 (#617)
2) Heart in the Right Place Carolyn Jourdan 1-22-24 (#6310)
3) Soccer Madness: Brazil's Passion for the World's Most Popular Sport Janet Lever 1-22-24 (#219)
4)The Surgeon's Cinderella Susan Carlisle 1-31-24
5) The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery Michelle Stacey 1-31-24
Let's try this one again! 😁Starting TBR: 443
Ending TBR Goal: 400
Diet: All except the raw food diet and detox
Read: 44
Atkins Diet: Fantasy
1. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
2. The Malevolent Seven
3. Ragnarok
4. The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
5. The Stolen Heir
The Zone Diet - Sci-fi - murderbot (5, 6 & 7) - #2
1. Earth Abides
2. Shards of Honour
3. The Last Colony
4. Network Effect
5. Fugitive Telemetry
6. System Collapse
7. The Sicilian
8. Queen High
Vegetarian Diet - animals on cover
1. H is for Hawk
2. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
3. Sirius
4. Foe
5. The Windsor Knot
Weight Watchers Diet - buddy reads
1. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
2. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel
3. Part of Your World
South Beach Diet - green covers/G spell-outs (A/T)
1. The Glass Bead Game (G title)
2. Herland (A: Gilman/green cover)
3. A Gate at the Stairs (G title)
4. The Way of All Flesh (Green cover)
5. The Mysteries of Udolpho (green cover)
Mediterranean Diet - Non-UK/NL authors
1. La Reine Margot
2. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
3. Bel-Ami
4. The Marriage Plot
5. Kiss of the Spider Woman
Banana Diet - titles stating with D
1. Dangerous Secrets
2. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
3. Divergent
4. Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
5. The Difference Engine
The Sleeping Beauty Diet - audio books
1. Humboldt's Gift
2. The A.B.C. Murders
3. I'm Not Scared
The Cabbage Soup Diet - freebie books
1. The Expert System's Brother - All 5 books read on audible+
2. Unlocked
3. The Sheep Look Up
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. Robinson Crusoe
To-Read Weight Loss Challenge. Duration: OpenStarted:1/21/24
Completed:
Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count: 3346
2) List your desired end to-read book count: 3326 (I keep adding too)
3) Choose a diet method: All of them EXCEPT weight watchers
**Diets**
Atkins Diet
"Atkins low carb diet program uses a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss."
This diet will focus your weight loss on a specific type of book which is great for people who have problems with a wide variety of to-read books.
✅1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)-PARANORMAL ROMANCE BOOKS
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
1. Narcissus in Chains-1/24/24
2. Cerulean Sins-2/3/24
3. Incubus Dreams-2/24/24
4. A Soul of Ash and Blood-3/30/24
5. Murder of Crows-5/19/24
**The Zone Diet **
"The Zone Diet aims for a nutritional balance of 40% carbohydrates, 30% fats, and 30% protein each time we eat. The focus is also on controlling insulin levels, which result in more successful weight loss and body weight control."
This diet is a more balanced approach that spreads the weight loss to various issues in your to-read list.
✅1) Choose one genre of book that you have on your to-read list.HISTORICAL FICTION
✅2) Choose one series of book that you have on your to-read list-BRIDGERTON SERIES
✅3) Pick a number between 1 and 5. 3**
✅4) Read at least 3 books from your to-read list in the genre selected.
1. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle-2/10/24
2. Because of Miss Bridgerton-5/22/24
3. The Kidnapper's Accomplice-6/9/24
✅5) Read the rest of the series of the series you have selected (that have been released.)-On the Way to the Wedding-1/27/24
✅6) Read 2 books on your to-read list that have X hundred pages based on the number you selected. (e.g. If you selected 3, you would read 300-399 page books).
1. Good Girls Don’t Die-(320 PGS)-1/28/24
2. The Dead Romantics-2/18/24
**Vegetarian Diet**
"The term vegetarian generally means a person who does not consume animal products; this includes land and sea animals. Most vegetarians generally do consume eggs and dairy products (milk products)."
This diet helps you eliminate animal books from your to-read list.
✅1) Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals. (Your definition of "animal" may vary.)
1.(Wolf) Written in Red-4/29/24
2. (Birds) The Alchemist-5/14/24
3. (Bird) The Unhoneymooners-6/5/24
4. (dog) The Happy Ever After Playlist-6/11/24
5. (Wolves)-Marked in Flesh-8/11/24
**"The South Beach Diet**
focuses on the control of insulin levels, and the benefits of unrefined slow carbohydrates versus fast carbs."
This diet helps reduce the bulk of your to-read list while allowing lots of greens.
✅1) Pick 5 leafy green books on your to-read list (e.g. books with green covers, titles starting with G, authors first or last name starting with G, or vegetables on the cover.)
1. Reflected in You (Cover)-2/11/24
2. The Inmate (Cover)-3/15/24
3. Deadly Night-4/13/24
4. Terms and Conditions-5/2/24
5. Maybe Someday-6/21/24
Raw Food Diet
"The Raw Food Diet, or Raw Foodism, involves consuming foods and drinks which are not processed, are completely plant-based, and ideally organic."
This diet will help you process non-processed books in your to-read list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors who self-publish or have less than 2 published books.
1. Elliot Page-Pageboy-2/1/24
2. Amy Poehler-Yes Please-3/14/24
3.Caroline Criado Pérez-Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men-11/26/24
4. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life-3/14/25
5.
**"The Mediterranean Diet **
is Southern European, and more specifically focuses on the nutritional habits of the people of Crete, Greece, and southern Italy. Nowadays, Spain, southern France, and Portugal are also included; even though Portugal does not touch the Mediterranean Sea."
This diet focuses on eating healthy from regions that may not be your own.
✅1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
1. England-Sarah Pearse-The Sanatorium-2/15/24
2. England-Gillian McAllister-Wrong Place Wrong Time-3/1/24
3. Italy-Ali Hazelwood-The Love Hypothesis-4/5/24
4. England-Lucy Foley-The Guest List-4/6/24
5. London-A Good Girl's Guide to Murder-4/21/24
Banana Diet
"The Morning Banana Diet is a weight loss diet. It was popular in Japan in 2008, causing shortages of bananas in food stores. The diet plan allows consumption of unlimited bananas with room temperature water or a serving of milk for breakfast."
This diet plan picks a very random grouping of books to eliminate.
1) Pick a random letter of the alphabet - J
2) Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter. (Or all books if there are less than 5.)
1.Jurassic Park-4/20/25
2.
3.
4.
5.
**The Sleeping Beauty Diet **
"Elvis was reputedly a fan of the Sleeping Beauty diet, which eschews sensible weight loss methods like eating less and exercising more in favour of simply sedating its followers for days at a time. After all, you can't eat burgers whie you're asleep, can you?"
This diet focuses on relaxing you while you sleep your way to weight loss.
✅1) Choose 3 AUDIO books from your to-read list.
1. The Assassin and the Desert-2/19/24
2. It Ends with Us-2/23/24
3. TimeReaping in Deadwood-2/25/24
**The Cabbage Soup Diet **
"Popular with hardcore dieters for years, the Cabbage Soup Diet is a quick fix solution and considered by many to be a bit of a miracle that can help people lose up to10 pounds in a single week."
This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.
✅1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!
1. The Unexpected Card (NOOK)-3/17/24
2. Hooked (audible plus catelog)-4/12/24
3. Tempt Me-5/6/24
4.Break Me-5/7/24
5. Teach Me-5/9/24
Detox [
"Drink plenty of water, detox water, lemon water, or try these caffeine-free drink ideas. Rest. Be sure to get enough sleep. Breathe and relax."
This diet helps you eliminate books that you don't want to read anymore.
✅1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you don't want to read anymore.
1. [book:The Betrothed|36071008]
2. The Invitation-couldnt keep my attention.
3. The Betrayed
4.Hounded
5.Hexed
To-Read Weight Loss ChallengeChallenge duration: 15 April to finish
Challenge Steps
1) List your starting to-read book count - 1468
2) List your desired end to-read book count - 1443 (25)
3) Choose a diet method
4) Post results!
5) Repeat as necessary until you reach your goal.
Diets
Atkins Diet
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
3) Read!
Thrillers
1.
Last Night - Luanne Rice - 5/17/2024 (3rd MPG tag)2.
Schooled in Revenge - Jesse Lasky - 5/26/2024 (5th MPG tag)3.
Scrublands - Chris Hammer - 6/8/2024 (5th MPG tag)4.
5.
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Atkins Diet
1) Pick the type of book you want to be your protein books. (e.g. Romances, 500+ page books, red covers)
2) Choose at least 5 books of this type from your to-read list.
3) Read!
Protein - Series to be finished
1.
The Fate of Ten - Pittacus Lore - 4/19/2024 (Lorien Legacies #6)2.
United as One - Pittacus Lore - 4/28/2024 (Lorien Legacies #7)3.
Hard Eight - Janet Evanovich - 6/22/2024 (Stephanie Plum #8)2. To the Nines by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum #9)
3. Eleven on Top by (Janet Evanovich) (Stephanie Plum #11)
4. Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2)
5. Three Sisters by Heather Morris (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #3)
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Mediterranean Diet
This diet focuses on eating healthy from regions that may not be your own.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list from authors born in countries other than your own.
2) Read!
1.
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh - 4/25/2024 (Canada)2.
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 5/13/2024 (USA)3.
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - 5/25/2024 (USA)4.
USA - The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
Romania - Bionic Butter by Rada Jones
USA - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
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Banana Diet
This diet plan picks a very random grouping of books to eliminate.
1) Pick a random letter of the alphabet - link
2) Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter. (Or all books if there are less than 5.)
3) Read!
I
1.
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy - 6/18/20242.
2. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
3. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
4. In Their Footsteps by Tess Gerritsen
5. In Too Deep by Neva Squires-Rodriguez (Liliana #2)
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The Cabbage Soup Diet
This diet helps you eliminate the freebies on your list.
1) Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.
2) Read!
1.
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray - Anita Heiss - 5/5/2024 (library)2.
The Sugar Palace - Fiona McIntosh - 5/31/2024 (library)3.
Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko - 6/15/2024 (Library)4.
And done! (post 130)3 1/2 months is rather considerably better than my last attempt 😆
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First step is admitting the problem...
I'm Allegra and I'm a book-a-holic.
Current TBR: 1046
Goal: 1000 (probably ambitious, as I keep adding)
Goal date: February 20, 2020
I'll start with The Sleeping Beauty Diet--because I like fun, but I'm also fairly lazy--and we'll go from there.(3/15/18)
The Sleeping Beauty Diet (hoping I can find these on audio)
1.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day3/162. The Catcher in the Rye
3. By Myself and Then Some
Bonus book: I'm about a third into The Diary of a Young Girl, but before I knew it would count for this, so...
The Vegetarian Diet (hoping I can find the "same" covers)
1. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories
2. Last Chance to See
3. The Penguin Novels
4. The Phantom Tollbooth
5. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
The Atkins Diet (my protein = Mysteries)
1. Cat Among the Pigeons
2. Parker Pyne Investigates
3. Broken Ferns
4. Playing With Poison
5.