The Bad Bitch Summer Challenge Workbook

This workbook is for women who are tired of starting a diet on Monday and quitting by Wednesday. You work, you may have kids, you like wine, chocolate and pizza, and every plan you've tried treats those things as the enemy. So you swing between being strict and giving up, and you end up believing the problem is your willpower. It isn't. Most of the time the problem is the plan. It's too rigid, it ignores your weekends, it leaves triggers in your cupboards, and it doesn't help with the beliefs you carry about food and about yourself. Inside are eight exercises, each with a clear prompt, an explanation of why it matters, a worked example and the common mistakes to avoid. You'll work out what a sustainable deficit looks like for you. You'll spread it across the week so Saturday doesn't have to look like Tuesday. You'll audit your environment and clear out the foods that start things you don't want to finish. You'll build a protein-first shopping list and a simple dinner structure that removes decision fatigue. You'll also challenge the self-limiting beliefs that keep you stuck, and put together a plan for wobbles. By the end you'll have a written, personal method you can keep using after the summer. Georgie Bowden has lost 120 pounds and is a mum of two. She founded The Calorie Academy and has run these challenges with hundreds of members. She has also worked through this exact process herself, including a prep day before her own 10kg goal, when she cleared out the wine and trigger snacks and planned the week's food. She doesn't teach restriction, and the exercises follow the same approach she uses on herself.