![]() ![]() It worked for a couch potato like me.Lüc's book comes out March 13, 2012. It's nothing that we don't already know, but the way he presents it, it makes you want to eat healthier and exercise. I've never seen a diet book with recipes for alcoholic drinks in it.There is so much good information in it for eating healthy and exercising interspersed with the story that you don't realize the common sense advice he is passing on. ![]() But, they are rated with a bulls t meter and there's not too many of them. There are several recipes, including a few for drinks. It still has some aspects of a diet book. It's the story of Lüc's life to becoming what he is now - still insane, but now sexy insane. I wanted to be "sexy" again.Although the title says The Drunk Diet, it's not a diet book at all. I, too, wanted to lose the extra weight I've carried around. He holds nothing back in connecting with the reader, not even his language.I wanted to be an early reviewer of this book not as a diet book, but because it sounded crazy. He writes as if you're one of his friends, sitting at the bar, just talking and swapping insults. Lüc's insane personality shines throughout the whole book. ![]() One day, he decides he's tired of looking the way he does and so begins his journey to become "sexy".This book is chock full of humorous, crazy stories. Along the way, he gains weight weight from unhealthy eating habits and booze. He eventually ends up as a hard partying, bar manager/bar tender. It's like having your friend kick you in the butt to start eating right and exercising.Lüc starts out as a Nebraskan rock 'n roller, who goes to New York City to fulfill his dream of becoming a rock star drummer. The Drunk Diet: How I Lost 40 Pounds.Wasted: A Memoir by Lüc Carl was a fun book to read. He will be the first to tell you: If he could do it, so can you. This is the story of how one chain-smoking, cheeseburger-eating, hard-partying Rock 'N Roller-a self-proclaimed "out-of-shape, bloated asshole"-grew into an avid runner and cyclist and, ultimately, a happier version of himself. For him, that meant trading in the crap he was eating for unprocessed, natural foods and embracing a newfound love for exercise, but never sacrificing his social life (or his love for cold beer). Lüc's fitness philosophy isn't about following a list of rigid rules or traditional "do this, not that" charts, but gaining a better understanding of how the body works and discovering what you're personally willing to change about your lifestyle in order to reach your goals. But when he turned to the "experts" for advice-reading countless fitness and weight-loss books in the process-he discovered that they all made the same claim: "You can't drink alcohol if you want to lose weight." Lüc decided to take matters into his own hands to transform his body and his life his way-a sort of "f*ck you" to all those so-called experts.įull of charismatic wit and raucous stories about his life, The Drunk Diet will inspire and challenge you to become fitter, healthier, and happier. Fast forward through seven years of working long hours, bingeing on late-night Chinese food, and drinking excessively life had found Lüc forty pounds overweight and completely out of shape. And life was good for this Omaha, Nebraska, transplant-a talented drummer who originally moved to the big city to pursue his Rock 'N Roll dreams-until, suddenly, it wasn't. With his trademark Rock 'N Roll hair and snakeskin spandex pants, plus a hot rod and a Harley, Lüc Carl fit the part as a bar manager based in New York City's gritty Lower East Side. ![]()
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