Women Look to New CD for Weight-Loss Inspiration

"Skinny jeans, skinny jeans, you're still hanging 'round

In the back of my closet and that's bringin' me down

The "Skinny Songs" CD contains tracks that feature encouraging messages about weight loss for women.

(Heidi Roizen )

this morning, I woke up, and made me a vow

skinny jeans, gonna get back, into you somehow."

It's a song that may never top the pop charts. And you probably won't find it at your local karaoke bar, either.

But some women say the track — just one of 10 offerings on a new CD titled "Skinny Songs" — has helped them stay on track to achieve their weight-loss goals.

Diet experts remain split on whether the songs would actually be helpful to women who hope to lose weight. And Heidi Roizen, the innovator of "Skinny Songs," says that the CD is non-scientific and is not based on any diet or psychological research that can attest to its efficacy.

But Roizen says she believes the concept will resonate among the millions of women who wish that they were perhaps just a few pounds lighter — or hope to one day squeeze back into their skinny jeans.

"What I was trying to do was sell the idea I had for music that was as good as what is on the radio but with the messages I needed," she says.

Roizen says the lyrics — which run the gamut from saying no to pie to indulging in a post-weight-loss shopping spree at Saks — are designed to help motivate women as they adopt healthier eating and exercise patterns. The project was completed in six months, and the CD has been available since December from online retailers such as Amazon.com and iTunes.

Roizen penned the lyrics herself. But to produce the songs, she sought the help of industry veterans including David Malloy, a songwriter who has produced albums for Reba McEntyre and other artists.

"When we started the project and we talked about what kind of genres we'd be interested in, they said, 'Tell us what kind of music you listen to,'" Roizen says.

The result was a compilation of music from various genres, modeled after the style of such artists as Carrie Underwood, Pink and Rascal Flatts. Tune out the lyrics, and the songs sound surprisingly similar to what you might hear on a typical radio station.