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Is Snooki ready to say goodbye to her party past?

The pint-sized Jersey Shore star says she's cutting back on her excessive drinking (as seen on her hit MTV reality show) so she can slim down for the new year.

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"My number one [resolution] is definitely to keep up with my training and keep losing weight and getting toned," she tells E! News. "I try to eat healthy. I just have to quit the drinking so much. If I do drink, it's going to be, like, vodka and seltzer...maybe like two or three."

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Snooki (real name: Nicole Polizzi) says she's also been working with a trainer to maximize her weight loss efforts. "He kicks my ass all the time and I love it!"

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So far, she's lost "five pounds in the last three or four weeks. I want to be where I used to be. I posted a bikini picture of me [on Twitter] and I was ripped. Ripped!"

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When she isn't logging hours in the gym, Snooki is busy promoting Season 3 of Jersey Shore (premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. on MTV) and her new book, A Shore Thing (on sale now).

"I always wanted to write a book," she explains of her new career endeavor. "And like, in my imagination, I have, like, crazy ideas."

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    >>> let's gather around the water cooler to talk about mahmoud ahmadinejad getting beer slapped, that's an official term used in international diplomacy . comes from wikileaks. the wikileaks are still coming out. the latest detail talks about ahmadinejad getting, well say it, he got smacked in a meeting with the head of the revolutionary guard. that's mahmoud jaafari. these are reports. that's the gentleman standing there. they were debating over whether or not they were being too tough on the protesters in the streets of tehran and the military man told mahmoud ahmadinejad stopping being such a woos and smacked him across the face. the office for the president and state media in iran denies that report. i think it happened.

    >>> today's the day, gang, snooki's book is out. it's called "shore thing." we want to give it sufficient promotion. no. we don't have to. okay. we're going to read a couple excerpts which is going to be very exciting. let me get these, my reading glasses on. he had an okay body, barnicle. your prescription. he had an okay body, not fat at all. and naturally toned abs. she could pour a shot of tequila down his belly and slurp it out of his navel without getting splashed in the face. it's fick shunnal based on her life of j. wow. let's read another one. i love food. i love drinking, boys, dancing until my feet swell. i love my family, my friends, my job, my boss. and i love my body, especially the badonk. the word of snooki. a heavy prescription. one more for you, last night brian williams on "letterman" talking about the joy he gets from a good tsa pat-down.

    >> air travel is such a joy in this country. you get the enhance d -- right there.

    >> i'm sorry. let me have that again.

    >> yeah. get the enhanced.

    >> smagegi?

    >> that's an aviation term.

    >> i thought it was who ordered the special meal.

    >> i always get it at l.a.x., i get nailed.

    >> what are you saying? what happens there?

    >> they go -- they go right in. they go --

    >> oh, my goodness.

    >> this new thing. they go right after dave and the twins.

    >> oh. so he calls it dave. that's good to know. i'm a company man. i call mine jay. still ahead

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