'Snooki' photo shows dramatic weight loss

If the photo is to be believed, "Jersey Shore" starlet Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has gone through a dramatic weight reduction.

"Ready for Summaaa!!!" she recently tweeted, accompanying the post with a svelte image of herself in blue-jean shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt. It also shows her hair in its trademark pouf, which she said she'd grown tired of last summer.

Polizzi, 23, later tweeted, "As everyones planning their night at the club, I'm wondering when Golds [Gym] closes lol."

The slimmer Polizzi comes just in time for the cast-members' trip to the land of pasta -- specifically, according to TMZ.com, to Florence, Italy, where the Renaissance city's mayor is forbidding the MTV stars to drink in public, according to a long report in the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.