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If you want to keep eating meat, don't read chapters 4, 5, and 6. And maybe past that.
It's a good intro book if you're interested in going vegan or losing weight. Lots of subjects were touched on but not explored in-depth. I'd definitely recommend it to someone who wants a quick overview of vegan topics.
Although the book gets a little too gory for my taste at times, I think it's great. They weren't kidding about the tough love part, that's for sure.
I think I liked French Women Don't Get Fat, better, simply because I'm not sure I would like either of these girls. Granted, I'm already not a meat-eater, and they do bring about some interesting points, etc. I would LOVE to stop wearing leather and drinking milk, eating butter and cheese, I even tried, inspired by this book (not to stop wearing leather, baby steps...)but to be vegan. Here's what I found: I'd rather not eat. Ie: I'd rather starve myself. I never felt full, and, unless I had an hour to devote to preparing pasta, sauteed veggies and bred with olive oil, I didn't eat. Try to be vegan and make a quick thirty minute snack...vegan cheese sucks and it is not alvacado season and the night I decided to throw in the towel I had macaroni and cheese, green beans with butter and corn bread. Know why? Because that's what I like.
My decision to read this book was largely based on watching No Country for Old Men. I saw the guy get shot in the head with a cow stunner and just really lost it. Yes, that's awful. That's why I don't eat meat, and yes, I believe these two ladies when they say there's puss in milk. I'd believe almost anything about mistreatmetn of animals because it's pretty gastly in those slaughter houses.
But, I do not believe restriction and deprication is a plausible means for weight loss. That's called annorexia and I think it's going to give millions of girls a little bit of brain muscle behind their anxieties so they can further mask their relunctance to put a calorie in their face.
Knowledge is always good, but this book is a real how to for food avoidance, which most thirteen year-old girls are pretty good out without help...so are some twenty-something year-old girls. Raise your hand if you don't like "carbs" or you're not a beer drinker? Or maybe you don't like chocolate, sweets? See people, that's the funny thing about food--it's diverse. Don't like chocolate? Fine, but what are the chances you don't like pie or creme brulee, either? Sweets are treats for a reason and no, I don't believe it when you tell me you don't like it.
Instead, I think the French approch is best: eat thoughtfully, use your head, but extremes are never good, nor are they likely to work long-term. If you really become a master of deprivation then you're always going to be that weird-o that eats of your friends plates, snagging fries and dipping them in in and out shakes when nobody is looking. Don't want to hurt animals? Me either. And, if you're really not wearing leather and in it to win it and that's your life, I wish you the best and actually respect that, but this is a very slippery slope. Ultimately I felt like these girls were playing the ends against the middle: "eating too much of anything is unhealthy," but then they're telling us to pig out on nuts, alvacado and the like...that's still eating "an abundance" of something...the best is to be a concious eater, not hungry, pissed off and, let's face it, poorly dressed. This should not be a diet, it should be a very thought-out, careful decision, not a new reason not to eat or heavily restrict what you do eat.
My decision to read this book was largely based on watching No Country for Old Men. I saw the guy get shot in the head with a cow stunner and just really lost it. Yes, that's awful. That's why I don't eat meat, and yes, I believe these two ladies when they say there's puss in milk. I'd believe almost anything about mistreatmetn of animals because it's pretty gastly in those slaughter houses.
But, I do not believe restriction and deprication is a plausible means for weight loss. That's called annorexia and I think it's going to give millions of girls a little bit of brain muscle behind their anxieties so they can further mask their relunctance to put a calorie in their face.
Knowledge is always good, but this book is a real how to for food avoidance, which most thirteen year-old girls are pretty good out without help...so are some twenty-something year-old girls. Raise your hand if you don't like "carbs" or you're not a beer drinker? Or maybe you don't like chocolate, sweets? See people, that's the funny thing about food--it's diverse. Don't like chocolate? Fine, but what are the chances you don't like pie or creme brulee, either? Sweets are treats for a reason and no, I don't believe it when you tell me you don't like it.
Instead, I think the French approch is best: eat thoughtfully, use your head, but extremes are never good, nor are they likely to work long-term. If you really become a master of deprivation then you're always going to be that weird-o that eats of your friends plates, snagging fries and dipping them in in and out shakes when nobody is looking. Don't want to hurt animals? Me either. And, if you're really not wearing leather and in it to win it and that's your life, I wish you the best and actually respect that, but this is a very slippery slope. Ultimately I felt like these girls were playing the ends against the middle: "eating too much of anything is unhealthy," but then they're telling us to pig out on nuts, alvacado and the like...that's still eating "an abundance" of something...the best is to be a concious eater, not hungry, pissed off and, let's face it, poorly dressed. This should not be a diet, it should be a very thought-out, careful decision, not a new reason not to eat or heavily restrict what you do eat.
This book had some interesting parts but I was kind of pissed about it's hidden agenda of recruiting vegetarians. I am not interested in being a vegetarian nor do I need to be tricked into it. The book, I felt, was deceiving as it was made out to be about weight loss but was actually about how eating meat is cruel to animals. I'm going to eat a cheeseburger now.
Great book! I absolutely love the no-nonsense approach and straight talk.
I loved this book. It was very insightful. It was also very "tough-love" as the title says. It slaps you in the face, calls you names, and pretty much shames you into eating better.
This is an OK book. The first half tells you what you need to do to become a "Skinny Bitch" and the other half is a meal plan + which brands/food stuffs they recommend.
Generally it is an OK book, with some good information and I know it has helped numerous people. However I do have some issues, outlined below.
1) The way it is written, is very choppy and some parts feel quite rushed and ill-explained. It feels a little like it is saying YOU MUST DO THIS OR YOU WON'T LOSE WEIGHT. It essentially winds up telling you to go vegan, which is fine (I am already vegan) but some people aren't ready/don't want to so it's a little wasted, plus with the way its written its not likely to make some people change their minds as they might be left with more questions than answers.
2) The language. There is a lot of foul language, which for a lot of people (I feel) it will be quite off putting and they'll just stop reading. They're using shock factor and for some people, that works. However for a lot of people (such as myself) its annoying, can be quite offensive and people generally don't like being condescended, which happens a lot.
3) This issue isn't really the book's fault, as it is an American book and I am in the UK, but 25% of it is the food recommendations, and of course, they're American and unavailable in the UK so useless to me.
4) The meal plan; I feel is too low-calorie. If you are eating a vegan diet, you are generally eating plant based (unless you're a junk food, processed food vegan) and need a lot of food to get adequate calories. Also as you most likely aren't eating junk, its okay to eat more than you probably think and you'll still lose weight. If you eat too few calories, you're more likely to 'fall off the wagon' and go back to eating meat and dairy as your body will crave high calorie, fast food sources (generally if you are vegan for weight loss/diet)
5) I disliked how it was mostly all 'become a vegan so you'll lose weight', with a little of 'oh its good for the planet and animals' etc. But I guess that sells books better.
Generally it is an OK book, with some good information and I know it has helped numerous people. However I do have some issues, outlined below.
1) The way it is written, is very choppy and some parts feel quite rushed and ill-explained. It feels a little like it is saying YOU MUST DO THIS OR YOU WON'T LOSE WEIGHT. It essentially winds up telling you to go vegan, which is fine (I am already vegan) but some people aren't ready/don't want to so it's a little wasted, plus with the way its written its not likely to make some people change their minds as they might be left with more questions than answers.
2) The language. There is a lot of foul language, which for a lot of people (I feel) it will be quite off putting and they'll just stop reading. They're using shock factor and for some people, that works. However for a lot of people (such as myself) its annoying, can be quite offensive and people generally don't like being condescended, which happens a lot.
3) This issue isn't really the book's fault, as it is an American book and I am in the UK, but 25% of it is the food recommendations, and of course, they're American and unavailable in the UK so useless to me.
4) The meal plan; I feel is too low-calorie. If you are eating a vegan diet, you are generally eating plant based (unless you're a junk food, processed food vegan) and need a lot of food to get adequate calories. Also as you most likely aren't eating junk, its okay to eat more than you probably think and you'll still lose weight. If you eat too few calories, you're more likely to 'fall off the wagon' and go back to eating meat and dairy as your body will crave high calorie, fast food sources (generally if you are vegan for weight loss/diet)
5) I disliked how it was mostly all 'become a vegan so you'll lose weight', with a little of 'oh its good for the planet and animals' etc. But I guess that sells books better.
I’d give this book a zero if I could. This was the first of two books that catapulted me into an eating disorder 12 years ago that landed me in a residential treatment facility and almost cost me my life. It’s incredibly harmful — fatphobic, healthist, ageist, etc. Do not read.