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Imagine if TikTok wrote a book, then add those YouTube influencers who never acknowledge their product placement. Perfect for anyone with a humiliation kink.
Not sure how I felt about this book. I loved the message of eating things that nourish your body. I love the nod to the vegan life. But I don’t really want to be called a fat cow and constantly read derogatory language whilst trying to seek self help. Sometimes “no nonsense” just means being mean and feeding into judgemental terminology.
This book is essentially a vegan manifesto (I didn't know that before I started reading the book, although if I had known that, it wouldn't necessarily have turned me off from reading it). Most of the nutritional and health information is available in any number of other books available on the market these days. Some of the arguments for why veganism is healthier are a little weak or inconsistent. The sarcastic tone is fun for a chapter or two, but then it starts to get old, and of course the "corporate America is pure unmitigated evil and its only goal is to make you fat" has also been done to death. It can be an entertaining read, but there are far better books for nutritional and health information.
Well, the title of the book says everything: The authors are (apparently) skinny, and certainly bitches. If you want to be berated about your eating habits via swear words and self-righteous (often boring) writing, this is the book for you. Can you return books for stupidity?
1 star for profanity and unnecessary insulting of the reader. The general message of the book is fine; how the authors deliver that message is not.
First off, I do have to admit that I kind of liked the brash, bitchy tone of this book. Sometimes you really do need a kick the arse to get started on something. However, there was something oddly disconcerting about two women carrying on about how the formaldehyde in soda will preserve the fat in your thunder thighs and then citing complicated scientific data to back that, and other, claims up.
It's not that I wish they hadn't cited so much - in fact, I'm glad they did - it lent some much-needed credibility to some of their claims. But the alternate lecturing in a valley girl tone combined with scientific data just didn't mesh well for me. I think they tried a tad too hard to be irreverent and witty, which kind of throws your scientific/nutritionist cred out the window.
It was an entertaining read though - the chapter about slaughterhouse conditions was particularly thought-provoking and they provided many resources to help one begin a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle (websites, further reading, cookbooks, etc.). The authors also managed to explain rather cogently some denser nutrition-related information.
It's not that I wish they hadn't cited so much - in fact, I'm glad they did - it lent some much-needed credibility to some of their claims. But the alternate lecturing in a valley girl tone combined with scientific data just didn't mesh well for me. I think they tried a tad too hard to be irreverent and witty, which kind of throws your scientific/nutritionist cred out the window.
It was an entertaining read though - the chapter about slaughterhouse conditions was particularly thought-provoking and they provided many resources to help one begin a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle (websites, further reading, cookbooks, etc.). The authors also managed to explain rather cogently some denser nutrition-related information.
Skinny Bitch is a nutrition, diet and lifestyle book by the former-model and former-modeling agent team of self-proclaimed skinny bitches, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. The tone of the book is emphatically bratty “chick lit” which makes it a very fast, sometimes funny, often obnoxious, page turner of a healthy eating book.
My work is health-related, so I didn’t really pick this up looking for personal diet tips - I read this book in one marathon nutrition research session, with the purpose of comparing the different tones authors use to try to reason, cajole and bully people into eating better.
"Skinny Bitches" sure do bully a lot! Sarcasm, expletives and lectures abound, I guess because someone thought that an “edgy” diet book would sell.
I’ll save you a couple hundred pages - here’s the Skinny Bitch diet in a nutshell:
- Go vegan. Meat is disgusting, animal products are disgusting, factory farming practices are disgusting, and YOU are a disgusting fat loser if you don’t agree.
- If you want to replace all of your favorite animal products (such as milk, eggs and cheese) with lab-created processed “vegan products” though - go for it, that’s cool.
- Do not consume any of the following: booze, sugar/sweeteners, fat, caffeine, or refined carbs.
I actually agree with many of these “rules” so it’s sort of an achievement to turn me off as hard as this book did. I’d definitely present the concepts quite differently - and I sure don’t agree with the tired notion that eating fats will make you fat or the idea that vegan processed foods are always better for you because they are vegan. (Most actual nutritionists or doctors would not agree with this nonsense either.) Forgive me if I’m overly skeptical but these authors aren’t dietitians, or nutritionists, or nurses or doctors. Follow their extreme diet and subject yourself to their insulting lectures at your own masochistic peril.
My work is health-related, so I didn’t really pick this up looking for personal diet tips - I read this book in one marathon nutrition research session, with the purpose of comparing the different tones authors use to try to reason, cajole and bully people into eating better.
"Skinny Bitches" sure do bully a lot! Sarcasm, expletives and lectures abound, I guess because someone thought that an “edgy” diet book would sell.
I’ll save you a couple hundred pages - here’s the Skinny Bitch diet in a nutshell:
- Go vegan. Meat is disgusting, animal products are disgusting, factory farming practices are disgusting, and YOU are a disgusting fat loser if you don’t agree.
- If you want to replace all of your favorite animal products (such as milk, eggs and cheese) with lab-created processed “vegan products” though - go for it, that’s cool.
- Do not consume any of the following: booze, sugar/sweeteners, fat, caffeine, or refined carbs.
I actually agree with many of these “rules” so it’s sort of an achievement to turn me off as hard as this book did. I’d definitely present the concepts quite differently - and I sure don’t agree with the tired notion that eating fats will make you fat or the idea that vegan processed foods are always better for you because they are vegan. (Most actual nutritionists or doctors would not agree with this nonsense either.) Forgive me if I’m overly skeptical but these authors aren’t dietitians, or nutritionists, or nurses or doctors. Follow their extreme diet and subject yourself to their insulting lectures at your own masochistic peril.
A little crass, but reinforced why I'm a vegetarian. Made me want to go vegan.
You have to appreciate a book whose narrators often refer to the reader as, "you big fat slob" and other terms of that nature. It also happens to be a good read overall. In fact, for someone who hasn't spent the last few years obsessing about the national food supply, it could be one of the most important books you could pick up. If you haven't already read Fast Food Nation or any Michael Pollan.
But this book is different in that it is written not from the perspective of, "Hey, look how evil and morally corrupt and disgusting our food system is," but a unique, "Hey, our immoral, corrupt, disgusting food system is the reason you have a fat ass" angle. Which sadly, is probably a much more poignant message for a lot of people.
But this book is different in that it is written not from the perspective of, "Hey, look how evil and morally corrupt and disgusting our food system is," but a unique, "Hey, our immoral, corrupt, disgusting food system is the reason you have a fat ass" angle. Which sadly, is probably a much more poignant message for a lot of people.