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Picked up for $2 at the book sale. Had more content and facts than expected.
hmmm, at first i was like oh this should be a light, funny read about things i like to read about - food and health. but then it started getting creepy. i felt by the end the authors were promoting starvation and even at one point told you flat out, "Do not eat until you are starving" sure, if you want to be skinny then do that. but skinny does not equal healthy.
i don't read these books to go on a diet. i already live a very healthy lifestyle, make my own meals every day, avoid high fat/fried anything and exercise 5-7 days a week. i don't need this book, but i like reading them to see others perspectives. but for the people that do need this book, i would highly recommend something that promotes a healthy lifestyle, and not a skinny lifestyle (there is a difference).
this book went a bit too far with the cursing. shit man, i curse like a sailor and i understand that when you write you should be yourself and so writing fat ass or bitch every now and then is just apart of you. but this book took it too far, to the point of being annoying and tactless, and well, something an annoying and tactless skinny bitch would sound like. if you like being treated that way, then read this book. i just hope i never meet the authors or have friends like this in my personal life.
i did learn some things, and at one point almost cried when reading about what the farmers had to say about killing cows. i'm a meat eater, but not to extreme. i can see their points, but this book is clearly a guide to being vegetarian and they should've noted that on their shitty cover. as if the unproportioned model wasn't enough.
i also thought it was interesting that some of the foods they suggested to buy were packaged goods. a lot of canned and frozen foods like organic burritos. with all the shit they talked about over and over again, and then suggest annie's organics seemed weird to me. basically the way i see it, anything in a package probably has lots of salt or sugar in it. sure, it's organic, but that doesn't mean it's healthy just because they slap an special label on it.
i also didn't understand why they were pushing soy so much. soy is not a wonder drug to cure you of your milk habit. people are still trying to figure soy out and what it's doing to our bodies, so before you swear by this book and eat/drink only soy do some internetting on subject.
to note, i did find this book interesting up until the last few chapters. but by the last chapter it seemed as thought they were telling you to be anorexic. it was actually a bit disturbing. and i wish it hadn't ended on that note. i understand fasting can be fine, i'm not sure once a month is necessary but i've never fasted so what do i know. but i thought it was funny that the side effects they mentioned felt a lot like the side effects on many of the foods they were dissing. i have considered fasting, but if it starts giving me headaches and feeling nauseous then why torture my body? i rather eat a quiona salad and feel healthy then not eat for a day and feel sick. that part just didn't make sense.
and then the kicker. at one point they said that for breakfast all you need is an apple and to eat it one slice at a time, in 10 minute increments. oh god, did this piss me off. breakfast should definitely consist more of just an apple, and doesn't have to be eaten sooooo slowly. who are they kidding? believe me when i say i am fit. i wear a size 2/4. i run races, swim, hike and eat all the grains/veggies/fruits in the world. so when a book tells me that breakfast should be an apple eaten in an hour i want to scream at them for telling unhealthy people that this is the way to go. there is a way to eat a breakfast that is good for you and having just an apple eaten in turtle's pace won't suffice.
in conclusion and gosh, this is the longest review i've given so i must have a conclusion. read it for a laugh and discuss with your girlfriends, but please don't make this book your go-to guide to maintaining a happy, healthy life.
i don't read these books to go on a diet. i already live a very healthy lifestyle, make my own meals every day, avoid high fat/fried anything and exercise 5-7 days a week. i don't need this book, but i like reading them to see others perspectives. but for the people that do need this book, i would highly recommend something that promotes a healthy lifestyle, and not a skinny lifestyle (there is a difference).
this book went a bit too far with the cursing. shit man, i curse like a sailor and i understand that when you write you should be yourself and so writing fat ass or bitch every now and then is just apart of you. but this book took it too far, to the point of being annoying and tactless, and well, something an annoying and tactless skinny bitch would sound like. if you like being treated that way, then read this book. i just hope i never meet the authors or have friends like this in my personal life.
i did learn some things, and at one point almost cried when reading about what the farmers had to say about killing cows. i'm a meat eater, but not to extreme. i can see their points, but this book is clearly a guide to being vegetarian and they should've noted that on their shitty cover. as if the unproportioned model wasn't enough.
i also thought it was interesting that some of the foods they suggested to buy were packaged goods. a lot of canned and frozen foods like organic burritos. with all the shit they talked about over and over again, and then suggest annie's organics seemed weird to me. basically the way i see it, anything in a package probably has lots of salt or sugar in it. sure, it's organic, but that doesn't mean it's healthy just because they slap an special label on it.
i also didn't understand why they were pushing soy so much. soy is not a wonder drug to cure you of your milk habit. people are still trying to figure soy out and what it's doing to our bodies, so before you swear by this book and eat/drink only soy do some internetting on subject.
to note, i did find this book interesting up until the last few chapters. but by the last chapter it seemed as thought they were telling you to be anorexic. it was actually a bit disturbing. and i wish it hadn't ended on that note. i understand fasting can be fine, i'm not sure once a month is necessary but i've never fasted so what do i know. but i thought it was funny that the side effects they mentioned felt a lot like the side effects on many of the foods they were dissing. i have considered fasting, but if it starts giving me headaches and feeling nauseous then why torture my body? i rather eat a quiona salad and feel healthy then not eat for a day and feel sick. that part just didn't make sense.
and then the kicker. at one point they said that for breakfast all you need is an apple and to eat it one slice at a time, in 10 minute increments. oh god, did this piss me off. breakfast should definitely consist more of just an apple, and doesn't have to be eaten sooooo slowly. who are they kidding? believe me when i say i am fit. i wear a size 2/4. i run races, swim, hike and eat all the grains/veggies/fruits in the world. so when a book tells me that breakfast should be an apple eaten in an hour i want to scream at them for telling unhealthy people that this is the way to go. there is a way to eat a breakfast that is good for you and having just an apple eaten in turtle's pace won't suffice.
in conclusion and gosh, this is the longest review i've given so i must have a conclusion. read it for a laugh and discuss with your girlfriends, but please don't make this book your go-to guide to maintaining a happy, healthy life.
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.