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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
by Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin
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.