Skinny Bitch
Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, “Soda is liquid Satan” and “You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin,” it’s a rallying cry for all savvy women to start eating healthy and looking radiant. Unlike standard diet books, it actually makes the reader laugh out loud with its truthful, smart-mouthed revelations. Behind all the attitude, however, there’s solid guidance. Skinny Bitch espouses a healthful lifestyle that promotes whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and encourages women to get excited about feeling “clean and pure and energized.”
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars What’s Worse than a Skinny Bitch? Stupid Bitch.
Using scare tactics, faulty science, and stupid logic to freak people out about meat is the pinnacle of bitch.
Humans are omnivores. Meat is complete nutrition in itself. Read the (slightly more scientific) writings of explorer-researcher Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who ate a 90% meat diet with the Inuit and a year-long 100% meat diet as an experiment, and THRIVED. Vegans, on the other hand, have to jump through hoops to meet their nutritional needs. There’s nothing natural about having to take extra supplements and worry about balancing this-and-that. It makes no sense. This bitch is skinny, but she’s also pretty stupid.
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60% propaganda, 20% irrational thinking, 20% typical inspiration diet-book filler.
1 Stars Neither Sane nor Healthy
Are we THIS desperate? Yes. We women are so frustrated and harried about weight that we have kept this piece of garbage in print for four years and helped it spawn a series.
Page 134 presents some trademark lack of logic. They follow a list of unpleasant experiences from headaches to fever and depression during a fast with “Abstaining from food does not cause these ailments. They are simply normal side effects of fasting.” (page 134) So fasting doesn’t cause the unpleasantness, but the unpleasantness is caused by fasting. Riiiight. Page 89 - “Let’s face it; there is no greater pleasure than (having a large bowel movement).” Well, girls, maybe for you. It wouldn’t make my top fifty, but then I’m not a vegan and I have a life, thank you. And they made me giggle when page 88 noted that eating nice vegan avocados won’t “turn you into a hippo” - after all, HIPPOS ARE VEGANS.
There’s not much consistency in what they want you to eat, either. They’re against “unnatural” food. Fine. Veggies and cooked beans, pretty natural. Yogurt and cheese, also fairly natural. Eggs and meat, completely natural. But what do they include in their menus (page 155 and on)? Soy yogurt. Veggie burger. Club sandwich with fake bacon, fake turkey, fake mayo…..Oh, just eat the packaging. It may be closer to something found in nature than this stuff.
IF TRUE, their descriptions of how animals are raised are horrifying. Given how unreliable they are on other topics, though, their stories may not have much to do with reality.
But now, a word about the most dangerous chapter in the book. Chapter 10, “Don’t be a (wimp)”, spends twenty pages urging readers to fast. (Then there’s one paragraph warning that there just might be a few health dangers, for some types of people, maybe. I suspect this was included to keep the publisher’s lawyer from having a heart attack.) How long do our girls suggest that you should fast? In their very own words…”Fasts can last anywhere from twenty-four hours to ten days or more. It’s all up to you and how light, clean, and healthy you want to get. The longer the better…” (page 132) Now, 24 hours of raw food isn’t likely to hurt most people. But ten days OR MORE on just water - which is one of their options? Girls, you’re messing with starvation here.
Want a vegetarian cookbook? Try one of the Moosewood books. Want some new-ageish but informed medical advice? How about Andrew Weil? But don’t, please don’t, trust your health to the Bitches.
5 Stars In love with this book! Took it to the grocery store with me.
I was really pleased after reading this book. I am now on my second day of being a vegan. To be honest im not half tempted to eat meat, every time i see meat now I just think of the way they are treated and it turns me off. I suffer from bi-polar disorder and was recently instructed by my doctor to give up coffee and junk foods because it may aggitate my condition so i was already interested in giving things like these up. I took the book with me to the grocery store and it helped out ALOT. I do want to add that while some products are vegan friendly they can still be un healthy. As in any diet, microwave dinners are not ideal, but acceptable from time to time, So dont go stock up on these items just because they are vegan. It has helped for me to take the meals I used to make and find vegan substitues. This is a great read!
3 Stars Mixed….
I appreciate the fact that the authors act as consumer advocates and encourage readers to find out “truths” within food industries including the cruel treatment of animals and the blind eye of the FDA, which approves “poisons” like artificial sweeteners.
The book however, like its authors, is misleading. Veganism may lower cholesterol and be better for the environment but it will not necessarily make a person skinny. I have eaten many amazing vegan foods that are filled with “healthy” fats from nuts, oils and soybutters not to mention calories from sugars. I am a healthy weight but I never lost any pounds as a vegan. I saw the authors on the Ellen Show pushing vegan cookies and basically saying that a person can eat as much as she wants because they are vegan. Yeah, sure…if you want to be a Fat B****
1 Stars Political Pocket Book
This book is awful. The profanity is completely unnecessary and in fact discredits any factual information attempted to be provided. The author takes hits on America and every food industry that exists. It also accuses America of ruining the health of other countries just to make money. The author doesn’t provide any new information about anything and in some cases provides only half truths. In addition to scaring a listener into becoming a vegetarian, she gives diet “tips” that have been proven to be unhealthy. In the attempts to sell the listener on the concept of “fake meat” (her words, not mine), she totally ignores that most of it is frozen and subject to the same processing that she is so against in other foods. She spends little time on the attributes of exercise, which is essential to all “skinny bitches” and clearly focuses on a vegetarian diet, using examples that are marginally logical at best. The book is not encouraging. It is a lecture that, at the end, makes you feel like you’re a penny waiting for change. The book lacks inspiration and creativity. I believe it is only a best seller because the book jacket promises what the actual content never delivers.
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