—The New York Times Book Review
“What makes this diet easy to swallow is the book's tough-love attitude — part best-friend counsel, part drill-sergeant abuse and a dash of sailor mouth, wrapped in a pretty chick-lit package.”
Don't hate them—be them. The authors of Skinny Bitch offer women a no-holds-barred approach to being thin and fabulous."
— Metro
“The authors are brazen . . .They’re not trying to win popularity contests . . . they just want healthy people.” —Associated Press News Syndicate
“Ready to jump-start [the year] with an electric prod to the system?. . . They tell it like it is, and without delicacy.”
—Chicago Sun Times
“As the authors rightly point out, thanks to slick marketing and food-industry lobbying, we’ve reached such a collective level of ignorance about health and nutrition that a diet telling us to eat lots of meat and no fruit becomes wildly successful. ‘You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin’ they tell us. Harsh? Yes. But it’s also true. …there’s more solid advice in Skinny Bitch than in most diet and health books.”
— Bitch, Anniversary Issue
“By no means for the faint hearted . . . this is as hard hitting as it comes!”
—Hot Stars (UK)
“This diet book doesn’t sugar-coat what you have to do to lose weight.”
—Grazia
“Sensible advice . . .”
—Health & Fitness UK
“Kim Barnouin, a former model with an MS in Holistic Nutrition and Rory Freedman, a former modeling agent, have achieved the seemingly impossible by writing a diet book that’s as sassy and entertaining as it is packed with reliable information.”
— Energy Times
“This book is an absolutely hilarious read because the authors treat you like they know you well. They yell at you, they insult you and they call you some very nasty names. But since they are giving out their strongly-held beliefs and advice on living a healthy lifestyle — and you know in your heart they're right — it is refreshingly in-your-face funny.”
— Cathy Mathias, Florida Today
"Skinny Bitch is outrageous, wickedly irreverent, and right on the mark. Any young woman who pays attention to this book will become healthier, thinner, and more powerful."
— John Robbins, best-selling author of Diet For A New America and Healthy at 100
“Skinny Bitch combines a ‘take no prisoners’ attitude with cogent analysis and scientific proof to make an engaging, wickedly irreverent, and iron-clad case for eating healthfully. If I had it in my power, I’d provide a free copy to every young woman in the developed world; we could then become, instead of the fattest next generation in history, the healthiest.”
— Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA
"Skinny Bitch dishes up scientifically sound information that will change your health and your life. Its 'in-your-face' approach is at once engaging and humorous, and belies its serious and well-researched underbelly. It’s the spark that will start your personal revolution. Pick it up. Read every last word. Healthy and skinny you will be."
— Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D., Senior Nutrition Scientist, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
BUT...
[My favourite part is the endnote...]
P.S. WAIT!! We have a confession to make! We really couldn't care less about being skinny. Our real hope is for you to become healthy. We don't want anyone to become obsessed with getting skinny. When you eat right and exercise, you feel strong and healthy and confident. You start loving your body - not because you lose weight, but because you feel great. It's an inside thing. You're finally treating your body like the temple that it is.
Comparison is the thief of joy! No matter what we do, most of us will never look like supermodels or celebrities. And accepting this will only make our lives better. So what if there is only one standard of beauty perpetuated by Hollywood that you don't fit into? Don't buy into that bullshit. Take excellent care of the body you were blessed with, and love, love, love it!
[Not so skinny bitches after all!]
Here's what "The Hills" Alumni Lo Bosworth had to say about "Skinny Bitch" on
www.thelodown.com/health
A few New Years ago when I needed to make a serious change in my eating habits, I picked up Skinny Bitch, the dieting book written by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. It promised me the ass of my dreams plus more as long as I stopped eating crap and went to the gym, plain and simple. And truth be told, it worked (but that seems obvious, right? If you exercise and don't put 8000 calories into your mouth you're bound to drop a few lbs).
Lately, La Scala's Spaghetti Bolognese has been delivered to my home at least once a week on the regular, and I'm feeling sort of doughy through the middle, so it's time to open up the good 'ol Skinny Bitch once more.
I like this book above all the other fad books I've read because a) the writing is so funny, b) the tone actually energizes you to do what the book says and c) because it provides many useful tips plus the reasoning behind every single one. I appreciate understanding the science behind it all; it makes it easier to do what the book asks when you know why you are doing it.
Now, before we get to my favorite tips and tricks gleaned from the magical pages of Skinny Bitch, let's briefly touch on two topics. First, I'm not doing the vegan thing this go-around. I'm just not, end of story. Second, the book does not advocate scrawniness. The introduction makes it perfectly clear that "you don't need to starve yourself to get skinny...[and] you don't need to spend all day at the gym to get skinny. You just need to smarten up and use your head".
Here are the Skinny Bitch tips that actually work for me:
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Ditch the coffee. Start your morning with a fresh glass of OJ instead. Coffee is highly acidic and causes your bod to produce fat cells. Why? In order to keep the acid away from your organs (16).
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Rather than drink any booze you want, try a glass of organic red wine produced without sulfites. Booze "raises the level of hydrochloric acid in your stomach, wreaking havoc on your digestive process...hence, bloated fat-pig syndrome" (12).
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EAT CARBS!!! Just pick good, complex carbs over simple carbohydrates (which the authors tell us are about as nutritionally beneficial as toilet paper). Simply carbs are made from white flower, white sugar, white rice, etc., and complex carbs are natural grains, like brown rice and whole wheat. Other complex carbs: potatoes, beans, quinoa, and pasta made from brown rice, whole wheat or veggies (23-24).
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Eat fruit for breakfast instead of crap.
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Snack on fresh veggies, Terra chips and Soy Delicious "ice cream" sandwiches.
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