Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous

if you follow this diet, you'll lose weight. if you follow the atkins diet, you'll lose weight. if you follow the south beach diet, you'll lose weight. the question is can you follow the diet? the answer is no. i thought i was buying a book on weight loss. i wasn't. i was buying a treatise about the "evils" of eating meat and i returned the book. i'm not going to argue the right or wrongs of meat eating because i don't have too. what i will argue is that this book was misleading and fraudulent and not worthy of purchasing, publishing, or writing.

Skinny Bitch is a great read, but all of the books are overdependent on soy products as substitutions for meats, dairy, and cheeses. Many will find that they're thyroid is very sensitive to soy.... I wish there were some other options for us bitches who can't eat soy.

Positive comments: The book is pretty informative about the American meat and animal farming industry, though some of the info is significantly out of date.
Negative comments: The book touts veganism as the best way to be skinny and healthy. Exercise is mentioned in maybe one sentence in the entire thing. So unless you are thinking of becoming vegan and want some convincing to put you over the edge, this book may not be the best choice.

I'm honestly surprised at how many people are upset about the language in this book. It's CALLED "Skinny Bitch"! What did you expect, it would be all nice and cosmic like John Robbins? This book has personally saved my life and should, first and foremost, be assessed on its ideas and content--which kicked my booty into getting off junk food and out of the 200-pound range. I do think everyone's metabolism is different and have not gone totally vegan as the authors suggest--some people benefit from some animal protein, it seems--but the basic premise of getting off my butt, eating real food and moving my bod has been essential.

I personally was sick of and bored with the earnest, serious, humorless tone of virtually every other diet book out there, so this was a most refreshing change. I found myself much more receptive to their ideas because I was laughing out loud with every other sentence (except the chapter on slaughterhouse methods, which broke my heart).

Overall, a major thumbs-up if you have an irreverent sense of humor and need a swift kick in the tuckus.

Loaded with helpful nutritional info for diet or healthful purposes.
Gives a realistic view of the end treatment of our animal food line.