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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! Paperback – December 27, 2005

by Rory Freedman (Author), Kim Barnouin (Author)

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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."

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“…incredibly informative and entertaining… Co-authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin provide tough-love talk mixed with facts and common sense...

Freedman and Bamouin speak to the reader like a friend who isn't afraid to tell you what's on her mind. They back up their arguments by citing study after study and take the technical talk out of the discussion so as to make a more easily digested point.

This is the first "diet" book I've ever read that has made me laugh out loud numerous times. That being said, since no one warned me, I'll let you in on a secret - the book will gross you out. In the same vein as Fast Food Nation, there are graphic descriptions of factory farming and unsanitary dairy farm practices. It was easy for me to put down Fast Food Nation but this book is so funny, I had to keep going.

Almost immediately, I was one of the transformed. In fact, as soon as I got halfway through Chapter 4, "The Dead, Rotting Decomposing Flesh Diet", I had to call and change my dinner plans because I decided to go vegan on the spot.

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Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin started a movement when they wrote their bestselling manifesto, Skinny Bitch. Both a wake-up call and a kick in the ass, Skinny Bitch exposed the horrors of the food industry while inspiring people to eat well and enjoy food. They both live and pig out in Los Angeles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Running Press Adult; Original edition (December 27, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0762424931
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762424931
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #121,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #444 in Vegan Cooking (Books)
- #673 in Weight Loss Diets (Books)
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Kimberly Ann Barnouin was born on February 27, 1969. Yes, she has included her year of birth, she's in her 40's and proud of it. She was born in Rhode Island but grew up in Maryland. Both states were way too cold for Kim so she moved to Miami Beach in her mid 20's to thaw out. She now resides in Southern California with her hot French husband and their 4 year old son Jack.
She is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Skinny Bitch, and Skinny Bitch in the Kitch, as well as Skinny Bitchin, Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven, and Skinny Bastard. She released her first solo book Skinny Bitch Ultimate Everyday Cookbook in October of 2010.
She is the founder of her website www.healthybitchdaily.com, a fun and informative green living guide for women.
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Soroma

Crass? Duh, look at the title! Informative and smart? Yeah!

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2007

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I knew this book was seriously in favour of being vegan, which is great for me since I've been having the damndest time un-lapsing from vegan-ness, although I'm a huge supporter of PETA and have seen "Meet Your Meat" several times (if you haven't seen it, do a Google search. It will change your way of thinking, and if it doesn't, then you just suck and have the morals of Dubya. Sorry, but true.) All I have to say is "Whoa Nelly!" This book rocked my socks. The visual images of "MYM" are crazy disturbing, but combined with the in-depth reseach the authors of Skinny Bitch provide (these ladies did their homework, for shizz), I am totally rededicated to being vegan! They talk about all sorts of poisons and pesticides found in animal products...but what really did it was the flashback to "The Jungle:" the USDA and FDA are doing jack to regulate our food. I knew this already, but I didn't exactly realize to what extent. If you've read "The Jungle," you know what kind of utter nastiness and cruelty goes on in industrial farming (rotten meat being sold, insect-infected meat ground up and supplied to the military), but reading quotes from actual *present* day workers blew my mind: it STILL goes on! The cruelty, moral decripitude and unsanitary conditions are boggling. Dairy addict that I am..er..WAS, reading about infected teats oozing pus THAT NONETHELESS ARE BEING MILKED kicked Ben and Jerry right out of my mind. Cherry Garcia with Pus Chunks!? No thank you!

Yeah, the book curses. Didn't you figure that out by the title? If you want something academic or polite, look elsewhere. I love all the people who rate it low because of the vulgarity...again, couldn't you tell by the title? Fact of the matter is, these girls aren't just L.A. Airheads: they have done some serious research (10+ pages of sources, if you must know). No, they're not doctors. But how many of you have had doctors give INEFFECTIVE suggestions for weight loss? Oh, you too? My point exactly.

A lot of people get defensive because no one wants to be called a bad guy for eating meat, eggs and dairy. Well, no one used to think there was a problem with fur either. Or cigarettes. Or hitting your kid with a belt. We're not ostriches, so get your head out of the ground and face up to your actions. I'm not perfect...I used to live off of bacon egg and cheese sandwiches. But having maintained a 50lb weight loss over four years by being vegetarian/vegan, I can speak from experience that it's much harder (not impossible, but *harder*) to be severely overweight if you're cutting out (or down) on animal products. And for those of you that claim this book is propaganda: check out the funding of the Meat and Dairy industries to OUR POLITICIANS. Check out the amount of former lobbyists for the Meat, Egg and Dairy industry that are now employed by our government. Check out all the ads like "Beef: it's what's for dinner," or "Got Milk?" funded, at least in part, by the UDSA. THAT's propaganda: uninformed, non-sited messages braodcast regularly.

This book is entertaining, informative and real. Cheers to these ladies for bringing veganism to the mainstream!

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A book that finally change the way I eat and feel healthy and fulfilled with the new way of eating

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2010

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Disclaimer: Please excuse my spelling, I moved to the States when I was 27 from Asia so please bare with my spelling.

This is the best "diet book" I ever read. The tough love style of depicting the stomach turning facts of the how the whole meat industry work, the references they quote in everything they wrote is very informative. I suspect some of the one start reviews are written by people who have direct interest or connection with the meat industry (I noticed a lot of the people who gave one star to this book this is the only review they gave in their profile. Makes me wonder did they just create a username to give a review to this one book??? Hey, the meat industry is a multi-billions dollars industry, I'm sure they want to fight back because this book is detrimental to their business) The food industry are very powerful and have lobbyist just as wall street, pharmaceutical companies and tobacco companies. The book as powerful and knowledgeable as Skinny Bitch is a threat to the meat industry because of the popularity of this book.

As far as for me, I went vegan after I read this book 3 weeks ago mainly because I was so disgusted by the animal cruelty, the insanitary handling in the meat factories, and the knowledge in the book that our saliva and digestive systems are ill equipped to digest meat as we only secrete 1/10 of the enzyme as needed to digest food as the carnivores. In three weeks following the guidelines in this book: no meat, no diary product, no soda ( I still cheat by drinking coffee every other day or so) I have lost 10 lbs and I can feel the change in how my body feels. First of all because I only eat whole grain/brown rice and avoid any kind of processed carbs, I don't experience the hunger pangs I always felt every 4 or 5 hours my whole life. I used to feel such anxiety and starving and "have to eat or I'll die" every 4 hours because of the yoyo effects of blood sugars in my body when I was eating processed carbs (white bread, white rice, refined sugar products), now after my meal I feel a sustained energy and feeling of "full" for 6 or 7 hours at a time, and I don't feel the anxiety that I had to eat or I'll die because of the yoyo effects in my blood sugar by eating simple carbs. I feel so much healthier, lighter, the bloatedness I always felt is gone, and I lost 10 lbs in 3 weeks. I purchased dozens of other diet books such as "fit for life" or so many of raw food books and the u.s dietician's nutrition facts book, none of the books I read in the last 10 years in my effort in trying to lose weight has ever have the lasting effect for me to really stick to the new way of eating as this book inspired me.

Don't listen to me or any other people here. Try cut out meat and dairy product for a week and see what your body tells you. You will not want to go back.

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Bri

Inspiring resource!

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2024

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This book is chock-full of facts and figures about how processed foods and non-plant-based foods wreck us from the inside out. Although it’s hetero-normative and fat-phobic, it still serves a purpose. Don’t eat animal products or chemicals. Period.

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Amandeep Singh

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Brutual Honest ... Must Read

Lindsey

Vegan guide

Reviewed in Mexico on July 18, 2017

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Its a guide to eating vegan that was written before anyone knew what "vegan" was. Its a very easy read.

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seraphima

Quick read but full of eye-opening information about why we're ...

Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2017

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Quick read but full of eye-opening information about why we're fat and sick. Since reading this book I've cleaned up my diet without restricting any calories whatsoever and see and feel my body returning to its natural weight. In two months I've become noticeably less pudgy and my face is no longer puffy. My hair is also growing thicker, longer, and shinier again - something it had stopped doing a while ago. But most importantly I feel younger. This book is a life changer. If you want to get healthy and lose weight and look more attractive, then there's some stuff you gotta kick out of your diet. Otherwise you'll be complaining for the rest of your life that you're still fat and "no diet seems to work". They're not supposed to work. Which is why this book doesn't sell you a diet. It's a lifestyle change.

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Martyventy22

Rivela tante cose

Reviewed in Italy on May 1, 2016

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é conciso, e molto ben motivato nel dare informazioni. L'unica pecca è che chiaramente è scritto da autrici americane che si focalizzano sul trattamento dei prodotti alimentari dal punto di vista prettamente americano. Parla estensivamente della fabbricazione dei prodotti caseari e del trattamento animali per dare una spiegazione al perché la dieta esclude questi alimenti completamente. Sarebbe interessante se esistesse una versione europea che tratti di come noi europei produciamo e trattiamo animali e derivati.

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Anet

Changed my life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2014

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Before reading this book I was a dedicated meat eater, an Atkins type of person. However, such was the power of "Skinny Bitch" that I became a vegan on the day I read it, and never looked back.

The humourous language made the content of the book more palatable, and I'm not 12 years old to either take offence at a few four-letter words or to believe that they actually had me in mind when hurling the abuse. Make no mistake, the authors are very knowledgeable and serious about what they believe in, but at the same time they are trying to appeal to the better you, to awaken your comapssion and help you return to your natural cravings. When I put the book down, I took a long hard look at myself, and realised that it is not a bloody piece of flesh that appeals to me, but a colourful display of fruit and vegetables. I also realised that I wouldn't be inclined (or able) to catch, kill, disembowel and then (!) eat! I'd much rather pull a carrot from the ground.

Eating plants gave me great digestion, an amazing choice of flavours (I'm really excited about my food now), and a clear conscience. I don't have to think about e-coli or other pathogens anymore. My endurance is much better. But even without those benefits, I would have chosen to be vegan because I know it is the right way to be - and therefore for the first time in my life I follow a 'diet' without a slightlest effort.

I am amazed, however, that this really harmless lifestyle can cause so many emotions in others. Those negative reviews - seriously, people? Militant vegans? Agenda? How come eating veggies is suddenly radical? Myself, I am very grateful that Rory nad Kim decided to advertise their beliefs in this very marketable way - way to go b****es!

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