I must take a moment to comment on a book I read recently. It was called “Skinny Bitch” and I guess I should have known by the title that it might be questionable. Swearing doesn’t phase me, but being called names for drinking coffee in the AM? Kind of stupid and pointless and did not do the job of making me want to give it up. I want to revamp my own eating habits just as much as I want to improve those of my girls, but this is not the way for me.
It is a book about becoming a vegan, yet it doesn’t mention that anywhere in the title or the description on the back. I see the value in this lifestyle when one chooses it, but to cram it down our throats with chapters titled “The Dead, Rotting, Decomposing Flesh Diet” is just absurd. I can get past the swearing, the wannabe militant, tough girl attitude and the lack of pure scientific evidence, but the trickery? No thanks. This is a book about a lifestyle change that takes a lot more than a model scout and ‘holistic’ nutritionist to teach healthily.
I was pretty interested when the first few chapters dealt with caffeine and sugar and why we should give them up. Good start. Even the chapter on dairy – it makes me think twice before having a glass of milk to remember that this liquid is meant to help baby calves gain hundreds of pounds in a year. Point taken. The rotting flesh chapter is where they lost me. And then they continued to beat a dead horse…or cow or pig…with a chapter on slaughterhouses. Got it. I’m still craving that chicken dinner I’ve got cooking. For a brief second, I thought, “Hmmm, they are right. We do not have sharp claws and teeth, we mustn’t be meant to hunt animals like lions and tigers do” and then they lost me again with some ridiculous ramble.
The point is – a vegan lifestyle may be great for some – actually would be great for us since my youngest is allergic to milk and eggs. But, seriously…be honest about what you are trying to accomplish with your book and stop cursing. If you thought your message was that powerful, it wouldn’t be necessary. If I were interested in becoming a vegetarian, this might be a good starting point, as it is simple and straight forward. Because I have no interest in doing so, this book was only $14 mistake. Shame on you, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.
Now, where did I put my coffee?
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I know this is WAY late given this post was from April, but I could not agree with you more about that book. I was glad that it somehow wound up on my bookshelf in my house… free of charge… I still don’t know where it came from but I’m glad I didn’t pay $14 for it!
I got about as far as one chapter word-for-word, and then skimmed my way through until I came to the story about the poor pig in the slaughterhouse and the redneck with the fistful of salt. I promptly stopped reading.
Awful.
There is some great info on sweeteners in that book, but man, it is suffocated by the cursing and obnoxiousness.
Way too “in your face” for my taste. But then, it IS called “Skinny bitch”. I guess to a degree maybe we should have expected it.
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OMG so i am really gld I didn’t see this post before I wrote MINE about Skinny Bitch, cuzz yours is cooler! Couldn’t help writing about it tho… anyone who tells me not to drink coffee OR DIet Coke should SUFFER!
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I know this was posted so long ago, but I picked up this book once and was floored. Sorry you wasted your $, but hope you somehow passed it along to someone who could *use* it … if that’s even possible!?!
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To be honest, I pick it up occasionally when I get on the kick to give up coffee. I thought it started out fine, but then just got ridic. It should have been called Skinny Vegan Bitch or at least told us that they suggested a vegan diet as a way to lose weight. Fine for some, not really for me. I’ve yet to see someone who really liked this book.