my review of skinny bitch
after finishing this book up i have a few things to say and insights for those of u who where interested in reading it.....honestly....i dont know weather to say do or don't so i still think you guys should read it for discussion sake...heres what i have to say
ok so, the book starts off wonderful i loved the first 3rd of the book it was both informative and funny....(when i wrote my first blog about it ) it all acctually has something to do with the title!!! after that .the language gets to be a little much after a while which has to be alot for me to say, i talk like that anyway but after a while it got old and kind of insulting to your intellegence.....i have a tough skin and don't get offended easily but after a while its juvenile to curse that much just because you can...and a little tacky...they used it as a hook, starting with the title. It's called marketing. so yea it works...after all the 'facts' they provided (many from PETA which is questionably ethical as an organization in itself) and the one models masters degree in holistic medicine? ( that has no accreditation at all) it has like all things strong negatives and positives alike...
positives are that it makes a very good attempt at allowing readers to be informed about health...being aware that our government is corrupt and shitty (we know) and to always read labels...They also stress that you should take it at your own pace and cut out the vices that you can in a timeframe that works for you - smoking, sugar, artificial sweeteners, etc. which is also important....The information on high fructose corn syrup was good, as well as some of the information on conventional methods of raising beef and dairy. Although even the good points had sketchy information behind them.
negatives.....you have NO IDEA what you bought...it has NOTHING about 'VEGAN' lifestyle plan on the cover, in the first few chapters, or on the back, genius marketing as it is i felt duped!! it is a forced platform for veganism which comes out of nowhere and is not basically, what i bought the book for...it contains no dietary lifestyle plan OTHER than vegan...for which i am not down...at one point they are like, "so now that your vegan" and the rest is how to live like a vegan and NOTHING about being skinny....to which they repeat at then end when they are like oh yea, this isnt a diet plan to get skinny......WHAT????????? ugh.....they are trying far too hard to sound unapologetically snide about anyone who ISNT a vegan.....i got this quote from a woman's review on amazon..."'the attempt was to distance veganism away from the image of flowing hippie skirts and birkenstocks, and towards that of an Oscar de la Renta cocktail dress and manolos. I'm not sure that trading in one stereotype for another was the most productive way to get their point across'"
i think she is totally right...i dont agree with alot of the "statistics" they provided on the dairy industry...but they too are bias to their own lifestyle...we have been milking cows for hundreds of years and YES it does have beneficial dietary uses...jeeze come on! i do however agree free range organic milk is BEST........i do also agree Americans as a whole are brainwashed by the meat & dairy industries!
shouldnt all of us be reducing the amount of processed foods in our diets, no matter what we're eating? i dont buy into their soapbox veganism as the only way of loosing weight.....there are other methods to obtain a healthy weight without becoming vegan or eating over processed soy based foods! the books states that you shouldn't eat breakfast until you're very hungry and then not eat lunch until you're famished. anyone who knows anything about nutrition and metabolism issues knows that it is better to eat first thing in the morning to get your body going and then to eat every few hours throughout the day to keep the metabolism up....not to mention being famished leads to binging.....for that statement they are truely assholes....
I felt that this book had some interesting information in it but it then was way too extreme for someone looking for a common sense plan. I am still concidering the possibility of becoming a vegitarian based souly upon my desire to do so before this book and my feelings towards the cruelty of animals...i hate the idea of knowing that what im eating contributed to the pain and mutilation of a pig or a cow...i don't know...I love my animals and I could never see them suffer like that. The chapter that talks about slaughter brought tears into my eyes. i was reading outloud to my mom and i started crying....the beef and pork is what got me to be honest with you ....i can't fly with the fish thing i will still be eating fish..asian cultures have sustained on fish for hundreds of thousands of years and live the longest and healthiest lives!! so in the words of their oh so witty banter...DUH.....and i am barely with them on chicken....they are overpopulated, practically brainless animals...and to be honest i think they are a gift from god as a natural food source they have so many dietary gifts to offer and well...I like chicken on my salad and I think they are dumb! the inhumane killing process is however a problem but im not quite sure what the altnerative is, especially because so many of the chickens are contaminated with salmonella im not sure id want organic either....i am possibly just cutting out processed beef and only doing free range organic...and pork...ll let u guys know what i decide and why