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A review by redchippednails
Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous! by Kim Barnouin, Rory Freedman
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I originally read this book about a year ago. I had never researched food animal welfare and was mesmerized by the books philosophy and attitude. Unfortunately I felt like I couldn't live up to the books standards of dietary purity and became a lapsed vegan.
Recently I've become more health conscious through my own motives of happiness and wellbeing. Reading other books on Veganism and food politics I can now look back and say that Skinny Bitch's patronizing tone and puritanical diet regime is a horrible way to postulate the Vegan lifestyle. It's advertisement for water fasting and eating nothing but air and fruit for breakfast promotes the myth that all vegans are closeted anorexics. More than that, it promotes such unhealthy practices as normal and cleansing. You can't get skinny by eating vegan alone. Yes, you re far more likely to eat those yummy fruits and veggies that are so good for you, but there are other things like vegan chocolate cake and my beloved peanut butter that will sustain you and keep you going throughout the day. Many of Skinny Bitch's menu options will have you eating less than 1000 calories per day, which is unhealthy even for the strictest of calorie counting diets.
This book hides self-deprivation behind a mask of environmentalism and self-indulgence. Go read How it all Vegan by Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer, or The Way We Eat by Singer & Mason and then come talk to me.
Recently I've become more health conscious through my own motives of happiness and wellbeing. Reading other books on Veganism and food politics I can now look back and say that Skinny Bitch's patronizing tone and puritanical diet regime is a horrible way to postulate the Vegan lifestyle. It's advertisement for water fasting and eating nothing but air and fruit for breakfast promotes the myth that all vegans are closeted anorexics. More than that, it promotes such unhealthy practices as normal and cleansing. You can't get skinny by eating vegan alone. Yes, you re far more likely to eat those yummy fruits and veggies that are so good for you, but there are other things like vegan chocolate cake and my beloved peanut butter that will sustain you and keep you going throughout the day. Many of Skinny Bitch's menu options will have you eating less than 1000 calories per day, which is unhealthy even for the strictest of calorie counting diets.
This book hides self-deprivation behind a mask of environmentalism and self-indulgence. Go read How it all Vegan by Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer, or The Way We Eat by Singer & Mason and then come talk to me.