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The Preposterous Rhinoceros picked up the book Skinny Bitch which promises to be “a no-nonsense, touch-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous”. Personally, I’d have thought that the secret to not eating crap was to not eat crap. But that’s just me.

Rhino shares her experiences:

Last year I bought this book with the intention that I would become what the title suggests.

Maybe I’d go a little easy on the “bitch” part of it.

Maybe not.

It didn’t work out and I left the book to rot on my bookshelf.

I cracked it open again yesterday to see if maybe I read it wrong the first time. Nope, same old bullsh!t.

The book is like a really hot chick who all the guys are intrigued by until she opens her mouth to reveal she is a freaky nut job. The reaction is the same as well: Avoid eye contact and bolt like a bat outta hell!

When I started to crack the book open the first time, I grew excited at the thought of “skinny” things like itty-bitty bikinis, tiny Marc Jacobs dresses, skinny jeans,ordering water with lemon in it instead of a chocolate milkshake and those really big shades the Olson Twins always wear.

OK so maybe I’m glad this book was written in the Twilight Zone.

This book is nothing but demeaning insults and vegan propaganda from start to finish. The tone is flippant and the content is misleading.

So here’s the book in a nutshell:

“Wanna look like a model? Of course you do you lazy cow. Now get off your ass, exercise and don’t eat any meat whatsoever. Or processed foods. Oh and no alcohol, caffeine, artificial sweeteners, dairy, meat or refined sugar. By the way you are terrible for eating meat and here is why…Here is a list of unaffordable foods you can only buy at Whole Foods. Maybe. OK so you should totally be a model by now.”

There’s just no substitute for exercise and eating right. And for me “eating right” involves meat. Not a lot, but I definitely include it in my diet.

How about you? Meat, or meatless? And, has anyone found the magic get-skinny pill? Didn’t think so.

Via The Preposterous Rhinoceros: Skinny Bitch: This book makes me feel like I’m on crazy pills

Healthy Habits wrote this on August 3rd, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living |