Product Description

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."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
"...have achieved the seemingly impossible by writing a diet book ... as sassy and entertaining as ... packed with reliable information." -- Energy Times

"...many priceless-yet-unprintable dictums certainly make you laugh in a way few diet books can." -- iVillage

"...there's more solid information about health and nutrition in Skinny Bitch than in most diet and health books..." -- bitch

"Don't hate them--be them. The authors of 'Skinny Bitch' offer women a no-holds-barred approach to being thin and fabulous." -- Metro

"Ready to jump-start 2006 with an electric prod to the system? ...They tell it like it is, and without delicacy." -- Chicago Sun Times

"The authors are brazen...They're not trying to win popularity contests...they just want healthy people." -- Associated Press

"This 224-page gem...tells it like it is." -- Austin American Statesman

"What are you waiting for, you moron? Go buy this book!" -- Florida Today

"What makes this diet easy to swallow is the book's tough-love attitude - part best friend counsel, part drill-sergeant abuse and a dash of sailor mouth, wrapped in a pretty chick-lit package." I-Village, Diet and Fitness"

"A funny foul-mouthed ode to adopting a vegan diet." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author
Kim Barnouin is a former model who has a Master of Science degree in holistic nutrition.

Rory Freedman, a former agent for Ford Models, is a self-taught "know-it-all" who has studied diet, health, traditional, and holistic nutrition for more than ten years.

They live in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

Buy this book for what it is, not what it says it is
It's not that I object to messages about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle (which many of my close friends practice btw) or that I mind direct, candid, witty communications. HOWEVER - I strongly object to being mislead into making a purchase by positioning that totally misrepresents the intent of the manufacturer or in this case, the authors. The last page says it best "P.S. Wait! We have a confession to make. We really couldn't care less about being skinny." which follows by we only care about the health of the readers, blah blah blah - I believe that the vegan lifestyle is absolutely a healthy CHOICE for people who choose to adopt it. However, when I bought this book, I was just looking for some no-nonsense reminders about the basics - eat less, eat whole foods, excercise more, and maybe a specific philosophy. I was not looking for miracles at all. To combine the approach of speaking in absolutes (which are valid in the first couple of chapters on vices and sugar) with an agenda that is based partially on a special interest/agenda and insinuating that it's the only path to weight loss - and even worse HEALTH - is totally unethical. If you want to make the argument for a vegan lifestyle - be up front and make the argument and sell the book under that pretense. It's completely possible to attain the same goals by balancing one's diet, cutting vices, exercising regularly and omitting processed foods. I know, I've done it, but like most people, sometimes I selectively forget and get off course. Bought the book for a laugh and reminder post-holiday of reality and instead was totally turned off - enough for this to be my first review on Amazon. Of anything. Love my vegan peeps - hate this book.

hated it!
I was on board with this book (in audio form) initially, then they got into meat, and were really zealots about it! I have nothing against Vegan folks, to each their own, but this book was disguised as a funny get real book about weight loss, that turned into some kind of podium for why we must all be Vegan! Shame on you for not being more upfront about what this book is really about.

Waste of money and time
This book is a misleading waste of time. I couldn't get past half way through and that was only by making myself keep reading. Why the "f" word is needed is beyond me. This is not really about getting skinny, staying skinny or anything else of that nature. This book is about bashing the cattle industry, the dairy industry and anything that doesn't have to do with being a vegan. Whoop tee doo!!! They need to just say up front that they hate people who eat anything except vegatables and fruits and that we are going to burn hell along with anyone who has anything to do with the food industry.. except that is the organic vegatabally fruity industry... WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!!!!