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Celebrities Who Read Diet Books
Category: Miscellaneous Celebrities, Jessica Alba, Victoria Beckham
(Thanks to the person who sent me this tip!)
Celebrities read diet books, too! Especially the very popular Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. Victoria Beckham, Jessica Alba and Molly Ferguson are among the celebrities who have been caught with this book.
i love this book!!!!first
love that book
Wow, I hated that book so much. I think it’s just rude to prey on people’s weaknesses to shamelessly promote your own agenda. Yup, for half a day I seriously considered being a vegan then I realised that the crazy Californians that wrote the book must be dodgy as hell if they need to push their beliefs in such an underhanded way. Go meat!
it sounds like a really vapid shallow book. SO hollywood, Like jessica needs to read that book, look how skinny she is already……she needs to be happy with herself…..shes so obsessed……the book should be called insecure bitch.
I think the Spice Girl’s nipples are on steroids!
I bought this book. It is a really good book and they are very smart… definately know what they are talking about. The only thing is they are vegan and everything they eat is organic. I need to eat meat so I couldn’t follow the book. I had no idea it was going to promote veganism until a couple of chapters into the book!!
THE BOOK IS TERRIBLE. It’s basically a guide on how to go vegan (which is fair enough if you actually WANTED A GUIDE ON HOW TO GO VEGAN!)
The authors should be in trouble for misleading marketing/blurbs.
The authors obviously realised they wouldn’t sell any copies of the book if they marketed it as a vegan diet manual. Despite the fact that the majority of chapters are devoted to preaching the benefits of veganism, the word ‘vegan’ or ‘vegetarian’ isn’t used on the front or back of the book or in any marketing (on Amazon for instance). Silly sly bitches.
And we all know for a fact that Victoria Beckham enjoys a seafood based diet to stay slim - she certainly isn’t a vegan.
I think that book is fantastic. You don’t have to go vegan to follow it, either. Even if you just started adopting some of their advice you’d be healthier, and probably thinner.
This book is awful. It’s basically a guide on how to go vegan, which if fine - IF YOU KNEW YOU WERE BUYING A GUIDE ON HOW TO GO VEGAN!
The word ‘vegan’ or ‘vegetarian’ isn’t used anywhere on the front or back of the book or in any marketing for it. It simply calls itself a guide on how to ‘get skinny’ - so of course I was going to buy it!
The authors obviously realised they wouldn’t sell any copies of a vegan manual, so thought it better to treat us like idiots.
And anyway, doesn’t Victoria Beckham stay so tiny on a seafood based diet? She’s certainly not a vegan!
oops, didn’t mean to comment twice. Impatient me. Moderator - feel free to delete one of them (including this one) and keep your favourite! xxx
Hi - I read this book in August and started eating the way they say. I have lost a little over 20 pounds- I was chubby at 5′1 and 132 pounds. I am down to 108 now. I LOVE the book. They are not pushing some secret agenda - they are teaching a very successful weight loss method that happens to also involve not eating meat or dairy. Milk is made to bring a baby cow from 100 pounds to 1000 pounds in six months - if you are trying to lose weight it is pretty obviously not the best choice to consume it - whether you care about cows or not. I am not chubby anymore and I owe it all to that book - if anyone wants to try something unique that works, I really reccomend it!
…I haven’t read the book. I was a vegan for 16 yrs and think it is a good lifestyle for some people {and certainly great for the planet}. I’m not vegan anymore as I now include fish, eggs and sometimes low/non fat cheese in my diet.
Love the title of the book…but I feel like it excludes a lot of people with the vegan approach {and I love vegans/veganism}. Yes, btw, I life in San Francisco.
It is totally possible to NOT be a vegetarian and STILL be healthy and STILL be a skinny bitch and STILL be eco friendly.
As for milk, no one should drink it except babies. Put skim or light soy or rice milk on cereal/in recipes. And no, be reasonable, you can’t eat steak any time you want. How about some lean, skin free chicken? Or salmon? Would it kill you to eat some broccoli? Or fruit when you need something sweet {dessert once a week is fine and good for your psyche!}.
Any diet should really be a healthy lifestyle change than can be maintained. And that means nothing too extreme. If someone can’t live without fried chicken but they need to slim down…there are some great “baked” fried chicken recipes out there…or have your KFC {or whatever} once a week with portion control!
Look hot and eat and live well! It can be done!
i will try that book for sure.
Their secret agenda is so non existent that they devote an epilogue at the very end of the book to the fact they don’t care about people getting thin, they just care about the American meat processing industry. All said, if Victoria Beckham reads it it’s fairly clear it’s not aimed at the brightest of consumers. I’ll agree that if you adopt a number of their tips you’ll loose weight - because you can only eat about 10% of the food products available, most of which are low fat and unappealing. What ever happened to a balanced diet including all food groups?
love it! been vegan since the day i read it, after being a vegetarian for 10 years. feel so much healthier for it!! x
Propeganda dosen’t belong in Diet books. I think I’m going to take a look at the 5 Factor Diet book. Has anyone tried it?
where can i buy this book (but in GERMAN) ?
i´m curious.
jessica alba is obsessed with being skinny.
i luv her body, though.
you can tell she has weight/body issues.
I wanna read that book, though.
I bought this book…and now I have a hard time eating my daily breakfast of cereal with skim milk..
that whole chapter about milk having pus in it really got to me..but i love cereal so muchhhhhh..damn bitches spoiled my favourite food
I read this book before it was mainstream. I was a vegan at the time I purchased the book so I thought it was wonderful. Now, I think it is just a really interesting read. The meal plans in the back of the book are very useful. Also, the authors do make some great points but its not very realistic for most people (no diet soda, no artificial sweeteners, no meat, no cheese, no milk, ect)
I actually re-read the book a week ago.
This book is great!!!! It not only tells you how to get skinny but gives you insight on how horrible they treat animals for human pleasure. Victoria Beckham is a perfect example that if you don’t put junk in your body you can look healthy and skinny. The food in the book is not gross it is natural and our bodies can digest it. I recommend everyone read the book. It helped me loose all my baby weight.
who’s that in the photo after victoria? is that a celebrity or something?
Syndney - Victoria Beckham practically lives on seafood, so she certainly doesn’t follow the “Skinny Bitch” mantra.
She, like me, probably picked up the book completely unaware it was about veganism.
awesome book, i loved it.
as for the ‘vegan agenda’, sorry- thats the reality of things, everything they said was true that doesn’t mean its easy. and please, no one “needs” to eat meat. sick
Victoria Beckham. “Healthy”. *chuckle*.
I think the book raises a lot of interesting points, and I follow a lot of the advice (lots of fruits, veggies, no artificial sweeteners, only whole grains, etc.), but…I’d point out two things: the first being that…it would be extremely expensive and time consuming to follow this diet..(organic food is very expensive, and unless you live in LA where there are plenty of organic, vegan restaurants around, you’d have to prepare all of your food yourself.), and secondly, veganism isn’t necessarily a healthy option for everyone. I followed a vegetarian diet for several years ( I did it the healthy way too- beans, soy, nuts, took a multivitamin religiously-all that good stuff), and my doc said that my iron was dangerously low and that I had to start eating meat again because iron supplements alone weren’t doing it for me.
Victoria needs to learn to keep the nips in check.
All the celebs mentioned are already skinny as hell. That’s just so ridiculous. Perfect role models..
SIGH.
The book has some good advice but I wouldn’t recommend following it religiously. I think the majority of people eat way too much meat and dairy, but done in moderation it can be part of a healthy diet. It’s worth a read but don’t take it too seriously.
i love it …i read it like 5 times i one week
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I read this book and have been vegan for 4 months and have for the first time EVERY peeled off weight slowly and saftly - i have lost 25 lbs, and i feel SO healthy - i highly recomend it. such a great book. seriously. i have done more “diets” that i can count, and this LIFESTYLE is incredible. love love love it
It’s a misleading title. Of course you’re going to lose weight as a vegan - what the hell is there to eat, once you take out meat, dairy, and sugar? I skimmed the book, and I was revolted at the authors’ angry, condescending tone of voice.
Save your money, ladies. There are kinder, gentler books out there if you want to become a vegan.
haaaaaaaaate that book. who is the girl in the last picture?
i was gonna buy it is it a good one? does it work?
All these celebs holding the book for the paparazzi all look like one big FAT marketing scheme…
And of course if you cut out 2 of the main food groups minus fat/sugar/junk you WILL LOOSE WEIGHT!
And the idea of not drinking milk because a baby calf drinks it to be 1000 pounds is soo absurd - its like saying, when you’re an 8pound baby, and you have nutrients to grow into a 110pound adult, you must be eating lard 24 hours a day. NO way! Cows just have a shorter life span and their nurturing stages are alot shorter than humans.
Whatever happened to the ATKINS diet then who claimed to be the secret to weight loss?? Doesnt this book contradict this - basically HIGH CARBS, LOW MEAT and FAT.
Bottom line is its another marketing ploy preying on a multibillion dollar industry where society is obssesed with image.
Eat a balanced diet - you can pretty much eat anything if you eat in moderation. Mixed with exercise and you can have a tasty diet minus the pounds.
…….Now Im gonna buy that book to see what all this fuss is about….. =P
anyone who wants to read this book, let me save you the time and money, the whole thing can be cut short to one word: vegan.
there are no special tips, or other truly insightful information in regards to losing weight.
I love this book.
…Sorry for posting twice–but one other thing I wanted to mention, when I was vegan I actually weighed more than I do now. I ate a lot of carbs {though low fat}. Now granted, I could have done vegan differently, but just so you know, I was heavier vegan.
If someone becomes a vegan, then obviously you are going to lose weight. It’s not rocket science. You cut out meat, dairy, and sugar? You do the math. You don’t have to buy a stupid book to become a vegan to lose weight. It’s just a scheme to get people to stop eating meat, dairy products, and sugar, and surprise surprise, you lose weight in the end! Wow, what a genius.
Ellie- That is incorrect. Many vegans do not eat healthy foods and are actually overweight. Many vegans eat pounds of bread… I know I did! You have to be very careful to create a balanced vegan diet. This book does show you how to do that but I think most people would be surprised to learn that many Vegans and vegetarians are actually overweight.
the writing style of the book is miserable. the content equally poor - full of half-truths and interpretations to push what they view as right. of course, most of us havent really acquainted ourselves enough with chemistry and physiology so we tend to think that anything that has clever ’science’ words thrown in must be correct.
so if you think being rude and swearing is super cool and really really envy models and you like being told what to do - then this is a book for you.
for the rest - there are much much better nutrition books around than this wannabe sensationalist ‘height of cool’.
there are fat vegans, not many but if you learn to cook you can be a fat vegan, the reason i think many get skinny being vegans is they dont know how to make a tasty meal out of their limted choices
or they just are obsessed with being skinny
i dont like diet books, i may buy healthy cook books, but i dont need someone to tell me i should eat less saturated fat and sugar or less in general if i want to lose wieght
its amazing! i borrowed it from a friend for like an hour and fell in love..i ordered my own copy.
I’ll heed your warnings about this book, but I still want to see it for myself, so I’ll check it out from the library instead of buying it.
Oh and while I understand the consequences cattle raising has in the environment, I believe we must find ways to minimize the its impacts, instead of crucifying meat, because no matter what we do we affect the environment. Our mere presence is contributing to the planet’s deterioration, so it’s a bit too much to single out the meat industry for our environmental issues.
its a shame that people seem to have such negative attitudes towards veganism. it can be a perfectly healthy way of living.
having said that it is stupid to think that you automatically lose weight by going vegan. you could eat loads of nuts (very high in calories), have all the ‘fake meat’ stuff that is really high in fat and make yourself vegan cakes, cookies that is just like regular junk food.
obviously that is nothing like the diet promoted in the book but just wanted to point out that a vegan lifestyle doesnt automatically mean you lose weight. to lose weight you have to eat less than you burn off, the source of calories doesnt really matter (although obviously some food fill you up more than others).
i am a vegan and eat really healthily- wholegrain carbs, lots of pulses like chickpeas, beans etc as well as soya products like tofu and plenty of fruit and veggies. i do weigh less than i did when i ate meat which i think is because foods that vegans tend to eat are very filling (beans and grains have loads of fibre).
i was overweight and i bought this book and after 4-5 months i got skinny …great book …but i drink milk and do sport …and taking rules by book…i did it and you can also!!
Good luck with book….
My guess is that this is the only book that some of you have ever read . . .
Knock all this book you want…i read this book months ago and by becoming a vegetarian and excersing properly i have droped 36 pounds and love life soo much more. I never feel bloated or over stuffed and my energy and happiness has improved tremendously. PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK it’s something i’ve recommended to my friends and family and we’ve all jumped on the vegetarian/health wagon and are all advocates to this change in your lifestyle. Look into it, i’m positive you WON’T regret it!
To Dark Angel I have to say that cows live 30 years if we don’t kill them when they are 2, and their gestation period is 11 months and they care for their babies for a year, again, if we let them. Thus - when you consume milk, you are consuming something that is meant to fatten up an animal that will be over 1000 pounds when you are supposed to way a few hundred at most. Also - these girls dont have a marketing scheme - when the book went into print initially - years ago! - only 10,000 copies were printed. It has slowly grown in popularity because it works and it is amazing - now the celebs are on it too, but it is far from a marketing scheme. Please read it and tell us what you think - I hope you love it - it defintely has a lot more info than JUST saying to be Vegan and as long as you take their tone as a joke and not as condemnation - then it is hysterical.
Vegan Freak, I don’t have anything against veganism. I have something against the authors of this book, who wrote a mean-spirited tome. I myself don’t eat red meat because I’ve found it disgusting since I was five years old, but I do enjoy eating fish.
It doesn’t matter - the authors will sell a ton of books simply because of the title. However, few people will be able to follow the plan for long, because it is very challenging to follow a vegan diet, especially if you have young children. Most people cannot eat in a vegan fashion while eating at a restaurant, or at a dinner party, or at a birthday celebration…. It’s a very limited way to live.
Is this book good for Australians (apparently its not because it lists American food?)
I might get it..
its funny the celebs who are seen with it are already thin..
this book is right on one account, it will turn you into a BITCH!
I was already a vegan when I read this book, but I was still a bit surprised - it really does not mention that on the cover. It’s a good book, but if you have no plans to go vegan or hate foul language, it’s not for you. Remember, it is possible to be a fat vegan - most chocolate is vegan!
I’ve been wanting this book for weeks !
And why dosnt Posh Spice ever wear a bra ?!
I’m not a vegan, but COW MILK is NOT meant for humans. it’s meant for baby cows, just like human milk is meant for human babies not baby cows. I would never feed my baby giraffe milk…
Ever wonder why vegans are so bitchy? Yikes… does nothing to promote the diet for me.
After reading Michael Pollan’s book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” I realize vegans don’t have any valid moral argument - just a good criticism of the way factory farming works in the U.S. If you feel compelled not to eat meat, power to you, but it’s not the best diet. Everyone can stand to eat more vegetables and fruit, more fresh and local foods, but protein (especially fish) is very valuable in your diet. Isn’t it better to eat fresh, local food, including local meats, than to import stale edamame and lettuces and fruits from half a world away?
Worst.
Book.
EVER!!!!
You’d be better off reading “Eat to Live”. At least the author is a doctor and doesn’t feel the need to use the F word all the time, LOL.
agreed.
‘I’m not a vegan, but COW MILK is NOT meant for humans. it’s meant for baby cows, just like human milk is meant for human babies not baby cows. I would never feed my baby giraffe milk…’
this is actually a very typical argument for this book. stating categorically (its not meant) and adding a somewhat witty sounding explanation (cow milk is for cows) that makes it punchy. your first reaction is to take it as true, but then you start disecting it and the statement falls apart. nothing to really explain why ‘its not meant’ or facts on what supposedly makes milk so bad for you. in different regions of the world milk has been drank for centuries and centuries and, as you probably have read, peoples bodies have actually adapted to their local traditional cuisines. for example, i come from northern europe and levels of lactose intolerance are very low here, also traditionally dairy has been quite heavy in the diet - so it seems over here we drink milk and have the bodies to digest it too
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but what i really find disturbing about this book is that it wants you to hate so much of your food, the whole attitude is vile and negative. it seems one should hate meat, hate coffee, hate dairy - so you basically stay skinny because any time you put any of those things into your body, youre supposed to view your body as gross, as ’sh*t’ (quote from book).
i happen to love life, love my body and love my foods. in that way, ‘french women dont get fat’ is much closer to my heart.
I LOVED that book! But of course, I am a little biased. I was vegan before I started reading it, and reading it just confirmed my suspitions and made me even more happy I’m vegan. I totally agree with you guys, veganism is so misunderstood. I wrote an article about it for my schools magazine and am STILL getting angry letters about it. People talked about that article (and still are) for a long. It seriously caused like a riot at my school. Everywhere I turned, people are like “omg ur the vegan girl! How could you say blah blah?” It was quite annoying. Anyway, it reminds me of some of the comments on this post.
I’ve never read the book, but I might now that I’ve read all these comments. I wouldn’t go vegan though…I like meat too much. As far as the milk controversy goes, I used to drink it a lot, but now I don’t drink it as much because I’m not as tolerant to it. But the argument that it’s “designed to bring a baby calf from 100 lbs to 1000 lbs” in a year is pretty false. You could say the same thing about human breast milk, but babies don’t live on breast milk indefinitely (although, they could if they had to…milk is a very complete food). Cattle eat feed once they are able to…most modern dairies don’t let calves nurse for their entire calf-hood. And BTW, a cow’s gestation period is 9 months, not 11.
And it IS possible to be overweight and a vegan. You just have to eat a lot of junky stuff… pasta, nuts, etc. Of course, if you eat a lot of fruits and veggies, you probably won’t be fat.
your more than welcome for the tip skinnywebsite
I know so many junk food vegetarians or vegans. They just eat french fries and candy all the time and claim to be healthier than you. It’s really annoying. Although I envy them for not eating animals, but whatever life’s too short.
I have the book and I love it. It is the main reason why I tried the vegan lifestyle out, and you know what? it is the way I live now. I think the book is hilarious and sarcastic and does make you think alot more about what you are putting in your body. I became vegan for several reasons, not just weight loss - but I can say I have lost some weight and my body has changed, as well as I feel alot healthier and have more energy. My husband no longer eats meat and neither do my children and this was their choice, not mine. The fact is that Americans are fat and if you look at our fast food options and portion sizes (a ton of dairy,meat, and sugar) it’s not rocket science to figure out why. By the way, when I started reading the book, I was a total meat and potato’s girl and so was my husband - if we can give up meat, anyone can. It really is not that hard!
I wanna read this Skinny Bitch.
I’m more inclined to TRY the book b/c a recipe book is coming out in the next few weeks…at least it will make trying their ideas a little more practical. Although I realize it’s just a way at them making more $$.
I have never read the book, I have not even heard of it until this post today. But science (learned this in my anatomy and physiology class) says that humans were born to be lactose intolerant, buts its just through evolution of drinking milk that most of the population can digest it, hence why some people today are still lactose intolerant.
im a vegan, but have been for years =|
This book changed my life! I think you absolutely should take it seriously. It offers a very healthy diet (one that is good for you, the planet, and the other creatures on this earth). You don’t need meat, you don’t need dairy. It’s not about just losing weight (although that’s an excellent benefit), it’s also about treating other sentient beings with the respect that they deserve. The amount of suffering that creatures around the world go through just we can satisfy our whacked-out tastebuds is horrifying. You simply cannot say that you “love” animals and then eat them–it’s like saying that you “love” children and then molest them. It just doesn’t make any sense when you take the time to think it through. Do yourself a favor and buy this book (or borrow it)!
you guys are totally missing the point of the book.
it’s NOT a diet plan
it’s NOT a marketing plan
It’s NOT a way to secretly put their agenda on you and make everyone vegan.
it’s about the fact that most things we put in our bodies are highly processed, unnatural things with hardly any nutrients. we think of drinking coffee and eating all this crap as being ok, because it’s what everyone does, but that doesn’t mean it’s ok or good. that was the statement they were trying to make. it just so happens that eating natural things w/ high nutrients = being vegan.
oh, and for the weenies who thought it was too harsh, it says “tough love” on the cover. lighten up
i am a bit biased because i have been a vegetarian for quite a while when i read the book but it has a lot of good tips like dont smoke, and things that are bad for your body that everybody can take tips from.
as for the milk argument, humans arent meant for cows milk, period. cows are.
that doesnt mean people dont drink it because it tastes good or has calcium, my boyfriend drinks it like its water!!
but i disagree with it, it makes me ill to think i am drinking a liquid meant for calves that we have stolen from mother cows.
The major reason that Americans are fat is because they eat ALOT of take-out. That stuff is loaded with fat. It’s like the saying “You are what you eat”. Some of you think that by becoming Vegan you are just gonna drop the pounds. That’s not always the case. My mom use to live in the Krishna Temple and they don’t eat meat at all and she said there were a few that were still fat. You can take out 1, 2 food groups, but if you still eat like crap, you aren’t going to lose the weight. Everything in moderation people. It’s just another fad. I’m not putting down vegans or vegetarians or meat eaters or whatever. Just don’t think that you will lose weight because some celeb is pictured with the book. Most celebs don’t eat at all or very, very little. That’s why they’re thin.
Another note, I think Victoria looks good in that pic.
This book is awful. It’s basically a guide on how to go vegan, which if fine - IF YOU KNEW YOU WERE BUYING A GUIDE ON HOW TO GO VEGAN!
The word ‘vegan’ or ‘vegetarian’ isn’t used anywhere on the front or back of the book or in any marketing for it. It simply calls itself a guide on how to ‘get skinny’ - so of course I was going to buy it!
The authors obviously realised they wouldn’t sell any copies of a vegan manual, so thought it better to treat us like idiots.
And anyway, doesn’t Victoria Beckham stay so tiny on a seafood based diet? She’s certainly not a vegan!
Agree with everyone who said being vegan does not = automatic weight loss. There are loads of processed, high salt, high fat vegan and vegetarian convenience foods out there, and even natural, ‘healthy’ vegan food can be high in calories and fat: nuts, dried fruits, seeds, olives, avocados, etc. I think no matter what food choices you make for ethical reasons, you will still have to watch your calorie intake to stay slim.
never read the book. yeah vegan cookies from the health food store are 500 cals each so you cant eat whatever you. want some vegan substitutes are higher in cals. ive been vegan its a big step you need to know your daily requirements and make sure you meet them or it can have negative affects on your health, but i do agree with veganism after recovering from an ED i was told i was trying to restrict and they made a huge deal so i quit being vegan since it wasnt a big deal to me, but still very rarely eat red meat and dont each much meat, buy organic when possible, and avoid dairy most days except for ice cream which i will eat like a serving for breakfast with diced bananas on top some days since its just a healthy as cereal maybe more so.
as a vegan the only thing i missed was real sushi ive make really good vegan sushi, but i love sashimi and i missed plain yogurt and craved it a lot. morning star has great meat substitutes some vegan some not. oh and theres so many good vegan ice creams out now so many i like rice based best plus way lower in cals.still love to enjoy real ice cream every once in a while.
who’s the last girl? molly ferguson? who’s that? she’s cute!
Ew WTF i’d never drink human milk :s
Try reading “Japanese Women don’t get old or fat” I live in Japan and the book is very true to it’s word. The women and men here who live a more traditional diet are so healthy.
this isn’t like every other diet book, and it isn’t promoting JUST being vegan. This is the only thing i have EVER done where I have lost the weight, kept it off, and continued to keep it off and i am SO happy and SO proud of myself for the first time in years. I can wake up in the morning energized without caffeine and i have energy all day because i am fueling my body in a truly effective and extremely healthy way. I cannot thank the authors of this book enough they dragged my self esteem out of the dumps at a point where i thought it would never recover, and the people who haven’t read it shouldn’t criticize it. yes it is written in a haughty and somewhat lude manner, but it’s funny, and it kind of gets to your head, not in a bad way, but you kind of laugh and are like, “haha yea my ass probably is really lumpy because i’ve been eating tons of shit with preservatives in it, huh, never thought of it that way” I was always a HUGE meat and fish etc eater, i actually still eat fish occasionally when i go out to eat and don’t want a salad, but its not as big of a deal as you would think. for example: if you don’t eat meat for dinner one night of the week, i doubt that you freak out and go eat a 16oz. rib eye to compensate. it’s just making different choices, and it has helped me to finally balance my dieting life, and get my shit together.
thank you to the authors. this book TRULY turned my borderline eating disorder style into something healthy and helped me to transform my body over the last few months into something that I am, for the first time in about 6 years proud of.
I went down to 100 lbs on a 5′7 frame and ate ALOT of dairy dairy dairy.
Eating dairy damage the body less, since it “softens up” the colon, and 70 % of the immun system is in the colon.
It’s very dangerous to cut out dairy from ones meals.
You can still be rail thin and eat lots of dairy.
And no, I’m not thin by nature.
I own that book and its pretty good.
however, its not a fun plan. I prefer to count calories and excercise daily. That way I can have birthday cake and lattes, oposed to becoming some sort of diet nazi.
oh, might I add, there are plenty of fat vegans out there and also the girls who wrote that book arn’t skinny. They are slim,svelte even, but not slender or skinny like the girls we see on this site, so if you want to be stick thin, I suggest you do what the rest of us do; don’t eat junk 24/7!
Newsflash: you can eat meat, dairy, and even sugar and still stay skinny. My BMI is 18 and I eat all of these things. The key is to eat them in moderation. Ever heard about that?
Maybe I’m a weenie, but I’d rather be a skinny happy person than a skinny bitch. I love my body, my life, and my food way too much to start calling myself a fat and disgusting pig, which seems like a really healthy approach to life. I can’t help but wonder if it’s the vegan lifestyle that makes the authors so bitchy and miserable.
Like most things in my life, I bought and read this book to…..Surprise—lose weight. However, I have adopted veganism as a lifestyle b/c it’s better for me, better for the planet and I actually do feel better not eating meat/dairy. I didn’t eat dairy anyway due to severe lactose intol but this just verified it. You do lose the lactase enzyme beginning at age 2 or so…Mother Natures way of weaning you. I started running over 10 years ago to, once again, lose weight. Now, I do it not to stay thin but for stress relief and health benefits. And yes, you can be a fat vegetarian/vegan. My cousin is bucking 200 due to her love of carbs….bread, pasta, cookies, cakes etc….but hey they are vegetarian so she justifies it so to speak. The authors are not rocket scientists by any means but they do make some decent points. Furthermore, by making such a fuss about the book we’re just promoting it which is more sales and money…..Whats that famous saying, Theres no such thing as bad publicity???? They’re obviously not that dumb, they have made more off that book than I make and I went to college for 6 years LOL
Something as strict as this probably leads to binge eating in many of the people who try to follow.
Marmelade - Would you drink dog milk?
Only skinny bitches are reading the Skinny Bitch book. How Ironic.
yesterday if you would have asked me if i would EVER go vegan.. i would probably say NO WAY.. i love meat to much! BUT. .. i just bought the book yesterday and started reading it last night… it is not trying to promote being vegan… it is simply informing you of the benefits of not eating dairy and meat. now im actually discusted by dairy and meat… im glad i am reading this book to get the facts! =)
I read the book months ago and for the life of me, I don’t understand why every other word out of the authors’ mouths is Fvck or Sh!t. That’s offensive to me and disruptive while reading. The advice they give is some good, some not so good. I don’t “diet”. I eat a of a Mediteranean-based diet which includes lean animal/fish protein and that works great for me. Having said that, it’s possible to be a fat vegan, just as it’s possible to be a slim Twinkie eater. It’s about calories. I’m careful that every calorie I put in my body is a nutritious one.
I guess spice girl money won’t buy a bra. Maybe she could ask her husband to buy her one.
I was going to buy the book because of the appealing title, but after reading all of these preceding comments, I think I’ll pass. Thanks to all of you for talking me out of it!
I bought it,read it and returned it. It dosen’t tell me anything I already didn’t know. I have gone vegan in the past but found myself having a hard time meeting my protien needs unless I used Alot of soy products. Soy is not good for women unless they are menaopusel. Went back to eating fish,eggs with chicken and meat very occasionaly. I lift weights to build muscle tone on a vegan diet I would have lost all of it. Did keep dairy out of my diet though.
hope - probably not, but just within last week i have eaten products made of cow milk, goat milk and sheep milk
and if i ever happen to visit some place in the world where they drink giraffe milk then i might try it. so you wont scare me by mentioning dog milk 
im 177cm tall and wear european size 36 clothes, so not a complete fatass yet, despite all the dairy, meat, coffee and alcohol. also, just last week i was at the doctors and we ended up chatting about god knows what for most of my appointment time as i couldnt really come up with enough health problems to discuss
They’re all a little thin for me… utch. They REALLY don’t need that book.
the girl behind victoris bekham is GORGEOUSSSSSSS
Marmelade:
I really was not at all trying to scare you and I am sorry if you took it like that. I was just trying to make the point that even if it has been done for centuries, it really is not natural for people to drink cow milk (or any other kind). Anymore than it is for us to drink dog milk. What is really sad is that cows only produce milk after they are pregnant, so for all the milk anyone drinks, some baby cow had to be killed so that we could have it. I guess I think about the fact that I would never get my dog pregnant so I could kill her puppies and drink the milk meant for them, so I wont do that to a cow anymore either. It just seems unnatural even though it has been done for a long time. It is not even natural for us to drink human after two years old (as mentioned above, that is why we lose our natural tolerance for latose then). I think we all could agree that there are many, many things that people have done for many, many years, that we should stop doing.
hope….you said, “I think we all could agree that there are many, many things that people have done for many, many years, that we should stop doing.”
I agree….we should stop pretending that people cannot see us picking our nose in the car!
I’d wish i lived in Japan …
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I was actually laughing while reading this book - mostly at the authors’ language. But most vegans I know have very strong beliefs about the environment / animal cruelty / etc. which led them to veganism. And trying to “go vegan” without those beliefs seems like Just Another Diet - meaning, a set-up for failure.
I wonder what these celebrities really eat. One minute, it’s all lean protein and veges. The next, it’s something else?
I haven’t read this book and I don’t plan to. I also don’t plan to become vegan. However, I think that, from what I understand there is some sense to the kind of dietary advice spoken of. The problem, as I see it, is that the advice is interpreted in a misleading way.
In general, I think it should come as no huge surprise to people that eating a diet that is rich in fresh, unprocessed or minimally processed nutrient-rich food is desirable. It is a better to eat a diet that contains more plants (fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and whole grains), and less animal products (meat, dairy, eggs). It is good to avoid heavily processed food-like-stuff (refined sugars, artificial sweeteners and flavourings, white flour products, etc.).
Many proponents of veganism encourage people to eat diets rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes, and whole grains. I find it hard to disagree with that advice. What’s questionable is the explicit or implicit view that it’s inherently unhealthy to eat animal products.
Of course it’s bad to eat mostly meat, dairy, and processed food-like-stuff. But it’s probably not good to eat a lot of processed food-like-stuff and a little bit of plants (the vegan who eats a lot of bread, french fries, and soda).
Food journalist Michael Pollan has gives what I take to be pretty sensible advice on the issue: “Eat food (not processed food-like-stuff). Not too much. Mostly plants.” One does not have to be a vegan to do this.
Cossey - LOL:)
Carnap- check out the book “The China Study”. It’s all about why meat and animal products are “unhealthy” to eat. (Cancer and heart disease being the number one reasons).
I love this book.
And yeah, I was already about 99% vegan. I stopped eating meat for moral reasons, but if I hadn’t, once I learned stuff about nutrition I would’ve stopped anyway… maybe they have a moral agenda, but the thing is, nutrition-wise, everything they are saying is absolutely true… so if you want to be healthy/ skinny, it’s the way to go. Yeah, if you love eating meat it’s annoying but - if being skinny were easy, everyone would be skinny.
(I’m 5′2″, 97 lbs., 19% body fat)
Carnap, I’ve read some stuff of Michael Pollan’s and the quotation you mentioned (which stuck out in my mind reading that article as well) is the best, simplest diet /health advice ever.
Cossey, I know you can see me, I just figure that I’ll never see you again anyway.
JOJI, I guess everyone’s different (duh), because I’m vegan and have been for quite some time and was “just” vegetarian before that for longer than many of the commenters here have been alive, and I have NO problem with building muscle, to the point where I am quite like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. I eat a lot of soy (mostly tofu, but some tempeh as well) and am in the best health I’ve ever been in in my life.
I won’t read this book. It can’t tell me anything I don’t already know.
But there’s no way in f*cking hell I’ll ever give up coffee. Never.
BoBeffi….happy diggin’!!
I knew 2 hardcore vegans who never ever strayed from their veganism and were both heavily overweight, almost obese. Neither one of them had a skinny frame, in fact one of them was super thin before she became a vegan. So I’m pretty sure the best diet would be to just not eat as much, try to eat healthier foods, and exercise for atleast 20 minutes everyday. I’m sick of vegans trying to make everyone else seem like hethans for simply wanting to enjoy their food. And everyone does “need” meat unless you are super strict with your daily vitamins.
For every animal that you guys don’t eat, I will eat three. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm meat…
I became a vegan a couple years before ever seeing Skinny Bitch. When I read the book, I was deeply impressed. Not only does it break down every reason our bodies were not meant to process meat, it also shows the horrible conditions the animals have to suffer. As for the writing of the book, it is neither vapid nor shallow. In fact, as they explain in the book (which you would know if you had actually taken the time to read it instead of judging it right away), they only wrote it the way they wrote it so that it would grab your attention. How else would the message spread? I laughed out loud while reading this book, and was never offended. It makes me sick to know there are so many close-minded people out there who won’t even give it a chance.
Marmeldae - I totally agree - French Women Don’t Get Fat is an awesome book! This book does not sound like it is for me…I love food and don’t believe in the hype that certain foods are bad for you. Eat whatever you want, in moderation.
Yeah, “moi”, and you can increase your risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc. Have fun. Oh, and all the while contribute to global warming.
And people don’t NEED meat… How many vegetarians do you know with nutrional deficiencies? C’mon, now, people. Maybe if you live in the arctic with no modern groceries and all that’s around is lichen and whales, you need to go for the whale blubber. But I’m assuming most of the people here live in developed countries and have access to grocery stores.. it is not a problem.
Karma, I’ve heard about the China Study. I haven’t taken a serious look, but I’ll put the book on my radar.
But I have to say, even if I were convinced that there are serious health risks involved in animal consumption, I would still be dubious about saying that everyone should go vegan. If people want to do so, and are able to do so happily, that’s fine. But the apparent possibility of certain health risks is not the only factor here.
For many people, cutting out animal products is not a psychologically difficult transition, but for many people it is. Aside from dealing with the difficulty of having cravings for “forbidden” foods, being on a vegan diet restricts one’s ability to participate in many social practices involving eating. This is especially difficult in contextus where food and eating has great cultural significance (almost every culture except Anglo-American culture).
Eating lots of crap is unhealthy. But not being able to just eat food, enjoy it, not moralise eating, and just get on with more significant things, is not healthy either. So many people aren’t able to do this, because they are obsessed with the possibility that eating might lead to some disease, or make one fat, make one ugly, etc.
Geez, have ANY of you ever been to a dairy farm? They don’t kill baby cows so you can have milk. When a heifer gets pregnant and has a calf, they move the calf to an isolation pen so it won’t get any diseases. They use a certain percentage of the milk from the herd to feed the calves (they use bottles) until they can eat grass or feed.
I get really sick of people saying cows are so mistreated on farms. It depends largely on the size of the herd and the farm. I live in Wisconsin and a lot of the farms around here are very clean, well-run, smaller herds. They treat the cows very well and feed them hay in the winter and let them graze in the summer. Beef farmers get better prices if they grass-feed their steers, so a lot of farms are doing that too. Grass-fed beef is a LOT healthier and better tasting than grain-fed beef. Some of the big beef operations in California, Texas, etc., try to just get the highest yield so they feed the cattle corn.
While I’m not a vegan, I can understand not wanting to eat beef because cattle DO get killed to make beef. But no cows die in the process of you getting milk, so I never really got the whole “milk is cruel” thing. Same with avoiding eggs because of cruelty to chickens. Milk and eggs are natural products of animals and they are both really nutritious. Lots of other animals eat bird/reptile eggs, so humans are definitely not the only ones that figured out that they’re almost a perfect food.
i went vegan 15 years ago for ethical reasons, but it sure helped me out in the weight dept! try being 5 foot nothing and 132 lbs! i wore a size nine jeans but i was the same size as a fourth grader!
i am now a lovely 98, size 0, and have been for MANY years now, and i eat like a freaking pig! people, being vegan doesn’t mean you have nothing to eat! you can get fake/mock ANYTHING now and ditch the extra calories and fat, and never put bad cholesterol in your body again!
k, off my high horse now…. i might get the book for recipes if they look good….. i already know all about the pus in milk and an egg being a chicken’s period…
betz- i have never met a bitchy vegan? where do you live where they are bitchy? i have lived in seven states and all of my friends are always vegan or vegetarian (like me) and none of them have ever been nasty from eating a vegan diet. people need to get off of their weirdo stereotypes about non-meat eaters. 99.9% of us could care LESS what you eat, it’s just the radical .1% that make the rest of us look like freaks!!!!
we really are cool, nice people, man, if we were coworkers i bet you’d never know i don’t eat meat!
I just want to say , that you dont have to be vegan to be really skinny. a lot of people that eat meat wisely are just as thin. i hate it when people generally think vegans are thinner, not always the case.
never read the book, dont care to. im not vegan, and i think being vegan is basically ridiculous. that is my personal opinion.
Oh and dairy cows are not mistreated… i live on a farm i would know. im sure there are some out there that are… but , not that i’ve seen.
K i’ve said my piece.
Spectra- around these parts, the “calf truck” is infamous. It picks up all the male calves, and a good deal of the female calves when the are 2-3 days old, and presto-veal is produced. (Generally, females resulting from in vitro fertilisation-”known good producers” are retained, none from natural means) Have you ever been in a milking shed when a cow doesn’t behave for a dairy farmer? Many are mistreated, I don’t think most dairy farmers would argue otherwise.
there was quite an interesting article about 2-3 months ago in british vogue. they two women swapping their menus for a week. one was this perfect weight super healthy californinan… skinny bitch
and the other one a coffee-addicted english chick with a chef for a husband.
there is a great line in russian novel ‘the golden calf'’: ‘X didnt eat, he was consuming necessary vitamins and minerals’. that was exactly the feeling i got from the article as well - the californian girl wasnt enjoying fine foods and exploring great tastes, but consuming measured doses of nutritionally great foods in balanced combinations.
one line did it for me - she wrote ‘last year as my birthday gift i made my husband give up coffee’. what to do, lets just say i have irreconcilable differences in world view with people who make their husbands give up coffee as their birthday present
Spectra, exactly! I grew up around working farms and some of my friends even worked part time at them, and if the cows weren’t milked they were in pain! They didn’t kill the calves(wha? where’d that one come from?) but seperated them to protect from disease.
The beef cattle where I come from are grass fed.
I don’t eat red meat or chicken, but if I did I’d buy from local farms, and support the farmers I know more.
I can understand some people going vegan but to me it just doesn’t make sense. But that’s just me.
In other news, VIctoria Beckham has sprouted a second left hand, thus bringing her total number of hands to three. Check out the photo above! This will probably add, like, what, an additional pound to her weight, so she maaaaay want to cut back on the edamame to accommodate the gain.
Jodi - Nice one lol x what are endame beans anyway, are they a bit like what we call butter beans in UK?
Anyone know what happening with this site today. No new posts for quite a while. Ive had to do some work for change instead of getting the goss
LOL! I expect she’s off to get the new nails manicured too : D
Let’s just hope she doesn’t sprout a third tit, Cat.
I have not read the book, but from the comments on this thread, one thing has really annoyed me - assumptions about the way Americans eat. This may be a shocker to some, but although the average Americans are fat and eat tons of processed and fast foods, many Americans do eat healthfully and are fit. I eat few processed foods and never eat fast foods, and no one I know does either. There were no overweight students at my prep school and very few at my college. I’ve always assumed that people who do eat fast food [especially on a regular basis] are doing so because they are restricted financially and fast food is very cheap so they are essentially not actively making the choice to be so unhealthy.
Although my assumption may be untrue, and I agree with the idea of “stop eating crap,” there is a level of unwarranted condescending in the comments on this thread that are not based on reality.
thanks ALLIE you already said it for me, and for those people who want to sue then for a so called misleading whatever, be smart and go sue the fda for killing milliions of people and made millions sick so that doctors and pharmisudical companys could make even more money off people as pathetic as you.
jp - Thank god someone finally stood up for the healthy Americans - they are such an under represented group and suffer so….
Somebody should give a copy of this book to Britney.
Mel-If you know so much about Victoria Beckham you would know she doesn’t eat animal produce and eating fish can still be a vegaterian. And to the others telling people being a vegan you are fat have not read this book it is a healthy way of eating. Even if you want to still eat meat and dairy you can still follow this book. And at the end it talks about being a bitch and how they don’t think you should be a bitch it was just a catchy title to get people to read the book. So read it before you bash it.
Just wanted to add - for all the people on here who seem to think this book is filled with actual science - eliminating milk and dairy products as a either method of weight loss or way to improve one’s personal health hasn’t been endorsed by ANY reputable public health, nutrition or scientific agency in the U.S. In fact, the Federal Nutrition Service (FNS) highly recommends daily servings of low-fat dairy products such as skim milk, yogurt and low-fat cheese as an effective means to lose weight… This book is a just another diet fad written by two complete morons. One of them doesn’t even have a college degree and refers to herself as a “self-taught know-it-all.” What does that even mean? Why would anyone take health advice from anything other than a health care provider or educator? And a big “right on” to those of you who criticized the book’s shocking and hateful tone. Alas, I fear the world’s love affair with sarcasm is far from over.
PS, Am I the only one who thinks neither of the authors appear to be all that skinny or healthy looking? To me, they’re pretty average.
Britgirl, edamame are soybeans. And “edamame” is enough on its own … no need to put “beans” after it.
WHOA weird. My friend was reading this the other day and I asked her to see it, and it is hilarious. I actually asked her if I could borrow it earlier today…awesome!
Syndney - fish is “animal produce”.
Victoria said:
“I eat really healthy, I love Japanese food, lots of fish, any sort of fish, any sort of vegetable, lots of fruit, that kind of thing,” said Beckham, the former Posh Spice, during an appearance recently on the BBC Radio program “Gordon Ramsay’s Perfect Christmas Lunch.”
Stiver’s Wife - If you read the book you would know that anyone who follows it does not believe a word that any US government agency has to say. Read the book and find out why. Also - do you think you’re better looking than the authors? If not, then why bother commenting on them?
Mel- That is why I said she is prb is not a vegan she is a vegaterian. If you watched her show coming to america she says I don’t put any animal produce in my temple So you tell me. Sounds like her diet is pretty much following this book…TO BE HEALTHY AND USE YOUR HEAD WHEN EATING
Any vegetarian that eats seafood but not other meat must not be the animal-rights type. I don’t get how people get so up in arms about killing cows and chickens and pigs, yet apparently it’s fine to kill fish and eat them. What, just because they aren’t cute means they aren’t alive? I’m a big believer in the fact that animals are here for us to use for our benefit. We should be keeping our livestock as healthy as we can and feeding them top quality foods so they can nourish us. My grandma grew up on a farm and every year they grew up a pig to slaughter. They fed it and when they killed it, they used every single part of the pig. They definitely didn’t let anything go to waste.
btw folks- anyone who eats fish is NOT a vegetarian. they are someone who doesn’t eat chicken, pork, or beef. and whoever came up with the term pesco-vegetarian made it up to seem cool or intellectual being labeled a vegetarian, without the guilt. these fish-eating sorts are defined below-
“Pescetarianism is a dietary choice, in which a person — known as a pescetarian — will not eat the flesh of any animals other than types of seafood. Other animal products like eggs and dairy may be part of a pescetarian diet. …Terms like pescevegetarianism[1] and pesco-vegetarianism are sometimes used to describe pescetarianism, to emphasize that most pescetarians eat vegetables in addition to seafood. These terms are controversial because they imply that pescetarianism is a type of vegetarianism, a subject on which there is not consensus since fish and other aquatic creatures consumed by pescetarians are in fact animals, and vegetarians do not eat animals.”
Fish is an animal product…
i’m not sure victoria really read that book. i think she might be joking. she’s a very funny person and makes fun of herself all the time and why not pick that book up when the media calls her skinny bitch all the time. i bet she’s just joking.
p.s. i love her. she’s just so sweet and cute.
Ok - for those of you that are saying,
“This book is awful. It’s basically a guide on how to go vegan, which if fine - IF YOU KNEW YOU WERE BUYING A GUIDE ON HOW TO GO VEGAN! The word ‘vegan’ or ‘vegetarian’ isn’t used anywhere on the front or back of the book or in any marketing for it.” (example from mel, 7th from the top)
Learn how to buy a book.
You dont buy a book:
- based on what you see on the cover
- b/c you heard it was good (unless its someone you know)
You DO buy a book:
- if you take 1 second to google the title and research (uh hum, the first thing that pops up is a FREE manuscript of the entire book)
- if you know something or other about the author - since they will more than likely be expressing their views in their book. (in this case one of the authors has a masters in holistic nutrition (what in the world did you expect??)
Anyway….I think vegan/vegetarianism is a wonderful and completely healthy way of life. You DONT NEED MEAT to survive! Any you would more than likely be ALOT SKINNIER if you stopped eating it. So quit pigging out
Maggie I agree. She’s got a really good sense of humour and I reckon she’s just poking fun at the way the media see her as a “skinny bitch” and nothing else. Doubt she read it.
I think books like that should be burned.