Skinny Bitch

By: Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

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 is 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".

©2005 Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (P)2007 Tantor Media Inc.

Critic reviews

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

Life changing

Please don’t let the title discourage you with its shallow catchiness. This book is DEEP and educational on how to live in a human body on earth. It has changed my life, TWICE!

Ok but.::

Too much profanity. Good information but I almost stopped in the first chapter because of the language. I understand the reasoning behind it but I still was not ready for it. If there was an edited version I would give it 5 stars though.

Beginner Level and vegan propaganda

I liked that this is a good entry level guide to getting healthy and teaching the average, layman, (those of us from UK, US, Aussie, Canada, etc.) how to be discerning about what we put into our bodies. Most of this I've heard before but may be new to some. There were some good tips and insight to the food industry. However. The authors traded one dark side of the food industry for another. Their solution was to eat fake meats and go completely vegan. My family and I were vegan for 3 years, so I know a lot about this. The thing they left out in the book was instead of promoting organic foods exclusively, they promote "franken-foods", which don't have any long term studies on what this does to the body. In my experience, the fake meats/dairy caused my husband and me to gain 15 lbs... on a vegan diet... even though we were mostly eating veggies and feeling like we were missing out on experiences with family/friends, because food is a social thing. We did NOT eat a bunch of junk food either, all we did was include fake meats/dairy into our diet. it raised our blood preasure in our mid 30s (!) and wasn't always organic. When we went BACK to eating meats, we exclusively ate organic EVERYTHING, meats and dairy included, we continued to NOT eat organic junk food, and we both lost the extra 15 lbs we had gained eating the fake meats and dairy. SO! Save yourself the trouble, skim through the vegan propaganda, and just eat organic foods while cutting out the junk-food and processed snacks, even if they're organic. Organic farms will benefit, and you will be healthy and slim like our great-grandmothers in the 1940s when a lot of what they ate was full-fat butter, red meat, and whole milk. All organic, of course. Thank me later B***ch. :)

my daughter lost 65 pounds from this book

And she is only 14. I myself got so very sad and had to skip over the gorey details of the slaughter houses. But this book is inspirational and entertaining. I wish there wasn't SO much cussing but I guess that's part of the personality. Its cleaned up my family's eating habits and we all lost14 14 weight just by reading it and its has stayed off.

Skinny Bitch

I read this book years ago and it changed my life. I listen to it now when I need to be reminded not to eat garbage., etc. I liked how they used facts and humour to get their point across. Would recommend to potential skinny bitches everywhere.

SKINNY...bitch...

Great book. The reader was a little too "sweet" sounding to say some of the vulgar phrases from the book, so it sounded a bit off. Either way, a lot of great info!

Gets You Motivated

I agree with several reviewers; I am by no means a prude, either, but I was grossed out by some of the profanity in this book. However, it did really open my eyes to how unhealthy I had been eating and inspired me to make a change (for like three days). That's why I gave it four stars. But I did skip a lot of the second part of the book because it turned into vegan propaganda.

Excellent motivator!

This book was recommended by Vegan author Sam Turnbull, and I couldn't be more pleased!

Good for people interested in veganism

What made the experience of listening to Skinny Bitch the most enjoyable?

The performance and language was entertaining.

Would you be willing to try another book from Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin ? Why or why not?

Maybe, I would like to see the facts for this book though before saying yes. The paper copy may provide references, but the audio version is just a bunch of claims. I am vegan, but I would like to have more information.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. The book was okay, but I had heard much of the information presented somewhere else.

Any additional comments?

This book is for people just learning about veganism. As someone who has been vegan for years, I did not find it very helpful.

Vegan scare

Pretty entertaining book. They do try to create an impact using the typical vegan scare tactics but overall pretty entertaining.