Skinny Bitch: Top highlighted passages on Kindle

It's so funny that you posted this.  Sooooooooooo....last week I read this book in about half a day...yeah it was that short and easy!  I liked the tone and the no-nonsense humor, but there was so much I just couldn't really get on board with.  I'll never stop eating meat.  And they made it seem like every animal is SUPER POISONOUS and that every animal is pumped full of awful chemicals and hormones, etc.  Not once do they mention alternative sources to better quality meat, ie grass fed, organic, local  meat.  At the point of the reading of that book I followed the standard amercian diet, but I was looking for information on how to better my health and diet and I didn't really take anything away from this book except "sugar is the devil"--and it is.  All of it, yet they boosted all kinds of other ways to "get" sugar.  THAT night I watched the documentary Fathead and  all sorts of bells and whistles went off and ever since then I have been gobbling up tons of info on primal and paleo and caveman ways of eating.  Talk about something that makes sense-for the first time ever.  I've already kicked sugar,  grains and dairy to the curb this week and I'm feeling so much better already.  I don't want to be a "skinny bitch".  I'd much rather be a healthy, strong,  glowing, well-fed cave lady!

 I'm still LMAO over highlighted item number 10. Even after being a vegetarian for 20 years, I still KNEW that those fake meats didn't taste anything like the real thing. Let alone good. I remember a vegan friend telling me about a new bacon substitute by Morningstar farms that "I swear tastes just like real bacon" and remember vividly thinking "Are you on drugs? Even though I haven't eaten meat in decades I still know this tastes NOTHING LIKE BACON" Of course now, I get to eat all the (local, pasture-fed, humanely-raised) bacon I want. YUMMMMMMM. And it tastes nothing like fak-O vegan frankmeatsubstitute.

 I guess the "stop eating crap" part on the cover of Skinny Bitch is open to interpretation.

I like this passage:4. "Other good substitutes for refined sugar include evaporated cane juice, Sucanat, brown rice syrup, barley malt syrup, Rapadura sugar, Turbinado sugar, raw sugar, beet sugar, date sugar, maple sugar, molasses, and blackstrap molasses." (Page 31, Location 256)"Of course, evaporated cane juice is sucrose + water, barley malt is maltose ( a glucose dimer.  Sucrose is fructose and glucose), beet sugar is sucrose (same as cane sugar).  These are all just simple sugarI could go on, but the authors of that book need to hire me to tutor them in science

i read skinny bitch a couple of years ago.   it does in fact have a few good takeaways for the average overweight american.  she advocates avoiding booze and soda "if you want to be a skinny bitch", etc.  but i was overwhelmed by how much fake food she recommends as a "healthy vegan diet".  it was essentially processed food that happened to be made from plants, most of it made to look like or taste like meat.  the underlying problem is that the word 'vegan' has a very healthy connotation... and that is not necessarily true.

 I know a couple of girls who went vegan after reading The China Study, and they'll say that they went vegan for their health. But then I see them eating Doritos and drinking alcohol like the 21 year old girls they are, and they aren't 100% compliant because they don't worry if there are eggs in the baked goods they are eating. I also know a guy who went vegan after also reading the stupid China Study and he is better about being "healthier" (as in not eating things like Doritos) but he told me he started having some digestive trouble. I don't have to wonder why. He's eating a lot of gut irritating foods.

I wonder if any vegan ever has investigated what's in the genetically modified crops and produce. I know of vegans that don't eat organic. Not to mention what's in the vaccines. Many of those products seem questionable vegan to me when you consider they are genetically modified.  Soy is highly genetically modified.I have yet to see a vegan eating a healthy diet.

Walking around hungry all day, cranky and looking for your next sugar fix. Not my idea of an existence.

 Here are the top couple of highlights from Primal Blueprint:

• "Make a special effort to include these regularly in your meals: avocado, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, eggplant, garlic, kale, onion, peas, red bell pepper, spinach, yellow squash."
• "...plants (vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs and spices) and animals (meat, fish, fowl, and eggs) should represent the entire composition of your diet."
• "Focus on quality sources of animal protein (organic, free-range, or wild sources of meat, fowl, and fish), an assortment of colorful vegetables and fresh fruits, and healthy sources of fat (nuts, seeds, their derivative butters, certain oils, avocados, etc.)."

Very interesting to contrast the popular sections in each of these books. Instead of highlighting all the ways to "cheat", which is essentially what the "Skinny Bitch" readers were doing, the Primal Blueprint readers were basically just highlighting the high points of what to eat, presumably as a quick reference for later.