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Summary: Ideas and laughs
Review: Dieting is a constant struggle and is made easier with variety- I like to think of it as a game, and this book provided some new moves! I would recommend this to anyone who believes nothing is too extreme and wants to be entertained. It also showed that even skinny women struggle and it is self discipline and constant awareness that get you there.
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Summary: as if "pro-ana" websites aren't bad enough...
Review: evidently someone thought it would be good to put all the ideas together and publish them. great! this book isn't funny, or tongue-in-cheek. it's dangerous. i doubt anyone but the eating-disordered have bought this. well, maybe a few people who think that eating disorders are funny and who feel utterly insincere, who think it's a good conversation starter, they might have it too. but for the most part, this book isn't funny, it's true. it's tips on self-destruction. how the authors could write this, i'll never know. they have no concern for those who are slowly killing themselves. most eating disordered people wouldn't wish their hell on anyone, so all i can think is that this was intended for those who are already there. thanks huns for enabling us...
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Summary: A Witty Wittler
Review: Grapefruit diet? Goodbye. Cabbage soup? Can it. The Zone? Get out! Here are the hottest secrets, tips and extreme measures -- mostly tongue-in-cheek -- from a pair of New York City freelance writers and their elitist girlfriends who regularly lunch bigtime yet still squeeze into a size 4. When bad foods happen to these good girls, they don't weep after they hop on their scales. They tackle foods low in calories consumed per minute (artichokes, 2.3; unshelled lobster, 3.8). During weekends in the country, forget writing that novel (typing burns a mere 90 calories an hour) and chop some wood instead (1,050 calories). It's okay to lick a postage stamp (one-tenth of a calorie) but if you're stuffed up, skip the NyQuil (92 calories an ounce). And bear in mind that breaking up with a boyfriend usually means losing seven pounds (a custody battle, more than twice that). What do the authors advise if you still have cottage-cheese thighs? Keep your pants on. Weird, wacky look at the real deal.
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Summary: Sick Book By Unhealthy Women. Pity the author...
Review: Have a borderline eating disorder? Want a full blown one? Want to start smoking to curb your appetite? How about fasting for a few days? Pure liquid diet? Abusing ephedra? Getting depressed on purpose so that you will lose your appetite and not eat? Swallow tape worms? If you find these ideas appealing then by all means, read this book. If you have EVER even considered the idea of starving yourself or bingeing and purging, then do not read this miserably, sickening, twisted, self-defeating book. Written by a bunch of sick women who are self-proclaimed gossipers, diet junkies, and bitter at the world, this book revolted me. I was expecting a "tongue in cheek" book that reflected how silly we women can be when it comes to weight obsession and our health. Instead, my ideas that we as women are our own worst enemies, was deeply confirmed. I am truly disgusted.
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Summary: Humorous take on subject uppermost in female minds
Review: I bought this book as a joke to give to my mother. She and I, over the years, have tried, and tried again, every new diet under the sun. This book covers the multitudinous ways and lengths women will go to to lose weight (I say women because that is my frame of reference). Buy this book and read it with a grain of salt. Read it with a sense of humor about the subject matter. Unfortunately, the authors have really hit this one dead center. Most women I know will do anything to get skinny.
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Summary: Not worth buying if you are serious about wait loss.
Review: I bought this book, and although it is humorous, I feel it is downright irresponsible. It makes a small disclaimer in the beginning about not using the book if you are a teenager or have an eating disorder. My guess is, if you follow much of the advice in this book, you will end up with an eating disorder. There are a lot of suggestions that are potentially dangerous to your health, and don't offer almost any of the risk factors involved. Of course it is meant for a mature adult to read, and decide for themself, but there are many other books out there that have much better ideas about getting skinny. By the way I have many friends who have healthy, lean, and strong bodies who simply eat healthfully and work out a couple times a week. If your smart, you will know that moderation in eating and moderate exercise is the way to go.
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Summary: hilarious and useable diet tidbits
Review: i cracked up reading this: nothing could be funnier than how crazy we all get over our weight, but at the same time, i really DO want to lose a couple pounds...i really loved this. it's fun to read and i felt thin and inspired afterwards.
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Summary: Is this for real?
Review: I don't know if this book is supposed to be a joke or what, but I was a little scared to see that some people are taking the advice. This book contradicts basic health and sanity. If you want to live a life that revolves around a scale and can only make you unhappy, then read this book and make yourself some soup with ketchup. If, on the other hand, you DO want to be happy, read "Intuitive Eating" (look it up here). I came across this book a year ago while I was looking for something like "The Skinny" and it changed my life forever. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want - and at 105 lbs, I AM SKINNY!
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Summary: Not the most responsible way to go........
Review: I read this not knowing whether to laugh or gasp. There are some tips in this book that range from the interesting (chewing gum as an appetite suppresant) to the odd (salting your food to the point where you wont eat it; chewing your food but not swallowing it) to the absolutely insane (Tylenol as a weight loss trick to speed up your metabolism, BLEACH on your food to prevent you from eating it). I wouldn't recommend this as a way to go, but if you want to at least expose yourself to some truly unconventional weight loss ideas, I guess this is the place to start. My sincerest suggestion to anyone who reads this is to be careful; this book screams of eating disorder potential.
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Summary: Honest, accurate, and long overdue
Review: It's about time that someone gave us the skinny on how all those models and 'naturally thin' people stay so svelte. Not eating--you might say, but this book goes beyond the obvious. If the secret to lose weight was simply not to eat, then no woman would exceed a size 6. The challenge is controlling our biological, caveman-like predisposition toward eating when we are not hungry. This book identifies the tips, tricks, and secrets from women who use them and have found them to be effective for weight loss--crash, short term, long term, whatever--they have worked, and they might work for someone else, that is all that matters. Obviously this is not a 'way of eating' for the rest of our lives, but for any woman has ever read any magazine at the checkout line in the supermarket in Prevention, Vogue, Marie Claire, etc., about losing 10 pounds in 2 weeks, she will be very refreshed to hear the down and dirty truth about what works.
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