Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother!
Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother!
Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry, while inspiring people across the world to stop eating “crap.” Now the “Bitches” are back—this time with a book geared to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a “delicate condition” doesn’t mean they’ll deliver a gentle message. As they did with Skinny Bitch, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin expose the truth about the food we eat—with its hormones, chemicals, and other funky stuff. But even though they are “Skinny,” they want women to chow down on the right foods and gain their fair share of weight through their pregnancies.
They also won’t mince words on these topics:
• the best foods for a healthy baby and mommy
• the dangers of common lotions, creams, and beauty products that women slather on their bodies (many contain carcinogens)
• why every mother should “suck it up” and breastfeed
• the lowdown on what really happens “post-push” (after birth)
• how the companies we trust don’t care about children (choosing baby food and other products carefully)
With the same sassy tone that made Skinny Bitch laugh-out-loud funny, Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven will give expectant moms the information they need to “use their head” and have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Read it only if you’re interested in becoming vegan
Initially I must say I was all for this book and decided to trust these ladies and everything they had to say. As I read on I discovered that this book is just full of things we should not eat with lots and lots of backings behind it but none the less each chapter represents one more thing you can’t eat.
Okay so milk … bad, protein … bad, meat chicken fish … bad, cheese … bad. And I must say after about reading this book half way I stopped and put it away.
The books objective is one thing: TO GET YOU TO BECOME VEGAN. And by the end of it all you can eat is vegan food and soy milk. That’s about it because everything else we eat causes cancer and anything else you can imagine.
There’s nothing wrong with being vegan but this book is misleading because you think it’s a nutrition guide to what to eat while pregnant when it’s really just trying to get you to become vegan. I personally don’t know that many vegans and by the ration of this book every single one of us should be sick beyond belief.
Sorry, I didn’t buy it and didn’t finish it.
1 Stars Contradictory and Misleading in quest to support Vegan agenda
I don’t mind that the authors are vegan and are trying to convince others to follow their lead. In fact, I agree that we could all probably do with fewer meat & animal products in our diets.
However, they CLEARLY manipulate and mis-interpret “data” and “studies” just to get their points across. It’s base and shameless.
For example, they cite one study that shows that women who consume low- or non-fat dairy products daily have trouble conceiving. BUT THEY FAIL TO MENTION THAT THEY *SAME* *STUDY* *ALSO* showed that women who consume at least 1 FULL-fat serving of dairy per day actually have *better* chances of conception (and, anecdotally, the full-fat dairy thing worked for me; I drank a cup of whole milk a day for weeks before ovulation and BAM! got pregnant that very month). ONLY telling ONE PART of a study to try and make a point is unsportsmanlike and intellecually bankrupt. Here is a link to a description of the study and its findings, if you’d like to read them: http://bit.ly/3Vl2io
Likewise, they go on and on about how calcium supplements can’t be absorbed by the body. Ok, fair enough. However, a couple of pages later, they recommend getting calcium from drinking Soy milk that has been fortified with calcium. Ummmmm. Hello ladies? How do you think that calcium gets IN to soy milk? Why, it’s “fortified” with the same types of ingredients that GO into the very calcium supplements you just bashed a page earlier.
In sum, the authors shoot themselves (specifically, their credibility) in the foot by dishonestly providing only bits and pieces of info. Again, I have nothing against veganism per se, but if you’re going to support it, do so in a way that is honest.
1 Stars Disappointment
This book was an uter disappointment. I got it thinking that it was going to be an amusing twist to being healthy while pregnant… I mean seriously it has the word Bitch in the title. So I started to read it and about mid way through it goes on and on about the abuse animals suffer in slaughter houses. There was one part where they said that just for fun a guy cut off a pigs nose and laughed at it while it was in pain, and when it started to calm down he rubbed salt in the wound to hurt it more. I cried my eyes out! I love animals, and would be disturbed by this on a normal basis, but being pregnant and emotional mad it so much worse! What kind of person would write that crap knowing that an emotional pregnant woman is going to be reading it! I didn’t even bother to read the rest, I threw that piece of crap in the garbage where it belongs!
5 Stars Written by REAL nutritionists, very informative
Kudos to the authors! There were absolutely no resources out there for moms-to-be following a healthy and compassionate diet & lifestyle - until this book. To the naysayers, this is a book filled with sound nutritional advice. Both authors are highly qualified nutritionists with Masters degrees in Nutrition (one has been a nutritionist for over 15 years and the other is currently working on obtaining a doctorate in nutrition). Please don’t knock the book just because you don’t understand veganism. I didn’t always understand it - I used to eat meat. But I educated myself - I talked to nutritionists, read copious books on nutrition and veganism, etc., before deciding 100% that it was the right decision for me. And I have never looked back because I am healthier (and yes, “skinnier”) than I have ever been in my life. Please don’t be narrow-minded and not give this book a chance just because the authors are vegans. (I have been vegetarian for nearly 20 years now and if all I ate was tofu and wheatgrass, I would not have lasted that long on the diet. Vgean food is incredibly satisfying - and delicious.) Give peas a chance! 
5 Stars Purchase only if you care about your health and the health of your baby!
I had toxemia and blood complications during my pregnancy with my only child 27 years ago. I ate everything under the sun due to the belief of, “if you’re pregnant and crave it, eat it” I was considered dead as they wheeled me into the ER in my 8th month of pregnancy. My daughter turned out great, but I came too close to not being around to watch her grow.
I’ve already adopted the “Skinny Bitch” way of eating due to health problems. I’m a different person! I am so healthy, have so much energy, look younger, feel better, lower cholesterol and more!
Now my daughter is pregnant. Guess what? She is getting this book today. She already has become a vegetarian due to the knowledge I’ve gained after reading the book, but now she is concerned about her health and the health of her baby.
It’s your life and your baby. If you don’t care about this, that’s up to you. Me? I want my daughter and grandbaby to be happy and healthy. This book will give my daughter most of the nutrition guidance she needs.
Bravo to the authors of this book!!! Know that you have made a differenc in MANY MANY lives with your books!!! I hear it daily now!!! Through them many people have learned to no longer trust our government to tell us what’s good and bad. We have learned to educate ourselves and question everyone and every food!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
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