Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dietingby Bethenny Frankel,Eve Adamson |
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Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 304
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- Publisher: Fireside
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- ISBN: 1416597980
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 6 x 0.3 x 9.2
- Shipping Weight: 0.75
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Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting Review
Source: Product DescriptionShe stole the show in the runaway hit The Real Housewives of New York City, but Bethenny Frankel's passion has always been enjoying healthful, natural foods and sharing that love: whether she was cooking for Hollywood A-listers, launching her successful company BethennyBakes, providing delicious recipes to Health, or working with leading lifestyle and food companies.
Naturally Thin shows how anyone can banish their Heavy Habits, embrace Thin Thoughts, and enjoy satisfying meals, snacks, and drinks without the guilt. Armed with Bethenny's rules, readers will say:
• I know when I am really hungry
• When I'm really hungry, I look for high-volume, fiber-rich foods
• I can have any food I want
• I love the taste of real food
With more than thirty simple, delicious recipes (including her famous SkinnyGirl Margarita), a one-week program to jump-start readers on the Naturally Thin lifestyle, and warm, witty encouragement on every page, Frankel serves up a book for a healthier and thinner life.
Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 241 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-02-25 and rated it
3 People found this review helpful, Excellent Book!
This is the first weight loss/nutrition book that actually speaks to me. I have never had a large amount of weight to lose (neither has the author that I can tell), but having read many diet books, some just out of an interest in the subject and some that I thought could really help, this is the first one that confirms what I actually believe to be true about being thin long term. No matter what a diet book tells me to prepare and eat, I find myself eating what is handy, available, on sale, whatever. I have never been a big eater, and I naturally leave food on my plate and eat healthfully in general. I don't believe any food should be off limits, but I do believe one has to be smart when faced with a multitude of choices as we so often are today. This book is logical, applicable, and teaches dieters how to make the best of any situation, making the best, most nutritious choice no matter the situation one is in--at a party, at home, at work, at a fast food restaurant, etc. Finally, someone really hits the nail on the head with a logical approach to food. I believe that anyone following these principles will become naturally thin, and not just for the short term only to gain back the lost weight, but for the long term, for good. Just watching my skinny friends eat over the years has confirmed what the author shares here. Definitely a book worth reading.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-02-21 and rated it
3 People found this review helpful, I Hope Bethenny Eats Right For The Baby's Sake!
I hope Bethenny gave this book to her doctor to read. I think he'd be extremely worried if she ate like this while she's pregnant. I hope the baby doesn't have health problems.
It sounds like Bethenny might also have bad osteoporosis in a few years from a lack of calcium.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-02-15 and rated it
3 People found this review helpful, Recipe For An Eating Disorder
I cannot believe someone thought this book was a good idea. It's really awful. Not at all a way to get and stay thin. It's easy to read, but that's mostly because she's an idiot. She eats out most of the time, stays out late partying and drinks quite a bit. She also does not exercise. We can't all follow those habits and look like she does. One of her breakfasts is watermelon and hot chocolate. (She was hung-over...so ...)
Perhaps this book is good for a twenty something living in NYC who wants to feel good about her lifestyle. Not meant for real people.
There are many other nutrition/diet books out there that talk about eating sensibly with good ideas based on sound research.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-01-21 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Common Sense Advice
I was apprehensive about this book after reading all the negative reviews but since a friend already had it, I decided to give it a try. This is not a life changing book, or a magic diet plan, but it has sound advice that is well put together and entertaining. I think her simple suggestions at really paying attention to what you put in your mouth and making more effort in enjoying your food and sitting down to eat it are very smart - not groundbreaking - but simple and smart. The 3 bites of steak comment is really overrated - and what she's really saying is to pay attention to portion control and use your calories on what you really want instead of stuffing your face with garbage. Her recipes are really easy, delicious and help you start thinking of cooking at home more often. It's certainly challenging to implement her "tiny bites of everything" strategy at restaurants with huge portions - what are you supposed to do with the rest of it? Take it home and waste a good dinner? But I guess that's what it takes.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-01-08 and rated it
2 People found this review helpful, Good Advice, If Not Precise Enough For Weight Loss
Since losing my own weight I rarely look at diet books anymore, so I'm not sure what drew me to this one, although it might have been the title. I've never thought of myself as "naturally" thin, so I think I was intrigued by the idea that there might be effective strategies I could add to my arsenal of healthy weight maintenance tools. I was right, and there was so much more. This book has been an inspiration and a revelation for me. Everyone assumes that because I'm thin now I must not have any food issues, but that's not true. I wouldn't have been overweight to begin with if I didn't have issues, and while my journey of losing weight went a long way towards resolving some of those, there were some ways in which I traded one unhealthy compulsion with another. I grew to fear certain foods - anything I viewed as "bad" - and was developing an unhealthy way of seeing food as an enemy, whereas in the past, I went to the other extreme and viewed it as a friend - eating for solace, etc. Both views are wrong, of course. Food is not your enemy OR your friend; it's just food. Sounds like a no-brainer, but it's amazing how much psychology plays a role in how and what we eat, and we're not even conscious of its influence most of the time. I was making myself unhappy with my food anxieties, under-eating, over-exercising and obsessing, and it was time to reassess what was going on in my head.
I should mention that this is a review of both the book, Naturally Thin, and the companion audiobook, Skinny Girl Rules. I spotted the book in the bookstore, paged through it, and ended up speed-reading almost the entire thing right there in the store (I'm sure the author and the store would have preferred I buy it!) I did buy the audiobook, though, and downloaded it to the iPod. I've listened to it about 4 times already. It's precisely the same as the book, word for word, just without the sample menu plans and recipes that comprise a third of the written version.
One thing Frankel stresses is that we're all naturally thin, because natural thinness - i.e., healthiness (the word "thin" has some negative associations, I think, so I prefer `healthy', `slim' or `slender') - is not so much genetic as it is a frame of mind, and a way of living your life. "I don't care what your mother, sister or grandmother looks like," she says . "It doesn't matter." I wouldn't have agreed with that before losing weight myself, but I do now, for the most part. Genetics do play some part in our height, body type and frame, but it plays a much lesser role than we think when it comes to fat and pounds, and there's no excuse for blaming your weight on bad genes (as I used to). She outlines 10 basic "rules" such as "your diet is a bank account", "you can have it all, just not all at once" and others that sound shamefully basic and unimpressive at first blush, but really flesh out and become epiphanies when she drills it down and you start to re-program your own mind. That's exactly what she says she did, and what she wants other women to do - re-program themselves into the "naturally thin" women we incorrectly think only certain people are blessed enough to be.
There are a few points I disagree with, primarily the issue of calorie-counting, which she advises against. I am whole-heartedly supportive of calorie counting when you're trying to lose weight. You don't have to, but it's important to at least understand that it will always come down to calories, whether you count them or not, and if you want to make absolutely sure you're eating the right amount, calorie counting - at least for a while until you get a feel for what different foods `cost' - is essential for knowing you're getting it right.
Overall, however, I think this is one of the best `diet' books I've ever read, and I put quotes around the word because it's all about not dieting, or at least not viewing it that way - as some sort of restrictive, punitive lifestyle. I have no weight to lose anymore and have kept my weight off for several years now, yet this book showed me that I had more to learn about myself, our culture, and food. Frankel's fresh, innovative viewpoint has been immensely helpful for me, so I can just imagine what it will do for anyone who does want to lose weight. Definitely recommended.
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