More about Skinny Bitch

I'm realizing that this book is like a horrible mix between the fear-based drama that is Fox News and the extreme conspiracy approach from Michael Moore movies. It's scary that the American Public falls for this kind of stuff. Can people really not take unbiased information and THINK FOR THEMSELVES (and this goes for politics, too, people)? Needless to say I have skipped tons of pages, which brings me closer to the end. I hope it gets better?

Skinny Bitch

With all of my degrees and Paul's combined, and all of the fad diets we've read about (and even tried), we think we know a thing or two about weightloss. But I had to read this book, called Skinny Bitch, since it was a top-seller and written by two airheads with no experience other than the fact that they are skinny bitches. I knew what I was in for when I bought the book but I thought at least it was good for a laugh.

And I laughed outloud as I read it last night. Mostly because it's humorous the names they call your fat, lazy butt as you read along. Those words are just funny to see in actual print, I think. TV has no more shock value to me, but to read it in a book, it cracks me up.

"Soda is Liquid Satan", and that includes diet soda. They go on to rant about the link between aspartame and formaldehyde, and how sugar and grain processing strips the nutrients right out of our food at the expense of saving a dollar and mass production. I am in the middle of reading why dairy is evil, but I fell asleep in the middle of it. I know dairy is evil, I have seen and heard all about it. Processing animals to eat is a horrible, scary thing to actually see, and definitely not cool for the poor animal going through the nightmare. If you saw it yourselves, too, you'd probably consider becoming a vegitarian, or a vegan.

But I need my meat, though not alot, and I'm not a personal hunter/gatherer. This is how our society has approved the processing of meat, whether we like it or not. I guess I could buy free-range, and all that. Maybe I'll make a more conscious effort to at least look into it?

As for dairy, yes, we are the only species to drink other species' milk. But that's what we do. In our household, we drink organic, no antibiotics, no pesticides, no hormones. If we are giong to consume such mass quantities of the crap, at least we should try to cut down on ingesting the amount of bad stuff that goes into it. It actually tastes better too.

I do try to make good choices in snacks for Anna that keeps her little digestive system in shape and her blood sugar levels even. Therefore, I'm a bit picky on juices and punch and stuff (translates: we don't give it to her), but I don't outlaw it in social situations. I think it's a matter of everything in moderation (except for mac N cheese, which seems to be a staple in her menu. Even for that we've switched to protein-enriched whole grain noodles).

But even before reading this book, we decided we'll be sending her to day care with better afternoon snacks, since their menu is centered around goldfish and cheerios and nilla wafers. I just feel like that stuff is ingested then burned within an hour so that she's left hungry and just out of sorts. At least that's what it feels like when I ingest that stuff.