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Shut Up, Skinny Bitches!
Stop dieting and start loving yourself! If you can't stomach one more day of being told you're too fat, then you're ready to try some delicious new brain candy. Skinny is not the cure! Thin is NOT in. There's nothing wrong with you! There never was. Authors Maria Rago, PhD and Greg Archer want you to do one thing: Shut up, and eat! And have fun doing it. Let compassionate guides Maria and Greg show you how listening to your hunger and fullness cues, eating foods you love, and honoring yourself are the best nutrition for your body, mind, and soul.
- GenresHealth
162 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2010
About the author
Maria Rago
4 books5 followersI'm a psychologist and the clinical director of Eating Disorders Services at Linden Oaks Hospital at Edwards. I'm the president of Rago & Associates Counseling Services in Naperville, Illinois, and I serve on the Board of Directors of ANAD (Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders).
Coca Cola, movie popcorn (with butter, of course), and cheeseburgers are my favorite foods.
Coca Cola, movie popcorn (with butter, of course), and cheeseburgers are my favorite foods.
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May 17, 2019
An awesome book for anyone dealing with an Eating Disorder, or anyone who loves someone with an Eating Disorder. It promotes nixing the diet mentality, and embracing a loving kindness vibe towards bodies of all sizes. An educational treat about ED's.
January 6, 2015
I want to start by saying that the majority of the information in this book was not new to me. I knew I had heard it with a healthier mindset at some point in my life. And yet, it felt new. It stuck with me and I can't say exactly why.
Tone played a big role in what I liked about this book. It was authoritative but approachable. I could imagine how Rago was like as a mental health professional. Her writing is warm, comfortably irreverent, genuine, and empathetic and those work for me. They aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I liked it. Plus sometimes I wondered if I was the only one frustrated with certain systems, books, or ideas and nope, I was not. I told my husband it was like having my nutritionist in my kindle and I loaded it to my phone in case I need to refer to it.
I loved the review of Skinny Bitch. It was super trendy before I moved to Japan and reading that book was an incredibly sad, difficult experience. I was angry about reading it and yet I totally bought into all the horrible things they said. It felt really affirming to see that I was not alone in those feelings. I liked that they included the review at the end and did a good job of not bashing the book or the authors, but rather what they wrote and how they wrote.
I think the only reason I didn't give it a 5 was that it felt like more restrictive practices and overexercising were forgotten in the middle. The start and end of the book do a good job of acknowledging them and covering them but it felt like they got lost in the middle. I mean I understand that statistically over-eating is more common but still it bugged me a little. It took me out of the book and felt like I was sitting in a class session not meant for me. Overall though, I think if you have an ED or not it's a good book to remind us that life is not a race to see what we can deny ourselves, but about finding balance.
Tone played a big role in what I liked about this book. It was authoritative but approachable. I could imagine how Rago was like as a mental health professional. Her writing is warm, comfortably irreverent, genuine, and empathetic and those work for me. They aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I liked it. Plus sometimes I wondered if I was the only one frustrated with certain systems, books, or ideas and nope, I was not. I told my husband it was like having my nutritionist in my kindle and I loaded it to my phone in case I need to refer to it.
I loved the review of Skinny Bitch. It was super trendy before I moved to Japan and reading that book was an incredibly sad, difficult experience. I was angry about reading it and yet I totally bought into all the horrible things they said. It felt really affirming to see that I was not alone in those feelings. I liked that they included the review at the end and did a good job of not bashing the book or the authors, but rather what they wrote and how they wrote.
I think the only reason I didn't give it a 5 was that it felt like more restrictive practices and overexercising were forgotten in the middle. The start and end of the book do a good job of acknowledging them and covering them but it felt like they got lost in the middle. I mean I understand that statistically over-eating is more common but still it bugged me a little. It took me out of the book and felt like I was sitting in a class session not meant for me. Overall though, I think if you have an ED or not it's a good book to remind us that life is not a race to see what we can deny ourselves, but about finding balance.
March 7, 2011
“Shut Up, Skinny Bitches!” is a book about why diets don’t work and how they actually cause disordered eating. It tells the reader to eat food, not too much, but not too little, and if you are craving a cupcake, then have a cupcake. There should be no such thing as forbidden foods. They also describe the different types of eating disorders and the body image issues the people (including very young children) have formed because the media shoves these lies down our throats and brainwashes us into believing that the images we see on the magazine covers and on T.V. are real. Well, they’re not. They are fake, airbrushed or Photoshopped, images of fake people who have plastic surgery done or have a personal trainer and personal stylist and professional hairdresser and professional makeup artist prep them before a professional photographer used lots of expensive equipment to take an image, a mirage, of them that isn’t real. So stop beating yourself up for not looking like them. And stop beating yourself up for not looking like the person sitting next to you. You are you. Accept it.
Overall I think it’s a good book with a good message. I just wish they said things like “Shut up!” less.
Overall I think it’s a good book with a good message. I just wish they said things like “Shut up!” less.
March 22, 2012
The first chapters were good. But the following chapters I lost interest.
July 19, 2013
Good info but knew a lot of it would recommend
July 21, 2015
Amazing and beautiful
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