The Skinny Rules: Start to Get Skinny in Just 24 Hours With These 7 Simple Rules [Hardcover]

Edita M. Kaye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 2002

Edita's Skinny Rules is the no-nonsense rule book for everyone who wants to get skinny. It's fast. It's simple. It's easy. Start to get skinny in just 24 hours with Edita's 7 Skinny Rules.

Editorial Reviews

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Here is an exciting excerpt from my newest book, The Skinny Rules. And if you like what you read, you'll really like the results you'll see-just like I did!

Skinny Is Just A Day Away

"Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Louis Carroll Through the Looking Glass

It's never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

My Own Skinny Story

I'm often asked what made me America's favorite nutritionist? What made me decide to dedicate my life to making America skinny? Healthy? Strong? Those hundreds of thousands of you who read my book, The Skinny Pill, already know the story of how I found the exciting secret to the ultimate skinny solution.

But the real beginning happened several years before I created the formula for my skinny supplements. It happened years before I unlocked the secrets of skinny foods. It happened when I was at the lowest point of my life. I haven't told this story to anyone before. But I would like to tell it to you now. I'd like to tell you the story of the day that changed my life forever. I hope it may change yours. Even now, I can hardly believe what happened to me on that day which dawned in such darkness for me and ended with such blazing light. It was just two weeks before my birthday. There I sat, on the floor of a motel room, surrounded by twenty-seven green garbage bags-stuffed to bursting with everything I owned. My life as I knew it, had ended. I found myself abused. Broke. Homeless. Alone. I was in pain. I was old. I was scared-and oh, yes, as if all that weren't enough, I was FAT! I felt so completely without hope. How was I to know I was just moments away from a whole new life?

Product Details

• Hardcover: 93 pages
• Publisher: Fountain of Youth Group Inc (January 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963515004
• ISBN-13: 978-0963515001
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,694,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Way is this a 5-star book!, June 22, 2002

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Sunny (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Skinny Rules: Start to Get Skinny in Just 24 Hours With These 7 Simple Rules (Hardcover)

I was very enthused about trying this book. I first read about Edita's Skinny Rules in the "First For Women" magazine, 6/17/02 issue. The article was very detailed but was limited in information about the foods you could eat and sample menus. After reading the article, I wanted more. After ordering the book and reading it, I found this book to be the poorest excuse for a diet/eating guide I have seen in years...and I've seen and read a lot! :-) Not quite sure what the reviewers who gave it 5 stars were reading, but I don't think it was THIS book. Here is the REAL DEAL:

THE BOOK
Costs [money] and is small, about 5 x 7. The text is written in about 13 point type so the text is big and takes up a lot of space. There is about one paragraph on each page with very little information and a lot of white space around each paragraph. The actual information doesn't start until about 1/4 of the way through the book.

THE DIET
The magazine article has more detail than this book. In the book there is a list of fat-burning foods and fat-blocking foods, but that is all it is...a list. There are no quantity amounts on anything in the book's food list. The book also seems to contradict the details in the article. The article says to avoid refined carbohydrates such as sweets, bread, and pasta. The books' list includes waffles, pancakes, syrup, oatmeal cookies, and fig bars, again with no quantities specified! I don't know about you, but unlimited amounts of this kind of stuff is what has gotten me where I am today...overweight. :-)

There are no detailed menu plans, just a generalized table of stuff you could eat for each of the 7 suggested meals. For example, at breakfast you could eat pancakes w/syrup OR waffles w/syrup OR oatmeal w/brown sugar OR toast, bagel, or muffin w/jelly. Again, no specific quantities or amounts were given for any of these foods.

THE INFORMATION
There are a few anecdotal stories, but they are the kind of generic stuff you could find anywhere or know about first hand. Even most of the fad diet books have more substance than this one. The information contained in this book could have been written on a brochure.

The diet itself (using the article as a guide)is not hard to follow, but keep your money and go get the magazine article, at least it has details and specifics to help guide you. Book - 1 star; article - 4 stars.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the rest of the book?, March 25, 2002

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"perinfletcher" (Charlottetown, PE Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Skinny Rules: Start to Get Skinny in Just 24 Hours With These 7 Simple Rules (Hardcover)

I had read an article on Edita Kaye's Skinny Rules diet and I found it interesting so in order to learn more about this diet I decided to buy the book. Here's the info I wish I had known before buying it: This book is TINY! It's about the size a preteen paperback novel; the pages barely contain one paragraph each in a large font. There are only 11 pages in this entire book that outline the eating plan and another 6 pages with interesting "big fat lies". So out of the 93 "pages" in this book, only 17 are worth reading...

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Skinny Books Are Best, April 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Skinny Rules: Start to Get Skinny in Just 24 Hours With These 7 Simple Rules (Hardcover)

I have read dozens and dozens of books on weight loss and dieting over the years. Hundreds if not thousands of pages of advice, information, and how to's, as we probably all have. But not a single one of all those books, made as much sense, gave out as much new research, simplified the whole food-to-fat mystery as Edita's Skinny Rules.

First, she explains in a quick, simple way, which everyone can understand, just how food made us fat, and how the same food can make us thin. She boils it all down to a program as simple as telling time. Next, she gives us two quick rules...a morning rule to switch from fat making orange juice to a fat blocking orange, and a bedtime rule to enjoy fat burning peanut butter. She also talks about the importance of supplements. Not only diet or "skinny" supplements, but those critical ones like calcium, for our overall health. Finally, she doesn't neglect the mental and spiritual side of changing our lives around as our bodies gain in slenderness and health. I have been on Edita's program for 30 days and I have lost 30 pounds. Four of my friends have been on her program and have lost between an average of a pound of fat a day. I don't know about anyone else who is trying to lose weight...but for myself, I can say, God bless you Edita you care.