Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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...

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.

the book is not worth [the money]. I expected recipes, more meal plans than were included, and more detail about the way food burns fat. There are only 3 pages worth of information and I acquired that much from the magazine article in First for Woman.

I hate to say it because I was so hopeful that I was going to like this book, but, what a waste! It took me, literally, ten minutes to read this hard cover book. The price is outrageous for what you get. There are 92 pages and on each page is one paragraph. I expected to get food ideas and portion sizes, etc. and instead she wrote things like, "you can eat cereal, or hamburg patties, or pasta, etc. She never mentions what kinds of cereal or what kind of portion would be appropriate. She recently had a two page article in First Magazine and I got more information out of that than I did from this book... Trust me when I say that you will learn nothing from this book. All that money and ten minutes worth of reading.

I read this VERY little book and was sorely disappointed. I was expecting specifics about the plan and other guidelines. I believe this book was published, more to promote the "Skinny" supplements, than to be a source for information about losing weight.

From the items listed in this book, I can't possibly believe you can lose weight. Maybe with the additional pills you can buy through the company, but definitely not from the book. It's like a previous reviewer said, there are no quantities of any food items in this book and all the information could be put on a one-page flyer.

Don't waste your money!

I read about Edita's Skinny Rules in the March 25 2002 issue of FIRST for Women, a magazine I pick up at the grocery store. I read about her food plan...I read her inspirational stories...I read the testimony of a woman who lost 88 pounds on Edita's program. I followed her Skinny Rules for just 8 days, and lost 8 pounds. The Skinny Rules is a fun, fast, easy to follow plan. It's very different. It's very effective. Go ahead. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.

If I could have browesed through this book at a book store I would have never bought it. I found more information from the magazine article, Women First, then in this book. What a dissapointment this was. I would return this book if I could.

unless you've never read a book on nutrition, this is a waste of time. the content is poor and there is nothing that one couldn't find on the web.

This is an "itty bitty" book with a hefty price and very little worthwhile content.....just alot of warm fuzzy stuff. I am very disappointed in Edita Kaye, having enjoyed her "Fountain of Youth" and been successful with it, I had hoped this would provide some new angles and/or menus. Instead, it appears that
Edita stuck her hand into my pocketbook and I was left holding the bag. As my 5th grade teacher used to say, "A word to the wise should be sufficient."