Skinny School: Where Women Learn the Secrets to Finally Get Thin Forever (Genie Series)

I'm really glad this was available on Kindle. It wasn't some superficial storyline used as a medium to teach the Skinny School rules. I really enjoyed the plot and getting to know the characters. Julie certainly knows how to tell a good story! I appreciated many of the Skinny School principles such as eating wholesomely and cleanly, being prepared and not keeping Trash Food around, exercising, having a champion mentality, and using the hunger scale to decide when to eat and when to stop. That last one is really going to be useful to me. What I don't agree with is the "ditch" portion of the rules. The main character is told to ditch starches and sweets. Ditching sweets, I am on board with. Though that is a tough one for me, I see the value in doing so for weight loss and general health. But ditching starches, all starches, no. That's more or less the Atkins diet which causes really quick weight loss. Jackie's 45 pound weight loss was rather quick. We'd all like to get it off overnight, but I don't agree with that approach. I am speaking as someone with a Bachelor's degree in nutrition. There are clean starches available, and I personally believe that those are okay in smart amounts and portions. You can still lose weight consuming smarter choice starches (carbs), maybe just not as quickly. I also didn't care for the fact that Jackie had returned to her pre-pregnancy weight, each time, after 3 children, within 8 weeks of giving birth. That would be the exception, not the rule in real life. I did learn some great tools in Skinny School and I enjoyed reading it.

I read this whole book in two days, which says a lot considering that I have 4 little boys! Julie has a lot of credibility, with 6 children of her own, 5 of them boys. This in itself tells me that life is not easy for her, but if she has been able to overcome this issue of compulsive over-eating, then I can do it too. I loved the story. I kind of wish that all of the genie's comments were laid out in a separate section. The story helped me a lot, envisioning how someone would live this program out day to day. I wish that we could have more stories of more women's transformations, women at different stages of life.I am just beginning, a few days into the program, but I have so much hope for the future. I need to lose about 15 lbs, which isn't a huge amount, but ultimately it will great to get this huge monkey off my back, the burden of compulsive and emotional overeating. To be honest, I have read a lot of nutrition books, so I sort of knew a lot of this information, but Julie phrased it in a new way that made a lot of sense to me.Thank you, Julie, for this awesome program. I wish that I could attend one of your live classes, or that there were an online group that I could join.

i have skinny school and wife school. both books are chock full of wisdom. JULIE, IF YOU ARE READING THIS, make a "money school." that's something i need to read at this point in my life. no debt solution or saving money book or "i can make you rich" book is doing it for me. richest man in babylon is great, but i feel dumb reading it, since i cant even really do anything until i get out of debt. so it makes me feel stagnant, somehow. and i need some training to change my mindset, just as with your two books that i already have. so if you have the knowledge, please share it!

Having been a chubby teen who turned into an obsessed adult regarding food/diet/weigh/exercise; ; I was honestly not prepared for such a wise and motivational book. I gained weight about 10 yrs. ago while working night shift as an RN. I lost my sense of knowing when I was hungry and began eating for comfort, boredom, exhaustion- you get the picture. Being 50 plus meant my already confused metabolism was pretty much zip! This book just plain gets it. From the first lesson where you identify your top life goals, to facing the truth about carbohydrate/sugar addiction, YOU are the one who must make the choice to take action. Julie Gordon has figured out what works but as she says; it's simple but not easy. It was like wow, I am going to do this because I don't want to waste my life in unhealthy habits anymore. The storyline is entertaining with the main character addressing feelings we all experience as we work through the process of change. I have lost weight, but more importantly I have been freed from years of mental/emotional turmoil concerning weight. The concept works. It is about choosing to retrain your brain in order to become the person God made you to be. I am eternally grateful for this book. Thank you Julie N. Gordon.

This book has great suggestions for eating healthy and I enjoyed the mental sorting of binge/comfort eaters thoughts. This being said, if you're an avid reader, the vocabulary, sentence structure and grammar may bother you. I struggled to complete the book but glad that I did and picked up a few hints to help my binge/emotional eating moments.