rant · moment 6 of 19
Bethany Frankel's 'Naturally Thin' Diet Book
from Jessica Kirson & The Revenge Of The Basic | The Tim Dillon Show #387 · #387
4 min
Tim mocks Bethany Frankel's diet book for telling food addicts to just 'eat the rainbow,' tying it into a broader rant about processed 'Franken food' like salted caramel Bananas Foster pancakes at Denny's.
- Bethany Frankel's opening claim: being naturally thin isn't beyond your grasp, you just have to make simple changes to let your natural thin self emerge.
- Tim pushes back: she says she found the secrets and got naturally thin, but genetic factors and family history matter—his mother had every diet known to man.
- The food system in America is poisoned with ingredients banned in other countries, making it unfair to tell people obesity is just about willpower.
- American food is Frankenfood: cookie ice cream sandwiches, waffle bacon bomb breakfast cereals, and dishes like Denny's salted caramel Bananas Foster pancakes with steak.
- If you're okay right now in this world, there's something wrong with you—you're a killer and a full-on sociopath.
- Telling people with food addiction to just taste the rainbow is like writing a book about alcoholism and telling alcoholics to try different wines.
- Tim admits he hasn't eaten bread orally in three years, and he can't have one cookie because he'll eat 846 of them—he's addicted to food and lost weight by eliminating it entirely.
- Some people genuinely aren't addicted to food, so Bethany's advice works for them, but that doesn't mean it works for everyone with an addiction issue.