Leading Harvard Medical School expert and “obesity warrior” (TIME magazine) rewrites the rules on weight loss, diet, and health.
Forget everything you’ve been taught about dieting. In ALWAYS HUNGRY?, renowned endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig explains why traditional diets don’t work, and presents a radical new plan to help you lose weight without hunger, improve your health, and feel great.For over two decades, Dr. Ludwig has been at the forefront of research into weight control. His groundbreaking studies show that overeating doesn’t make you fat; the process of getting fat makes you overeat. That’s because fat cells play a key role in determining how much weight you gain or lose. Low-fat diets work against you, by triggering fat cells to hoard more calories for themselves, leaving too few for the rest of the body. This “hungry fat” sets off a dangerous chain reaction that leaves you feeling ravenous as your metabolism slows down. Cutting calories only makes the situation worse-creating a battle between mind and metabolism that we’re destined to lose. You gain more weight, even as you struggle to eat less food. ALWAYS HUNGRY? turns dieting on its head with a three-phase program that ignores calories and targets fat cells directly. The recipes and meal plan include luscious high fat foods (like nuts and nut butters, full fat dairy, avocados, and dark chocolate), savory proteins, and natural carbohydrates. The result? Fat cells release their excess calories and you lose weight-and inches-without battling cravings and constant hunger. This is dieting without deprivation.Forget calories. Forget cravings. Forget dieting. ALWAYS HUNGRY? reveals a liberating new way to tame hunger and lose weight . . . for good.
It Actually Works I am not much of a writer, nor book critic, but here goes. I was one of the lucky individuals who “beta tested” the principles and recipes found in Always Hungry? At first it seemed a little intimidating cleaning out my kitchen and then restocking it after a major trip to the grocery store. Some foods I had never cooked with. But I decided to go “all in” and I followed the plan just like it was outlined. I was so surprised at two things: how delicious the recipes were and…
“Nothing new” except the way it’s all tied together into a convincing whole If you’ve already read your Michael Pollan, if you already prepare your food at home, if you’ve already turned your back definitively on the crappy American diet of the late 20th century, then the dietary changes Dr Ludwig prescribes will be a snap. (If you haven’t, I think the book will inspire you to make the leap now, because come on, it can’t be news to anyone that sugar and refined carbs are health hazards, can it?)Â
It truly works. I was one of the test subjects for this book and I can fully testify that this is the REAL DEAL. I dropped 34 pounds in the 5 month research phase but what is far more important is that I learned so much about good food and bad food. There is a lot of bad food out there, many we are unaware of. The Ludwigs teach you the differences and how to cook the meals that change your body for the better and for the long term. The other wonderful aspect of their plan is that the battle for a healthy…