I'm So Effing Hungry: Why we crave what we crave - and what to do about it

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Complete with more than thirty delicious recipes and peppered with easy Hunger Hacks and Cravings Crushers—like eating walnuts to reduce hunger and getting direct sunlight first thing in the morning—I’m So Effing Hungry is a complete guide to help you reframe decades-old dieting patterns and stop fighting the scale. Although the author is credentialed, there’s so much BS and pseudoscience out there, it’s hard to tell what’s real with these books.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.May be helpful for some, but there was nothing here that I have not seen a million times before over the years. It's an extremely interesting book - that told me a lot of things I never knew before about cravings, hunger and how the food companies manipulate the food to taste inviting and become addictive. Shah explains, cravings aren’t your fault—and eating a healthier diet isn’t just a matter of self-discipline or willpower. If you're looking for a new diet that will help you shed pounds quick, this is probably not the book for you.

Shah in this book: why we get hungry, what we can do about it and history behind our food and why hunger's meaning is more than meets the eye. We have the power to fuel our bodies with foods that will make us feel our best, and that can start a chain reaction in feeling better, sleeping better, and overall experiencing better health. I'm So Effing Hungry" emerges as a beacon of balanced health advice in a sea of fad diets and restrictive plans. I wish I could like Greek yogurt so I can work on getting more probiotics in me, but that stuff is nasty.She was named one of mindbodygreen’s Top 100 Women in Wellness to Watch in 2015 and appears regularly on national television shows and podcasts and in national magazines. From Amy: By paying attention to food sensitivities/allergies and making selective mind and lifestyle changes, we can lead ourselves to a healthier, happier life.

Though Amy is a professional medical practitioner, she believes everyone is each their own best doctor. My mission is to revolutionize the way we think about hunger and nutrition, and to help people manage hunger and cravings and break free from the tyranny of diets and battles with food. You are not the one engineering hyper palatable food that is designed to make you crave more without actually filling you up.

Drawing from her background in internal medicine and allergy/immunology, as well as her own wellness journey, she has dedicated her practice to helping her patients feel better and live healthier through her integrative and holistic approach to wellness. About the Author: Amy Shah, MD, is a double-board-certified medical doctor and nutrition expert with training from Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard Universities. Complete with more than thirty delicious recipes and peppered with easy Hunger Hacks and Cravings Crushers, I'm So Effing Hungry is a complete guide to helping you reframe decades-old dieting patterns and stop fighting the scale. Not much for me here as I am a lifelong insomniac so trying to get me to go to bed at 9 pm is never in a gazillion years gonna happen ! I’m glad I read it and it makes me want to read more like this- about the science of food and dieting etc.

As an author, Amy Shah has the credentials and expertise you would want from anyone authoritatively providing advice on what to eat. Every food choice that aligns with a healthier way of eating is worth it, and the effects are greater than we think. Fortunately the author explains in detail but it can be a bit overwhelming and I feel like I'll need to consult back with the book. I've always been an "all or nothing" person when it comes to fitness and diet (toxic trait, I know), and this book really helped me put that mindset in perspective.Amy Shah kept hearing the same complaints from her patients: “I feel hungry all the time, even when I just ate. This book is so good that I went and bought the Kindle version of this, after I listened to the audio version via the Libby app (and I also purchased Shah's other book, Why Am I So Effing Tired?