Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey From Fat to Thin by Allen Zadoff 3 stars

[Karin]

I read this for a "author whose name starts with Z" challenge, but also wanted to learn about this. Don't hate me for this since it's genetic, but I can lose weight by eating less, so have been trying to learn what things are like for those who aren't able to (I know that it's not all for the same reason!)

This is a memoir about Zadoff's eating disorder, which wasn't called that when he was younger. It's about all of the things that didn't work, what he did that lost him 150 pounds (won't work for everyone, apparently, and don't read it looking for a diet) and has kept it off.

I could relate to one thing, but not due to an eating disorder but a desire to primarily eat healthy food. When I could still eat them, I never bought bags of chips or certain other things, because once I opened the bag, I ate the entire bag. However, I don't have trigger foods.

It's rather repetitive and I it a bit thought shallow when it came to the part where he found something that worked for him, but I do think that he hit on some very important things and respected that he said this is what worked for him. Someone else I know had to go to one meal a day and stop eating certain foods; it's the only thing that's worked for him, with occasional fasts. BOTH had to do things differently than what doctors told them.

News flash--my sister, an MD, told me doctors get about an hour of nutrition in Med School; not sure if this has changed or not, but they are not nutritionists. That said, some of those general principals do work for some people.