Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
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Leading Harvard Medical School expert Dr. David Ludwig rewrites the rules on weight loss, diet, and health in this guide to retraining your cells and reclaiming your health—for life.
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.
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. You'll lose weight 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. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon-style reader feedback for Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently is mixed but generally positive, with many readers praising the science-backed explanation of hunger, insulin, and fat storage. Goodreads reviewers and book-summary sites note that fans like the practical meal plan, satisfying food choices, and the book’s challenge to conventional calorie-focused dieting. Reviews on nutrition and medical sites describe it as thoughtful and useful for readers interested in obesity science, while some readers find the plan restrictive, repetitive, or hard to follow long-term. Reddit and forum-style discussion was not surfaced clearly in the available results, but the overall pattern across review sources is that the book appeals most to readers looking for a structured low-carbohydrate approach grounded in medical reasoning.
- Goodreads reviewers appear split, with many positive reviews and some criticism about rigidity.
- Review blogs praise the book’s explanations of cravings and metabolism.
- Medical and professional reviews call it provocative and practical, but not universally convincing.
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Specifications
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
| Publication date | December 18, 2018 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 384 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1455533874 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1455533879 |
| Item Weight | 12.8 ounces |
| Dimensions | 6.05 x 1 x 9.05 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #54,471 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #37 in Low Fat Diets (Books) #47 in Gluten-free Diet #152 in Weight Loss Diets (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (2,254) |