Am I Hungry: What to Do When Diets Don't Work

by Lisa Galper, Michelle May, Janet H. Carr, et al.

Book Overview

Am I Hungry? will soon be out of print as it has been significantly updated and expanded. Please search Amazon for Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat instead. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976044404
• ISBN13: 9780976044406
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Nourish Pub.
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not another diet book.

This is an excellent book that deals with the reasons why people overeat, not just another diet. Most people do not overeat because they're hungry. This book actually teaches people what hunger feels like again. It also incorporates good nutrition and increased activity.

I'm Losing Weight and I'm Not On A Diet!

I would give this book 10 stars if I could! I had done every diet known to man, and I lost weight, but I kept putting it back on. I realized that "diets" don't work for me. I had completly given up any hope for attaining a lean figure. How could I live without Starbucks Mocha Chip ice cream in my life? Then I read "Am I Hungry" and my life is turned around! Michelle's easy step-by-step methods have taught me how to understand my hunger and eating cycles, and also how to give my body what it needs and wants. I have lost 16 pounds in a few short months and I get to eat ice cream, too! All I need to ask myself is "Am I Hungry?".

Cure Overeating Now!

"Am I Hungry? What to do When Diets Don't Work" is the first book, system, group, idea, or anything regarding weight management that worked for me. I know it will continue to work long-term. In 3 ½ months of utilizing this book, I have lost 30 pounds and regained confidence and positive body image. It will work for anyone. Dr. May presents the reader with a plan that each person can do starting from page one, and it is truly a lifestyle change, not a diet. The book teaches you all you need to know and do to take charge of your health, feel good, and be happy with yourself. To me the biggest secret is that diets are always something you enter with the idea in the back of your mind "when I get thin I won't have to do all this awful stuff like exercising and eating carrots instead of real food". Diets tell you at the beginning that you obviously are not doing the right thing now, you must change, and, by the way, here is the whole list of changes, demands for exercise, and food restrictions all at once. To be a success you must do all these things without fail. Of course, being human beings, we all fail on some step somewhere. Most of us feel bad, berate ourselves, and go back to our comfort foods and habits, resigned to stick with our comfortable "fat" clothes. Dr. May's book helps you from the first pages on. First, you will learn about overeating - I know, you are already an expert at that right? But, with diets you are trying to change the outcome (fat) without learning about and changing the real cause of your overeating. We all know someone who is thin, fit, and able to eat anything and everything whenever they want. Dr. May helps you to understand how that person employs instinctive eating compared to the overeating we do that got us fat in the first place, or the restrictive eating we employ when we try to diet. You start by simply asking yourself "Am I Hungry?". The good news is that "all foods fit"! So, no more restrictive eating! You will learn how to identify the triggers that lead you to overeating habits, and learn how to deal with the triggers in different ways. You will learn how to make small changes that will increase your activity level and your metabolism. You will learn a bit about nutrition, in fact a lot. Again, you can start on page one learning what you need and taking charge. There is a recurring, simple message of balance, variety, and moderation. One of the biggest benefits is you will remind yourself that you are your own best friend and re-learn the mental patterns and self-talk you employ. Would you tell your best friend that they are an unworthy fat slob? Of course not! You encourage and help others to be their best. With this book you will be able to truthfully affirm to yourself "I am a fit, active person"! Try it, you will like it! I spent over 35 years trying every possible diet plan out there. I cannot tell you how many total pounds I have lost and regained over the years. I knew what I needed to do for m

Really and truly, renewed hope for eating RIGHT!

What a difference a book makes! I cannot BELIEVE how much this book spoke to my lifelong eating habits. I have always had a love/hate relationship with food, and for the first time, after well over 15 years, I feel hopeful that I can change this! I've always thought of food as something that was either "good" or "bad", hence leading me to battle with endless diets, binges, and other eating disorders. "Food as fuel" for your body, being neither good nor bad, is a concept that this book stresses, and it presents this in a way that finally doesn't seem so tough! I have read so much on "diets" (entire books including Adkins NDR, South Beach, Zone, Eat Right for Your Blood/Body Type, Body for Life, Scientific Juice Fasting, and many others). I have tried all of them too, sometimes for a year or more each. The biggest problem I've always had is portion control! This book is right on- diets that encourage unlimted chomping on "good" foods and the total elimination of "bad foods" do not help eradicate the habit of overeating! I've always known what to eat, and I generally do eat great foods. In fact, I particularly enjoy and buy lots of outright health nut foods like fresh organic veggies, fruits, sprouted grain breads, high fiber no sugar cereals, raw nuts and seeds, tofu, olive oil, etc.- but in copious amounts! With all of the research I've done, I possess an exorbitant amount of macro and even some micronutrient profiles of various foods right there in my head! However, like many Americans, I am extremely adverse to depravation. I would just watch thin people eat chips and cakes and think "WHY can't I eat like that and LOOK like that?" Every time i would diet (I've been yo-yoing between since i was 11), I'd set myself up for failure, thinking I just couldn't enjoy food so much, period, or I would never look like the slender women I so envied. Well, I enjoy food a lot, so I would get mad, QUIT dieting and just go anarchic with the food again. The guilt of possessing a high level of nutrition knowledge but not having the logical output of such knowledge- the healthy physique- has been enormous. I'm so glad the guilt over overeating when "you know better" is addressed in the book. I've never seen anyone address that. Every other book has been so condescending, saying, "just do what you now know" and "if you overeat, it MUST be emotional". Well, it's not for me, and every single source I read tried to make me believe it was. I would search for what ailed me emotionally, and because I never found anything that connected with my eating I never solved the problem! My overeating is a combo of several things, all of which are addressed in this amazing book, specifically, childhood patterns which became lifelong habits, boredom, eating too quickly, hopelessness associated with not being a "thin" person, etc. I was stuck in the notion that snacking is bad for me, and I should always wait until "mealtime". I pictured "mealtime" in my head to