The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000H2M4GY |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Hungry for answers, he starts seeing a therapist, who suggests that he eats compulsively because he has "been running away from emotions." Leith's ups and downs will ring true for anyone who has tried to lose a significant amount of weight, and the revelations that come out of Leith's therapy sessions will undoubtedly have readers asking why they really want that doughnut. From Publishers Weekly Leith is a binger: when he starts eating, he can't stop—and he wants to know why. Atkins, leads him to explore fad diets, unheal
Here's the problem Huldren I don't hate this book, but it's not the book I thought it would be. From the review I'd read and from the title itself, I was expecting a book about food addiction. But it's not just about binge-eating, as William Leith is also heavily into coke, drinking and anything else that you might become addicted to (cell phones, . "A Smoothly-Written Chronicle of Addiction" according to Debra Hamel. William Leith's The Hungry Years, written in smooth, stream-of-consciousness prose, is a chronicle of the author's addictions, principally to food but also to alcohol and drugs. Leith writes about bingeing and being fat (a word he injects into the narrative at every opportunity), about feeling fat even during his thin per. Honest, but tedious and mundane throughout I tried to like William Leith's book but I found his writing tiresome and surprisingly unperceptive. The author has little insight into why he eats all the time, he just talks about how much of it he does, and though I could relate to his food addiction, I could not relate to his outlandish social commentary. What was his
"The Hungry Years" charts fascinating new territory for everyone who has ever had a craving or counted a calorie. I'm hungry most of the time.' On a January morning in 2003, William Leith woke up to the fattest day of his life. In his twenties, Leith's weight had risen steadily. 'Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. But in this unflinching investigation into the bodily consequences and psychological pain of being overweight, Leith reveals how it affects us all. At his worst he was driven to the kitchen, manically consuming slice after slice of buttered toast, lusting after fries, bacon sandwiches and peanut butter, wracked by a need that was emotional as well as physical. Our fat society, he tells us, is a lot like him: always hiding from the truth about itself. In his early thirties, he was slim again, but then, predictably, his weight began to creep up - and up, and up. Fat has been called a feminist issue. But what started out as a routine journalistic assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addict