Secrets from the Eating Lab

If you're looking for a book on how to lose a lot of weight, this is not the book for you. This is more about maintaining a sustainable weight range, as well as a discussion on why the conventional diets we think of don't work in the long run. The author also looks at how our current culture feeds into compulsion to diet, how weight isn't necessarily tied into health (namely we use weight as the main factor for health and not always connecting to other health factors such as activity or economics), and are negatively biased to the overweight and obese.

She explores why losing weight is hard, and draws on the work of her lab to support it. I'd like more from other studies. The book is an easy to understand one, and does give you things to think about if you're looking to maintain your weight. But if you're looking for structured advice to lose weight, it's probably not what you're looking for.