The Hungry Years

The Hungry Years

2005 • 304 pages

What a mix of personal memoir, interviews, and rambling about the feeling of fatness and the obesity crises. (In my head, he lived in Vancouver that whole time even though he seems to travel widely) food addiction or compulsive behavior is probably not the same as other people's experiences of being fat however so grains of salt. The description of his time on the Atkins diet is fascinating from the post Paleo/Keto craze. The 5% dietary success answer is fully brutal: “just a little bit less, forever.” I read this because his more recent memoir “bits of me are falling apart” wasn't available yet so let's see how it goes!

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