The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction

The author makes a strong case for food addiction. I'm sure she is right - I've just never thought of it that way. She also has some interesting approaches/perspectives/techniques that someone can use to help their situation. However, when all is said and done - the elements are the same as many other programs - only with some unique touches.

While I was glad to read a book containing scientific proof that sugar and other foods are addicting, it was a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo with the bottom line being that you have to stop eating those foods altogether. I think most of us already realize that. I was hoping for a better plan to help me do that, but I didn't find one. I guess it's cold turkey. Sadly, there is no magic formula.

Most diet or lifestyle takes boil down to telling a person they should not eat X, Y, or Z (or combinations of those). How one does that invariably involves willpower. The abject failure of these willpower-based methods are right before our eyes on a daily basis & the results are an indictment on every one of those methods. People are getting more obese over the years, at alarming rates. Perhaps Dr Lustig sums it up best when he says: "No one can exert cognitive inhibition (willpower) over a bio-chemical drive that goes on every minute of every day, of every year, it's just not possible" Dr Robert Lustig, Pediatric Endocrinologist, University of California, SF. If all it took was someone wanting to stop over eating Pamela's book (or any others like it) would not sell because nobody would be looking for an answer. Until the bio-chemical part of this affliction is adequately addressed it's going to be an epidemic.

The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction

It was so nice to finally read a book that makes me understand why I over-eat and why I'm never satisfied when I do. It never occurred to me that my brain wiring was in the mix -- I thought I just didn't have any will power. After seeing Dr. Peeke on the Katie Couric show last week..and those brain scans of folks on heroin and folks who eat too much and the scans were identical...I knew I had to buy this book. Now I've got some ammo to attack my overeating problems and a way to "re-wire" my brain so that it is working with me, not against me. I like that the book has recipes so I have some ways to eat differently and hopefully eat better and I know that like all programs, I have to be the architect of the change I want to see in myself. Thanks Dr. Peeke for writing a book with science in it in such a way that non-scientists can benefit.

The Hunger Fix is a book about addiction to unhealthy foods that give us a pleasure fix that's not unlike our response to other drugs or nicotine. The book shows how different foods trigger neurochemicals (especially dopmine) that create a powerful reward sensation in our brains.

The book makes a good argument that diets which totally eliminate this natural reward sensation are doomed to fail. Instead, this book offers a 3-phase plan that tries to transition the reward from unhealthy choices (what the authors call "false fixes") to healthy ones. The idea is to gradually teach your brain to respond to food choices that are good for you.

The book has lots of good information and advice, although some of the specifics may seem a bit extreme or unrealistic some readers. For example, one table shows how you can transition from a bacon cheese burger (false fix), to a lean beef burger (first phase), to a turkey burger (second phase) and finally to a "bean" burger (final phase). That may be a little further than some people want to go, but the basic idea makes a lot of sense.

The "Hunger Fix" is not really a diet book, but it does have a meal plan chapter and it includes about 75 recipes. The main value of the book is the information on overcoming junk food addiction.

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How nice to find a respected doctor and scientist who didn't "blame the victim" for an addiction. Instead, Dr. Peeke recognizes that the same demons that drive addiction to drugs and alcohol are the ones that have a cake talk to me from kitchen at midnight saying: "No one will know -- go ahead and eat the last of the birthday cake." She understands that the fact that I had a snack at 4 pm in no way ends the craving for a pasta dinner. And instead of giving pallative advice of eat less/exercise more, she spends the time to teach how to rewire the brain so that it sends useful signals rather than "feed me and my addiction signals." When I first saw the title, but not the author, I thought it was book four of The Hunger Games" and then had to laugh when, in reality it was a way for me to win the Hunger Games -- winning through science, application of lessons from her earlier books: Mind/Mouth/Muscle from "Fight Fat After Forty" with the new insights from the science of the brain.

Dr. Peeke doesn't promise the journey will be easy, and she doesn't promise that results are instant, but that's not what I wanted. She offers a method and a process that is something I can do and I've started on that journey with the most energy I've had in years to break a cycle related to eating too much and too often.

You have to ask yourself the question: are you truly ready to attack your overeating problem? If the answer is yes, then read this book. However, read the book purposively for your own needs.

I have a human science background, so the medical terms related to brain and hormonal functions fascinated me; especially related to appetite and binging and why I experience cravings of sugar and fat.

Now if you want simply to find a way to change your destructive eating habits that truly works, this book is for you too. Dr. Peeke shows you how to make the changes happen and last for life.

The author uses a Mind, Mouth,and Muscle triad describing explicitly what actions to take in each area.

The best strength of the book is Dr. Peeke's holistic, compassionate, witty approach to a very sensitive health issue. She even shares her own journey to add credibility.

The Hunger fix is a good first read and I will be using the book as a reference for continued guidance indefinitely.

Such a long book, which you keep on listening waiting for the "HUNGER FIX" and all doc. Pamela Peeke talks about are stories of her patients, their weight in the past and their current weight. Yes, I made it to the end, expecting for the book to have the answer she promisses the whole book. The three final chapters were supposed to tell that, but all I can say, really, IT'S NOT WORTH, DO NOT BUY IT. It's a total waste of money, she does give some nice hints, but that's all, lots of other books do the same, there is nothing new about what doc. Peek wants to teach people.

This book is fascinating, and full of groundbreaking information about overeating - and how to tackle it. As a group Fitness Instructor and Certified Zumba instructor, I have found Dr Peeke's insights to be very helpful and inspirational when participants ask for help with weight related issues. Here are real scientific explanations why some people don't shed weight, and why some people cannot "eat less" and move more. Not only does the book help identify if one has food addiction, there are plans of attack to fight back, resources and even suggested meal plans. This book is going to change lives, and I am certainly recommending it.

I have been doing the Curves Complete 90 day program for 3weeks now and doing actually fantastic with it . The complete approach is awesome however I have always struggled with overrating and binging . This book has already changed my life . Understanding addiction to sugar and truly how to stop it is great . This was an amazing addition to the superior Curves Complete plan. Thank you

I really, really wanted this book to be the answer for me. After struggling with food addiction for nearly a decade, I have yet to find anything that has helped me. The promise of this book was so appealing. While it seemed to present a somewhat realistic approach and solution to overeating and food addiction, the over-simplistic view just won't work for most people who are deep in their addiction. It's like telling a crack-addict "just think about something else" or "go outside and play instead". An addict is incapable of thinking about anything other than their addiction and nothing else will provide a fix. Read a book instead? Only if I have a pint of ice cream beside me. I was so bitterly disappointed in this false-fix hope of a book that I went out and soothed myself with a few boxes of cookies.

Finally, science that supports the idea of food as an addiction, and what to do about it! This is a great read for people who know they need more than the conventional dogma of "eating less and doing more exercise" to get healthy.

Having hard time stay on the ketogenic diet recommended by Jason Fung, M.D. in his book The Obesity Code. Hopefully by following Pamela Peeke's advice to exercise, meditate, set goals and do other things to boost dopamine in the brain, I will better adhere to the Ketogenic diet. Have a hard time avoiding sweets and other fattening foods, but need to follow Pamela's advice to stop this tendency.