Women, Food, and Hormones

A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again

By: Sara Gottfried MD

Narrated by: Donna Jay Fulks

New York Times best-selling author Dr. Sara Gottfried shares a new, female-friendly Keto diet that addresses women’s unique hormonal needs so listeners can shed pounds and maintain the loss more easily.

Most diet plans were created by men for men, but women’s bodies don’t work the same way. Popular programs can actually make it harder for women to lose weight, because they can wreak havoc on a woman’s complex and delicate hormonal system. New York Times best-selling author Dr. Sara Gottfried has spent her career demystifying hormones and helping patients improve their health more broadly with personalized medicine. In Women, Food, and Hormones, Dr. Gottfried presents a groundbreaking new plan that helps women balance their hormones so they can lose excess weight and feel better. Featuring hormonal detoxification combined with a ketogenic diet that is tailor-made for women, coupled with an intermittent fasting protocol and over 50 delicious and filling recipes, this book shares a fat-burning solution that gets results.

©2021 Sara Gottfried MD (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Shoit me in the face with a baked potato

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the information provided in this book. I certainly believe I can apply some of this in my everyday life. However, I can't with the extreme restriction, calculations of ratios and overall unrealistic approach to this plan. I would much rather do a round of whole30 as a hormonal reset because it is less restrictive and mathematical.

her detailed deep study of hormones

so this is a really deep, heavy read. there are so many facts and stuff that it's hard to absorb any more information after 1 chapter. I learned some things. but most of it wasn't really that useful, because not everyone can go to her clinic. which seems like the only place where you could get any help out of the whole deal. maybe my brain just didn't comprehend all the mathematics of it. but it was so technical that it really didn't help me much.

Repetitive Information Laced Throughout

I found the information to be highly repetitive throughout the book. Like a new piece of information would be presented, and then something within that information previously stated was mentioned again. Made getting to the actual “Gottfried protocol” pretty unbearable.

Too repetitive!

I was waiting for more details into hormones, instead there is a lot of repetition of the same paragraph/ideas as she is trying to convince you too much, or maybe to fill up more pages.
I bought the book after listening her on a podcast and I realized that I learned more in the podcast.
Anyway, if you are at the beginning of your journey in this topic I think it’s a a good book to start with.

LIFE CHANGING!!!

I'm 37 and for over a year I've been putting in the work in the gym and counting macros/calories! I made a few changes from this book and THE SCALE IS CHANGING!!!!

delightful

loved it. even the recipes were easy to listen to. I can't wait to hear more.

good ideas

plan to implement. easy to understand when you listen all the way through. great

Uses a Vegetarian style Keto diet to heal body.

I was confused by using a Keto diet to heal the body then has women switch to a Meratranean Diet for everday. Admits body will overtime need resets again in the future as you eat foods that cause gut imbalance to begin with. Disappointment in her direction. It felt trendy. Keto healsbecause of the low carbs, high fat and eating variety of meets, especially fish and red meats.

LOVE but need sample menus/recipes in PDF

I'm halfway through this and I'm learning so much. From past "clean" eating I know how much better it makes me feel physically not to mention having my clothes fit again but now I'm really starting to understand WHY. Hormones are everything and they are going crazy in my perimenopause body. The book is just the push in the right direction this 51 year old woman needed to get back to taking care of myself and taking control of my health. I'm eager to start the 28 day plan but I wish the food guide and menu plan were also included in the PDF.
The narrator is "okay." My family refuses to let me listen to it when they're in the car with me because she sounds like a "bossy, entitled woman" and I can't say I disagree and I might add the word "pedantic" to her delivery but I'm so interested in the content I'm able to overlook her know it all tone. In any case, if this subject is important to you, you should be able to get past the narrator ; )

More than a book about keto

I’ve been on “keto” for awhile and was gaining weight. It made me so angry that I fell off the wagon and started gorging on crap. After reading this book, I completely understand what I did wrong and modified everything, and I can already see results! Best of all, it’s been only a few days and I feel great. It’s crazy how Dr. Gottfried is right - keto resources were mostly written by men for men!

My favorite health influencers have been Mark Hyman and Dhru Puhorit, and Sara Gottfried is now up there too.