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I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life
Amy Shah
3.15 AVERAGE
140 reviews for:
I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life
Amy Shah
3.15 AVERAGE
Nothing completely groundbreaking - a lot of information here I'd heard about before but she does a REALLY good job tailoring her advice to how it will specifically help women to increase energy, feel better and less tired. She really stresses the importance of what and when you eat (ie more vegetables and less sugar, nothing three hours before sleep or immediately after waking), getting as much sleep as possible (less than 6 hours is not enough - something I'm totally guilty of) and advocates for Intermittent fasting (something that works better for some women more than others depending on how it's done). Lots of self-care tips and LOTS of information on how hormone levels can effect women's overall health/energy levels/degree of fatigue. Filled with examples from actual women that are encouraging (women who exercise too much or too hard or have trouble losing weight, etc). Definitely a book worth taking a read through, she offers a flexible plan that anyone can adapt to what works best for them. I recommend it for anyone feeling the effects of stress, burnout or overall fatigue - easy changes to make include getting outside more, taking more time away from devices and aiming for 12,000 steps a day. Other great books to help with burnout include Can't even by Anne Helen Petersen or Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski.
This book has great points. There is even some really great ideas for Joe to help yourself. I enjoyed this. I already follow a plan pretty similar and I know it works. Hearing things from a doctor’s perspective really helps you understand a lot of what is going on inside your body with the food you eat and how it affects your body and hormones.
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Many good concepts - and I appreciated that she was very data driven. However while she talked about being flexible I didn’t feel that as a full court press this would work for me - but there are things I will work on incorporating.
Thank you Amy Shah, MD and NetGalley for this eARC. This book is a tool for anyone with hormone issues, autoimmune diseases and leaky gut. As someone who battles Hashimotos, adrenal fatigue, insulin resistance and some other fun autoimmune stuff she is 100% starting with diet. A lot of these practices I have tried and honestly find the most success when I just eat clean. I can’t wait to try several recipes for this book. Thanks again!
DNF - I thought it was going to be a book about managing burn out and stress which I suffer from but it is basically a diet book. I know nutrition is an important aspect to a healthy mind and body but this just felt like it was pushing her program.
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After finishing undergrad, I am incredibly burnt out. This book showed up and one of my social media feeds and I thought this could be a really interesting way to start my time off from school. The book was vastly different than what I anticipated as rather than focusing on the emotional aspects of burnout I'm trying to navigate that, the book explores view hormonal ways in which society has supposedly led to our hormones being a lot of lack which makes us tired. I kept on going back and forth on if I thought that this book was grounded in science or not. Hormones being out of whack, medicine not quite being caught up with what female hormones being out of black means, and tests not quite catching up, all makes sense to me. The author also spends a lot of time exploring the ways in which the science is really just foundational and doesn't give Credence or tries to counter some things that are talked about a lot in the wellness field (supplements, adrenal fatigue).
That being said, the whole book is to sell her diet and lifestyle. Throughout the first four chapters of the book was no qualitative data showing that this had an impact on people's lives. It was only the data of antidote. And some of it felt a little too fantastical like her saying that she hiked up Machu Picchu and was full of energy the entire time and the tour guide was like no one spent this okay with it. Altitude sickness is a thing whether or not your hormones are working properly. In the introduction there is also a little five question likered scale survey to see if your hormones are out of place. Except the max you can get if you are a menstruating person is 20, 15 if you are not menstruating. And she says that if you get 20 or 15 or below your hormones are out of whack which means that you can't not have hormones out of black. She also spend a solid food pages if you're mongering about parabens and plastic. I totally understand why we should reduce and avoid them, but the fear mongering also felt very classist and void of the modern research and consensus about how it all fits together.
The entire book like a promo for her diet plan and lifestyle changes which you won't get near the end of the book. The entire first four chapters go into how amazing and life-changing her plan is and I don't feel like it was formatted properly for someone who is in the throes of burnout and who is so tired like her book is promoting to. I think it would have been a much better structure if she formatted it in a way that followed people through those first few weeks. Instead we get a bunch of overlapping infodumps about our different systems and the ways in which they interact and are modern-day society isn't conducive for them. She also consistently harps on caffeine as it increases cortisol in our system, but then she says that if we're hungry during the fasting stage of intermittent fasting, we should have coffee. There felt like some back and forth in the messages that she was trying to share and although you can read into the coffee part as using it in moderation which does talk about, it also feels a little because if coffee and tea are the main ways in which is suggesting one curves they're hunger, that feels like something you'd be relying on regularly then.
If someone wants a diet book, this might be a good read for you. But I was expecting a psychology book with little bits of diet information rather than a diet book with little bits of psychology and biology information.
That being said, the whole book is to sell her diet and lifestyle. Throughout the first four chapters of the book was no qualitative data showing that this had an impact on people's lives. It was only the data of antidote. And some of it felt a little too fantastical like her saying that she hiked up Machu Picchu and was full of energy the entire time and the tour guide was like no one spent this okay with it. Altitude sickness is a thing whether or not your hormones are working properly. In the introduction there is also a little five question likered scale survey to see if your hormones are out of place. Except the max you can get if you are a menstruating person is 20, 15 if you are not menstruating. And she says that if you get 20 or 15 or below your hormones are out of whack which means that you can't not have hormones out of black. She also spend a solid food pages if you're mongering about parabens and plastic. I totally understand why we should reduce and avoid them, but the fear mongering also felt very classist and void of the modern research and consensus about how it all fits together.
The entire book like a promo for her diet plan and lifestyle changes which you won't get near the end of the book. The entire first four chapters go into how amazing and life-changing her plan is and I don't feel like it was formatted properly for someone who is in the throes of burnout and who is so tired like her book is promoting to. I think it would have been a much better structure if she formatted it in a way that followed people through those first few weeks. Instead we get a bunch of overlapping infodumps about our different systems and the ways in which they interact and are modern-day society isn't conducive for them. She also consistently harps on caffeine as it increases cortisol in our system, but then she says that if we're hungry during the fasting stage of intermittent fasting, we should have coffee. There felt like some back and forth in the messages that she was trying to share and although you can read into the coffee part as using it in moderation which does talk about, it also feels a little because if coffee and tea are the main ways in which is suggesting one curves they're hunger, that feels like something you'd be relying on regularly then.
If someone wants a diet book, this might be a good read for you. But I was expecting a psychology book with little bits of diet information rather than a diet book with little bits of psychology and biology information.
There's a lot of good info in this book, but the presentation is so rambly and scattered.
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