Sample Interview questions for Michelle May, M.D.

Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle 

1. Your new book is called, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. What does that title mean?
2. There is a beautiful piece of heart-shaped chocolate in gold foil on the cover of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. That is unusual for a book on healthy lifestyles; why did you choose that image?
3. I love the subtitle, "How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle" - tell me more about that.
4. What inspired you to write Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat?
5. You believe that we are all born with the ability to manage our weight effortlessly. Tell me more about that. (OR We all have that thin friend that can eat whatever she wants. You say that we were all born that way and therefore, we can relearn to be like that. How?)
6. You say people have one of four main eating patterns and that three of those patterns are related to food and weight problems. Tell me more.
7. One of the chapters in your book, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat, is called Am I Hungry? Aren't most people with weight problems hungry all the time?
8. Despite the fact that so many people are interested in losing weight, most experts agree that diets don't work for long term weight loss. You take it one step further. You believe that diets actually cause weight gain. How?
9. What's wrong with the old advice of "Eat less, exercise more?"
10. You say there are a lot of diet myths. Let's talk about a few of them: (OR You say that many of the diet rules that people attempt to follow actually go against the their natural instincts. Let's talk about a few of them:)
    

    • Eat every 3 hours.
    • Don't eat after 7 pm.
    • Eat X number of calories or points or carbs each day.
    • Exercise more to make up for overeating.
11. You use a phrase "fearless eating" to describe a method of helping people learn how to eat the foods they love without guilt. Give us a few hints about how we can do that.
12. Portion sizes are so large these days. Aren't Americans doomed to gain weight?
13. Why do so many people hate to exercise?
14. Do you really believe it's possible for people to learn to eat instinctively again?
15. Where can people find Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat?