Fat Bitch: Killing the Willpower Myth with GLP-1 Science, Metabolic Health, and Trauma Recovery

• Author: Cat Clark
• Genre: Nonfiction Health
• Publication Date: October 15, 2026
• Publisher: Unlit Publishing LLC

Thank you to NetGalley and Unlit Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

This unabridged audiobook edition is narrated by Laura Palmer.

In 2005, the cultural phenomenon Skinny Bitch told a generation of women to stop being “gluttonous pigs.” It was the peak of “tough love,” an era that used shame as a medical mandate and willpower as a weapon.

Twenty years later, the results are in: shame didn’t work. Willpower wasn’t enough.

Fat Bitch: Killing the Willpower Myth is the radical, science-backed response to two decades of medical gaslighting. Arriving in the midst of the GLP-1 revolution, Cat Clark performs a scientific autopsy on the Willpower Myth, proving that hunger isn’t a character flaw; it is a biological signal being sabotaged by a billion-dollar industry.

Inside this forensic rebuttal, listeners will discover:

– The neurobiology of “food noise” and why the brain isn’t broken.

– The autopsy of the BMI and how this “mathematical ghost” still haunts modern medicine.

– A roadmap for metabolic literacy that empowers patients to reclaim their biology.

– A whole-life guide for resting into a new, empowered reality.

Naturally, the title of this book caught my attention but the summary caught my attention even more. I’ve been called a fat bitch more times than I can recall, but in the days of GLP-1 medications I was curious to see what this book had to say. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, a time where skinny was in. So I had grown up in the Skinny Bitch days, yet I wasn’t able to become a skinny bitch no matter what I did. Recently, I started my own GLP-1 journey to treat sleep apnea, but also to hopefully help me reach a healthy weight to improve my overall health.

To start with, I was approved for the audiobook narrated by Laura Palmer. I kind of wish I had gotten access to a print version for two reasons. Firstly, because I would like to have this material in a visual format so that I could refer back to it in the future. Secondly, I really struggled with the narrator. She had a pleasant voice, but she struggled with pronouncing a lot of words. When it came to clinical terms like talking about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, she was unable to pronounce the word ‘desensitization.’ She also pronounced the word ‘drowning’ and ‘drownding.’ Palmer would be a great narrator for books that don’t focus so much on technical jargon, as long as it used small, easy to pronounce words. Listening to all the incorrect and mumbling pronunciations became painful in a short read that was just over 2 hours.

When it comes to the material itself, I loved Clark’s style—she breaks down complicated concepts into easy to grasp formats and breaks the idea of GLP-1s, what they do, and how they work into simple terms that don’t require a background in medicine or science to understand. It would be easy to stuff the book with technical jargon, but Clark completely avoids that and takes the tone of a friend offering helpful information. 

Most importantly, this is a body positive book. The author completely shatters the myth of ‘all you need to lose weight is willpower’ that we have been fed for decades. Any person struggling with obesity knows it is more than simply willpower needed to lose weight. Instead, the author talks about the concepts of ‘food noise’ which is a term I’ve only heard recently, but makes total sense now that I’ve had the absence of food noise for a bit. 

Overall, this is a fantastic read that is packed full of helpful, simply put ideas and tips for people on GLP-1s. I found that the author was very relatable, and some of the suggestions made by my nutritionist were included here, reinforcing both the effectiveness of these medications and how to maximize their effects to improve my own overall health. The information presented in this book applies to both weight loss and maintenance phases, and although references weren’t included in the audiobook, I have seen other reviews that mention how Clark’s material is well referenced. Although I wouldn’t suggest that you rely on the narrator to correctly pronounce both difficult terms and more simple ones.

Bottom line: A well-researched and easy to understand book about GLP-1s, metabolism, and how these medications aid in weight loss through multiple kinds of effects, although I wouldn’t recommend the audiobook due to the narrator’s difficulty pronouncing various terms.

You can find the book here.