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Overcoming Sugar Addiction: How to Kick Your Sugar Habit, Conquer Food Cravings, Stabilize Your Mood, and Lose Weight |
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This book is available as a download for Sugar Addiction Support Program members. An updated ebook PDF and audio MP3 format is coming soon, for purchase separately. Join waiting list below to be notified. |
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Do you find it impossible to stick to a healthy eating plan? Ever find yourself gorging on sugar, bread, or pasta? Have you struggled with weight issues? Are your moods unpredictable, swinging from one extreme to the other?
This was my painful life experience as a sugar addict. Yes, sugar can be an addictive substance. The world’s leading expert, and a pioneer in the field of Addictive Nutrition, Kathleen Des Maisons, Ph.D., describes sugar as potentially being as addictive as nicotine or alcohol. For those of us who are “sugar sensitive,” we react to sugar as if it were a toxic drug.
Whether the term is “sugar sensitive” or “sugar addict,” its consequence can be severe for people who are susceptible but unaware of the cause of their pain. Let me explain:
Sugar sensitive people have a unique biochemistry which makes them susceptible to a physiological addiction to sugar. While someone who is not sugar sensitive may be able to eat a piece of cake and suffer no ill effects, a sugar sensitive person will eat sugar until they are bloated and sick. A sugar sensitive person will crave sugar even though it makes them feel terrible, often suffering from overeating, depression, and extra pounds.
TIP: The biochemical cravings can be similar to alcohol in how the body reacts to its presence or prolonged absence in the bloodstream. In fact, alcohol is chemically related to sugar. Consequently, people who have problems with one can suffer addictive reactions from the other. This isn’t to say that alcohol abuse is the same as over-eating sugar. But for those who may have a family history of problems with alcohol, this book may open your eyes to why you or someone you care about struggles with mood swings, cravings, and addictive behaviors with food.
You may be sugar sensitive, as am I. And we’re not alone.
“I thought I was the only freak who ate sugar the way a crack fiend smokes crack. It’s relieving to know I’m not the only one, and that there is hope!” – April
“I’m halfway through it and I just couldn’t wait to finish it before emailing you! So much of what you’ve written mirrors my own life!…It’s also helped me see that I am normal and not obsessive when I want to control what I eat for health reasons!” – Margot S.
You can control sugar addiction
There is a way out. There is a way to break free of the emotional and physical cost of eating sugar while having a sugar sensitivity. You need four things to heal from sugar addiction:
1. You need to find your sugar abstinence.
If you’re sugar sensitive, and you want to stop bingeing on sugar, you probably need to eliminate sugar from your diet in order to heal. This step, combined with eating regular meals of whole, healthy foods, is what heals your brain chemistry so that you aren’t eating sugar compulsively.
My book, Overcome Sugar Addiction: How to Kick Your Sugar Habit and Eliminate Food Cravings, Stabilize Your Mood, and Lose Weight, shares the secrets that helped me give up sugar … and regain my life. I outline exactly how I did it. This will help you find your abstinence.
In conjunction with my book, you can use supplements to help you unhook from sugar – especially in the first week when the sugar cravings are very strong. I used the supplements that Dr. Julia Ross recommends in her books The Mood Cure and The Diet Cure.
2. You need to soothe yourself without turning to food.
And yet abstinence is not enough to stay off sugar for good. Even though you’ve fixed the biochemical craving for sugar, you haven’t healed the emotional craving. You still have an ingrained pattern of turning to sugar or food for comfort when you’re stressed, anxious, have an unmet need or have blocked feelings.
You need to create a new pattern of soothing yourself without turning to food. Period. Without this new pattern in place, you will go eventually go back to the sugar when life gets stressful or when your circumstances change. I know – I spent 10 years going back and forth with sugar until I finally found lasting abstinence. I couldn’t understand why I kept going back to sugar, especially when I knew better. But I hadn’t changed the underlying pattern in my brain of turning to food to cope.
This is what I teach in the sugar support program and the overeating support program. I use mind-body-spirit practices to help you retrain your brain so you don’t need or want to go back to the sugar to cope.
Here’s what Kaitlin, a member of our support forums, said: “Today, I’m celebrating 90 days sugar free! I’m unbelievably fortunate and grateful to have been able to learn so much from you and for this AMAZING community of women. You speak the truth that is within me – so thank you so very much for your voice.”
3. You need support.
I know that the thought of giving up sugar feels terrifying and impossible – overwhelming, too, as our culture is surrounded by sugar. That’s why you need support. You need the voice of someone who’s been there, as well as the voice of someone who’s traveling the same path, so you can feel reassured when you’re feeling discouraged or afraid.
When you buy the Control My Sugar Cravings program, you get access to our private forums. You’ll get crucial support from others who are going through the same thing. It’s very, very hard to get off sugar on your own – especially when your friends and family don’t understand why you’re doing this. The other people in the support program will know exactly how you feel.
4. You need to embrace this for life.
To stay sugar free, you need to be mindful about what you’re eating. This doesn’t mean that you have to be obsessive about what you eat or a rigid food cop. It does mean that you need to pay attention. If you find yourself justifying why you can indulge in a sugar treat now and then because you’re “fixed,” stop and question this thinking.
If you find yourself craving sugar, look at your diet. Are you sneaking in hidden sugars? Simple carbs? Are you skipping meals? Where are you not taking care of your body?
Then look to your mind and spirit. Are you committed to your healing? Are you willing to stick with these lifestyle changes?
Healing from sugar means that you have to keep doing the things that keep you sugar free – those things that honor your sugar sensitive brain chemistry and keep it healthy and whole. In my life, if I don’t eat regularly, if I start eating simple carbs, if I skip meals, I am going to crave sugar – which can lead me right back into it.
Think of healing more akin to putting gas in your car – something you do over and over again – rather than fixing a broken muffler – something you do once and then it’s done. You need to put gas in your car over and over and over – you need to stick with eating whole foods that are free of sugar and refined carbs, you need to feed those new patterns that don’t rely on food for comfort, you need to care for your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
It’s the only way I know how to do this long term.
If you want your life back, there’s no reason to delay as Overcoming Sugar Addiction is available as a download. Then check out our sugar addiction support program.
The e-book is available as a free download to support program members.
What you can expect:
Readers just like you are discovering how to quit sugar, and make it stick. When you download the book and dive in, you’ll:
- find hidden sources of sugar in your diet
- plan sugar free meals
- deal with feelings of deprivation
- prepare yourself for a successful sugar detox
- learn how to order at restaurants
- prepare your family and loved ones for your sugar free lifestyle
The book is divided into sections that make it easy to skim and come back later for further reference. First, I’ll prepare you by grounding you in good habits, to make your sugar detox as easy as possible. Then, I’ll help you through the detox process — the first week or two of sugar free eating. Next I’ll help you maintain your sugar abstinence over time — a lifelong journey. I also offer special tips for holidays and special occasions, as well as suggestions for meal planning.
Praise for Overcoming Sugar Addiction
Readers like you are finding answers and reaping rewards in how they feel, how they look, and rediscovering the kinds of quality life experiences that can otherwise feel impossible when living with the ups and downs of sugar addiction:
“Thanks for the inspiration to quit the sugar
shuffle. I can’t hardly finish a meal without a sweet treat, it’s the
biggest addiction I have and I know with the willpower I can over come
it. Think I’ll start soon!”
- Ally
“I almost started to cry when I read this…Thank you so much for writing. It is a great comfort and strength to know that others have and go through similar struggles and come to peace with them.”
- Gabriela
“I found your story on sugar addiction … really inspiring. I was able to relate to everything you said and you have made me feel motivated again so that hopefully I too can get the better of my sugar addiction.”
- Kate
Why Overcome Sugar Addiction?
The pain of an addictive relationship to sugar and simple carbs can manifest in many ways. Here’s a sampling of the kinds of benefits that my readers have reported or I’ve personally experienced:
- Stability in your emotional moods and sense of well-being.
- Freedom from sugar or other food cravings.
- Increased, consistent energy throughout the day.
- A leaner body.
- Greater self esteem.
- Freedom from irrational swings, anger and irritability.
- A healthy way of eating for life.
- Decreased PMS symptoms.
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes and other problems associated with eating foods with a very high glycemic index.
- Improved likelihood of meeting your goals for weight loss.
This book can also help you if you just want to reduce your sugar intake, rather than give it up all together. It can also help you if you’re undecided: if you’re thinking about giving up sugar, but aren’t certain you’ll benefit from it.
About the author and book
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Karly Randolph Pitman |
I was addicted to sugar for years, suffering from overeating, bulimia, violent mood swings, an up and down weight, low self esteem, depression, and irritability. I attempted to give up sugar one, two, three, dozens of times. For 10 years! But it wasn’t until I hit rock bottom with suicidal thoughts that I found the courage to finally conquer my sugar addiction.
As I know firsthand how painful sugar addiction can be, I wanted to help others conquer their sugar addiction. I wrote this book as a helpful, inspirational guide from someone who’s walked the path to freedom, in the hopes that others may follow in my footsteps to release themselves from sugar bondage.
Details about ‘The Sugar Book’
- 7 Chapters organized in a way to help you step-by-step achieve this challenging change in your diet.
- 101 pages packed with practical ideas and tactics for quitting and staying off for good.
- 96 hyperlinks to further, updated resources online.
- Format: Digital book, Adobe Acrobat PDF
- Author: Karly Randolph-Pitman
- Publisher: First Ourselves
- Published: March, 2008
Excerpts from Overcoming Sugar Addiction
Read samples of the book to get a quick sense for the kind of information you’ll find in all 7 chapters and 100 pages:
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| Table of Contents | Page 26 excerpt | Chapter 6 excerpt |
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