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Sugar Addiction

Free resources, articles, tips, and insights from a former sugar addict and binge eater.

What do you do when you’re stuck in a cycle of bingeing or overeating? When you’re knee deep in sugar or food and you can’t find your way out? These questions may be your story – where you find yourself today. These questions are where I find myself, too.
These questions arrived at my own [...]

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I’m addicted to sugar – what do I do?

Sugar Addiction

If you can’t stop eating sugar or other simple carbs (like potato chips or bread) once you start, or if one bite of sugar makes you crave more, you may be sugar sensitive. According to Kathleen des Maisons, author of Potatoes not Prozac, and one of the leading researchers on sugar sensitivity, when your body [...]

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How to choose: Sugar Addiction vs. Heal Overeating

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Overeating, sugar addiction, and a negative body image are often intertwined. Because of the way they intersect, it can be challenging to disentangle yourself.
So where do you start? Which problem do you tackle first? I’ve received several emails from women asking me this very question. They want to know, “Do I do the Sugar Cravings [...]

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The 3 stages of healing from sugar addiction

Sugar Addiction

In yoga yesterday, the teacher began the class by asking us to dedicate our practice. We sat on our mats with eyes closed and visualized the person to whom we wanted to dedicate the next hour of work.
Later on – when it got hard and painful, when we were tired and shaking from holding poses [...]

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Holiday Sugar Cravings? Free Phone Seminar

Sugar Addiction

Listen to a free seminar by telephone about how to avoid a sugar binge during the holidays, or how to recover from one if it happens. Family, sugar cookies, traditions — it can be a tricky path to navigate without hurting others feelings or falling off the wagon yourself. But it can be done, and [...]

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How to Stick to a Sugar Free Diet During the Holidays

Sugar Addiction

Holidays and food are intertwined in our culture. How do you enjoy the love, connection, and celebration of the holidays without bingeing or eating sugar?
We use food – and sugar in particular – to express love, both to others and ourselves. It’s a glue that connects us with our families, particularly when the food involves [...]

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What do I do when I’ve fallen off the wagon?

Sugar Addiction

On our journey out of overeating or out of sugar, it’s common to fall off the wagon:  to be sugar free for a while or to be eating mindfully, only to revert back to painful habits like sugar bingeing or overeating. This often happens due to stress or due to new (or more challenging) circumstances. [...]

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Overcoming Sugar Addiction: It Really Isn’t About the Sugar

Sugar Addiction

Giving up sugar is about a lot more than simply passing on a piece of cake or saying no to a bowl of ice cream. Conquering sugar addiction isn’t really about sugar at all. Initially – yes. But once you’re free from a chemical dependency on sugar, maintaining abstinence has everything to do with you:  [...]

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Stick to Your Sugar Free Diet with 5 Steps

Sugar Addiction

I love creating delicious, satisfying, sugar free meals. I love to eat well. I take much pleasure in a savory meal. Thankfully, there are a wealth of foods that don’t have sugar in them. Giving up sugar is not a prison sentence. You still have many, many options. Trust that as you work through this [...]

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Conquer Sugar Cravings with 6 Steps

Sugar Addiction

Sugar addiction held me in its grip for years, keeping me isolated from the world. When I gave up sugar for good, I gained better health. But, more importantly, I found self respect.
The pain of negative habits isn’t solely from the habits themselves. When I was addicted to sugar, I had extreme bouts of anger [...]

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‘Sugar Addiction’ support program

Sugar Addiction

Sugar addicts: you don’t have to suffer in isolation anymore. You can break free from overwhelming sugar cravings. You can stop sugar binges. You can stabilize your blood sugar, mood swings, and weight. You can create the abundant health that you crave. I’ll show you how.
You can find freedom from the soul-crushing shame of [...]

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What’s a food “treat” on a sugar free diet?

Sugar Addiction

Tonight I went to my local summer farmer’s market, hungry and searching for a treat – special foods to dress up my meals. Years ago, my quest for a treat would’ve meant buying a dessert – a batch of cookies, a homemade pie, kettle corn fresh from the pot.
But today I surveyed the offerings and [...]

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Stop sugar cravings by meeting your real needs

Sugar Addiction

If you are compulsively eating sugar, bingeing on sweet and starchy foods, or finding it very difficult to make it through the day without your sugar “hit,” you are using sugar to meet your needs.
Sugar can give us comfort, security, a sense of order, routine and familiarity. It gives pleasure, joy, a way of connecting [...]

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Stop sugar binges by eliminating fear

Sugar Addiction

Underneath addiction, overeating, or bingeing is fear. Huge, bulking, raging fear.
I’ve said that kicking the sugar habit is how you get to be sugar free. But finding out what drives you to eat the sugar in the first place:  that is what keeps you sugar free. Abstinence is not enough. Why? Because we are so, [...]

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Breaking Sugar Addiction: 10 Steps to Control Sugar Cravings

Sugar Addiction

Are you someone who can’t stop eating sugar, once you start? Are you plagued with constant food cravings, especially for sweets or refined carbohydrates, such as pasta, bread or potato chips? I was a compulsive sugar addict for over thirty years. But I kicked my sugar habit … for good.
If you know that you’re addicted [...]

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