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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]