Sugar Addiction

Over the past few weeks I’ve been revising Overcoming Sugar Addiction. I’ve learned so much about sugar, abstinence, food, sobriety, and more since I wrote the book in 2007 – and I wanted to share these insights with you.
Here’s one insight that stands out for me:  there’s a huge difference between abstinence and sobriety.
I was [...]

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 [...]

For much of my life, sugar has been my drug, my fix, my heroin, my crack cocaine.
While gorging on sugar, I am absent from life. I ignore my children’s plea for a bedtime snuggle because I want to inhale a box of raisins. I close down my heart. I care more about getting my sugar [...]

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 [...]