Congrats to the book giveaway winners! I’l be sending Alyssa, Robin, and Cassie a book to read. :)
Now that I’ve given away the books I don’t have time to read, I’m on to some new reading for myself.
I was reading Unlimited by Jillian Michaels but I gave up. I couldn’t get into it or enjoy the book. I really like Jillian Michaels on her podcast and think she’s an awesome trainer, but I did not connect with her as an author in this book. All the new-agey self-helpy stuff was a struggle to read. So I quit. I don’t abandon many books and maybe I’ll go back and finish, but for now it’s a no.
My reading list has a few books about sugar and giving up sugar. I chose this one as my first read since I’ve been considering medication to help deal with PMDD and exhausting anxiety (ps – a new birth control has helped with this somewhat already! yay!).
So far it’s been a rather interesting read. The author has a theory of sugar sensitivity that she backs up with lots of anecdotes from her experience working with alcohol addicts. I read about half the book in one night and am just now getting to the part of the book where it gives you a plan for eating and living.
The first half of the book was great because I recognized myself in EVERYTHING she was saying. Based on her tests I would be sugar sensitive. Is that scientific fact? Meh. Is it something I want to examine in my own life and maybe try to fix? You betcha.
Basically even when I’m eating healthy and losing weight, I still crave sugar and eat something sweet every day. I eat things with too much sugar in them too often. It wouldn’t a problem except I think it’s causing a lot of the other problems I constantly struggle with including low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, frustration, restlessness, and more. Reading the book’s list of symptoms that sugar sensitive people deal with when they are imbalanced was like reading a list of my worst personality traits.
So, I’m going to read this book and then read another and then work on my diet to move toward eliminating more if not all sugar. I did it once, for like a week, and I felt great. I was on to something then, even if I didn’t keep it up and went right back to eating sugar. I struggle with cutting sugar out of my diet even though I believe it would truly help me.
I’m going to work through the second half of this book as my latest experiment, complete with food tracking and learning and correcting. I’ll review the book fully later but so far I’m really liking it!
I stumbled across your blog the other day and was delighted to see you found Potatoes Not Prozac. I am the biggest fan of that book and it has truly changed my life. I am extremely sensitive to sugar, and after 2 years of on/off depression and a very large weight gain, I was looking for a change and read that book. I followed all the steps as she outlined, and I was amazed at how easy it was to cut sugar out of my life after following the steps. I no longer crave it, my energy levels are finally stable, and I have felt the most happy and balanced than I have every felt in my lift. On top of that, I’ve lost 40 pounds since May without trying! Stick with the steps and good luck!
Nice! Good to hear such a positive recommendation. I’ve just got to the part with the steps so I’m excited to go through them. Thanks for sharing your experience with this!
I’m sooooooo behind on my reading. I have about 5 books in my ereader that are 1/4 read. lol. I’ve got to get back into it!
OMG thank you so much! You made my day!!!
never read it…
MUST READ.
I gave up sugar and simple starches on New Year’s Day and I have dropped pounds and feel so much better. It’s amazing how simple changes in diet can make such profound changes in our lives.
I’m ordering a free sample on my Kindle right now!!!!!!
Let me know what you think! I’d appreciate your opinion, even on a small snippet of it. :)
Everyone I know who’s given up sugar has loved it. Including me :) And, i’m such a read-y person…sometimes there are books i just can’t get into. i no longer feel guilty about abandoning them cuz there are SO MANY good books out there, it’s impossible to read them all, why waste your time on something you don’t enjoy and are getting nothing out of? That’s my philosophy at least.
I love the title of the book! My naturopath has a list of good sweeteners and bad sweeteners. Giving up sugar (and the other bad ones on the list) is one of his first recommendations along with getting off dairy, too. My body does a lot better when I follow his recommendations for nutrition and the supplements I take!
I’m reading End Emotional Eating by Dr. Jennifer Taitz. It is amazing!! It’s all about how to sit with feelings.