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 … [Read more]
Sugar addiction – 3 Stages of Healing
For much of my life, I was addicted to sugar. Sugar was my drug, mother, comfort, and refuge. It's how I escaped from anxiety, uncomfortable feelings, conflict, and fear. I've spent many years unraveling the many tangles - physical, emotional and … [Read more]
Weight loss movie to explore gift of overeating
Imagine problems with food as a valuable signal from your inner compass. Overeating binges (end overeating?) provide a powerful clue that your needs are not being met in positive, healthy ways. In that sense, addictive behaviors that we may rightly … [Read more]
How to Recover From a Food or Sugar Binge: 10 Steps to Feel Better
After you've binged on sugar or food, you may feel physically uncomfortable: bloated, overly full, gassy, or irritable. You may have a headache, feel a sugar buzz, feel wired, or sleepy. You may have strong sugar or salt cravings. Beyond how your … [Read more]
Sugar Addiction Escape Plan
10 steps to fewer sugar cravings 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 understand! I was a … [Read more]
A Sugar Free Diet: What do I eat?
This is what I ate for lunch today: a large salad with lots of different greens, tomatoes, red peppers, carrots, oven roasted cashews, bacon slices, sliced up chicken from a roasted chicken, fermented pickles, cucumbers, and an olive oil and apple … [Read more]