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Name: Breaking Up With Sugar
Rating: 3.7 (136 reviews)
Author: Molly Carmel

Molly Carmel

A Plan to Divorce the Diets, Drop the Pounds and Live Your Best Life

3.7 (136 Bewertungen)

21 Min.

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Breaking Up With Sugar by Molly Carmel is a guide to overcoming sugar addiction and creating a healthy relationship with food. It provides practical advice, personal stories, and helpful tools for breaking free from the harmful effects of sugar.

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What’s in it for me? A lifeline for those who know they have a problem with sugar.

Have you ever reached for a cookie for an afternoon pick-me-up, only to accidentally eat the entire box? Or, worse, hidden or lied to your loved ones about how much sugar you eat? If so, these blinks are for you. Molly Carmel’s message will help you finally break free of your problematic relationship with sugar. Carmel knows what she’s talking about, too. She’d battled food addiction and compulsive eating all her life, ultimately tipping the scales at 325 pounds, before she quit sugar for good.

These blinks will give you a new set of skills for practicing abstinence in a sugar-filled world. You’ll create a new relationship with food, and you’ll be able to enjoy life without wondering when sugar is going to take charge again.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why sugar-addicted rats have a weaker will to live;
why grain flour is just as bad as sugar; and
how many days it will take to reset your relationship with food and eating.

You might be a sugar addict and not even know it.

The author began her problematic relationship with sugar when she lost her father at a young age. Comfort wasn’t always immediately available, but sugar was always there for her. But as she began to rely on sugar for emotional support more and more, her weight began increasing. At age 11, she was the youngest person at Weight Watchers. By the time she started graduate school, her weight reached 325 pounds and her health had begun to be severely impacted.

For a long time, she thought that fat, or genetics, or leptin, or whatever the latest pseudoscience said, was her problem. Anything but sugar. She even thought she was the problem.

The key message here is: You might be a sugar addict and not even know it.

Like the author, your relationship with sugar might be influenced by emotional factors. What’s more, this dependence might be years in the making. In the author’s case, when the medical community first started talking about sugar addiction, she instantly recognized it as exactly the thing she’d struggled with her whole life. She decided to finally end her problematic relationship with sugar and, for the most part, she hasn’t touched it since.

It’s not just the author, though – or you for that matter. Our relationship with sugar has been complicated since childhood. We celebrate life’s big moments with sugar – birthdays, for example, and weddings – and little ones too, like ice cream on a hot summer day. It’s not going to be an easy relationship to get out of.

But the truth is, sugar isn’t only making you miserable – it’s killing you. Sugar impacts your brain in the same way alcohol, cocaine, and opiates do. On sugar, your brain gets flooded with the feel-good chemical dopamine, which then leaves you wanting more. When rats go through sugar withdrawal, they experience symptoms like teeth chattering, tremors, and depression. Even worse, when dropped into a body of water, rats which are going through sugar withdrawal are less likely to try and climb out. They’ve lost their will to survive.

To make matters worse, it’s not just sugar that does this. It’s also grain flour, which your body reacts to in the same way as it does to sugar. This is probably hard to hear. But if you’re like the author, you’re an addict. Facing hard truths is the first step to recovery.

Honestly examining your relationship with sugar will yield some surprising discoveries.

Chances are, you’ve tried to take charge of your dependence on sugar. Maybe you’ve tried many times, only to fail repeatedly. That isn’t your fault, however – it’s the diets you’ve tried, which were set up for people who don’t have relationship problems with food. It’s like taking Advil for a case of strep throat.

So let’s look closely at your relationship with food, to try and understand it properly. The first step is an honest examination of your history with food. Write down every attempt you’ve ever made to get your relationship with food and weight under control – every doctor, diet, new workout, quick fix – and why it ended.

Taking seven vows at the start of your new relationship will set you up for success.

So you’re ready to kick your old relationship with sugar to the curb and start a new one. That’s great news! But you’ll need to change your habits first. To prepare yourself to do that, you need to set some ground rules by taking seven vows, which you’ll then stick to for the next 66 days. Now, 66 isn’t a random number. Research shows that it takes 66 days for something to become a habit. You don’t need to comply with all the vows all the time, but to reestablish a healthy relationship with food, you do need to try.

The key message here is: Taking seven vows at the start of your new relationship will set you up for success.

This 66-day reset will set a foundation for a new, healthy relationship with food.

So you’ve taken your vows and committed to your new relationship with food and eating. Congratulations! The next 66 days will be a complete reset. There’s no expectation that you’ll live this way for the rest of your life, but if you can do it for 66 days, your relationship with food will be changed forever.

Your eating plan for this period consists of five major food groups: protein, carbohydrates, fat, fruit, and vegetables. Obviously, flour and sugar aren’t on the list, but let’s be realistic – you can’t expect yourself not to eat a single trace of either for the rest of your life. The author’s rule of thumb is that if sugar or flour comes fifth or later on a food’s ingredient list, you can eat it.

Ending your relationship with sugar makes room for a better you.

Most diets are about food, but breaking up with sugar is about ending a relationship. That means dealing with some big feelings, such as regret and fear, which are part of the grief you’ll naturally go through.

You’ll likely experience the five stages of grief, too – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Allow yourself to experience these. Accept the loss of the relationship, and take time to meditate on the change you’re experiencing. Rituals, such as burning sage in your home, can be a big help with this.

After your 66-day reset, you’ll need to solidify the new habits.

All this talk about grief is enough to make you forget that there’s an upside to all this: your new life! Sugar and flour may have caused you to believe that you’re weak and lazy, but the truth? You’re not. You have the strength to repair your self-esteem and remember what your values are. Ask yourself how you want to feel in your new life, what’s important to you, and what you want your relationship with food to be like.

Now, you might feel fabulous after your 66-day reset. But it’s important to remember that no one can be perfect all the time. Part of healthy self-esteem is forgiving yourself for slip-ups, which will happen. When you make a mistake, just take a deep, soothing breath, and go back to the 66-day eating plan for a while. Soon you’ll be right back on track.

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What’s it about?

Breaking Up With Sugar (2019) is an empathetic, no-nonsense take on food addiction and unhealthy relationships with sugar and grain flour. Author Molly Carmel tells her story of struggling with obesity and gives readers actionable tips on how to get their relationship with sugar under control, once and for all.

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Who’s it for?

Anyone who knows, deep down, their relationship with sugar is unhealthy
People who avoid social gatherings so others won’t judge them for eating
Veterans of yo-yo diets

Über den Autor

About the author

Molly Carmel is the founder of a New York City food addiction clinic, The Beacon. Formerly obese, Carmel is a veteran of dozens of fad diets that worked – for a while, at least, until they didn’t. Over the years, she’s helped hundreds of people work through their addiction to sugar, and develop a healthier, long-lasting relationship with food.

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