Funny how things suddenly become clear to you, as though a fog has lifted.
I’ve been in a fog of sorts for quite some time, a sugar fog.  Only recently has this dense, gray world begun to disappear.
I’ve finally come to a place where I feel confident I can stand up to and prevail against the [...]

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• Food Journal - Ally in Breaking Sugar Addiction I'm on a personal quest of sorts. Three months ago I made the realization that I am a sugar addict and decided to commit to breaking my addiction. Following Dr. Kathleen DesMaison's plan for sugar addiction, I started off including protein and a complex carb at breakfast. After creating......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 3 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. I feel it's time for me to officially start the next step in breaking the sugar addiction, and......
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• Sugar, The Other White Drug I appreciate all your comments on my previous post about sugar addiction. This topic has really got me thinking! I’d like to explore it further. If truth be told, I never considered sugar a drug, but much of my reading suggests that sugar is capable of acting like a potent......

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The steps I summarize here are discussed in more detail in Potatoes, Not Prozac.  If you feel you have a strong attachment to sugar that is keeping you from living freely and healthy, you may want to give this book a read.
Click on the following links if you wish to read about steps 1-3: Breakfast, Journaling, [...]

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• Your Food Journal, 3-Day Research Experiment Let’s do a little research that might help you lose weight. Don’t worry, this is fairly easy. Get a notebook and pen. Keep these within easy access for the next several days. OK, here’s the research part: For the next 3 days keep a journal of everything you eat –......
• Plan for Handling Cravings - Start with Breakfast Cravings happen. Sometimes they seem to pop out of nowhere. Sometimes they’re emotional. And sometimes they exist simply because I’m getting hungry! My feelings towards cravings have always been the same, regardless of the situation: I don’t like them! What I need is to come up with a plan that......
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• Food Journal - Ally in Breaking Sugar Addiction I'm on a personal quest of sorts. Three months ago I made the realization that I am a sugar addict and decided to commit to breaking my addiction. Following Dr. Kathleen DesMaison's plan for sugar addiction, I started off including protein and a complex carb at breakfast. After creating......
• "Fun" Facts About Sugar How much sugar (cane sugar/beet sugar) do you think each person eats in a year? A lot! Each person the U.S. consumes about 70 pounds of sugar a year. An individual from Europe, about 92 pounds. Brazil had the highest consumption per person at 123 lbs for this last year!......

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Funny how powerful changing one word can impact your mindset.
For example, when it comes to eating healthy and/or foregoing the junk, instead of saying, “I have to avoid junk food and eat more veggies,” replace that “have” with a “get,” and the sentence has an entirely new meaning and mindset.
Or maybe you view exercise as [...]

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• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 3 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. I feel it's time for me to officially start the next step in breaking the sugar addiction, and......
• Plan for Handling Cravings - Start with Breakfast Cravings happen. Sometimes they seem to pop out of nowhere. Sometimes they’re emotional. And sometimes they exist simply because I’m getting hungry! My feelings towards cravings have always been the same, regardless of the situation: I don’t like them! What I need is to come up with a plan that......
• Another Breakthrough? Well here's an interesting bit of news. I ate a piece of cake at work. ...OK, that wasn't the interesting bit of news, but keep reading! I'm 'painting the picture.' Well, this piece of yellow cake was fluffy and moist with thick, chocolate frosting. My favorite combination in a cake!......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction Progress Report I've been working on slowly weaning myself off sugar. And when I say slowly, I mean s-l-o-w-l-y. That's just what I find works best for me. I've tried going off all sugar cold turkey in the past, but with disastrous results! I'm trying a completely different perspective I learned while reading......
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My poor elliptical machine has taken a beating.  I run that thing into the ground, and for the past few months it’s been acting up, making a thumping/clicking sound that I can feel on the left pedal.  The diagnosis is a loose wheel and a tiny washer cover thingy that broke. So while my burned [...]

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• Solution to Sugar Addiction I've talked about the possibility of being addicted to sugar and more of the specifics on how sugar acts like a drug in some individuals. This post will cover the solution to kicking the sugar addiction, according to the book, Potatoes, Not Prozac. I think the following best sums up......
• Yoga Revisisted Yoga – I used to ignore it. I thought it wasn’t worth my time. I preferred exercises that were of higher intensity and burned a lot of fat and calories. To me, yoga didn’t meet these requirements. Yoga revisited – Last month I checked out a yoga DVD just for......
• Beating the Sugar Addiction - My Journey Funny how things suddenly become clear to you, as though a fog has lifted. I've been in a fog of sorts for quite some time, a sugar fog.  Only recently has this dense, gray world begun to disappear. I've finally come to a place where I feel confident I can......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 2 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. Step 2 is keeping a food journal. In this journal you write: The times you eat/drink What you eat/drink......
• Banana Bread Recipe I love banana bread! I like to use bananas that are very ripe with lots of brown splotches; they give a sweeter flavor. However, the bananas in my house are usually eaten before this stage. Not the case this week! I noticed the bananas in the fruit bowl were......

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Yoga – I used to ignore it. I thought it wasn’t worth my time. I preferred exercises that were of higher intensity and burned a lot of fat and calories. To me, yoga didn’t meet these requirements.
Yoga revisited – Last month I checked out a yoga DVD just for a change of [...]

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• Exercising With a Cold - Is It OK? I hate colds! They put such a damper on daily activities. I'm experiencing the joyful symptoms of one right now. I’ve got an itchy, sneezing, runny nose, and my head feels like it's stuffed with cotton. But I’m drinking my fluids and taking cold medicine. The question is: Can I......
• Deep in the Heart of Texas I'm back from the great state of Texas; my visit with family was long overdo and enjoyable. One of my goals during the vacation was to maintain an exercise schedule, and honestly that was a challenge! I focused more on isometric/strength training exercises in the privacy of the guest bedroom (with the......
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• My Healthier Breakfast Goal - Update In a previous post I mentioned my goal of having breakfast with protein and complex carbohydrates. That post will tell you the "why" of my doing this. Well, so far I've been keeping this goal. My breakfasts this past week consisted of: scrambled eggs (egg whites/egg yolk/finely chopped onions and......
• Beating the Sugar Addiction - My Journey Funny how things suddenly become clear to you, as though a fog has lifted. I've been in a fog of sorts for quite some time, a sugar fog.  Only recently has this dense, gray world begun to disappear. I've finally come to a place where I feel confident I can......

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If you’ve just arrived, or you’d like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I’m following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac.

I feel it’s time for me to officially start the next step in breaking the sugar addiction, and according to the plan for [...]

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• Another Breakthrough? Well here's an interesting bit of news. I ate a piece of cake at work. ...OK, that wasn't the interesting bit of news, but keep reading! I'm 'painting the picture.' Well, this piece of yellow cake was fluffy and moist with thick, chocolate frosting. My favorite combination in a cake!......
• If you'd like to learn more about me, then read on, curious readers, read on! This was the week of the meme's. I was tagged by Weight Ladder to do a 6-word memoir. I had actually completed this meme in the past, but no worries. My "profound" words are still there for all to see. ;) JoLynn at The Fit Shack tagged me with a......
• Your Food Journal, 3-Day Research Experiment Let’s do a little research that might help you lose weight. Don’t worry, this is fairly easy. Get a notebook and pen. Keep these within easy access for the next several days. OK, here’s the research part: For the next 3 days keep a journal of everything you eat –......
• Solution to Sugar Addiction I've talked about the possibility of being addicted to sugar and more of the specifics on how sugar acts like a drug in some individuals. This post will cover the solution to kicking the sugar addiction, according to the book, Potatoes, Not Prozac. I think the following best sums up......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 2 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. Step 2 is keeping a food journal. In this journal you write: The times you eat/drink What you eat/drink......

Continue reading → Breaking the Sugar Addiction – Step 3

I’m on a personal quest of sorts. Three months ago I made the realization that I am a sugar addict and decided to commit to breaking my addiction.
Following Dr. Kathleen DesMaison’s plan for sugar addiction, I started off including protein and a complex carb at breakfast. After creating my new breakfast habit, I [...]

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• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 2 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. Step 2 is keeping a food journal. In this journal you write: The times you eat/drink What you eat/drink......
• Noticing Habits - Discoveries From My Food Journal Since I've been keeping a food journal I've noticed a couple of things. First, I seem to crave something sweet after I eat, but it can't be just any sweet. If I try to eat what I'm not craving - say a banana when I really want a big, chewy......
• Sugar, The Other White Drug I appreciate all your comments on my previous post about sugar addiction. This topic has really got me thinking! I’d like to explore it further. If truth be told, I never considered sugar a drug, but much of my reading suggests that sugar is capable of acting like a potent......
• Solution to Sugar Addiction I've talked about the possibility of being addicted to sugar and more of the specifics on how sugar acts like a drug in some individuals. This post will cover the solution to kicking the sugar addiction, according to the book, Potatoes, Not Prozac. I think the following best sums up......
• Word Power Funny how powerful changing one word can impact your mindset. For example, when it comes to eating healthy and/or foregoing the junk, instead of saying, “I have to avoid junk food and eat more veggies,” replace that “have” with a “get,” and the sentence has an entirely new meaning and......

Continue reading → Food Journal – Ally in Breaking Sugar Addiction

If you’ve just arrived, or you’d like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I’m following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac.

Step 2 is keeping a food journal. In this journal you write:

The times you eat/drink
What you eat/drink
How you feel physically
How you feel emotionally

Why even do this? [...]

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• Working on the Food Journal I started a food journal last week with the ultimate purpose of helping me get control of my sugar cravings and eat cleaner. I've been jotting down breakfast and lunch, but that's as far as I get. I take my journal (which is just an inexpensive notebook) with me to......
• It's Working Much of what I write about here on Nutrition Fitness Life deals with changing my focus from simply looking thin to improving my overall health. Part of this goal includes the desire to conquer my sugar addiction and clean up my diet. To help me squash my insatiable sweet tooth,......
• Battle Against Sugar Cravings Step 2: Keep a Food Journal I've been eating a healthier breakfast for almost a month now. I think it's time I add another weapon in my battle against my enormous sweet tooth: a food journal. I'll be honest, the idea of keeping a food journal never appealed to me. Why do I want to put......
• Noticing Habits - Discoveries From My Food Journal Since I've been keeping a food journal I've noticed a couple of things. First, I seem to crave something sweet after I eat, but it can't be just any sweet. If I try to eat what I'm not craving - say a banana when I really want a big, chewy......
• Solution to Sugar Addiction I've talked about the possibility of being addicted to sugar and more of the specifics on how sugar acts like a drug in some individuals. This post will cover the solution to kicking the sugar addiction, according to the book, Potatoes, Not Prozac. I think the following best sums up......

Continue reading → Breaking the Sugar Addiction – Step 2

If you’re a sugar sensitive individual, you’re more prone to becoming addicted to the white stuff (sugar and refined foods). If you know you’re physically dependent on sugar and you truly want to end the addiction, there is hope.
I’m reading Potatoes, Not Prozac, and in it, seven steps to breaking free from sugar addiction are outlined.  [...]

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• If you'd like to learn more about me, then read on, curious readers, read on! This was the week of the meme's. I was tagged by Weight Ladder to do a 6-word memoir. I had actually completed this meme in the past, but no worries. My "profound" words are still there for all to see. ;) JoLynn at The Fit Shack tagged me with a......
• Working on the Food Journal I started a food journal last week with the ultimate purpose of helping me get control of my sugar cravings and eat cleaner. I've been jotting down breakfast and lunch, but that's as far as I get. I take my journal (which is just an inexpensive notebook) with me to......
• Another Breakthrough? Well here's an interesting bit of news. I ate a piece of cake at work. ...OK, that wasn't the interesting bit of news, but keep reading! I'm 'painting the picture.' Well, this piece of yellow cake was fluffy and moist with thick, chocolate frosting. My favorite combination in a cake!......
• The Afternoon Slump Ever feel sleepy in the afternoon? I do sometimes, right around 2PM. It's actually normal and related to the natural ebb and flow of our internal body clocks. It's perfectly normal to feel a twinge of drowsiness in the afternoon. So, what happens when we're really feeling sleepy and our......
• My Healthier Breakfast Goal - Update In a previous post I mentioned my goal of having breakfast with protein and complex carbohydrates. That post will tell you the "why" of my doing this. Well, so far I've been keeping this goal. My breakfasts this past week consisted of: scrambled eggs (egg whites/egg yolk/finely chopped onions and......

Continue reading → Breakfast – The First Step to Breaking a Sugar Addiction

I’ve talked about the possibility of being addicted to sugar and more of the specifics on how sugar acts like a drug in some individuals. This post will cover the solution to kicking the sugar addiction, according to the book, Potatoes, Not Prozac.
I think the following best sums up a sugar addict’s solution to beating [...]

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• Hey, Protein! I Like It! Ever since I started including protein in my breakfasts, the increased protein amount has been transferring over into my lunch and dinners too.  I didn't plan to do this; it just kind of happened. I have protein shakes for breakfast made with a plain, whey protein powder. (It's surprisingly good with the right......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 3 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. I feel it's time for me to officially start the next step in breaking the sugar addiction, and......
• "Fun" Facts About Sugar How much sugar (cane sugar/beet sugar) do you think each person eats in a year? A lot! Each person the U.S. consumes about 70 pounds of sugar a year. An individual from Europe, about 92 pounds. Brazil had the highest consumption per person at 123 lbs for this last year!......
• Caution: Food Items in Photograph May Appear Healthier Than They Are I saw this among the weekly mailed advertisements/coupons, and I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself… or maybe it was more like a brief smile and a snort. (OK, so the picture isn't the greatest; I know.  It's something I need to work on!  Let me just tell you that the food......
• Development of Healthy Eating Habits Developing your own healthy eating habits is something that should never be "an ordeal" or make you feel miserable. Many of us are constantly on the run, and we are always rushing from one place to the next or to meet a deadline or return a phone call. As a......

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