Are you a Carbohydrate addict? Learn How to Change Your Body by Changing Your Mind. Self-Help for Sugar Addiction more on sugar addiction and your health Is it possible to eat lots of sugar and still be thin? Yes - if you eat almost nothing else, and get lots of strenous exercise. Is it possible to eat lots of sugar and other simple carbs and be healthy? No. Consider the findings of a recent study done by University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine: They discovered that for every 1% increase in your blood sugar level increases the risk of death - from any cause - by 28% for women and 24% for men. These risks were independent of other risk factors, including age, body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure, cholesterol counts, smoking, or history of heart disease. ---According to historians, highly milled white flour first came into use as war rations. White flour keeps longer than whole grain flour, so bread made from white flour could stay edible, (more or less), for a longer period of time. The generals knew the white bread would make their troops sick because it had so little nutritional value, but it would keep them alive long enough to fight a few more battles. To be fair, it was a better alternative than bread made from ground-up sawdust, which the soldiers' families were probably eating back home. When white breads and other baked goods became popular among the upper classes, the governments of most countries passed laws requiring that some of the destroyed nutrients be added back in. So, if you really believe that you need your daily slice of toasted white bread in order to be healthy, consider taking a vitamin pill instead.
You'll get more nutrition, and no calories. Some well-respected publishers actually sell diet books that tell you to cut back on your calories (duh) but say "go ahead and eat your ice cream" (The Ice Cream Diet published by Rodale Press comes to mind). These "experts" are telling us to substitute real, honest, healthy food with empty calories from sugar. They do this because they know America doesn't want to give up it's sugar, and promising us a magic diet that includes sugar is a good marketing scheme. (That's just my opinion, of course. ) It's almost as good as a pill that helps us lose weight without making us change our lifestyle. Is it any wonder that few people actually stay on a diet like that? Calories give you energy, but nutrition gives you health. It's nice to be thin, but it's also nice to live long enough to enjoy it. Have you ever wished that you could stop worrying about everything you eat, stop buying diet books, and just relax and enjoy food - but still lose weight and keep it off? Maybe you can. Would you be interested if I told you there's an easy way to train your mind to ignore sugar and other food cravings? Would you be even more interested if it didn't involve any drugs, surgery, or diet books? And if it not only helped you lose weight, but also improved your health, without making you feel deprived or picked on? If your diets always fail because you don't have enough will-power, you've found the right web site. Just as the right physical exercises can build strong muscles, the right mental exercises can build strong will-power. And believe me - learning how isn't rocket science! Hello Jonni, I just want to thank you for your support and this great program of renewing my life both mentally and physically.
I must admit, I've had some real tough times especially in the evenings, but I was able to make it through. My biggest fear is breaking down and giving in to the withdrawals. Just to let you know how positive this process is, I only read a few pages, . [they have] given me so much motivation, that I changed my diet, and I have noticed my clothes fitting looser today, I will continue and again thank you so much for all your support. Deja Dear Friend, T here's one simple fact that diet book authors don't really want you to know. Most Americans, (and that probably includes you), could lose weight safely and quickly just by giving up sugar. It isn't rocket science - you'll lose weight if you work off more calories than you eat. Most of us, however, eat more calories than we burn, so we gradually gain weight. What is making America so fat? I n America, many of our extra calories come from sugar and other simple carbohydrates, which pack a wallop in calories but provide no real nutrition at all. Many of these sugar calories are hiding in soft drinks and processed foods, so we may not even know how much sugar we eat every day. Each year, 120 pounds of added sweetener is consumed in America per person - that's 1/3 pound of sugar per person every single day! That's an added 630 calories.
Imagine giving up just one candy bar a day and losing 1 pound every two weeks, without making any other change in your diet! That's 22 pounds a year. Imagine giving up two giant Costco muffins a week and one Starbuck's Caramel Cappuccino a day, and losing 4 pounds a month, without making any other change in your diet! That's 48 pounds a year - the easy way! The problem is - many Americans try to give up sugar, and can't! In fact, many people try (and fail) to give up sugar as often as smokers try to quit smoking. If you're really hooked on sugar, it isn't all that easy to give it up. And the problem includes more than just sugar. The bad news is that just a few minutes after it hits your stomach, your system can't tell the difference between sugar and white flour. America's love affair with pasta and Wonder bread (and yes, fancy hearth-baked French bread), means lots of extra flab around your middle, on your thighs, and wrapped around your internal organs and arteries. The Atkins folks figured this out, and built an entire industry around telling us to give up the carbs - but they went overboard and included all carbs instead of pointing their fingers at the real problem - simple carbs like sugar and white flour. After all, how many books could they sell if it was that simple? " Hi Jonni - Thanks for your support. I feel great with out white sugar and white flour. I enjoyed your book and your emails. I guess it has been about a month I have lost 10 lbs and my whole family is eating better.
" What are simple carbohydrates? S imple carbohydrates are highly refined calorie bombs just waiting to make you fat, and make you sick. Unlike complex carbohydrates, found in vegetables and whole grains, simple carbohydrates cause an almost immediate rise in your blood sugar. Over time this can affect your insulin response and cause a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some kinds of cancer. But it isn't easy to let go of simple carbohydrates. If it was, America wouldn't be so fat. We all know that gaining weight is easy. Unless you're Renee Zellweger, and you're getting ready for your next Hollywood role as a fat girl, you probably didn't have to struggle to eat a few extra calories each day in order to gain weight. You didn't go out and buy special diet books that listed every morsel of food you could and couldn't eat in order to gain a pound or two before your class reunion. You probably didn't go out and buy expensive bland-tasting "snacks" with the texture of cardboard because they promised to add a few extra globs of fat to your thighs. The flab "just happens. " But when we decide it's time to start getting rid of all the extra pounds that "just happened, " Americans reach for their wallets. This country's obesity rate has become a huge business opportunity, and many of the products now available to help us lose our extra weight are sold with the fervor (and lack of candor) that would do a snake-oil salesman proud.
But let's take some personal responsibility, here. We set ourselves up for the false promises, the shady advertising practices, and the questionable pharmaceutical studies of the obesity industry because we don't want to see how obvious it all is. We want to believe that it's hard to eat healthy food, because the alternative is facing the fact that the foods we most enjoy and crave are the very foods that are making us fat. From Linda (personal details have been edited out to protect her privacy): "Hello Jonni I enjoyed reading your book as it was written in a manner that made me feel like I was reading a letter from a friend. You made many valid points and I do agree that we need to be responsible for the choices we make. I found your method of thinking about our thoughts quite interesting. I read your book through all in one sitting and so hope to be able to read it slower next time. " Let's look at some of the numbers: O ne Milky Way candy bar has 270 calories. If you're a woman with a normal (meaning fairly sedentary) American lifestyle, you can maintain your weight with about 1800 calories a day. Any more calories than that, and you gain weight, any fewer calories and you'll lose weight. This is the basic information that makes any diet work (or not).
Your Milky Way is, therefore, about 1/6th of your daily caloric needs. More importantly, one Milky Way and one Hershey's bar a day will add a pound a week to your butt, unless you reduce the calories you get from real food by the same amount. If you just eat one candy bar a day and don't cut back on real food, it will take you two weeks to gain a pound. But don't worry - you will gain weight. One Costco giant muffin can add up to more than 600 calories - three muffins a day would give you enough calories to maintain your weight, while clogging your arteries from all that fat. Imagine it - the three muffins would maintain your weight if you ate absolutely nothing else. Fat chance! Is it any wonder that fewer and fewer people can crowd into an American elevator? Few people eat a candy bar or a poppy seed muffin or a piece of chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream instead of real food. We eat these things in addition to real food. Which is good, in a way, because these sugary "food" items contain almost no nutritional value. You can survive, for a while, on a diet made up almost entirely of simple carbs. Many people through the centuries have had to do just that during times of war or famine.
But this type of diet will severely damage your long-term health. ( I have had emails from readers who say (often in all caps) that they can't give up sugar and white flour because there wouldn't be anything else to eat! I always suggest that these folks need to make an immediate appointment with their doctor - they're living on borrowed time. ) From Anthony Jonni, I'm a pretty slim guy. I was overweight up until my senior year of high school. I lost the weight and have been able to maintain my physical appearance thru exercise and eating right most of the time. Although I've never gained the weight completely back there was always a layer of fat around my waist that has never gone completely away. My downfall had been sugar ladened sweets, white flour, and high fat foods. Since reading your site and book. I've finally started becoming the leanest I've ever been in my life love it. I'm an independent songwriter/music artiste. I'm gonna look great for my shows now*smile* I actually have not had to do the meditations that often to control my behavior or cravings but when I need to I call on them and they do work. So why is it so hard to give up sugar and other simple carbs? If you look at the numbers given earlier, it seems like a no-brainer - give up your candy bar, your Starbucks latte with Italian syrup, your morning bagel, and you lose weight.
What's so hard about that? We all want to lose weight, and nobody really needs any of those items to stay healthy. Plus they cost money that could be better spent. So just give them up. We all wish it was that easy. What would happen if we did? For most people, (and that probably includes you), what would happen is a nice gradual and healthy weight loss, back to the weight your body is supposed to have. Your chronic blood sugar level would go down, reducing the risk of heart disease and some kinds of cancer. Your clothes would fit better, and you'd soon have an excuse to go buy some new ones to show off your new, healthy body. Your color would improve, you'd sleep better, and your mind would be sharper. You may even have fewer mood swings. For many people, these important changes would also be accompanied by cravings, daydreams about the snacks they can't have, a feeling a deprivation and abuse, and, in the beginning, lightheadedness and mild nausea. The cravings, daydreams and unconscious behaviors eventually bring almost all of us back to the sugar trough.
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