There's Hope for You: KickSugar Member Offers Candid Comments About The Weight-Loss Benefits of Stopping the Sugar

I was just reading some e-mails and again ran across this wonderful, heartwarming, unsolicited testimonial, which a member posted to my free, online KickSugar group.

It really conveys just life-changing and rewarding it can be to cut out sugar. Just listen to this eye-opening remark:

"This is the group that enabled me to quit sugar. After many initial struggles, I now find it reasonably easy to stay sugar free.

"I have lost nearly 3 stones [42 pounds] and have been at my goal weight since January this year.

"I also quit smoking cigarettes 4 months ago.

"My family, friends and work colleagues are all amazed that I have managed to do all this. Stopping eating sugar was the key. Losing the weight, then stopping smoking were relatively painless after that.

"I want to tell anyone who is struggling to quit sugar to never, never give up. I binge ate sugars for over 40 years, with accompanying depression and despair. I tried so many different ways to quit, until I found Connie and this group.

"Because I managed to do it, I know it is possible. And it is so worth going through the initial withdrawals. They do not last.

"I get immersed in my busy life, but do not ever intend losing touch completely with you all. Being a member of this group changed my life. Thank you all so much for being there for me, and for being here for others.

Jean"

Gee, Jean, thanks! That was so sweet of you to write this out of the blue!

Comments

[Erin]

Giving up sugar was the key to my weight loss, too. I didn't have to count anything or give up anything else. I didn't even have to exercise (though I should have been anyway, I know, but to be totally honest I wasn't). I still ate plenty of good carbs, protein, and even fat. I was carrying almost 20 extra pounds from the birth of my daughter, gave up sugar, and got down to my pre-pregnancy weight and then lost even 7 more pounds. Of course losing weight wasn't the only benefit (it was also the cure for my post-partum depression- no meds for me). Unfortunately I went back to sugar and gained some weight back (but not all of it, fortunately). Now, almost seven months pregnant, of course I've gained plenty of weight but decided to prevent post-partum depression instead of cure it and have been off sugar again for a month (it all started when I had to drink some nasty sugar drink for a routine glucose test and I thought "Why do I eat this stuff?") . Now I feel good knowing every calorie I eat is a calorie that will build my baby's body and brain. The brain consists of a lot of fat and it's nice to know my baby's brain will be made of things like avocado fat and not cream cheese danish fat. That has to make a difference.