If you're like many Americans, you want to shed your excess weight so you can fit into your favorite slim outfit, have the trim, toned, sexy body you crave and be healthy.
Just imagine how you'd feel if you had more energy, more cheerful moods and more satisfying relationships.
Envision what your life would look like if you were more productive, thinking more clearly and experiencing a boost in your libido.
All of the above can happen if you eliminate sugar and refined carbs.
But losing weight, getting more energy, concentrating better, becoming happier and having a bigger sex drive are just a few of many benefits you can gain from eliminating sugar, as I pointed out in my book SUGAR SHOCK!
In fact, when I quit sweets and refined carbs on doctor's orders in 1998, a whopping 44 ailments disappeared and I felt reborn!
But, let's face it, cutting out sugar or those "culprit carbs" can be challenging for most people.
After all, you didn't develop a sugar habit overnight. So let me educate, inspire and guide you to become joyously sugar free.
Join me Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 6 pm for my fun, interactive, life-changing free introductory class, "SUGAR SHOCK! Breaking Free of Your Sugar Habit" at the New York Open Center, the largest urban holistic center in the United States.
On that one night, you'll get some tips and tactics to begin to break free of your sugar habits.
But, as you can imagine, since you've probably had a lifetime of being overly attached to sugar, one hour with me is isn't enough to change your destructive patterns for good.
That's why I'm also teaching a 4-week course at the New York Open Center, which begins next week, from Jan. 12 to Feb. 2.
In this four-week course, I'm sharing proprietary techniques that I developed and which worked for me when I removed sugar from my diet in 1998.
In addition, you're getting dozens of tips that have helped my clients. Plus, you'll receive many ideas from a variety of health experts, who kindly shared them with me.
For instance, in my 4-week course at the New York Open Center, you will:
- Discover the 10 reasons people fail when making New Year's resolutions or when breaking a sugar addiction or other bad habits (what I call babits™).
- Get 7 Smart Starter Strategies so you can conquer your sugar habit for good.
- The most dangerous word in the English language that is disempowering when seeking to kick sugar.
- Find out 5 ways to save money on food and beverages in this economy but still make healthy choices.
- Find out why this course has the wrong title! (But we had to name
it "SUGAR SHOCK! Breaking Free of Your Sugar Habit" so you'd know what you're getting.)
- Receive 50 simple, effective tips and tactics to squash your sugar cravings.
- Get a helpful, comprehensive sugar-free shopping list and sample meal plans.
- Discover what 3 most empowering questions to ask yourself whenever sugary foods "call out" to you to stop your destructive cycle.
- Find out how you can use "failing" or being human (i.e., imperfect) to your advantage.
- Have fun discovering tasty, sugar-free desserts from 2 guest bakers.
- Taste delicious sugar-free treats from 2 local chefs.
- Find out which 3 foods can drive away your "sweet tooth."
- Get educated about 20 cutting-edge research studies, which reveal the dangers of sugars and refined carbs.
- Receive a list of more than 100 ways your sugar habit is killing you.
- Learn how you can lower your risk for type 2 diabetes, cancer, infertility, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease.
- Be trained as a "Savvy Sugar Sleuth" so you easily unmask sugar's many disguises and read food labels in the grocery store.
- Get invited to one complimentary teleseminar. (This is one of many bonuses you get by signing up for my 4-week course.)
- Learn to identify 10 surprising foods that contain hidden sugars.
- Get inspired by successful "Sugar Kickers," whose sour-to-sweet tales you can listen to at any time via complimentary audio downloads.
- Determine how your sugar habit is harming your health, weight, moods, relationships, work, spirituality and ability to get things done.
- Learn how to talk to your loved ones about your sugar habit.
- Uncover your 5 "W's" that drive you to sweets and refined carbs.
- Acquire simple, juicy, valuable, always-accessible tips and tools to help stomp out your sugar habit for good and to prevent binging, relapsing and self-loathing
- Get 10 ways to "Say No With Sass!" when offered desserts.
- Develop your special, do-able, personalized plan.
- Learn easy techniques to topple stress so you won't feel a need to turn to sweets.
- Discover how sugar wreaks havoc on your body.
- Gain insights so you can decide your best course of action -- to quit cold turkey, phase our sweets or still take tastes from time to time
- Receive at least 2 helpful handouts and undertake at least 2 fun, revealing, life-changing adventur-cises™ (adventurous exercises) every week.
- Do valuable "Sugary Soul Searching."
- Learn to surf when cravings strike. (You heard me right!)
- Determine how to embrace your triggers and saboteurs rather than avoid them.
- Invite "The 4 P's" into your life.
- Meet your Kind, Know-It All.
- Get the
truth about sugar substitutes and learn which sweeteners are safe to use.
- Be coached to help you succeed.
- Have a chance to listen to interviews with a who's who of world-renowned experts in the field of nutrition, diet, fitness, motivation and spirituality.
- Receive supportive emails and audio messages to "hold your hand" and guide you through the program.
- Find out ways to to nurture and nourish yourself without candies, cakes and chips and how to live a sweeter life without needing to turn to sweets.
- Get your questions answered.
Register now for my complimentary introduction on Jan. 5 and 4-week course, from Jan. 12 to Feb. 2 at the New York Open Center.
Please note: If you're in another part of the re in another part of the country or world and cannot make my talk at the New York Open Center, please join us
virtually or telephonically in other upcoming programs so you can still get helpful tips, tactics and
tempting tidbits.
Register now for four-week course, staring Jan. 12 at the New York Open Center.
If you sign up for the course because of learning about it on this Sugar Shock Blog, you will receive a free gift from me.
Hope to see you there.
New Year's Resolutions: 10 Simple Steps to Stick to Them
Even if you've already broken them, that's no reason to throw in the towel. You can still pick yourself up and create smart habits to better your life.
Many of you are seeking, for instance, to shed excess weight and release such health-harming habits as over-consuming sugar, coffee or diet soda. Many of you want to quit procrastinating, smoking, being habitually late, obsessively checking emails or biting your nails.
Before you begin to make positive changes, it's helpful to focus on the Benefits of Breaking Your Bad Habits or what I call “Babits™.Let's take the case of quitting sugar. As I learned back in 1998 when I cut out out sweeteners and refined carbs on doctor’s orders, ALL 44 of my baffling ailments, from crushing fatigue to brain fog, completely disappeared, as I recounted in my book SUGAR SHOCK!,
For instance, licking sweets (pun intended) and other health-robbing substances and unproductive habits from caffeine overloading to diet soda guzzling can help you to:
In short, when you remove sugar and other negative patterns, you leave room for positive activities to take their place and you can begin to get a Life That Rocks!™. Here are 10 smart steps, which can help you break free of your babits™ (bad habits) so you can to replace them with smart habits.
1. Congratulate Yourself. To begin your journey to health and wellness, I invite you to pat yourself on the back. You may wonder why you would want to do that, especially if you’ve spent years abusing your body. You want to applaud yourself, because the mere fact that you’re beginning to look at your sugar addiction or other bad habit is big! The first step to break away from sweets, refined carbs and other babits™ is to NOT beat up on yourself. Granted, you may have gobbled or guzzled high-calorie nutrient-poor sugary foods and drinks over the years, but now is a time to be gentle with yourself, to treat yourself with compassion and to take pride that you’re taking the much-needed first step to treat your body with love and care. Go ahead: Lavish some praise and kudos on yourself now that you’re finally confronting the bad habit that’s been plaguing you—perhaps for years. Share your excitement in your journal or in a heart-to-heart conversation with a loved one. Then imagine that you’re at the starting line of a race like a runner athlete and that you’re ready to make a massive positive shift. Please also remember to acknowledge and celebrate your every little accomplishment. For example, when you make it through a meal without sugary foods, diet soda or caffeine—or if you at least consume less of them—take pride and applaud yourself. After all, each time you make healthier choices, you get closer to more energy, a trimmer body and a better life.
2. Move With Your Mind & Mantra. Before you begin to try to kick your sugar addiction or another babit™, it’s time to embark on Seven Smart Starter Habits (through Step #8) to cement your confidence that good health, inner calm and new patterns await you. That’s because whenever you seek to remove an old habit and replace it with a new one, your work begins before you even try to make changes. In other words, before you begin to “diet” or make important lifestyle changes, you want to convince your mind that you CAN succeed. Begin each day knowing in the depth of your being that you’ve already licked your unhealthy habit. To get both your subconscious and conscious mind to accept that you’ve succeeded—or are on the path to succeeding—create an easy-to-repeat phrase, affirmation or mantra such as “I, [Your Name], choose only nourishing foods and drinks, which keep me slim, toned and healthy.” Repeat your positive statement at least 30 times a day. Make sure to say it in the morning, right after you wake up, and in the evening, before you go to sleep. Repeating it about 10 to 20 times before meals also can help. Back in 1998, when I finally kicked sugar, repeating my mantra enabled me to succeed. Now, my clients find this technique effective, too.
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