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3.23 AVERAGE
I believe this book will absolutely help anyone lose weight AND get healthier. No doubt about it. However, this is one of those books that is simple, but not easy. In fact, I'm not sure what would make the principles in this book more difficult to implement: a person's willpower or the ability to find the foods and ingredients that are promoted in this book. I've never even heard of many of them. In that sense, some of these principles could be challenging, at best, to follow (if not impossible).
With that said, if it is true that you are what you read, then this book will make you 100% more aware about the foods and drinks you choose to put into your body on a daily basis, regardless of how convenient it is to do so or how busy your life is.
While I'm not ready to attempt to implement the principles of this book because of some of the reasons above, it is making me re-think a few things. Although I can't/won't quit sugar cold-turkey, I am willing to devote 2 days per week to being sugar free. I can definitely do that. If I can keep that up, that's 2 out of 7 days each week when I'm having no sugar. That's a 28% reduction of my diet that will no longer contain sugar. I think that's certainly doable. But I also think that I can cut back more than that, because even on the days when I do allow myself to have sugar, I'm going to be more hesitant. After reading about the effects of sugar on a person's body and health, I'm more inclined to cut out candy and desserts altogether on 7 days each week. I probably eat more ketchup (a.k.a. red sugar) than anyone I've ever met. No more after reading this book. And though I can't foresee me ever giving up my sweet tea, I can go without it for just 2 days each week, and I can cut back a little on the other 5 days when I do have it. So, it wouldn't be too difficult at all to stretch that 28% reduction into something like a 33% - 40% reduction in my weekly sugar intake, or maybe even more.
That's the kind of thing that makes for a good book: if it can change the way you think or behave, and if it can stick with you over time, then it has great potential to change your life for the better. In the mean time, this book has made me want to look for other books to read about the harmful effects of sugar. The more I can get it in my head, the easier I think it would be to cut back even more. We shall see...
With that said, if it is true that you are what you read, then this book will make you 100% more aware about the foods and drinks you choose to put into your body on a daily basis, regardless of how convenient it is to do so or how busy your life is.
While I'm not ready to attempt to implement the principles of this book because of some of the reasons above, it is making me re-think a few things. Although I can't/won't quit sugar cold-turkey, I am willing to devote 2 days per week to being sugar free. I can definitely do that. If I can keep that up, that's 2 out of 7 days each week when I'm having no sugar. That's a 28% reduction of my diet that will no longer contain sugar. I think that's certainly doable. But I also think that I can cut back more than that, because even on the days when I do allow myself to have sugar, I'm going to be more hesitant. After reading about the effects of sugar on a person's body and health, I'm more inclined to cut out candy and desserts altogether on 7 days each week. I probably eat more ketchup (a.k.a. red sugar) than anyone I've ever met. No more after reading this book. And though I can't foresee me ever giving up my sweet tea, I can go without it for just 2 days each week, and I can cut back a little on the other 5 days when I do have it. So, it wouldn't be too difficult at all to stretch that 28% reduction into something like a 33% - 40% reduction in my weekly sugar intake, or maybe even more.
That's the kind of thing that makes for a good book: if it can change the way you think or behave, and if it can stick with you over time, then it has great potential to change your life for the better. In the mean time, this book has made me want to look for other books to read about the harmful effects of sugar. The more I can get it in my head, the easier I think it would be to cut back even more. We shall see...
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I'm all for avoiding sugar- but I can't get behind anyone who thinks that eating whole fruit is bad. Also, I'm suspicious the author has no taste buds- there was not a single recipe that looked tasty to me.
I had tremendous success with this book. I did the 8 week detox and feel amazing! It has been 3 months since I started the detox and I've shed 30 lbs. Most of my sugar came in the form of fruit, honey, granola, and sauces. I haven't used white sugar in my kitchen for a few years now. I did stop eating wheat products as well because I went in full force on my detox. I found that wheat is the biggest trigger for my eczema. Now all that said, there is a bit of fluff throughout the book. The book could have been much smaller with less pictures and a smaller font. But overall I would recommend the 8 week detox.
This book gave me conflicting feelings. At first I was excited and inspired by it. She made it seem so simple and convinced me to try her plan! However, like many reviewers have mentioned, she's light on the science and actually contradicts herself in some of it.
Let's start with the good parts:
- the ideas in this book got me thinking about how much sugar I consume, and ways I can reduce and eliminate it.
- I enjoyed the pictures and layout of the pages, and it was very approachable. I finished it in one sitting.
-some recipes seem interesting, although I haven't tried any yet.
The not so great parts:
-the plan is over simplified. She doesn't do a good job of detailing the steps.
- she breezes over the science and some of it just seems absurd. (The whole cave man logic...what the?!)
-contradictions - she tells you to ease your way into in for the first two weeks, then go cold turkey. So you're not actually going cold turkey..?
-her ambivalent approach to how to make this sustainable left me wanting more.
Let's start with the good parts:
- the ideas in this book got me thinking about how much sugar I consume, and ways I can reduce and eliminate it.
- I enjoyed the pictures and layout of the pages, and it was very approachable. I finished it in one sitting.
-some recipes seem interesting, although I haven't tried any yet.
The not so great parts:
-the plan is over simplified. She doesn't do a good job of detailing the steps.
- she breezes over the science and some of it just seems absurd. (The whole cave man logic...what the?!)
-contradictions - she tells you to ease your way into in for the first two weeks, then go cold turkey. So you're not actually going cold turkey..?
-her ambivalent approach to how to make this sustainable left me wanting more.
While the title of this book is wildly misleading since the author didn't actually completely quit sugar and she doesn't let you forget it throughout the book, she did quit added sugars and artificial sugars/sweeteners and reduced her natural sugar intake to the healthy amount...which is funnily enough exactly what I decided to do last January after completing The Daniel Fast (from author, Kristen Feola) but am only now actually enacting. Hence my interest in reading a book like this. So while I went into this book with higher expectations based on the title, the book still delivered recipes that I can and will most definitely try out.
Yes, sugar is natural. But the amount we're exposed to isn't. Sugar is natural and it is also a drug and "Like a muscle, the more we practice, the more this way of being becomes second nature." I don't want my second nature to be getting Type 2 Diabetes or any other number of health issues that many of my family members have. I've been eating much healthier over the past seven years but I can always do better. And until last January, I didn't confront the better that I could be doing. Which was acknowledging my addiction to sugar...because even though I had cut out soda (except for the occasional Ginger Ale), soda wasn't the end all be all. So this book was a great resource for what's to come in my pantry.
Aside from the recipes, I can't say that I'd recommend this because in the 72 pages leading up to the recipes, I only bookmarked 7 pages which means I didn't get much out of this. I was hoping to pick up a book titled, "I Quit Sugar" and read about someone who completely quit sugar so that I could get more out of the book than I needed. Instead, I got less. I got ONLY the subtitle of the book, "Your Complete 8-Week Detox Program & Cookbook." I'm glad those parts were true. This book is more "I Quit Fructose" or "How I Quit Bad Sugar: A Detox and Reset for Your New Lifestyle" than it is "I Quit Sugar." Goodness, I just can't get over how misleading the title is because post detox, she says that the occasional added/alternative sugar relapse is okay and man, while I totally agree with this, I was so looking forward to going into this book and reading about an experience where someone really was indeed as sugar free as humanely possible.
Maybe if this were my first time seriously paying attention to my sugar intake, the first 72 pages would have been helpful and I wouldn't be so hung up on the deception? But even then, I don't think it would have been as helpful as if it were indeed the book it claims to be. So. If you want sugar-free recipes, this book has plenty. Other than that... pass?
Yes, sugar is natural. But the amount we're exposed to isn't. Sugar is natural and it is also a drug and "Like a muscle, the more we practice, the more this way of being becomes second nature." I don't want my second nature to be getting Type 2 Diabetes or any other number of health issues that many of my family members have. I've been eating much healthier over the past seven years but I can always do better. And until last January, I didn't confront the better that I could be doing. Which was acknowledging my addiction to sugar...because even though I had cut out soda (except for the occasional Ginger Ale), soda wasn't the end all be all. So this book was a great resource for what's to come in my pantry.
Aside from the recipes, I can't say that I'd recommend this because in the 72 pages leading up to the recipes, I only bookmarked 7 pages which means I didn't get much out of this. I was hoping to pick up a book titled, "I Quit Sugar" and read about someone who completely quit sugar so that I could get more out of the book than I needed. Instead, I got less. I got ONLY the subtitle of the book, "Your Complete 8-Week Detox Program & Cookbook." I'm glad those parts were true. This book is more "I Quit Fructose" or "How I Quit Bad Sugar: A Detox and Reset for Your New Lifestyle" than it is "I Quit Sugar." Goodness, I just can't get over how misleading the title is because post detox, she says that the occasional added/alternative sugar relapse is okay and man, while I totally agree with this, I was so looking forward to going into this book and reading about an experience where someone really was indeed as sugar free as humanely possible.
Maybe if this were my first time seriously paying attention to my sugar intake, the first 72 pages would have been helpful and I wouldn't be so hung up on the deception? But even then, I don't think it would have been as helpful as if it were indeed the book it claims to be. So. If you want sugar-free recipes, this book has plenty. Other than that... pass?
What she says makes sense and the recipes are full of sugar-free ideas, I'm going to do my best to reduce my sugar intake, but this book is in demand and I have to give it back.
Interesting, worth a read, thought provoking.
Interesting, worth a read, thought provoking.
I like the overall message, but I'm not giving up fruit, even during a preliminary stage.
Ich würde mal sagen, das Buch liegt so zwischen Herrn Gameau (der ja ein Landsmann von Frau Wilson ist, wieso haben denn ausgerechnet die so ein großes Thema mit Zucker?) und Frau Zampounidis. Gut fand ich das 8 Wochen Step-by-Step Programm, bei dem sie den Zucker quasi "ausschleicht".
Allerdings hab ich ja ziemlich schnell ein Problem, wenn mir jemand genau sagt, was ich tun soll, da werd ich dann gerne mal bockig ;-)
Außerdem ist mir ihr Ansatz zu streng, Früchte sind nämlich auch verboten - geht nicht für mich!
Und die Rezepte waren mir auch zu exotisch von den Zutaten. Fazit: Aus der Onleihe ok, aber mir zu strikt und zu weit weg von meiner Lebenswirklichkeit.
Allerdings hab ich ja ziemlich schnell ein Problem, wenn mir jemand genau sagt, was ich tun soll, da werd ich dann gerne mal bockig ;-)
Außerdem ist mir ihr Ansatz zu streng, Früchte sind nämlich auch verboten - geht nicht für mich!
Und die Rezepte waren mir auch zu exotisch von den Zutaten. Fazit: Aus der Onleihe ok, aber mir zu strikt und zu weit weg von meiner Lebenswirklichkeit.
First of all, I would strongly recommend steering well clear of this book if you are in any way inclined towards disordered eating behaviours.
In fairness, I had no intention of doing the challenge, but I picked this up from the library because I avoid sugar and had enjoyed a few recipes from the website. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot in here that I would use and I would say the majority of the recipes are just suggestions or ideas. Of the actual recipes there are many that just rely on replacing sugar with stevia or rice syrup.
In fairness, I had no intention of doing the challenge, but I picked this up from the library because I avoid sugar and had enjoyed a few recipes from the website. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot in here that I would use and I would say the majority of the recipes are just suggestions or ideas. Of the actual recipes there are many that just rely on replacing sugar with stevia or rice syrup.