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I Quit Sugar: Your Complete 8-Week Detox Program and Cookbook
by Sarah Wilson
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?