The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast by Mark Hyman Read Free Book Online Page A

good).
Withdrawal symptoms from not having the substance.
Ingesting larger amounts or over a longer period than intended (bingeing).
Persistent desire and unsuccessful attempts to cut down (guilt and shame).
Spending a great deal of time to obtain the substance, use the substance, and recover from its effects.
Reducing or abandoning significant social, work, or recreational activities.
Continuing to use despite awareness of persistent physical or psychological problems that result.
    Is there a way out of food addiction? A way to free yourself from the control that processed food and sugar have over your behavior and well-being?
    Yes. If we can agree that there is biological addiction, then the only solution is to detox to break the cycle. Try asking a cocaine or heroin addict to “cut down.” Forget it. I wish it weren’t so, but I am simply the messenger for the science of food addiction. This is why I decided to write this book: to give people powerful tools to painlessly detox from sugar and processed food and reset, reboot, and restore their body to health.

Finding Food Freedom
    I never thought I could do it… go a week without coffee, without chocolate, without wine, without cheese, etc. But I knew I had to make a drastic change and needed a jump start. I was very overweight, high cholesterol, pre-diabetic, and miserable. This has been an amazing gift. I am not saying that I don’t still have thoughts about the above, but they don’t consume me and I feel like I finally have control. Prior to this detox, I spent every free thought beating myself up for my food choices and how I looked and felt. Now I am celebrating my accomplishments (down twelve pounds and in a normal fasting glucose range) and feel empowered. The biggest gift, though, is that I am finally out of the “food fog” that I have spent years in. I feel clear, awake, and alert. When I spend time with my children I feel present and engaged, which is a blessing for us all. This journey is just beginning and I have a long way to go and a lot to learn, but I have never been so excited and so overwhelmingly grateful.
    —KELLY ARONSON
    It’s time to take back control. No more blaming yourself. No more emotional wrestling or steeling yourself (fruitlessly) with willpower. You need to use science, not willpower. With this program, you’re going to discover the scientifically proven tools for detoxing your body and mind and free yourself—once and for all—from the grip of food addiction.
    The key to detoxing is to not just stop all the addictive foods and substances all at once (which you do need to do), but to immediatelyreplace them with specific hormone-balancing, brain-healing foods and lifestyle habits. This program detoxes more than just your body: We’re going to give you a chance to detox (and reboot) your entire life. We’re going to address all the root causes of weight gain, diabetes, and chronic disease, starting with the most powerful tool of all: your mind.

FIXING OUR FAT THINKING
    The biggest challenge you’re facing here is not your waistline or your weight. It’s not your belly. It’s your brain. Changing the way you think about food so you get your mind working with your body, not against it, is critical to weight loss and healing.
    If you want to lose pounds, you need to first lose the ideas that keep you stuck in an endless cycle of yo-yo dieting. You need to let go of the beliefs and perspectives that sabotage your goal of permanent weight loss and vibrant health. Thinking the way you’ve always thought and doing things you’ve always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!
    The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet
is meant to be disruptive. Very disruptive. It will go against a lot of what you’ve been told. That’s because the vast majority of conventional nutritionists and doctors have it mostly wrong when it comes to weight loss. Let’s face it: If their advice were good and doable, we