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Sugar Savvy Solution: The 6-Week Solution to Kicking Your Sugar Addiction for Life
A fun and empowering 6-week program to getting your weight down and energy up by getting sugar savvy and resetting your taste buds and your attitude, from the founder of Energy Up!, High Voltage.
Unleash your inner girl power to take control of food so it doesn’t control you. Can’t eat just one? Yeah. There’s a reason for that. New science shows that when we overload on sugar our brain receptors actually change, making it hard to regulate how much we eat. Sugar is addictive. It lights up the same reward receptors and triggers the same cascade of feel-good brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine as cocaine. And when you’re shaky, irritable and looking for your next food “fix,” you may not even realize it—but you’re hooked. Like all of us, you just want to feel good and have energy for all the activities you do and love. But the foods you’re counting on to get you there inevitably make you feel worse…not to mention lead to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, wrinkled skin (truly), and even cancer. Enough! It’s time to take control of your health and happiness. To take control of your weight. To take control of food so it doesn’t control you. To get your energy up in a real, sustainable way. To get Fit, Fabulous, and Fierce. Sugar Savvy is the solution. Based on the groundbreaking “Energy Up” program created by Kathie Dolgin (aka High Voltage), proven in a 2007 Columbia University Medical Center study to help participants lose an average of 13 pounds, the Sugar Savvy solution is more than a diet. It’s an eye-opening, confidence-building, life-affirming program that literally and scientifically helps remap your brain chemistry to change what you crave and want to eat. It’s a plan that will empower you from the top down and inside out. Sugar Savvy • a complete 6-week plan to transform your eating and exercise habits • easy-to-assemble Power Meal Formulas plus more than 40 simple Power Meals and Snacks you can use to eat Sugar Savvy anywhere • Moving Affirmations that move your body and your spirit • inspirational stories and advice from the 17 Sugar Savvy Sisters who tried our program, every single one of whom lost weight • and much more! This one-of-a-kind plan beats obesity where it begins—in your brain. The Sugar Savvy Eat whatever you want, but we will change what you want. Guaranteed!
“Obesity is a critical public health issue, and sugar is a major reason. Sugar Savvy is a straightforward, easy-to-follow guide to help people avoid the serious health effects of consuming too much sugar. It has the potential to be a powerful tool for its readers.”
--Michael Bloomberg
"Science is just now catching up to what High Voltage figured out years Breaking your sugar addiction isn't about willpower, it's about brain chemistry. Follow her innovative Sugar Savvy program to change what you crave, lose weight, and beat disease!"
--Mark Hyman, MD, author of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet
“Sugar Savvy sizzles with High Voltage's remarkable ability to motivate and excite! I couldn't put it down. What a fantastic resource for women who are ready to go for it and finally detox from sugar and remake their bodies. I give it a 10!”
--Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD, bestselling author of Potatoes Not Prozac
“Many thanks to High Voltage for not ‘sugar-coating’ the fact that excess sugar makes us fat and sick. This simple 6-week program to eliminate added sugar is dynamite and I plan to share it with my patients ASAP.”
--Joel K. Kahn, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and author of The Holistic Heart Book
“Sugar Savvy is destined to become a classic! Not only will you break your addiction to sugar, white flour, bad fats, and salt, you'll transform your body, mind, and spirit to forever change the way you think about food.”
--Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS, New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan and Get the Sugar Out
Unleash your inner girl power to take control of food so it doesn’t control you. Can’t eat just one? Yeah. There’s a reason for that. New science shows that when we overload on sugar our brain receptors actually change, making it hard to regulate how much we eat. Sugar is addictive. It lights up the same reward receptors and triggers the same cascade of feel-good brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine as cocaine. And when you’re shaky, irritable and looking for your next food “fix,” you may not even realize it—but you’re hooked. Like all of us, you just want to feel good and have energy for all the activities you do and love. But the foods you’re counting on to get you there inevitably make you feel worse…not to mention lead to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, wrinkled skin (truly), and even cancer. Enough! It’s time to take control of your health and happiness. To take control of your weight. To take control of food so it doesn’t control you. To get your energy up in a real, sustainable way. To get Fit, Fabulous, and Fierce. Sugar Savvy is the solution. Based on the groundbreaking “Energy Up” program created by Kathie Dolgin (aka High Voltage), proven in a 2007 Columbia University Medical Center study to help participants lose an average of 13 pounds, the Sugar Savvy solution is more than a diet. It’s an eye-opening, confidence-building, life-affirming program that literally and scientifically helps remap your brain chemistry to change what you crave and want to eat. It’s a plan that will empower you from the top down and inside out. Sugar Savvy • a complete 6-week plan to transform your eating and exercise habits • easy-to-assemble Power Meal Formulas plus more than 40 simple Power Meals and Snacks you can use to eat Sugar Savvy anywhere • Moving Affirmations that move your body and your spirit • inspirational stories and advice from the 17 Sugar Savvy Sisters who tried our program, every single one of whom lost weight • and much more! This one-of-a-kind plan beats obesity where it begins—in your brain. The Sugar Savvy Eat whatever you want, but we will change what you want. Guaranteed!
“Obesity is a critical public health issue, and sugar is a major reason. Sugar Savvy is a straightforward, easy-to-follow guide to help people avoid the serious health effects of consuming too much sugar. It has the potential to be a powerful tool for its readers.”
--Michael Bloomberg
"Science is just now catching up to what High Voltage figured out years Breaking your sugar addiction isn't about willpower, it's about brain chemistry. Follow her innovative Sugar Savvy program to change what you crave, lose weight, and beat disease!"
--Mark Hyman, MD, author of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet
“Sugar Savvy sizzles with High Voltage's remarkable ability to motivate and excite! I couldn't put it down. What a fantastic resource for women who are ready to go for it and finally detox from sugar and remake their bodies. I give it a 10!”
--Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD, bestselling author of Potatoes Not Prozac
“Many thanks to High Voltage for not ‘sugar-coating’ the fact that excess sugar makes us fat and sick. This simple 6-week program to eliminate added sugar is dynamite and I plan to share it with my patients ASAP.”
--Joel K. Kahn, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and author of The Holistic Heart Book
“Sugar Savvy is destined to become a classic! Not only will you break your addiction to sugar, white flour, bad fats, and salt, you'll transform your body, mind, and spirit to forever change the way you think about food.”
--Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS, New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan and Get the Sugar Out
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288 pages, Hardcover
First published September 9, 2014
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June 2, 2015
Her ideas are in the right place, but the woman dubbed "High Voltage" is so excited that I wanted to shake her. Most sentences end with an exclamation mark! So! Get ready for that! I also couldn't get over the super sweet affirmations that she tells readers to say each day, several times per day, and also while exercising, but this might be because I don't feel bad about myself, but do want to get healthy. Saying "I am the best, I deserve the best" each day isn't for me.
The part where she prepares readers to make new meals felt like a mess to me, one similar to those food cards ("Deal a Meal!") Weight Watchers participants used to use. 1 fat + 1 fruit + 2 grains, etc. = a meal. She outlines each meal you should eat for 6 weeks, which is just awful because it causes shoppers to buy lots of ingredients in small quantities and is just asking for wasted food leftovers. I prefer to use the Fat Chance Cookbook for meals that are mostly vegetables, are made in large quantities, and can be frozen.
The part where she prepares readers to make new meals felt like a mess to me, one similar to those food cards ("Deal a Meal!") Weight Watchers participants used to use. 1 fat + 1 fruit + 2 grains, etc. = a meal. She outlines each meal you should eat for 6 weeks, which is just awful because it causes shoppers to buy lots of ingredients in small quantities and is just asking for wasted food leftovers. I prefer to use the Fat Chance Cookbook for meals that are mostly vegetables, are made in large quantities, and can be frozen.
May 11, 2020
Easy to read! Great tips to avoid sugar in your food. Lots of examples, and something to be learned by most. If you are not sure where to start in your diabetic overhaul journey, start with this book. Be familiar with how prevalent sugar is, and what you can do to enjoy your food but still avoid sugar.
February 2, 2015
Unreadable, which is a shame because I totally agree with the premise.
March 10, 2016
Hooray, this one makes sense to me!It expands strategies for weight loss with which I have had limited success in the past, especially a healthy veggie soup as a mainstay. It provides guidelines for meal planning but not specific menus. It has some recipes to teach better ingredient choices.So now the challenge is just to follow it.....
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