Sober... and Staying That Way: The Missing Link in the Cure for Alcoholism

by Susan Powter

Stop the Insanity!, Susan Powter's first bestselling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet-and-fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, is Sober...and Staying That Way, Susan once again shares a practical and proven the missing link in the treatment for alcoholism. This book isn't written just for alcoholics. It is written for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all. Alcoholism is the number-one killer of young adults in the United States, and the third-largest killer in our country. If you are interested in the missing link, you * Make the alcoholism-and-disease connection* Understand the biochemistry of alcoholics* Make the political, profit, and powerful lobby connections to you and your sobriety* Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs You will be able * Heal the damage that's been done* Support the biochemical environment for sobriety* Balance your glucose-deprived brain Sober...and Staying That Way will show you how to get away forever from the shame-based sobriety programs, and how to work toward integrating nearly four decades of well-established research with information that is now available to you and to those you love for the treatment of the disease of alcoholism.

Genres: Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Susan Powter is a motivational speaker, dietitian, personal trainer, & author. She is an advocate of 'whole real foods'. She sets herself apart from others in her industry for many reasons - but mainly because she condemns the diet industry.

Reviews

[Heather Sneed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned so much from this book that I never knew and I am in the medical field. It helped me understand the reactions from a loved one and now I can deal with my own feelings as I help him.

[Budge Burgess · Rating 1 out of 5]

Utter trash. I spent many years working with people who had varied problems exaccerbated by their use of alcohol and/or drugs, I've undertaken years of academic research, I've been involved in small scale and major field studies, I've read sophisticated, informed and intelligent analyses of drug and alcohol abuse ... and I've also had to read a lot of books like this trash.
Alcoholism is not a disease, get that straight for a start (read "Problem Drinking" by Heather & Robertson, an excellent, readable account which dismantles the disease model)!
The author, here, comes across as a shouty, loud mouth who wants to be the centre of attention. There is not one shred of reasoned, scientific argument she is able to present. The book simply shouts ME, ME, ME. It is appallingly written, it's disjointed, her arguments are shambolic, it does really advertise her need for attention rather than any rational, coherently argued analysis of the problems people experience in drinking. It's simply ME, ME, ME - shout, shout, shout.
Her 'cure' - follow a diet ... fortunately she can sell you nutritional advice. Now there's a surprise.
Dire. Frankly, if I was ever going to advocate the burning of books, it would be for stuff like this.

[Paula Dembeck · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the lady who became a fitness guru and later an alcoholic.
She is hyper, aggressive and always seems to be yelling.
Her mantra is that you can’t stay sober without proper nutrition, as it creates a physiological state which makes you drink again. Wow!!

Terrible writing

[Gato Negro · Rating 1 out of 5]

Susan Powter's writing is what I'd call jumpy, disjointed, and in the style of 'stream of consciousness', which I don't like unless it's exceptionally well done (and this is not.) It's hard to appreciate the content when the writing style overshadows the content in a distracting fashion.

[Karen Flatley · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know why but it bugs me when she keeps saying "I'm alcoholic.". What ever happened to the word "an"? As soon as she mentioned epileptics as being more worthy as a disease than her I was done.