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Your Body Speaks: The Sugar Addict's Food Diary

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This food diary is designed for anyone working the seven steps towards radiance (i.e. living a sugar-free life). It is full of inspiring quotes, helpful lists, and lots of room to track all of your food, water, and exercise.

The most important part of this is tracking what you eat and how you feel (physically and emotionally). If that's what you're looking for, this is excellent, if not then this might not be for you.

It works wonderfully for me (i've already used up 2) and I'm sure I will continue to use them for a long time.

If you are unfamiliar with Kathleen Desmaisons work, I recommend the Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Guide before starting this food journal.

Before starting Kathleen DesMaisons food plan I was depressed and withdrawn. But once I got the hang of her seven step program I found myself a happier more social person. This food journal is part of the process Dr.DesMaisons lays out and has helped me immeasurably in keeping track of what I eat and how I feel. Part of her program is geared toward encouraging people to connect what they eat with how they feel. This journal is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to make that connection and start feeling better about themselves. I highly recommend purchasing this book.

I tried Kathleen Des Maison's diet for months last year after reading her 3 books first. I did not lose any weight and it did not help with my insomnia at all.
Moreover I was pretty frustrated with her website. They claim that you get support when you write to them, but whenever I sent them an e-mail with 5 questions, they answered one or two of my questions the most. I had to write back with my 3 unanswered questions and got maybe one more question answered and so on and so on :). Get it?

Update: in the meantime we found a much much better diet which is giving the body enough nutrients AND make you lose a lot of weight without the usual hunger feelings/cravings. Check out Joe Cross' documentary "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead". I know, the title does not sound very appealing, but the documentary is great (you can watch it for $4 on amazon Instant) and there is a free website (Reboot) where you find all the recipes. Joe Cross did this diet under the supervision of Dr. Joel Fuhrman and a nutritionist. So this is NOT some questionable, odd miracle diet.

We did juice fast for 16 days in August/September, I finally got rid of my frequent headaches and we both got rid of our insomnia AND lost more weight with the Reboot juice fast than with any other diet before plus we were never hungry once we overcame the first two days.
This is the one diet that actually works!

One more fact that I found out about years ago when I learned how to do fasting the proper way: obese people have enough protein stored in their body to live with little protein for up to 90 days without causing any damage to their heart as long as they take in 400 mg of magnesium per day and drink at least 2 to 2 1/2 liters of water per day (for people with heart problems that's not possible as they should not drink too much). And I agree that 1/2 gram of protein per pound of body weight is way too much, especially for anybody who is overweight. Ask your primary care physician.

Joe Cross was taking in about 30 grams of protein per day while he did his juice fast for 60 days. Then he continued to live mostly on fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds (eating, not fasting).
I made much better experiences with writing to the Reboot website and getting clear answers to ALL my questions, not just one or two.