Filippa Salomonsson - Sugar Detox: Three Weeks to a Healthier, Happier, More Balanced Life

IVE GONE THROUGH STRETCHES OF TIME WHEN I felt completely helpless in the face of sweets. I relied on sugar for a long time to satisfy my cravings, to cope with stress, and to feel joy and support. However, I never found what I was really looking for in sugar; instead, I uncovered it once sugar disappeared from my life. Thats what it took for me to see the light! I realized Id been using sugar as a tool for avoiding my emotions; it had become a handy crutch for not dealing with situations that required my attention and presence. Today, Im free of sugars stranglehold, and can enjoy treats without an anxiety-ridden debate raging in the back of my mind.

My journey with sugar has taken me far, and its a wonderful feeling! I often wonder what made me put up with my dependency on it, but as I sit here writing this, Ive come to understand why. I had to help myself so that I would be able to help others later on. Today Im a holistic health coach for women of all ages. The word holistic highlights the fact that my take on health comes from a broad perspective. I want to understand and take into consideration all aspects of daily living and their effects on us.

In spite of my earlier reliance on sugar, Ive always had a keen interest in whole foods and health; I became a vegetarian at age fifteen. A few years ago, once Id decided to adopt a completely healthy lifestyle, it wasnt hard to sell my PR firm in Manhattan and come back to Sweden, my accrued knowledge and experience in tow. Long before my return to Stockholm, I had decided that my lifes work was in finding a way back to natural nutrition, both for myself and for others.

But this has not been an easy task, since sugar was my drug of choice. My addiction to the sweet white substance was both conscious and subconscious, and I needed my daily dose to function. I turned to sugar for lots of reasons, and sugar was always at hand.

Sugar was my sneaky accomplicealways good to me, but never good for me. It offered me temporary solace, but I always felt let down afterward. Nevertheless, I held on to my sugar pal for almost eighteen years. Looking back, I sometimes wonder how my body has been affected all the sugar I ingested over what amounts to a total of 6,570 days.