Cherie Calbom - The Juice Ladys Sugar Knockout: Detox to Lose Weight, Kill Cravings, and Prevent Disease

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THE JUICE LADYS SUGAR KNOCKOUT by Cherie Calbom

Published by Siloam

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Copyright 2016 by Cherie Calbom

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Cover design by Justin Evans

Visit the authors website at www.juiceladycherie.com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Calbom, Cherie, author.
Title: The juice lady's sugar knockout / Cherie Calbom.
Description: Lake Mary, Florida : Siloam, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2015046587| ISBN 9781629987224 (paperback) | ISBN 9781629987231 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Vegetable juices--Therapeutic use. | Sugar-free diet. | Sugar-free diet--Recipes. | Self-care, Health.
Classification: LCC RM255 .C358 2016 | DDC 641.5/63837--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046587

CONTENTS

H AVE YOU BEEN thinking you need to do something about your sweet tooth and those fattening little calories that catch you off guard? Maybe youre just wanting to make a few changes when it comes to sugar. Perhaps you know you have a full-blown addiction to sweets, or maybe you are not convinced you need to make any changes at all.

Wherever you are on the spectrum, I hope my book compels you to get rid of sugar for good. I know that may sound scary, that you might never be able to enjoy a sweet treat again, but dont worry. You will still have plenty of options for sweets that are healthier for you. I have a whole dessert chapter made with healthy sweeteners.

The heart of the matter is that sugar is in almost all packaged foods today, and its killing us slowly, while addicting us and causing us to want more and more. It did that to me. Sugar ruined my health and nearly destroyed my life. I believe it was a big part of killing my mother with cancer early in life. She loved sweets and didnt like vegetables; cancer cells use sugar for fuel (glycolytic fermentation). Ill tell you more about that later. Right now, I want you to know that science supports what I say and what I experienced.

The Journal of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (2008) looked at sugar and how addictive it can be. This research involved rats because they can become addicted to abusive drugs in a similar manner to human beings. This study indicated that in certain circumstances, access to sugar can lead to behavioral and neurochemical changes that resemble the effects of substance abuse. And listen up! This is the same area of the brain that drugs like nicotine and cocaine stimulate.

Not everyone is addicted to sugar, but almost everyone eats too much of this stuff because food manufacturers put it in nearly everything. Weve gotten used to a sweeter taste, so food producers are even putting sweetener in many food products that formerly never contained sweetener, like lunch meats and almond butter. Certain people have a predisposition to sugar stimulation; it can cause a full-blown addiction in these individuals. They develop overwhelming cravings. Even in the face of negative physical consequences, such as weight gain, diabetes, or hypoglycemia, they are unable to quit or even reduce their intake. They are sugar addicts.

But heres the good news: Sugar addiction can be beaten. I overcame a powerful sugar addition, and you can too. You must want this sincerely. You must work at it fervently. If you are addicted, you can be free of sugars lure. Thats what this book is all abouthelping you knock sugar out of your life. You can overcome the power of this reward-seeking behavior and not want sugar ever again. Let me tell you my story.

My Bout With Sugar Addiction

I was totally addicted to sugar as a child. It is said that on an emotional level a craving for sweets can be prompted by the need to bring more sweetness into ones life. That was true for me, having lost my mother at age six to breast cancer. But there was something else going on as well. I was addicted to the chemistry of sugar. It engaged the pleasure center of my brain, and there were times when I just couldnt stop eating it.

I remember one day after a wedding at the church where my aunt and uncle pastored that I pulled the cake box out of the garbage and polished off all the leftover cake and frosting. I was only fifteen, but even then I knew something was really wrong.

Throughout my whole childhood, I was nearly always sick with colds or the flu. I rarely remember feeling great, and sometimes I felt worse than others. I have many memories of eating sweets, such as ice cream shakes my dad made with old-fashioned malted milk, cinnamon rolls my grandmother baked with love and oodles of frosting, and loads of candy, cookies, cakes, and anything else sweet I could find. Id eat sweets until I felt as if I were nearly in a trance. Once I started, I couldnt stop until the carton, bag, batch, or whatever I had was gone.

I remember being foggy-brained even as a child. In high school, one of my teachers called me his favorite roller coaster student because my grades were up and down, my brain on and off, depending probably on how much sugar Id eaten and how much it had spaced out my mind.

I struggled on through my twenties until I got so sick I could no longer work. I had to quit my job as I turned thirty. And it was a fun job. I worked for Pat Boone in Hollywood and was having a gee-Im-not-in-Kansas-anymore kind of time, meeting many interesting people like Kathie Lee Gifford (she wasnt Gifford then). In fact we had a double date to the first Star Wars movie. But right in the middle of an interesting life, I developed a severe case of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia that made me so sick I couldnt work any longer. I felt as though I had a never-ending flu. I was lethargic and constantly feverish with swollen glands. I was in nonstop pain. My body ached all over.

I had to move back to my fathers home in Colorado to try to recover. But recovery didnt come with a prescription pad. Not one doctor could tell me what I should do to improve my health. One said I might be depressed. No, I had been having the time of my life until I got sick. I realized I needed to do my own research and decided that everything I had been eating was tearing down my health rather than healing my body. I didnt like vegetables. I loved junk food, fast food, and, of course, sweets. Because of my research, I started to call sugar demon sugar, and out it went from my life.

When I read about juicing and whole foods, it made sense. So I bought a juicer and designed a program I could follow. I began my health regimen with a five-day vegetable juice fast. Then I continued juicing and eating whole foods for three months. I cut out all sweets. I ate strictly, never cheating once. I was so desperate to win this fight for my health.

One morning I woke up around 8:00 a.m., which was early for me then, without an alarm sounding off. I felt as if someone had given me a new body in the night. I had so much energy that I actually wanted to exercise. What had happened? This new feeling of good health and vitality had just appeared with the morning sun. But my body had been healing all along; it just had not manifested fully until that day. I felt such a wonderful sense of being alive! I looked and felt completely renewed.