Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
Back Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to The New Edition
The Science
The Experience
Chapter 1: Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sugar Sensitivity
Naming the Problem
“Don’t Tell, Don’t Feel, Don’t Share”
Turning to Sugar for Solace
Lessons from the “Drunks”
Discovering Food as Pharmacy
Finding Out Why It Worked
Chapter 2: Are You Sugar Sensitive?
Diagnosing Sugar Sensitivity
Can You Be Addicted to Sugar?
Chapter 3: It’s Not Your Fault
The Level of Sugar in Your Blood
Brain Chemicals: Serotonin
Brain Chemicals: Beta-Endorphin
A Delicate Balance
Chapter 4: The Ups and Downs of Blood Sugar
How Normal Blood Sugar Works
The Impact of Sugar Sensitivity
Adrenal Fatigue
Chapter 5: Brain Chemistry 101
Neurotransmitters: Messengers of the Brain
Cleaning Up and Regulating the System
Downregulation
Upregulation
Withdrawal
Serotonin
How Antidepressants Work
Beta-Endorphin
Sugar and the Beta-endorphin Response
Sugar and Isolation Distress
Sugar and Learned Helplessness
Why not Sugar?
Cravings and Relapse
The Sugar-Sensitive Dilemma
Balance Once Again
Chapter 6: The First Step: Getting Started
Don’t Use the D-Word
Take it One Step At a Time
The Seven Steps to Feeling Great
Step I: Eat Breakfast With Protein Every Day
Part I: Have the Right Amount of Protein
Part 2: Eat Within an Hour of Waking Up
Part 3: Have a Complex Carb with Your Meal
Part 4: Do It Every Day
Chapter 7: The Second Step: Keeping a Food Journal
Starting Your First Food Journal
What to do if You Don’t Know How You Feel
Learning to Read Your Body
Chapter 8: The Third Step: Three Meals a Day
Adequate Protein at Each Meal
Foods With Protein
A Protein That Raises Serotonin
What About Cholesterol?
Just Do Three Things
Chapter 9: The Fourth Step: Increasing Your Serotonin Naturally
Vitamins to Ready You for Detox
Finally the Potato
Giving Tryptophan a Helping Hand
Chapter 10: The Fifth Step: Going From White to Brown
The Carbohydrate Continuum
Alcohol
Simple Sugars
“White Things”
“Brown Things”
“Green Things”
More About Fruit
Shifting Your Place on the Continuum
Chapter 11: The Sixth Step: Dealing With Sugars
Reducing Or Eliminating Sugars
On The Trail of Secret Sugars
Take It Easy
The Next Step
Going Off Sugars
Planning Your Sugar Detox
Doing It
Chapter 12: The Seventh Step: Coming Alive
Chapter 13: Living Your Radiant Recovery
Activities to Support Your Radiant Recovery
Chapter 14: Safeguarding Your Progress
Stopping the Journal
Holding It
Continue Your Food Journal No Matter What
Maintain Your Blood Sugar Level
Enhance Your Serotonin Level
Enhance Your Beta-endorphin Level
Enhance Your Dopamine Level
Discerning Food Issues From Life Issues
There’s no Such Thing as Perfection
Appendix
Detoxification From Alcohol
Glossary
Bibliography
Resources
Website
Newsletter
George’s® Shake
Motivational Tools
Books
Audio
Support Groups
Weight Loss
Seminars
Online Classes
Consulting with Kathleen
Radiant Recovery® Store
Index
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →