I Quit Sugar: Your Complete 8-Week Detox Program and Cookbook

382 Pages·2014·18.84 MB·English

by  Sarah Wilson

The information and advice presented in this book are not meant to
substitute for the advice of medical professionals. You are advised to
consult with your physicians regarding your family’s nutrition, health
and well-being.
Copyright © 2013 by Sarah Wilson
Photographs copyright © 2013 by Marija Ivkovic
Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Kat Chadwick
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an
imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House
LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
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CLARKSON POTTER is a trademark and POTTER with a colophon is a
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Originally published in slightly different form by Macmillan Australia
Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon
request.
ISBN 978-0-8041-8601-8
eBook ISBN 978-0-80418602-5
Book design by Trisha Garner
Cover photographs by Marija Ivkovic
Additional photographs by Sarah Wilson; image on this page
supplied by Aquabumps
Styling by Lee Blaylock and Sarah Wilson
Food preparation by Rachel Lane, Rochelle Seator and Rachelle
Davey
First American Edition
v3.1

A quick foreword
Introduction
My story: Why I had to quit
Are you ready to quit?
THE 8-WEEK PROGRAM
Week 1: Start to cut back
Week 2: Operation eat fat
Week 3: Quit!
Week 4: Face the demons
Week 5: Get creative, experiment … and detox
Week 6: Add some sweetness back in
Week 7: Recovering from lapses
Week 8: Refining and moving forward
GETTING EQUIPPED
RECIPES
Breakfast
Smoothies & drinks
Healthy detox meals
Savory snacks
Sugar-free kids
Sweet treats
Desserts
THE BITS AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK
The Shopping List
Resources
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Dan Buettner and I chewing fat over sugar and longevity
in Greece recently.
by Dan Buettner
National Geographic Fellow and New York Times best-selling author
of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People
Who’ve Lived the Longest
What should you eat? I just Googled “diet” and was presented with
656 million results. WebMD scientifically reviews 94 diets—everything
from the “Atkins Diet” to the “Zone Diet”; from the “Gene Smart Diet”
to the “Cookie Diet.” Here’s the bottom line: None of them work!
Sure, any one of them will help you lose weight for a few weeks or a
few months. But we humans are hardwired for variety and pretty
soon, no matter how seemingly fantabulous a new diet may seem,
we’re going to get bored with it and stray. I defy anyone to tell me
about a diet that has worked for more than two years.
I’ve spent over a decade studying what centenarians eat to be 100
and I can tell you a few things for sure. First is that evolution
provides important cues for helping us decide what to eat. Think
about what your grandparents ate, the quantity, the level of
processing, the freshness, and you can get a pretty good idea of
what humans have been eating for the past few centuries. Second,
we all need to experiment and find out what works for our lifestyle
and our particular body chemistry. I believe that vegetables are good
for you, but if I eat eggplant—and I don’t know why eggplant—the
roof of my mouth swells like a sea anemone. Third, if we eat what we
like, we’re going to probably eat it for long enough to make a real
difference in our health—for better or for worse.
Which is why I like Sarah Wilson’s approach to eating, and