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Last month I committed to a Two Week Sugar Challenge.  I cut all white sugar and desserts out during that time.  It wasn't a diet really, but rather a challenge - a chance to challenge an old habit and learn a little something in the process.  This challenge was inspired by two observations I had made previously:
1. I feel kind of cruddy when I eat sugar in quantity. Read more

We tell folks who come to us desperate to lose weight, that the thought that you will be happy once you lose weight, it’s simply not true.  I was the most anxious and discouraged when I was at my lightest in my early 20s than at any other time in my life.  I was not “naturally” skinny then, I gave nearly every ounce of myself to that very cause in fact.   Read more

Yiska and I both have a background in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, and sometimes a gem from that perspective is worth sharing here.  Since our focus during these two weeks is on eliminating sweets (2 Week Sugar Challenge), it’s a great time to look at sugar from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  Ther Read more

I stopped “dieting” a while back.  It has been almost 5 years since I have uttered the words, “I am starting a new diet on Monday.”  My husband was so sick of hearing it, but that’s not why I quit dieting.  I quit because it was getting the best of me; it was never really a positive experience the process never went so good.  So I stopped.  Read more

It’s day 5 of the 2 Week Sugar Challenge.  Which means…it’s no longer novel and exciting.  Last night, it was even hard.  It felt hard to make a decision to not eat dessert.  I felt sorry for myself as my husband ate his Ben and Jerry’s.   Read more

Since beginning this 2 Week Sugar Challenge we have gotten oodles of questions about white sugar vs. pure cane sugar, stevia vs. Read more

Folks who know about the 2 Week Sugar Challenge (see previous post), have been asking, “Are you cutting out refined sugars? All sugars? Is this like South Beach? Read more