About Connie

Have you ever felt like you’re hooked on sweets or processed carbs? If so, you’ll relate to my tale. More than a decade ago, I was an often-stressed out, deadlines-driven, overworked journalist, who often relied on ultra-processed candies, chips, and crackers to give me a buzz to meet my many article deadlines. At the time, I was walloped by a whopping 44 baffling ailments, including scary heart palpitations, crushing fatigue, and ferocious headaches.

Finally, I found a smart physician, who diagnosed severe reactive hypoglycemia. “Quit eating sugar and processed carbohydrates, and your ailments will go away.” Admittedly, I was reluctant to follow this repugnant advice. But I longed to feel better. Within days of following his advice, all my symptoms vanished! Suffice it to say that I was excited, energized, and intrigued.

When I felt so much better simply by cutting out sweets and crappy carbs, I became driven to discover why. My fascination led to my first book, Sugar Shock! How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life–And How You Can Get Back on Track (Berkley Books). It quickly became a bestseller and was endorsed by a who’s who of health experts.

Soon, readers and fans began to repeatedly quiz me about my secrets to let sugar go. That led to my coaching, inspiring and guiding people worldwide, becoming a health coach (thanks to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition) and a life coach (with guidance from iPEC), sugar addicts worldwide with my Sugar Freedom Course, and writing a second book, Beyond Sugar Shock: The 6-Week Plan to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction & Get Slimmer, Sexier & Sweeter (Hay House), which also became an international bestseller and was endorsed by many experts.

But while finishing Beyond Sugar Shock, my mother became terminally ill, I quickly moved across country to be with her, and went through a grueling, heartbreaking year standing by my difficult, dying Mom. After my beloved Mom passed away, I became a shell of my former self, was accosted by symptoms of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome), and was suddenly attacked by Crazy Carb Cravings, as I now call them. Frankly, I’d never experienced anything like it. Suddenly, after more than a decade of eating cleanly, I blew my diet often, stuffed my face with mounds of greasy movie popcorn and other fattening, ultra-processed carbs (but not sugar). Small surprise: I quickly gained 21 pounds. I felt utterly ashamed, because I’m a health expert who knows better!
 
Finally, one day, I angrily decided to take back my power. I became driven to discover why I blew my diet big time. For the next seven-plus years, I dove into the research to discover why millions of us worldwide eat so badly, when junk foods most call out to us, and what fast, easy, science-based tools can help you take back our power. That is what you’ll find in my new book, I Blew My Diet! Now What?
 
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