Meet Connie: My Story

If you’ve ever felt like a prisoner to sweets or processed carbs, you’ll relate to my tale.

My health journey began more than a decade ago when I was a huge sugar addict, carb junkie, night owl and frazzled, overworked journalist. Not only that, but I was walloped by 44 baffling ailments, including scary heart palpitations, crushing fatigue, unpredictable mood swings, ferocious headaches, severe PMS, embarrassing sobbing spells; monstrous sugar and carb cravings, unsettling depression, and more.

Feeling so horrible led me to several doctors’ offices until I got the answer I was seeking.

“You have severe reactive hypoglycemia,” my doctor told me.

“All you need to do is  to quit eating sugar and processed carbohydrates. Otherwise, you’ll die young.”

Shocked by the simple “solution,” I was intrigued. Since I was desperate to feel better, I gave up my favorite, sugary and processed “treats.” With weeks, ALL 44 symptoms vanished. Woo Hoo! I felt delighted, excited and energized.

I also became intrigued. Almost overnight, I became driven to discover The Sour Scoop about Sweets. At the same time, since kicking sugar wasn’t always easy, I began to began to find and create easy, powerful, research-backed tools to quit the sweet, dangerous stuff.

Impressed by my sugar-free energy, excitement and joy, people soon began ask me my Secrets to Let Sugar Go. That led to  my coaching, guiding, and inspiring thousands of people worldwide and becoming recognized as The Sweet Freedom Coach™. 

In late 2006, my first book, Sugar Shock: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life–And How You Can Get Back on Track, was published (Berkley Books), and it quickly became a bestseller.

Thankfully, many world-renowned experts praised it, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Mark Hyman, JJ Virgin, and actress/author Marilu Henner. Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra was contributing author, and Dr. Nicholas Perricone wrote the foreword.

Then, in 2012, after a decade-plus of helping sugar addicts and hosting The Sugar Freedom Course, my second book, Beyond Sugar Shock: The 6-Week Plan to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction & Get Slimmer, Sexier & Sweeter (Hay House), quickly became an international bestseller.

I was thrilled when it was endorsed by Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Daniel Amen, Bernie Siegel and many other health and empowerment heroes.

But in late 2012, after years of walking my Clean Carbs Talk, I had a massive Carb Relapse. The trigger?

 

I endured a grueling, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching year standing by my angry terminally ill mother. After moving across country for her, I was on hand while she died. 

 

After I lost my Mom, while grieving, I was also bombarded by persistent stress and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome), the results of her (inadvertent but massive) abuse and betrayal.

 

For months after that heartbreaking time — while struggling with depression, anger, confusion, jumpiness, nightmares, insomnia and brain fog — I was attacked by Crazy Cravings, as I call them.

 

Those Crazy Cravings “made me” pig out on on processed carbs (not sugar) for months and gain 21 pounds.

 

I was ashamed.

Eventually, after many grief support groups, lots of therapy, healing workshops, and lots of writing, it hit me that I could put my Crazy Carb Cravings to good use.

 

I then turned my cravings into my teachers.

 

Fast forward six years.  After shedding the excess weight and recovering from other scary health issues, I’ve now emerged stronger, slimmer and determined to help you if you, too, blew your diet and caved into your overpowering cravings for unhealthy junk foods filled with sugar, carbs, fat or salt.

 

My goal is to make it super-simple for you to Rebound After Relapse, as I call it.

 

To that end, I’ve found or developed many ways to help you Crush Your Cravings.

 

Now, I’m here to inspire, motivate and encourage you with motivating blog posts, Shareable Images or Cartoons here on my blog, and inspiring weekly or bi-weekly emails. Just subscribe here.

As The Rebound Ninja™, I’m planning lots of exciting things to help you, too, Rebound After Relapse.

For instance:

• I’m completing my next book, I blew my diet! Now what? The Simple 30-Day Plan to Crush Your Cravings, Rebound After Relapse and Lose Weight for Good (September 15, 2020).
  
• I’m developing my fun, life-changing, empowering Crush Your Cravings Bootcamp. (Stay tuned, because soon I’ll launch the course.)
• I’m now doing private Rebound Coaching. (Limited to 10 people at any time.) 
• I’m relaunching my Gab with the Gurus Podcast in October.
• Soon, I’ll also be starting another podcast, too. (Details coming soon.)
• If you want help now, I’ve created a free download to help you if you’ve blown your diet. Go here to get 3 Super-Simple Secrets to Crush Your Cravings.

As for my background, I’m an experienced journalist and essayist, who has contributed to or been written about by many websites and publications such as AOL News, HealYourLife, eDiets.com and The Chicago Tribune. I’ve also appeared on many TV and radio programs, including CBS News Sunday Morning,” “Oprah & Friends Radio,” and “The Howard Stern Show.”

In addition, since I’m committed to coaching people to Sweet Freedom, I trained to be a life coach with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), a certified health coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), and I’m now completing tapping (EFT) training through the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP).

Now, let’s keep in touch so I can help you. I invite you to:

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