Author name: Connie Bennett

Connie Bennett is a former carbs-addicted journalist, health coach, and bestselling author of I Blew My Diet! Now What?, Sugar Shock, and Beyond Sugar Shock.

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You Keep Asking, “What Do You Eat?” — My Food Diary for You

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Whenever I give a talk or take on a new client, inevitably the same questions pop up over and over again.
People want to know: “Connie, what can I eat?” or “What do you eat?”
In fact, one reviewer even took me to task for not including meal plans and recipes in my first book SUGAR SHOCK!
(FYI, meal plans were originally in my book, but my editor took out the meal plans, because adding them made the book way too long. But, rest assured, meal plans and recipes will be included in my next book, The White-Out Diet.)
Anyhow, to answer this Frequently Asked Question from you health seekers out there, I’m going to share with you for a while exactly what foods and drinks go into my mouth.
My goal here is to help you learn that eating a sugar-free way is fun, exciting and tasty.

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Weight Loss: Would You Like Your Annoying Excess Pounds to Disappear Faster? Keep a Food Journal

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Naturally, we’re all impatient to have those excess pounds quickly peel right off of us, right?
If you’re among the 66 percent of Americans who are overweight or obese, it can be especially frustrating when those extra pounds ever-so-slowly creep away, rather than speedily disappear.
Annoying, isn’t it, when you want a hot Hollywood beach body in time for summer?
Even worse, isn’t it especially irksome and perplexing when you’re doing everything right and yet you stay at the same darn weight no matter how well you eat and how much you exercise?
Wouldn’t it be cool if you knew one very simple trick — other than cutting back on sugar and refined carbs — to accelerate weight loss?
It’s simple: Keep a food journal!
In other words, watch yourself like a lab rat and track every single morsel that goes into your mouth.
Remember, that includes monitoring all drinks you mindlessly gulp and guzzle, too. (So you’ll be writing about that glass of wine or small glass of soda that you absolutely “need” when you’re wiped out at the end of a long day.)
But here’s the good news! If you track everything that goes into your mouth, you can have double the weight loss of your friends and family members who don’t write down their food intake. Cool, eh?

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Tired of Kicking Sugar Alone? Bring Me to Your Area to Speak or Coach You

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Often, people complain to me that they don’t want to do kick sugar alone. They hate being surrounded by sweets wherever they go and people — especially good-intentioned loved ones — not understanding what they’re going through.
I’m here for you. Did you know that I’m available to speak to your group or company?
Bring me to your area to educate, inspire and motivate your group. I’m available to speak at everything from your small gatherings to corporate conferences.
I also can offer private coaching while I’m in your community.
If you’d like to book me, click here and/or call for availability. (866) KICK-SUGAR or (866) 542-5784)

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Feel Special & Enrich Your Life With True Love – Guest Blog Post

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You can enrich and energize your life with true love rather than sugar.
You can feel so rewarded and fulfilled in a marriage or committed relationship that those quickie carbs completely lose their allure.
With proactive techniques that you’ll learn here, love can fill you up, not an empty, tragic sugar addiction that you need to frequently re-fuel with empty-calorie, health-harming carbs.
Today’s special blog post is for single ladies (never-married, divorced or widowed) — or even unsatisfied married women — who long for fulfilling, amazing true love with a remarkable, adoring man.
The author of this post is the charming, long-married, personable psychologist Dr. Diana Kirschner, the bestselling author of Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love.
Dr. Diana, who gave you many helpful tips on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show last Tuesday, reminisces here about her early days as a child when her mom used sugar as love. Then, she offers you tangible guidelines to find and keep true love. (She wrote this post especially to help you, because we ran into each other and became friends this past weekend at a wonderful Book Publishing 2.0.program.
This is a rare treat to get a special Sugar Shock Blog post from Dr. Diana, who is a media darling. The friendly therapist/bestselling author has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show and recently The Mike and Juliet Show, where she ran a 90-day Love Challenge. (Sure enough, Amelia, the love mentee, did find someone.) So here’s Dr. Diana’s post:
Feel Special & Enrich Your Life with Fulfilling, Nurturing True Love — Not Unfulfilling, Unsatisfying Sugar by Dr. Diana Kirschner, the bestselling author of Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love.
When I was a child, my mother often showed her love by secreting me away from my other siblings and sharing a cookie, a piece of cake or candy just with me. In fact, she stressed that she was sharing it with me because I was so special. I certainly felt special—even though the sugary love drug usually made me sick to my stomach. (Ring a bell?)

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Bloggers: Learn How to Nab Eyeballs & Peacefully Win the “War” from a Pro, the “Copyblogger”

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If you’re a fellow blogger, you always yearn for more traffic, right?
To garner more fans and followers, I heartily urge you to read this fabulous post from Copyblogger, “Your Blog vs. The World: 7 Steps to Winning the War for Attention.”
Blogger Jonathan Morrow eloquently presents the plight facing us bloggers.
We’re waging four battles at once, including “against anything that distracts your reader from making it all the way through your content,” Jonathan explains.
“Here, you’re at war against the world. You’re up against the child that knocked over her apple juice onto the rug, the dog barking to go outside, the phone ringing at work, and the e-mail that just arrived in their inbox.”
Read the Copyblogger’s thoughtful eight-pronged solution so you can win the blogging battle and get your posts read from start to finish.
This post sure provoked me to thought — and to action. For instance, I need to think about a strategic content plan. Dear readers, let’s hope it does the same with you!
Did you like this post? If so, please spread the word.

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Cookies Abounded at a Conference, But I Passed Them Up. What Could You Do to Resist?

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Today, I was at an authors’ conference all day long, and junk food abounded. In fact, as the day
progressed, the sugary snacks came out more often!
It never fails to amaze me how events that are supposed to help authors or entrepreneurs serve such
incredibly low-caliber snacks that actually diminish your brain capacity. (And we were supposed
to think bigtime about our books, our audiences and even our blog readers — that means you!)
So how did I resist all those cookies that conspired to land in my stomach?
First of all, these days, resisting sweets is a really simple, happy habit that I now have. I’m so used to a healthy lifestyle that having sweets just isn’t even an option. And, much to many people’s amazement, it does not bother me that I have to turn the stuff down.

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Sugar Addict? Long Island Residents, Come Hear Me Live

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Do you live near Huntington, Long Island? If so, come catch me at 3 p.m. EST tomorrow, when I’ll speak at the Navel Exp at the Huntington Hilton.
If your sugar habit is getting you down, you’ll get motivated and charged up after hearing me speak! You better! (I’m so confident that you’ll be motivated to kick sweets after attending my talk that if I’m wrong, I’ll personally give you a copy of my book SUGAR SHOCK! as my gift to you.)
Listen to my talk and then stick around to get the keynote address by Carol Alt.
For more info go to www.navelexpo.com
By the way, if you want to help me out, please let me know ASAP.

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