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Sugar & Carb Addicts: What do You Need & Want?

Are you overly attached to sugar, desserts and simple carbs?
If so, please tell me what you need and want in the way of help so that you can easily release your sugar or carb habit.
You see, I’m currently working on my next book, Beyond Sugar Shock for Hay House, and I’d like to know what would help you.
As you may already know — I hope you do since you’re here — my first book is Sugar Shock, which provides an expose about sugar’s dangers.
Please share your questions here so I can better help you.
By the way, I also run a companion Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program, which is delivered using a variety of technologies, including:
* Dozens of emails;
* Six teleseminars/webinars;
* Short audio messages for all 42 days of the program (plus more);
* Weveral bonus audio replays featuring interviews with top experts in mindful eating, meditation, fitness, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and stress management;
* Access to a private membership website full of content; and
* Live, weekly half-hour Laser Liberation Coaching.
The next Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program begins again Sept. 14. To join us, please visit www.BreakFreeWithConnie.com
I look forward to your input. What will help you to let go of your sugar or carb addiction?

Recipe: IIN Winner Frank Giglio’s Seared Scallops with Cucumber Salad

The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the wonderful school I attended in 2005-2006, recently held a “What’s on Your Plate?” contest.
Here’s the yummy recipe winner from chef Frank Giglio. Thanks, IIN and Frank, for sharing this with us!
Seared Scallops with Cucumber Salad
Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons coconut oil
4-8 Large scallops (U-10)
A sprinkle of Frank’s Finest Lemon-Pepper Blend
1 large English cucumber
2 Tablespoons thinly sliced red onion
1 cup snap peas, cut into 3rds
1/4 cup fresh dill, roughly chopped
2-3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1-2 Tablespoons olive oil
Sea salt to taste
Freshly cracked black peppercorns
1/2 lemon for drizzling
1 green onion, tops sliced thin
Directions:
With a Japanese mandolin or sharp knife, thinly slice the cucumber. Place into a large bowl, mix in the snap peas, onions, and dill. Drizzle in the olive oil and vinegar, then season with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper. Toss well and allow flavors to meld.
Place the scallops on a dish and season with Lemon-Pepper blend
Heat a large heavy bottom skillet over medium-high heat. Melt the coconut oil and when a light amount of smoke is visual, add the scallops. Cook on one side until well browned, then flip each scallop, turn off the heat and allow to rest in the pan for 1-2 minutes before removing.
Place a small amount of cucumber salad onto 2 plates. Place 4 scallops around each salad. Drizzle the plate with lemon juice and sliced green onions. Serve and enjoy!
Frank Giglio is the owner of Frank’s Finest. He is also the Executive Chef and Contributing Editor to The Best Day Ever. Learn more about Frank at www.FrankGiglio.com.
If you have an interest in nutrition, I highly recommend that you contact the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Learn more information at www.IntegrativeNutrition.com. Or you can call IIN with questions. From the US, use this number: (877) 730-5444, and International callers can use this number +1 (212) 257-6171. You can also set up an appointment to talk to an admissions advisor. Please make sure to say that Connie Bennett referred you. (I’m a big believer in being “as transparent as an ocean breeze,” as marketer Alex Mandossian calls it, so let me reveal that, yes, if you sign up, I would get a referral fee. However, the only reason I’m recommending the school is because the training you get from IIN is an amazing, one-of-a-kind experience. So I encourage you to contact IIN now.

Why Bother to Kick Sugar? Listen to Successful Sugar Kickers Now

Will I get along better with my loved ones?
Back in 1998, I remember well being very hesitant to quit, too. I didn’t want to!
Now, my coaching clients and members of my Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program always quiz me to find out if the benefits are big enough to warrant stopping eating all those tasty sweet foods.
Do don’t take my word for it. Just listen to what Successful Sugar Kickers said about kicking sugar.
Please note that these people’s comments were unrehearsed.
I did not prod them into making certain answers.
But you’ll be surprised, I predict, at how excited and wildly enthusiastic they were to now live a sugar-free lifestyle.
You’ll be shocked, I imagine, at how they felt that they had been reborn and how life post-sugar became much happier and healthier for them.
Listen now as my gift to several people tell their stories. (You get to hear my tale, too.)
Listen now by clicking this link.
And, if you, too, become a success story, make sure to contact me, because I want to tell your story, too, to inspire others.
Get inspired and motivated now. Just listen here.
If you’d like help to release your sugar habit, I invite you to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks. You’re welcome to join my program now. Programs are held live several times throughout the year, but you can join at any time and listen to the audio replays.

Michelle Obama Gets Food Companies to Act

Thank to Michelle Obama’s crusade to combat children’s obesity, major food companies such as PepsiCo and Kraft Foods are changing their products.
She is, in fact, “defining defining her role as first lady by taking on the $600 billion food and beverage industries in a quest to end childhood obesity within a generation,” observes Kate Andersen Brower of Bloomberg Business Week, in an artticle entitled, “Michelle Obama’s ‘Spotlight’ on Obesity Enlists Kraft, PepsiCo.”
“Her lobbying of companies to make products healthier, labels easier to read and limit marketing of unhealthy foods to kids is paying off,” Brower observes.
A month after she began her campaign, “PepsiCo Inc., the world’s second-largest food and beverage company, pledged to stop selling full-sugar soft drinks in schools by 2012.” In addition, Kraft Foods Inc., the maker of Oreo cookies and Oscar Mayer lunch meats, jumped on board, announcing that it would further reduce the sodium content of its products..
Reporter Brower points out that the first lady’s efforts are part of a “movement to recast what the food industry is selling,” according to David Kessler, who was Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 1990 to 1997. “She puts the spotlight on the issue like few others can,” Kessler told Brower.
The American Beverage Association — which represents soda companies — has now joined Michelle Obama’s effort by running a national ad, which claims that the industry is committed to reducing beverage calories in schools by 88 percent.
Things started happening after a well-publicized meeting in Washington on March 16 when the first lady addressed members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents major food companies such as Kraft and PepsiCo. At that GMA meeting, Obama urged the companies to reduce sugar, fat and salt in their products and “to move faster and to go farther” to make them healthier.
The first lady has “accelerated our focus,” Kraft’s president of health and wellness, Rhonda Jordan, told the Bloomberg Business Week reporter Brower, who then quotes Patrick Basham, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based research group that promotes libertarian policies.
Basham believes that the first lady’s anti-obesity efforts are “in sync with public skepticism about `the motives of big business’ in the wake of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression.” He also believes that the recent moves by the companies may be an effort to prevent government crackdown.
“The food industry is terrified of being either legislated out of business or so regulated they won’t be able to do what they want,” Basham told Brower.
What’s intriguing is that Michelle Obama became concerned about child nutrition for personal reasons.
She told audiences at a National PTA Conference in Arlington, Virginia, on March 10, that she got a “wakeup call” when her pediatrician voiced concern about her family’s eating habits.
While I applaud the first lady’s efforts, as always, no matter what changes the large food companies institute, I encourage people to reduce or even eliminate their consumption of processed foods.
Vegetables and fruits that come courtesy of Mother Nature are best for our bodies. Plus, they taste better — something you’ll discover after you cut back on processed carbs.
We just don’t need to consume large quantities of packaged foods that usually have

Lowest Low-Carb Vegetables and Fruits

While doing some research for my next book, Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks — you can join the teleseminar/webinar program here), I came across a fascinating site from dlife.com, which reveals The 25 Lowest Low-Carb Fruits and Vegetables.
Check out the Nutrition in Every Hue chart, where you also can learn about the many nutrient and benefits you get from your favorite multi-colored fruits and vegetables.
You may be surprised to learn what the lowest low-carb fruit is. (Go here so I don’t spoil the surprise.)
Check out the low-carb value of such fruits and vegetables as:
* Watermelon
* Arugula
* Strawberries
* Cucumbers
* Cantaloupes
* Broccoli
* Avocado
* Iceberg lettuce
* Honeydew melon
* Celery
Fresh_produce I was happy to find my favorite fruit, apple, is # 17 on the list an apple with its skin contains only 7g of carbs in a 50-gram portion.
As dlife.com tells you, “To help you visualize a rough idea of what amounts to a 50 gram portion, here are some examples: 10 grapes, 1/3 of a medium sized peach, 1/2/ cup chopped celery, or 2 extra long spears of asparagus.”
Check out the dlife.com PDF now or just visit the site.
This material is adapted from: The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes by Bob Greene; John J. Merendino Jr., M.D.; and Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D.

7 Simple Steps to a Sweeter You & Sweeter Life (Article)

Friends and followers, here’s an article I wrote that I hope will help you. This piece is designed to inspire all of you — including, of course, sugar addicts (for whom I offer my Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program) — and those who are immune (or relatively unfazed) by sugary temtpations.
7 Simple Steps to a Sweeter You & Sweeter Life By Connie Bennett, CHHC, CPC
With spring here and summer on the horizon, this is an ideal time to take stock of where you are and where you’d like to go. In other words, it can be invaluable to take a probing look inward and make some moves in the direction of your dreams. Ask yourself:
* Are you the kind of person you’d like to be?
* Are you achieving your heart’s desires?
* How can you be kinder, better and sweeter?
* What traits and skills can you develop or cultivate to get to where you want to go and to be the person you know you can be?
* And how can you have a sweeter life?
Let’s also put it another way: It’s time for some internal spring housecleaning. Since we’re human, each of us can always find something about ourselves to improve.
My clients have found that doing this kind of taking stock, assessing and goal setting helps them to build confidence, achieve inner joy, fall in love with themselves and be endearing to others.
Here are 7 areas to explore that can lead you to personal growth and transformation so you become a person you like, admire and respect — and, of course, a person others find sweet.
1) Take delight. Do you view the glass as half full rather than half empty? Do you feel joy, delight and glee when you view a sunset, when you see trees, when your child looks at you with adoring eyes, when you first bite into an organic apple, when you walk down the street, or when you’re immersed in a project? Make yourself look at the bright side of things. No one wants to be around a killjoy so concentrate on fostering that part of you that’s childish, innocent, sweet and fun. Become the kind of person people (and you would) love to be around.
2) Listen with zeal. Do you pay close attention to other people when they speak? Do you care about their worries, goals and fears? Or are too wrapped up in yourself? There’s nothing more annoying than someone who cuts you off in the middle of saying something. Challenge yourself to really focus on what people are saying. That way others will want to share with you more. Besides, you’ll like yourself better, too.
3) Cultivate gratitude. Lately, thankfully, giving thanks has been given good play—and not just around Thanksgiving. Being appreciative is something we should do on a daily basis. Have you thanked God or the universe lately for your loved ones, your home, your job, your friends, your innate skills and talents, your material possessions, etc.? If not, begin a gratitude journal or take stock on your computer every morning and/or evening.
4) Get enough zzz’s. Lack of sleep seems to be an American hobby, if not an obsession, and I confess, I’m one of the worst offenders. (I’m working on it!) Many of us seem driven by all that we have to do, whether it’s answering e-mails, cleaning the house or catching up with a friend. But recent research suggests that sleep-deprived people may be more likely to be overweight. Not getting enough rest also may make you grumpy, brain foggy and unproductive. Even more frightening, sleep deprivation may increase your risk for heart attacks, strokes, colon cancer, breast cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
5) Enjoy food that lives. One of the most effective ways to become a healthy, energetic, kind, successful, loving person is to eat superior, nutritive carbs — the kind that grows out of the ground or from trees (vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds) and turn your back on those health-harming culprit carbs. Are you a sugar junkie or a carb craver? Do you grab chocolate, soda or donuts just to get through the day? As my book SUGAR SHOCK!, explains, overeating sugary foods and refined, much-like-sugar carbs (processed breads, pasta, crackers, white rice, etc.) could send you into sugar shock and lead to some 150 ailments, including obesity, depression, heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, mood swings, infertility, low libido, failing memory and premature aging.
6) Get moving. As we all know by now, physical activity can work wonders. If you’re feeling like a zombie—that is sluggish, listless and unmotivated, there’s nothing like getting off your derriere and dancing or just plain walking to energize you. It’s well documented, as the Mayo Clinic points out, that exercise improves your mood, combats chronic diseases and can even put the spark back in your sex life. So put on your sneakers now. (In fact, I’m off for a fun bike ride myself now.)
7) Break free of clutter. The road to self improvement doesn’t always have to be complicated. In fact, just getting rid of your “stuff” can give you a tremendous breakthrough experience. Cutting out clutter is one of those simple, but uplifting projects that can quickly bring you to a better place. It is exhilarating and exciting to discard excess documents, old clothes and undesirable doodads. (Earlier today, I got rid of some excess stuff. Feels darn good, you’ll find.)
Don’t these 7 Steps to a Sweeter & Sweeter Life sound easy? Don’t waste any time—pat yourself on the back because you’ve considered taking such important action. Now, start moving those goal-setting muscles and select one step to concentrate on each day of the week. I’m willing to bet that within three weeks, you’ll already become more happy, content and self-fulfilled. So get going—start building the foundation for a sweeter you and a sweeter life.
Connie Bennett, MSJ, CHHC, CPC is a former sugar addict and author of SUGAR SHOCK! (Penguin Group), which has been praised by Dr. Mehmet Oz, who says it “spills the beans” and bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman (UltraMetabolism), who said it “could save your life.” Connie is a certified holistic health counselor, a certified life coach, sugar-liberation expert, speaker, frequent TV and radio show guest (“CBS News Sunday Morning,” “Oprah & Friends Radio,” etc.). She maintains her Sugar shock Blog, hosts the weekly Gab with the Gurus Radio Show and holds Sugar-Liberation Secrets seminars and teleseminars such as Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks. Connie also is an experienced journalist and columnist, who has been published widely in print and on the Web. To learn how to release your sugar habit, find out about Connie’s Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program. Copyright © 2010, Connie Bennett, Stop SUGAR SHOCK!, www.SugarShockBlog.com
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Free Teleminar Tonight: 10 Tips to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction

Wondering why you keep turning to sugar over and over again? Learn why you keep “failing” and how to lose weight, get energy and get out from under that “monkey” on your bank tonight at 7 pm EST (4 pm PST).
Tonight, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, author of the exciting new book, Beat Sugar Addiction Now!, and I (author of the bestselling book Sugar Shock!, will tell you “10 Tips to Break Free of Your Sugar Addition.”
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Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the country’s leading integrative physicians, and he has developed a cutting-edge program that helps you identify your type of sugar addiction and offers treatment recommendations based on your type. He reveals this revolutionary program in his new book, Beat Sugar Addiction Now!
As for my background, I’m a certified life coach, (who attended iPEC); a certified health coach, (who went to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition); a former sugar addict (who kicked on April 15, 1998); author of the bestselling book Sugar Shock! and a “Sugar Liberator,” who has helped thousands of people.
Tonight, you will discover:
* Which one activity should get more attention because it’s a miraculous way to reduce sugar cravings.
* Why you get overcome by this “Feed Me Now or I’ll Kill You” feeling and how to end it for good.
* Which one “natural sweetener” should NEVER be in your tea or cupboard, because is the worst sugar available and can make you fat, moody and tired.
* If you’re an “Energy Loan Shark,” who needs constant refills of coffee, energy drinks or soda – and how to how to put an end to that dangerous behavior.
* How to quit feeling deprived every time you start to quit sugar.
* How to conquer crazy cravings around your time of month or time of life (for women) and how to defeat testosterone deficiency so you don’t crave carbs (for men).
* Which one word in the English language is best to avoid when you kick or reduce your sugar consumption.
* Which substance caused by candies, cakes and cookies could be causing your chronic nasal congestion, sinusitis, spastic colon or irritable bowel syndrome.
* Which two types of foods can help wipe out sugar cravings.
* How you need to welcome your past “failures” to kick or reduce and respect and bless your sugar addiction to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction.
* How to do one simple management technique, thanks to our special guest, integrative physician and stress management expert Dr. Jill Baron.
* How to undertake one simple technique to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction Hypnotically, with special guest Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht, a nurse educator and clinical medical hypnotherapist specializing in sugar addiction, disorderly eating and weight loss.
Make plans to join us now.
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Sugar addicts: We look forward to having you attend our free teleseminar/webinar, “10 Tips to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction.”
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Sugar Addicts: 10 Tips to Break Free of the Sugar Trap in Free Teleseminar Wed.

Wondering why you keep turning to sugar over and over gain?
Learn why you keep “failing” over and over again and how to win for once and for all on Wed., April 14 at 7 pm EST (4 pm PST).
That’s when Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, author of the exciting new book, Beat Sugar Addiction Now!, and Yours Truly (Connie Bennett), author of the bestselling book Sugar Shock!, will tell you “10 Ways Sugar Traps You & 10 Ways to Break Free of Your Sugar Addition.”
Book_beat_sugar_addiction_now Both Dr. Teitelbaum and I have worked with thousands of sugar addicts the years, and we both bring different approaches to helping you release this health-harming habit.
Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the country’s leading integrative physicians, and he has developed a cutting-edge program that helps you identify your type of sugar addiction and offers treatment recommendations based on your type. He reveals this revolutionary program in his new book, Beat Sugar Addiction Now!
As for Yours Truly, I’m a certified life coach (who attended iPEC) and certified health coach (who went to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition). I’ve been been dubbed the “Sugar Liberator”). I also laughingly call myself an “Ex-Sugar Shrew,” because I wasn’t very becoming while on sugar highs. For my part, I’ve developed a 6-week Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction program (starting April 20) that offers you 50 ways to conquer cravings, ways to identify and defang triggers and saboteurs and a way to find sweetness in your life without sweets.
Impatient for details on how to join us on Wednesday?
Sign up now to attend this free teleseminar/webinar for sugar addicts or to get a replay afterward.
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