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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction to the New Edition | |
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The Science | |
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The Experience | |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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Sugar Sensitivity | |
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Naming the Problem | |
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"Don't Tell, Don't Feel, Don't Share" | |
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Turning to Sugar for Solace | |
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Lessons from the "Drunks" | |
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Discovering Food as Pharmacy | |
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Finding Out Why It Worked | |
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Are You Sugar Sensitive? | |
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Diagnosing Sugar Sensitivity | |
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Can You Be Addicted to Sugar? | |
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It's Not Your Fault | |
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The Level of Sugar in Your Blood | |
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Brain Chemicals: Serotonin | |
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Brain Chemicals: Beta-endorphin | |
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A Delicate Balance | |
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The Ups and Downs of Blood Sugar | |
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How Normal Blood Sugar Works | |
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The Impact of Sugar Sensitivity | |
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Adrenal Fatigue | |
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Brain Chemistry 101 | |
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Neurotransmitters: Messengers of the Brain | |
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Cleaning Up and Regulating the System | |
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Downregulation | |
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Upregulation | |
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Withdrawal | |
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Serotonin | |
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How Antidepressants Work | |
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Beta-endorphin | |
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Sugar and the Beta-endorphin Response | |
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Sugar and Isolation Distress | |
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Sugar and Learned Helplessness | |
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Why Not Sugar? | |
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Cravings and Relapse | |
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The Sugar-Sensitive Dilemma | |
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Balance Once Again | |
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The First Step: Getting Started | |
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Don't Use the D-Word | |
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Take It One Step at a Time | |
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The Seven Steps to Feeling Great | |
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Eat Breakfast with Protein Every Day | |
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Have the Right Amount of Protein | |
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Eat Within an Hour of Waking Up | |
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Have a Complex Carb with Your Meal | |
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Do It Every Day | |
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The Second Step: Keeping a Food Journal | |
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Starting Your First Food Journal | |
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What to Do If You Don't Know How You Feel | |
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Learning to Read Your Body | |
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The Third Step: Three Meals a Day | |
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Adequate Protein at Each Meal | |
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Foods with Protein | |
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A Protein That Raises Serotonin | |
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What About Cholesterol? | |
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Just Do Three Things | |
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The Fourth Step: Increasing Your Serotonin Naturally | |
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Vitamins to Ready You for Detox | |
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Finally the Potato | |
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Giving Tryptophan a Helping Hand | |
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The Fifth Step: Going from White to Brown | |
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The Carbohydrate Continuum | |
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Alcohol | |
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Simple Sugars | |
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"White Things" | |
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"Brown Things" | |
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"Green Things" | |
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More About Fruit | |
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Shifting Your Place on the Continuum | |
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The Sixth Step: Dealing with Sugars | |
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Reducing or Eliminating Sugars | |
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On the Trail of Secret Sugars | |
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Take It Easy | |
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The Next Step | |
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Going Off Sugars | |
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Planning Your Sugar Detox | |
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Doing It | |
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The Seventh Step: Coming Alive | |
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Living Your Radiant Recovery | |
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Activities to Support Your Radiant Recovery | |
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Safeguarding Your Progress | |
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Stopping the Journal | |
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Holding It | |
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Continue Your Food Journal No Matter What | |
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Maintain Your Blood Sugar Level | |
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Enhance Your Serotonin Level | |
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Enhance Your Beta-endorphin Level | |
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Enhance Your Dopamine Level | |
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Discerning Food Issues from Life Issues | |
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There's No Such Thing as Perfection | |
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Appendix | |
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Detoxification from Alcohol | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Resources | |
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Website | |
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Newsletter | |
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George's Shake | |
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Motivational Tools | |
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Books | |
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Audio | |
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Support Groups | |
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Weight Loss | |
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Seminars | |
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Online Classes | |
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Consulting with Kathleen | |
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Radiant Recovery Store | |
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Index | |