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    OMG I Would Die Without Chocolate - or - How I Quit Sugar and Didn't Kill Anyone
    OMG I Would Die Without Chocolate - or - How I Quit Sugar and Didn't Kill Anyone
    OMG I Would Die Without Chocolate - or - How I Quit Sugar and Didn't Kill Anyone
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    OMG I Would Die Without Chocolate - or - How I Quit Sugar and Didn't Kill Anyone

    By Ellen Parker

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    Two years ago I quit sugar and my life has never been better.

    There are loads of 'sugar free diet' books available right now, but precious few that give you a blow-by-blow account of what happens when you cut sugar from your diet. And believe me, LOTS happens!

    This is a personal story (cut through with some good information on going sugar free) about what happened to me, my body, my mood, my family when I started my sugar free diet.

    If you're considering taking the big step of cutting sugar from your diet and you want to know what you're in for, then this is the book for you. If you want detailed, scientific information on the nutritional benefits of a sugar free life, go look elsewhere. If you want a 12 step plan, go buy a different book.

    This is one woman's struggle with her sugar addiction and her waistline, and her determination to become healthier without going insane (from lack of chocolate.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Earth Books
    Release dateNov 4, 2019
    ISBN9781393668657
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      OMG I Would Die Without Chocolate - or - How I Quit Sugar and Didn't Kill Anyone - Ellen Parker

      Why Go Sugar Free? Why Not?

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      One thing I can never recommend is taking a vacation with your ex for the benefit of the children. And no, it wasn’t my idea. And no, I can’t believe I did it either. You betcha I ain’t gonna do it again.

      My ex and I had separated when our daughter was one. What I didn’t know when I kicked his shit out on the lawn was that baby number two was cooking inside me at the time. (Anyone else think sex can rescue a marriage? Nah, didn’t think so.) Despite the trauma surrounding her conception and birth, she turned out just lovely and suddenly I had two beautiful daughters, a big mortgage all of my own, and not a penny to spare for frivolous things like vacations.

      Mutual friends of ours offered us their holiday house near the snow and, under the facade of presenting a healthy and happy unified front to our children, my ex and I insanely agreed to a ‘family vacation’.

      Things went poorly from the airport lounge onwards. The kids and I had managed to squeeze all our begged, borrowed and thrift-shopped snow gear into two bashed up bright pink Disney Princesses suitcases which I dragged through the airport with as much dignity as I could muster. My pompous ex rocked up with some designer luggage that coordinated with his wheeled ski bag which also matched the Arc’teryx gore-tex jacket slung over his arm.

      Yeah.

      He actually winced when my big baby held up her Barbie snow mittens to show him. That’s when I said, "Ok daddy, we’ve got half an hour til the flight. I’ll just be over there in the bookshop. Why don’t you play with the kids for a bit?" I smiled sweetly, and left him to it.

      I wanted some books. I wanted lots of books. Not because I’m a compulsive reader – I mean, with two kids under five, who on earth has time to read?

      No, I wanted an excuse not to have to talk to him in the evenings after the kids had gone to bed. I had the horrible feeling he would want to sit up late with a bottle of posh wine and Talk Things Over. Eeek! No way.

      I scanned the romance section. Who was I kidding? I headed over to the thrillers. Meh, I’d rather watch them at the movies. Sci-fi and fantasy? Not for me. Biographies? Yawn.

      That left craft and cookbooks. Things were looking dire when a plain white book with a yummy looking cupcake on the cover caught my eye. The title screamed Sweet Poison, and it appeared to be a book on how sugar is slowly killing us, keeping us fat, and making us unhealthy in so many ways I was terrified and shocked just from reading the back cover.

      This looked interesting. After skimming the first few pages, I knew I’d found the book I wanted to read on this vacation. I was inspired and excited by what the book promised – a way of breaking an ‘addiction’ to sugar that would allow me to lose weight easily and keep it off.

      I bought it. I also bought Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude from the classics section el-cheapo throw-out table. Four hundred and thirty pages of dense, glorious verbiage, an odyssey of passion, despair, love, hatred and South America. Guaranteed to take up all my time and leave none to waste on chitchat with my ex just in case the diet book turned out to be a dud. 

      We boarded the flight and my journey into a sugar free future began.

      Cold Turkey or the Slow Wean?

      ––––––––

      The quit sugar book was called Sweet Poison by an Australian guy called David Gillespie. He was a father of six, with a big weight problem, an analytical mind and an easy writing style. I loved him almost immediately. He dived straight into some science about just how bad sugar is for us and I was shocked. He looked at how the amount of sugar in common processed foods has increased over the decades and I nodded in agreement. He discussed how people are better educated on

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