Breaking Up with Sugar: Divorce the Diets, Drop the Pounds, and Live Your Best Life

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 730 ratings

Price: 13.78

Last update: 09-16-2024


About this item

A proven plan to break free from your unhealthy relationship with sugar - and reclaim your health and your life for good.

The solution to your food and weight problems isn't willpower or the next fad diet - it's breaking up with sugar. Molly Carmel, an eating disorder therapist with a thriving clinic in New York City, discovered the devastating role sugar played in her own 20-year struggle with disordered eating. After reaching a peak weight of 325 pounds and trying every diet imaginable, Molly was finally able to dramatically transform her life - and find her happy weight-by breaking up with sugar. Molly has since helped thousands of people overcome compulsive overeating, repetitive dieting, and sugar addiction to reinvent their lives. Here, she shares her empowering 66-day blueprint for kicking sugar to the curb - once and for all.

Molly explains how sugar is not only bad for your health, it's also a substance with highly addictive potential - one that creates physical, neurological, and hormonal changes that often make moderation impossible. This is the first audiobook to address the emotional, spiritual, chemical, and physical components of this toxic relationship and help guide you through the steps to create a new and lasting relationship with food...and with yourself.

Breaking Up with Sugar includes step-by-step meal plans to take the guesswork out of going sugar-free, as well as seven key self-affirming vows you can rely on to help end the overeating and dieting cycle and release unhealthy weight. With empathy, honesty, and humor as your trusted coach and friend, Molly gives you essential tools to navigate this new way of eating when life gets "life-y" or times get tough. Her sustainable road map will put you on the path to true freedom.

Includes a PDF of worksheets and activities.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.


Top reviews from the United States

C. Schneider
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh boy- I needed this!
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024
This is a wonderful book by an author with a world of experience on the subject. A great blend of clinical and practical information that sets you up for success on this new journey. I am grateful to have both the hard and audio copies bc it’s just that good.
ryan schiff
5.0 out of 5 stars $13 doe something that might change your whole life? ummmm, yes please.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020
I literally feel like this book is life changing. I sent it to friends and family and of
course kept my own copy. One of the things it does for so many people is help you see the way sugar really sucks you in and then makes you want more. Its such a vicious cycle. I understand some of the reviews saying it is too extreme for them, but I encourage you to read it and see if there isn’t something there for you. For those that say save the $13 and just give up sugar...I say, yeah, good luck with that. As if we haven’t tried and failed at that already. This author has a whole support network if you are interested in actually doing this for yourself. A facebook page, videos on youtube and much more. I strongly recommend you buy it. What do you have to lose? $13 for something that might change your whole life? ummmm, yes please. It’s not a diet book. It’s a wake-up call.
E
5.0 out of 5 stars Life-changing plan
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020
I broke up with sugar in 2014 following Molly's plan as a client of the Beacon Program. At the time, I was struggling immensely with my relationship with food and my body, trapped in a cycle of starvation, bingeing, purging, and subsisting on sugar to keep my energy up among that cycle. I couldn't keep any food in the house - I would binge on anything in the middle of the night- even my calcium supplement gummies. I was willing to try the no sugar/flour 3 meals/2 snacks plan recommended to me out of sheer desperation, but I really couldn't imagine life without sugar and my coping mechanism of food, especially squishy carby things. It was honestly the best decision I have ever made in my life to follow this plan. I learned how to use food to nourish myself so that I could be in life, instead of as a tool of self-harm, avoidance, procrastination, pleasure, etc. which kept me from living my life fully. Following Molly's plan has given me freedom and restored my physical health. I started to feel so much better after a few months- emotionally and physically. Removing the ingredients of sugar and flour and eating 3 balanced, healthy meals and 2 snacks per day removed my desire to binge (and purge.) There is actually a lot of delicious food you can eat without sugar and flour, even at restaurants, because it's not some crazy low-fat, restrictive diet, and I never felt like I was being deprived. I eat normally now. I don't binge and purge, I don't wake up in the middle of the night and eat a loaf of bread and wake up hating myself and vowing to starve, I don't feel the need to run 12 miles to punish myself for last night. I have been able to heal. My weight has stayed at a healthy and fit number for me for the last 6 years. I have been able to act like someone who loves themself by not harming myself with food anymore and eventually I really did start loving myself. I hope that people who are struggling as much as I was give this plan a try for 66 days and see how their lives change in that time period. If it can help someone like me, it can help anyone.
lizrs
4.0 out of 5 stars my "aha" moment
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2020
So I've been on every diet under the sun. I saw Molly on one of the morning shows and liked what I heard and bought the book. Realizing that my eating behavior was that of an addict was like being hit by a lightening bolt. Let's face it, we all know sugar is bad for you. And many of us know that it lights up your brain the same way cocaine does. But seeing in print justifications that I have used for why I am overweight was shocking to me.
So the book leads you through the process of "breaking up with sugar". It addresses the psychological issues that lead to abusing food and gives common sense solutions to help recognize and break patterns. The food "allowed" is actually secondary.
I still struggle with my choices but I have an awareness that I did not have before and it's changed my paradigm of thinking. I know how to make a plan and how to (kind of) circumvent triggers. It's worth the read and maybe even study this book.
Steve
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok Read, Not for Me
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020
While I agree with the premise that sugar has serious health consequences, the book doesn't do a great job of selling me on why that is from a physiological standpoint. There is too much "just trust me" and not enough scientific evidence (which exists) on why you should break up with sugar.

I also find it confusing that Molly allows for some alcohol but demands abstinence from sugar and flour. Even when she says alcohol lights up the same sugar reward pathways in the brain. It undermines her whole message in my opinion. Overall it isn't a bad read, but didn't really resonate with me like I was hoping.
Shannon Duffy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2020
I am so happy that Molly wrote this book. I personally found it to be an insightful read with a mix of science/ research/ therapeutic skills/ and personal success stories that help the reader understand what breaking up with sugar and flour entails. The comparison of breaking up with sugar and flour as you would a dating partner is something everyone can relate with. As a therapist myself, I have recommended this book to my clients as a source of information, inspiration, and support as they work on creating a positive relationship with food and within themselves. I highly recommend this book for any of those who have struggled with disordered eating, food addictions, and binge eating behaviors.
Therese-Ann D'Ambrosia
5.0 out of 5 stars Honest, funny, relatable...and so helpful!
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020
Get this book! Fantastic, honest, funny, relatable… and what I think most importantly, realistic. Molly’s writing is like reading an email from a friend. You’ll be giggling, nodding along, and bursting to want to shout YES, THATS ME TOO! And throughout, Molly lays out the science of they why, and the steps to breaking free from the sugar that harms you, to a lead you towards a more balanced, free, and happy life. I’ve already gifted this book to several friends because of how real it is. Really a terrific read and resource! 5 stars!!

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