I know how many of you feel. Ashamed at constantly failing a diet, ashamed you can’t lose the weight, wondering why you don’t have the willpower, embarrassed you don’t have the means or the time to treat yourself better. Well, there is hope, and that hope starts by admitting we are addicted, meaning we are enslaved to something - sex, drugs, money or sugar.

This episode was a sobering, clear-eyed realization that even someone like myself who is aware of the addictive nature of sugar did not fully appreciate the Thanos-like power sugar possesses and the havoc it is wreaking in people’s lives each and every day.

Bitten Johnson is a recovering addict since September 1985, with several outlets - the number one being sugar. When she looks back, she sees her sugar addiction started at a very young age. When Bitten was four years old, she stole sugar cubes in the kitchen whenever she could.

After being in treatment for alcoholism, a consequence of sugar addiction, Bitten started her journey into recovery. Today, Bitten’s mission is to free addicts, especially sugar addicts, from being a slave to the sweetness.

Take the sugar addiction survey here: https://tinyurl.com/bitten-sugar

Are you possibly a sugar addicted?

Bitten and her network of SUGAR/HMA certified coaches can help you: https://www.bittensaddiction.com/en/patients/help-available/

Join us as we explore:

The signs and symptoms of sugar addiction, from sluggish cognitive performance to shame and the type of sugar addicts.

Why sugar addiction is not just about “sugar” as you think of it.

Why Bitten has seen that the diagnosis as sugar addict is paradoxically the most important step her clients take.

The steps necessary to tackle sugar addiction, including what foods form the new foundation of your diet.

How your neurological makeup will inform the type of sugar addiction treatment prescribed.

Why we overuse the word addiction, why addiction is a brain disease and what the ultimate goal is of sugar addiction recovery.

Contact:

Website: https://www.bittensaddiction.com

Mentions:

Book - Optimum Nutrition for the Mind, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715673.Optimum_Nutrition_for_the_Mind 

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