On April 9, I posted an article, “My Year Off Sugar,” which listed the many benefits I got from 12 months of sugar abstinence.  The posting prompted wonderful, and sometimes frustrated, responses from Huffington Post readers — both on the site and to me personally.  The most edgy among them noted that I made sugar abstinence look too easy and asked how I “really, really, really did it.”  Fair enough.  This is how I really went off sugar.  And be prepared!  This involves changing behaviors that, I think, actually changed some of my brain’s deepest neural pathways.  I believe you can do it too!

A quick review: In April of 2011, a friend sent me Gary Taubes’ New York Times article, “Is Sugar Toxic?”  At the time, I was in an open frame of mind that allowed me to be receptive to new data, which really just meant that I didn’t immediately hit the “diet story delete” button.  In the short term, I wished I had, because the article induced a fearful epiphany.  I hadn’t been previously aware of the metabolic disturbances and other frightening impacts of sugar on my body.  Thus, fear became the spark that ignited a major life change, which I’m enjoying to this day.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-foster/quitting-sugar_b_1503742.html?ref=healthy-living

If it makes you nervous, you are doing it right.

So much truth in so few words! If you had never gone out of your comfort zone – which always makes you nervous – where would you be right now? You would not have made it through school, not gotten any job or friends, you would have achieved nothing. . . . → Read More: Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!