Sure! I'll try to keep it brief -- not my strong suit!

I started seeing a naturopath late last year due to some digestive problems I was having post-gallbladder removal -- after we discussed my eating habits she recommended PNP. I ended up getting The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program since that's what was in stock.

I made it through the list of potential symptoms of sugar addiction (of which I had ALL of them) before I had to put the book down and walk away. It was THAT true. Obviously I eventually went back to reading ;) And believing. So, I got started, trying not to "give a lot of energy" to the actual giving up of sugar.

Step 1, no problem (although I was shocked at how often I didn't eat breakfast). Step 2, grinding halt. I stared at the blank book I had bought to journal every day until I went back to my naturopath with evidence of my "failure". The conversation went like this:

Her: Do you forget?
Me: I pretend to.
Her: What are you afraid of?
{insert long pause while I stare at her like a poleaxed cat}
Me: Losing my best friend.

I literally had no conception of what life would be like without sugar to help me cope, and I FOR SURE didn't want the quantitative evidence (my journal) that it was actually responsible for the NEED to cope. So on her recommendation I started to attend Overeaters Anonymous.

After a couple of meetings I started to journal (not well, but hey), and worked my way through Steps 3-5 in the Recovery Program. March 21st I became abstinent and started Step 6 using the recommendations in the Recovery Program as my "plan of eating", removing both overt and covert sugars as that's what my OA Step 1 work called for. Nearly three weeks in now, and there's been challenges but also some big chunks of miraculous.

So I finally got around to coming by the website, and here I am! And I promise (sort of) that most of my posts will be nowhere NEAR this long

: Hi there and welcome,

: I wonder if you might tell us a l
: ittle of your story. What prompted
: you
: to start? What your process was? How
: the steps were for you?

: Love to hear more.

: warmly,

: kathleen