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May 20, 2013 Hi {!firstname_fix} Ranch was wonderful! We had a fabulous time, love Santa Fe and are thrilled with the hotel. It was a great combination of brand new people and old timers. We learned new material, and played a lot. Tonight I am home with the doggies, being quiet and just assimilating it all. This class will begin Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
These classes will begin Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
The class schedule is online. Click here to see what is planned. A number of you have asked me how the classes work. Check the class list page for more information on this. And please go read the questions and answers before you write to me. If you have trouble getting through the process, write the tech forum. Be sure to visit our Radiant Recovery website and Community Forum regularly. Warmly, Kathleen **********************************************************************
**Quote From Kathleen ** Make changes at a pace that works for you. Look for solid, long-terms success, not dramatic, short-term results. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** I was able to do breakfast-snack and lunch today. Yeah!! On one level it seems really silly to break it down to such small steps, but I do feel a boost of satisfaction at this accomplishment and that does give me hope that I will catch on for the rest of the day as well. Before I was trying to just get my step 6 back all at once, and it was definitely not a successful plan for me - just left me feeling chronically defeated. I went back and reviewed the step3 nano step diagram in the online files for this group. It was a nice reminder of how to proceed. Cheryl **********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors **  People all over the world read online book reviews before they decide which ones to purchase - I know I certainly do! Amazon is my first choice for book review. However, it seems that Google books also has a book reviewing facility. On Google books, Potatoes Not Prozac currently has 10 five-star ratings and eleven reviews so far. I've added a review - who else would like to add a small review to either Google books or Amazon (or both)? It doesn't have to be anything fancy, a few words from the heart are always well received. We'd love to get people talking about Kathleen's books! Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
**How I Found Radiant Recovery ** Hi. I’m Marcy from Pittsburgh, PA. I recently was ‘informed’ by Amazon.com that there was a book called The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program. Since I’ve known I’m a sugar addict since my OA days (starting almost 30 years ago), I purchased it. Haven’t gotten all the way through the book yet, but found this website in it and also got the Potatoes Not Prozac book to read. So I’m a beginning beginner, I guess. Need to find out more about the program, which is why I enrolled in this class. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. 
While I was working with the sound engineer on the 2010 Ranch CD, we also spent some time with the Potatoes not Prozac Audio CDs. This recording is an abridged version of the 1998 book. I did the recording myself. The steps were a little different back then, but gosh, the intent of the message was so powerful. There are things in this recording that have not been shared in other ways.It was VERY powerful for me to hear the message. It is timeless, it goes to the heart of what we do and it offers such hope. This is a great audio book for your iPod or the car on your commute. Listen to it over and over. I listened many, many times in the last 2 weeks and heard different things each time. I really love this recording. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** Frittatas! Ohh, YUM. :) I make one where I used thinly sliced skin on potatoes on the bottom - I put a little oil and butter in the skillet on top of the stove, put the potatoes in overlapping to make a thin layer and cook it (without moving the potatoes around) until they start turning translucent. Next I scatter some leftover veggies and shredded cheese over the potatoes (whatever I have on hand for both), then pour my beaten eggs over all and stick it in the oven to finish cooking. The potatoes form a crispy bottom, and it is sooo good. I haven't tried rice in the bottom before - but will now! :) Diane For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** Have you had enough of trying every diet under the sun to lose weight? Maybe trying the same one time and time again? That was my story! What about doing something different and giving yourself the gift of recovery? Your Last Diet means just that. If you want to stop the insanity and step away from the cycle of constant dieting, then come and chat with us about why those diets haven't worked and learn about the importance of balancing that biochemistry first. I really hope to see you there! It’s exciting times on YLD! Steph If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
**Our Online Groups ** The Step Four group is a support group to learn more about the potato and vitamin step. It will help you choose which vitamins and why. It will give you guidance on what potatoes, how big and what other things you can put on it. Come join us! **********************************************************************
**Step 3 Transition Plan ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
I know that many of you are moving towards Step 3.I thought it would be helpful to repost Martha's famous transition plan. Here's what we came up with, a 10-step transitional plan: 1. Thinking about starting step three -- your breakfast is strong and solid, enough protein and consistently within an hour of waking up. It's important to have a carb, too, but don't worry about whether it's brown or white at this point. 2. You have started journaling. You may not be perfect at it, but you are making a solid effort and starting to collect a good number of pages of information (and NO information is just as important as complete information, if you get the drift). 3. Start working on getting a really solid lunch. Come up with several lunch options that work well for you, and have enough protein in them (don't worry yet about snacking, grazing, or any other eating during the day). 4. After doing a good solid lunch for awhile, try a few days of not snacking between breakfast and lunch. The important part is that breakfast is now solid. And lunch is solid. You are simply moving the snacks to one of those two meals. At first, you may want to try a shorter time period in between, say 4 hours. Just to give your body the idea that it is going to be waiting. Then, after that gets easier, slide it to 5 hours. The ideal is 5-6 hours, but for now you are simply working on transitioning toward the ideal. 4a. This one could fit in just about anywhere. One way to shift from grazing to 3 distinct meals is to establish a planned snack at specific times between b'fast and lunch and then between lunch and dinner. A planned protein/carb snack helps move you away from grazing mode. Eventually, you can work on going without the snack, but this is an excellent interim step. 5. Keep doing b-fast - lunch, with no snack, and now start focusing on dinner. What's for dinner?! Don't worry about when it is or if you are eating sugar. Just make sure you have some kind of dinner meal, with good food... protein, some veggies, and whatever else you like to have... No worries about the "whites" or "sugars" you are eating. You are just getting steady, not working on detox yet! 6. Now start to think about having dinner at a regular time. If you have been erratic, eating at 7 one night, 9 the next night, 6 the next... it will be a little hard, but try for a certain window. Such as somewhere between 5-8. Make sure you stick to that window until it gets to feeling natural... and then narrow the window a little, for example, 5-7. I went for a pretty long period of time working at this, and basically ended up with a goal of eating dinner by no later than 7 pm every night. Sometimes it took juggling, almost always it took planning, but it has become a natural part of my lifestyle. Another way to do this is to start wherever you are and step it backwards. So, for example, if you are eating at 9, try shooting for 8:30, and then when that is comfortable, step it back to 8:00, etc., until you get to that spot where dinner is about 5-6 hours after your (wonderful & solid) lunch. A big part of this will be adjusting your life to your food plan. And sometimes that means telling people, "Hey, I need to stop working (or whatever) and eat my dinner." This is called TAKING GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF (or, as we like to say, putting the oxygen mask on yourself before assisting others around you... ) This is a huge part of the recovery process. :-) 7. Now that you are having a solid breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and you are no longer snacking between b'fast and lunch, try to move to the next level -- working toward no afternoon snack. If you are an afternoon muncher, perhaps one step in this direction is to limit the snack to one time, rather than "ongoing." So, pick a time, say 3 pm, and tell yourself that this is your afternoon snacktime. Get into a rhythm with this for awhile (all the while, still doing that b'fast, lunch, and well-timed dinner!). 8. Okay, time to test the waters of getting from lunch to dinner with no snacking. Just like before, try to get your dinnertime set at the earlier end of the spectrum, especially during this transitional time. When I did this transition, I was eating dinner at 4:30 some days! But eventually, I was able to make it until 6 pm. I was just giving my body some time to adjust. 9. With all of these mini-steps, you are starting the process of moving your sugar to mealtimes (rather than eating sugar all by itself). If you must, absolutely, must have sugar in between (because you haven't detoxed yet and you will still crave sugar... this is perfectly natural), make sure you have some protein along with it. Yes, candy and cheese, or a hunk of meat leftover from a previous meal, nuts, or whatever you can find. It will at least help slow down the "hit" of sugar. 10. Keep working on these steps, one at a time, honing and honing, and then one day you will notice that you didn't even think about a snack! And that you just habitually eat meals on time. (And your family even starts saying, "hey, isn't it time for you to have lunch now?" You can train them as well. LOL) And that you can look at a plate of food and know by sight whether it's "enough" protein for you. At this point, you are solid on Step Three! You will find that you create your own variation of these baby steps, but hopefully this guideline will help. It sure did help both Vicki and me! Martha Thanks for reading! If you know someone who could benefit from this, feel free to forward it to them. Not a subscriber yet? Like what you have read? Sign up to get future issues delivered straight to you: http://www.radiantrecovery.com Until next time!
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Gretel, our webmaster, puts it all together. David runs the Radiant Recovery® Store. Selena provides the weekly Ambassadors column. Steph provides the Your Last Diet column. ©2013 Kathleen DesMaisons. All rights reserved. You are free to use or transmit this article to your ezine or website as long as you leave the content unaltered, use this attribution: "By Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D. of Radiant Recovery®", and notify kathleen@radiantrecovery.com of the location. Please visit the Radiant Recovery® website at http://www.radiantrecovery.com for additional resources on sugar sensitivity and healing addiction. You are getting the weekly newsletter from Radiant Recovery® in response to your signup. A copy of this newsletter may also be found posted on the web at http://www. radiantrecovery.com/weeklynewsletter |
