Sugar Smart Express: The 21-Day Quick Start Plan to Stop Cravings, Lose Weight, and Still Enjoy the Sweets You Love!

by Anne Alexander, Julia VanTine

Sugar is everywhere. Once confined to candy, desserts, and the sugar bowl, it has made its way into our peanut butter, bread, tomato sauce, and salad dressing. The average American eats nearly 130 pounds of added sugar a year, and 75 percent of 86,000 foods analyzed in one study contained added sweeteners. This information is now at the forefront of media, public policy, and water cooler conversation, and Americans are wising up to what a sugar-laden diet means for their added pounds that won't budge; heightened risk of Alzheimer's, diabetes, and heart disease; moodiness; fatigue; and cravings that seem to rule their daily lives. Readers came out in droves when Prevention launched its Sugar Smart movement, making The Sugar Smart Diet a New York Times bestseller and creating a demand for more sugar-savvy content from the brand. Now, Anne Alexander has revamped her popular plan to give readers what they've been asking an easy-to-follow plan that offers great results in less time, with even more tools for success. New content
- a new, 21-day plan to sweet freedom that scales back each phase without sacrificing results
- shopping lists and a more comprehensive dining out guide to make eating on the plan a breeze
- healthy, delicious recipes the whole family-even veggie-averse kids-will gobble up
- updated success stories and "Sugar Smart Hacks" from The Sugar Smart Diet test panel

Genres: Health

288 pages, Hardcover

First published May 5, 2015

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anne Alexander is the Editor at Large of Prevention magazine and her research and knowledge on this topic is extensive.
The book challenges you to explore your past, present and future relationship with sugar as well as give you the hard health facts about why it is critical to examine the amount of sugar you consume each day.
I loved the photographs and short personal biographies of people who have tried this plan. This helped to provide real-life, practical tips which will help to make the program more successful.
The 21 day plan eases you into it and I found the author very inspirational.

[Dan Stern · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've learned a lot from tracking what I was eating and seeing how my body has responded to the different phases of the program; I like that this grades you back into eating some sweet foods (and is not as intense as 21 Day Sugar Detox); and I've enjoyed the ideas it presents for reducing cravings and changing habits. (You've probably seen a lot of them before; but they are nice reminders and they give the book a really warm, human feel). On the other hand, the success stories are slightly depressing. Many of them are people who participated in the original Sugar Smart, lost weight on the original program, gained it back, and participated in the new Sugar Smart to lose weight again. You could say this also helps humanize the book (and it is nice to see people get back on the bandwagon); but it does make you wonder about your long term chances of success if what you're after is weight loss (and not recalibrating your taste buds). If there are people from the original that lost weight and kept it off, it would be nice if this was acknowledged somewhere... ;) Also I thought the recipes were okay. If you don't cook and/or rely a lot on eating out or pre-made foods, they may be more eye opening and useful. I've cooked my own food for all the phases thus far.

[Ismael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read. Precise. Great guidelines. Takes the reader on a journey to make good choices for healthy living. Sugar no longer seemed so appealing after reading the book. Everything made sense. I have been able to give up soda, fruit drinks, cookies, muffins, cakes, and candy without any regrets. The only sweet I have consciously retained is ice-cream but changed to coconut milk instead of dairy milk ice-cream. I recommend this book to everyone wanting to lead a healthy eating lifestyle. It carries a positive message that inspires change.

[Sara Goldenberg · Rating 2 out of 5]

The writer of the book is a journalist, albeit for a Health publication.

It's not a bad thing to read, I just think it's a conglomeration of common sense and her tweak on a diet.

I hope it works for some people! I just read it for fun.

[Cherie Bush · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information about what sugar does to the body. Motivating.

[Lawana Sisam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to be sugar smart and this is a great place to start! This program seems very doable!