Sugar Addiction Reading List: books on sugar

If you want to stop sugar binges, start by reading my book, Overcoming Sugar Addiction. Acclaimed for it’s combination of personal story and step-by-step encouragement for how you can make the break, this book should be the beginning of your journey. The reading list below will add explanation on the biochemistry of sugar or other facets of how it gets ahold of you, plus tips for diet, and emotional balance. I’ve read them all and more, but the books below are the ones worth sharing with you.

In my experience, the hardest part of becoming sugar free is not about the sugar itself – it’s soothing the noise in our heads – all the feelings of deprivation, the resistance, the sadness in not eating sugar, and the frustration in having to pay so close attention to food. How do we cope with these? How do we care for our feelings so we can make healthy, life affirming choices? This is why I wrote Becoming Binge Free, the workbook and CDs that share the tools that helped me find the deepest level of freedom from sugar:  how I not only became sugar free but stay sugar free.

If you’d like to read more about sugar addiction, health, nutrition, and overcoming overeating, here’s my recommended reading list:

Books on sugar cravings and overcoming sugar addiction:

• Overcoming Sugar Addiction by Karly Randolph Pitman
• Becoming Binge Free by Karly Randolph Pitman
• Beat Sugar Addiction Now! by Jacob Teitelbaum
• Get the Sugar Out:  501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet by Ann Louise Gittleman
• Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton
• Little Sugar Addicts by Kathleen Des Maisons
• Potatoes Not Prozac by Kathleen Des Maisons
• Sugar Blues by William Duffy
• Sugar Shock! by Connie Bennett

Nutrition books:

• Chakra Foods for Optimum Health by Deanna Minich
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• Mindless Eating:  Why We Eat More than We Think by Brian Wansink
• The Crazy Makers:  How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children by Carol Simontacchi
• The Diet Cure by Julia Ross
• The Mood Cure by Julia Ross
• The Slow Down Diet by Marc David
• Ultra Metabolism by Mark Hyman

Books on mindful eating:

• Eat by Choice, Not by Habit by Sylvia Haskvitz
• Eating with Fierce Kindness by Sasha Loring
• The Zen of Eating by Ronna Kabatznick

Books on overeating: **

• Anatomy of a Food Addiction by Anne Katherine
• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
• Life is Hard, Food is Easy by Linda Spangle
• Making Peace with Food by Susan Kano
• The End of Overeating by David Kessler
• Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth

** Nota bene: Several of these books on overeating suggest allowing yourself to eat all foods in moderation. The authors believe that it is our labeling of certain foods – like sugar – as bad that causes us to overeat them. While I believe this is true of many people, I’ve tried this path for myself, and found it didn’t work for my situation. Eating sugar in moderation is not an option for me. This may be true for you, or it may not be. I bring this up to illustrate a point:  when reading any book, it’s important to let your body gauge the truthfulness or applicability of an author’s message.

Does it ring true for you? Does it correlate with your experience? Just because a doctor, nutritionist, or other expert makes a claim, doesn’t mean you have to apply it to your life. Filter the good from the bad, take one idea from this book, one idea from another, and put together a food and eating plan that makes sense for you. I call this centering, and share how to do this with peace, wisdom and inner listening in Becoming Binge Free.

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