added by the food industry, not from eating fats or lack of exercise.
The influence the food industry wielded in the absence of reporting requirements for added sugars on food labels.
“Food is being intentionally manipulated by the top 12 food industries. Their foods are designed to create cravings and addiction. Sugar addiction is the root cause of why people are overweight and sick today.”
- Dr. Mark Hyman,
author of “The Blood Sugar Solution”
Imagine feeling free of cravings after just one week of lowering your added sugars to healthy levels (18 g. or less per day). These are some typical results our participants have shared after following the program.
Cravings for sweets disappeared
Inflammation and joint pain were dramatically reduced
Energy to spare for the first time in years
Fewer headaches, backaches, colds and flu viruses
Discovered new healthier ways to be comforted without food
Noticed clearer thinking and sharper memory function
Real food tasted good again. Really good.
Belly fat and scale numbers decreased weekly with
no hunger
The Three Prongs of 8 to Your IdealWeight
Because this program will help you live your IdealLife, I’ll be referring to you from now on as “Ideal.”
Our 8 to Your IdealWeight tagline is: Get Real. Get Healthy. Get Empowered. As I’ve mentioned, it’s about healing so much more than our food issues. We will Get Real - not just with food, but also with ourselves and each other. There are 3 prongs to this process, and all are equally important.
The 3 Prongs of the 8 to Your IdealWeight Program:
I. A Program for Weight Release Focused on Real Food
II. A Personal Empowerment Process for Real Self-Love
III. A Partner for Real Connection
I. Real Food
You’ll learn why diets don’t and can’t work, how fat doesn’t make us fat, sugar does, and how you can, like I did, release the hold that added sugars have had on your health once and forever without cravings, hunger, or feeling deprived.
Meanwhile, you’ll discover how delicious Real food (the unprocessed kind) can taste! I succeeded with this program because it didn’t require cooking skills, raw salads or smoothies. Instead, it offered a banquet of delicious, inexpensive and easy-to-prepare options.
I promise that once you stop hijacking your taste buds with highly addictive sugary foods, Real food will taste so good and sweet that you won’t crave anything else. That may be hard to believe, but it’s true.
II. Real Self-Love
After being released from the brain fog, fatigue, joint pain and despair of sugar addiction, we’ll start on an 8 High-Ways journey - learning to love ourselves and follow our dreams that have been locked away.
When I first revealed the 8 High-Ways Process in my book 8 to Great: The Powerful Process for Positive Change, it won numerous awards and was hailed by best-selling authors like Mike Dooley as “powerful from cover to cover, revealing the greatest secrets that have ever been shared.”
This personal empowerment process is designed to help you…
reconnect with the dreams you thought you had lost
honor your feelings instead of numbing them with food
make decisions that are the right ones for you every time
learn to communicate in more authentic and assertive ways
discover a powerful positive attitude formula to savor every day to the fullest
More than just the ingredients of a happy life, you will also be given the recipe.
III. Real Connection
One of the strongest prongs of our program is our very active and engaged online community. You have the option to join us. If you do, you’ll select your very own IdealWeight Coach, be supported by and get to know your support group of 10 other individuals on the program, and select or be assigned one Ideal from your small group to partner with. To find a coach or join a small group, go to www.8toyouridealweight.com.
If you don’t choose to journey with a coach or small group, it is essential that you find your own partner to Get Real with for this journey.
Either way, you’ll be sharing four things with your partner each week for 8 weeks:
Texting or emailing a checkin on eating breakfast, staying on the food program, etc.
Texting or emailing 3 new daily Gratitudes, with no repeats
Texting or emailing a weekly photo of your feet on the scale for your weight check-in
Sharing a weekly phone call to discuss your Reflection Questions from each chapter
Each section of this book will offer Reflection Questions for journaling to share with your partner. Answering these questions will be as important to your success as releasing added-sugar foods. Through the questions, you’ll have the opportunity to Get Real with each other about food, about how you’re really feeling, what you’re really thinking, and who you’re really dreaming of becoming.
“After releasing 40 pounds, I have seen firsthand how reaching out and sharing with my partner and my group has affected my release and my attitude. I couldn’t have done it without their support.”
- Linette M.
This 3-pronged program began as an engaged and enthusiastic small group of 10. Today there are thousands of participants being coached by 8 to Your IdealWeight Certified Coaches around the world. Individuals come looking not only to release their weight, but to restore their power, as Cathy did.
Cathy’s Story
Cathy decided to commit to the process after a conversation over lunch. It was a beautiful fall day, and I had just given a seminar at her workplace. As we sat down to eat, she commented on my food choices, noticing I wasn’t eating the bread on the sandwich. “If I follow your program, will I eat like that?” she asked with a bit of a grimace.
“Yes,” I replied. “And you will not only fall in love with food instead of being afraid of it, you will almost never feel hungry.”
She rolled her eyes and laughed. She couldn’t yet imagine what she’d be writing me
