Going on a zero-sugar diet means removing all refined sugar from your diet, so you can eat sautéed potatoes with garlic, and eat fruit, but you're seriously skimping on the mille-feuille. In zero sugar, Danielle Gerkens recounts her experience of going a year without sugar. A diary of a good friend where she hides nothing of her temptations and where she tells us about the pounds lost, the well-being regained. Everything that changed in his life by quitting sugar.
Yes of course like all of us. They are all somewhat similar. They're written by middle-aged men, usually nutritionists or doctors, who come in and say, forget everything you've been told about diets. Of course he gives his name to the regime, not megalomaniac. And in general he opens a small online store to sell us the products he recommends. Gros rascal, he wants money. But did he spend three days eating only apples, as he advises. No, I do not think so. Nor did he walk the aisles of the canteen with a ham, egg salad platter (without fries and without bread). Danielle Gerkens' book is exactly the opposite.
Because it is written by a woman, because this woman tells us about HER experience because she tells us that she screwed up, that she broke down or that she was tempted. She recounts her fourth No sugar morning as follows:“Breakfast makes me want to cry I WANT jam! Or honey in a pinch. I divert attention by making myself a pear. Bad luck, she's floury. (…) At 10:45 a.m. I am dying to eat something. I'm going around the cupboards, heartbroken.. All that nibbles is SUGAR!!! I decide to bring the lunch forward. And to tell the truth we also really like chapter 7 where after five months without sugar, Danielle steps on the scale to discover that she has lost 2 kilos.
In addition to her experience throughout her book, Danielle Gerkens takes us on her investigation of sugar, indeed, this young mother is also a journalist. She doesn't leave us there with a menu list for the week and a few mantras to repeat to herself. In “Zero Sugars” she tells us the how and the why. And since she thinks we can understand even the most advanced scientific explanations, we follow her. We understand, for example, how consuming sugar can also cause us to age prematurely. Besides, the book allows us to realize that we live in a sweet society. It's everywhere, and there's nothing natural about consuming so much of it.
As we have already said, what makes this book enjoyable and makes us read it like a novel (a good thing) is that the one who wrote it lives what she tells, she embodies it. We see her radiant and full of life, so inevitably, we want to follow her more than a nutritionist in a suit. Ah, by the way, to answer your question. Yes with the No sugar diet, you can always drink wine, sautéed potatoes, it's ok, pizza too... Not so horrible... No, sorry Granola, that won't be possible.
the book is available at FNAC and at your local bookseller too 😉
