p28 Some carbohydrate addicts report that they feel hungry immediately after eating carbohydrates. They never feel satisfied. Cas recognize the desire to eat isn’t logical, because they know they’re not really hunger in the sense of requiring nourishment. But the drive to eat is hard to deny….eating out of habit, almost unconsciously satisfying a compulsion….Sometimes the desire to eat can be overwhelming, virtually compelling you to satisfy it. Many Cas report that their cravings grow stronger each time they eat carbohydrates… For CAs consuming carbohydrate-rich foods produces a compulsion to eat…Unfortunately, the problem doesn’t end there. In the presence of the excess insulin, the body also becomes very good at conserving energy. So while the CA gets hungrier with each carbohydrate-rich meal, the body gets better at storing enery—in the form of fat.

P29 Through our research we discovered that it isn’t only the amount of carbohydrates eaten that matters—it is also how frequently the are eaten…Personally and professionally, we discovered that any weight-loss diet that prescribes three or more small meals each day containing anything more than minor amounts of carbohydrates will ultimately fail with the CA. Such a diet will trigger the insulin response and signal the CA to eat once again..In general, we direct our dieters to eat two high-fiber…low-carbohydrate meals each day and to confine their carbohydrate-rich foods to one daily sixty minute sitting that makes up the third meal. In this way, recurring cravings, and weight gain is corrected. Insulin release is dramatically reduced. The carbohydrate addict feels satisfied—and stays satisfied for many hours. Weight drops off naturally, fat deposits decrease, and the addictive cycle is broken.

P33 The standard diet plans don’t work for CAs—and CAs blame themselves…With diets, most of us forget common sense. We pick a diet..giving little thought to our needs, our preferences, our strengths, our weaknesses, or specific metabolic levels. We take what me (or may not be appropriate for someone else and assume that it should be correct for us. We don’t look at what we need. Then we blame ourselves when, in the long run, it doesn’t work. The diet that fails us is interpreted as our own failure. Maybe, just maybe, that’s because it wasn’t an appropriate plan in the first place. And the CA diet just might be.

P46 For CAs, this means that by changing the number of times they consume carbohydrates each day, they can reduce the intensity and recurrence of hunger and cravings and increase their body’s tendency to lose weight.

P58 Remember…Not Everybody’s a Carbohydrate Addict. Not everyone who is addicted to carbohydrates is overweight, and not everyone who is overweight is a CA.

P58 Remember…Not Everybody’s a Carbohydrate Addict. Not everyone who is addicted to carbohydrates is overweight, and not everyone who is overweight is a CA.

P79-80Addiction Triggers—anger you can’t express, anxiety, depression, frustration, self-blame, changes in home/work life, exercise, illness, pregnancy, premenstrual changes, quitting smoking, extreme dieting, fasting, the sight or smell of food, rapid weight gain/loss.

P103 One piece of fruit eaten at other than your reward meal can reverse the whole metabolic process that is emptying your fat cells…Even Complementary foods should not be eaten between meals.