How many times have your healthy diet plans ended with your hand in the cookie box or the chips bag, or with an ice cream binge because you just couldn’t stop your cravings? You tell yourself it’s stress or lack of willpower, or just a few excess calories, but as the pounds pile on, you only hope that this chubbier you is not the permanent you.

But there's a way out of this cycle and back into your healthy body, and Jill Escher, who careened from a size 12 to a size 6 in less than four months after figuring out "the secret," tells you all about it in her spunky, readable, and honest book. Forget calories, sweating and everything you thought you knew about weight loss–this new paradigm will take off your excess pounds faster and easier than you thought possible.

Dedicated to all frustrated dieters who ever thought of sugar as merely "empty calories," Jill explains the particularly pernicious role sugar plays in our vulnerable physiologies, wreaking havoc on neurochemistry and fat-regulating hormone systems alike. It then, in a readable girlfriend's guide type of style, gives you all the tools you need to overcome the sugar and starch craving cycle. Based on scientific research, discussions with experts, interviews with former and current sugar and starch addicts, and her own personal experience, this book will inspire you to see your weight problem in an entirely new light.

Sugar and starch cravings are not normal--they are a sign of biochemistry run amok, resulting from a type of slow poisoning by ubiquitous modern refined carbs, including grains, that bear little resemblance to ancestral foods our bodies are designed to metabolize. Happy and permanent weight loss requires restoring normal biochemistry while thriving on delicious, satisfying and nutritious real food, of course without the white stuff that had derailed our health and waistlines. Your fat is not your fault, but the decision to recover from sugar addiction now lies entirely in your grasp.