Sober...and Staying That Way: The Missing Link in The Cure for Alcoholism - Softcover

Powter, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684847973 ISBN 13: 9780684847979

Publisher: Touchstone, 1999

Synopsis

Stop the Insanity!, Susan Powter's first bestselling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet-and-fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, is Sober...and Staying That Way, Susan once again shares a practical and proven program: the missing link in the treatment for alcoholism.
This book isn't written just for alcoholics. It is written for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all. Alcoholism is the number-one killer of young adults in the United States, and the third-largest killer in our country. If you are interested in the missing link, you must:
* Make the alcoholism-and-disease connection
* Understand the biochemistry of alcoholics
* Make the political, profit, and powerful lobby connections to you and your sobriety
* Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs
You will be able to:
* Heal the damage that's been done
* Support the biochemical environment for sobriety
* Balance your glucose-deprived brain
Sober...and Staying That Way will show you how to get away forever from the shame-based sobriety programs, and how to work toward integrating nearly four decades of well-established research with information that is now available to you and to those you love for the treatment of the disease of alcoholism.

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Review

Alcoholics Anonymous has a 12 percent recovery rate, but what about the remaining 88 percent? "Waiting for the right time to quit, the motivation? Well, there is none," writes Susan Powter in her characteristically direct but chatty style. It's the Powter magic that makes accessible--even persuasive--what has been known in the field for almost 40 years: alcoholism is a biochemical disease. If that's the case, Powter asks in Sober ... and Staying That Way, then why the adamant belief that alcoholism is incurable? Powter's combination of personal disclosure, exposé, and a program for lasting recovery looks soberly at the biochemical and psychological components of alcoholism.

Powter's national prominence as a fitness expert and author of Stop the Insanity! made her disclosure all the more difficult. But it's when Prowter recollects her famous struggle with obesity, drawing from the lessons of goal setting and values searching, that Sober acquires credibility. There was not, she remembers, any instant cure, nor should there be for alcoholism. Recalling the discipline and self-education that preceded her dramatic weight loss, Powter discovered a vitamin-based nutrition program with an 80 percent recovery rate.

Powter presents facts unforgetably: "Did you know that alcohol is one of the richest foods known to man?... This stuff is amazing. It's got calories, it's a food, it gives you energy, but ... it's a food with only calories, nothing else.... Malnutrition. You and I are malnourished." Smart and upbeat--a combination of Powter's triumph over her ordeal with the biochemical and psychological components of recovery--Sober ... and Staying That Way is like a 12-step personal trainer.

From the Publisher

As an eleven-year-old child in a family ravaged by alcoholism, Susan Powter was one of the youngest members of Alanon. In recent years she has had to confront this disease in herself. With the same fierce determination that took her on a journey to understand and cure her own obesity in her first bestseller, Stop The Insanity, she set out to find the answers to her own alcoholism.

In SOBER...AND STAYING THAT WAY, Susan Powter shares her discovery of a vitamin-based nutrition program that has yeilded an 80% recovery rate. By combining this treatment with other crucial components -- overcoming the shame associated with the disease, healthy eating, exercise, and education -- Powter devised a program that cured her and will work for millions of others. With SOBER...AND STAYING THAT WAY, you will be able to: Make the connection between alcoholism and disease Make the connection between politicts, profit, powerful lobbyists, and your sobriety Heal the damage caused by alcoholism Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs

At once a personal story, an exposé, and a program for lasting recovery, SOBER...AND STAYING THAT WAY isn't just for alcoholics. It is for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all.

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684847973
• ISBN 13: 9780684847979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320