WIN THE WAR ON SUGAR

IN THIS EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM HIS NEW BOOK, ZERO SUGAR DIET, MEN'S FITNESS UNLOCKS THE SECRET TO ACHIEVING THE PERFECT HEALTHY DIET: MASTERING THE DAILY BALANCING ACT BETWEEN SUGAR AND FIBRE. WITH THIS DETAILED AND DELICIOUS PLAN, YOU'LL GAIN MUSCLE, LOSE WEIGHT, AND FEEL GREAT - FOR LIFE.

ΟΝΕ MY STRUGGLE WITH SUGAR

IF YOU ASKED THE 25-YEAR-OLD ME TO PREDICT WHAT my 40s would look like, I would have used just one word to describe them: fat.

Fat was my inevitable destiny. I'd grown up as a lonely latchkey kid with a serious sugar addiction; my best friends were the Three Musketeers, and all I knew of the world outside my suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood was French vanilla, English toffee, and Dutch chocolate. When my 90 kilograms went into the US Navy Reserves after college, I could see the disgust on the faces of the basic-training instructors: Who sent us this leaky old tugboat? And how the heck are we supposed to turn it into a battleship?

The Navy did whip me into shape - morning revelry of burpees and sprints for months on end will do that to you but when I entered the workforce soon after, the weight began to pile back on. So, I started exercising like a fiend, completing the New York City Marathon twice and turning the company gym into an extension of my office. But in a lot of ways, I was just trying to outrun the devil. My father had struggled with severe obesity for most of his own adulthood he'd be dead from a weight-related stroke by the time he was 52- and there was no reason to believe that destiny wasn't awaiting me too. No matter how hard I exercised, nothing could overcome my own desires for sweet, instantly gratifying confections.