Year of No Sugar (34 page)

My blog
Ayearofnosugar.com
formed the basis of much of this book, cataloguing our year as we went. I owe a great debt to the faithful readers and the frequent comment-posters whose stories and enthusiasm were deeply inspiring. Likewise thanks to bloggers David Gillespie (
howmuchsugar.com
), Betsy Shaw (
numbmum.com
), and Craig Goodwin (
www.yearofplenty.org
), who loaned me their enthusiasm when I desperately needed it, as well as so many of their wonderful readers by linking to my posts.

Of course, I must thank the man himself who started it all: Dr. Robert Lustig. Not only did he change our lives with that one daring lecture, but throughout our Year of No Sugar, he repeatedly astounded me by answering all of my inane email questions: every single one. I get the feeling that if Dr. Lustig thought he could solve the obesity epidemic by going from door to door and simply talking with people, one by one, he'd get out his comfortable shoes and start ringing doorbells.

Great thanks to Angela Miller, who, Clark Kent–like, changes from crack New York City literary agent to Vermont goat farmer in the blink of an eye: I don't know how you do it all, but I'm so very, very glad you do.

And deep gratitude to my editor Shana Drehs, who, with her red pencil wand in hand, is the fairy godmother of this book. Thank you for helping me find the carriage in the pumpkin patch.

Much love and appreciation to Mom and Dad. Dad, your Friday night pesto made me excited about food; Mom, your passion for words and getting them right made me excited about writing. So, basically, all of this is both of your faults.

Lastly I must thank my husband, Steve, who is my partner in everything, who reads what I write and always tells me what he thinks. Steve, the one-man tech team, without whom I could not tell the “up” end of a computer from a tin of anchovies. Steve, who could've looked at me that day, when I first proposed our “family project,” and said just about anything but what he did say…

“A
whole year
without sugar? Hmmmmmm.”

Eve O. Schaub lives with her family in Vermont and enjoys performing experiments on them so she can write about it. She was voted by her high school class “the funniest person Steve Martin has never met” and likes to spend her spare time wandering picturesque back roads composing limericks in Portuguese. She imagines it would be fun to win several important awards. She enjoys writing about herself in the third person.