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118. "As a marathon runner, I don't need sugar for energy": Greg Apr 16, 2023

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Greg's been a marathon runner for years.
He'd always believed that you need to "carb load" before and during a long-distance run.
So he would use gels and other quick-burning sugars to get an energy boost. But then he'd suffer from the energy crash that came with them, as well as cramping.
What Greg found after several experiments was that he runs better and longer with other sources of fuel: protein and fat.
And also, it's not just what runners eat on the day, but also in between races or marathons that makes a difference: You can't run off a bad diet!
Now Greg sees rewards as foods that make him feel good and run better. He recognizes that for his physiology, less processed foods and much less sugar works for him.
Whether you're a marathon runner or you lead a more sedentary lifestyle, Greg has some inspiring insight about living a happy and healthy life.
To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier intermittent fasting lifestyle with less sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
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117. "Eating less sugar and IF helped reduce my menopause symptoms": Karen Apr 09, 2023

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Karen started having menopausal symptoms around age 39. At the time, she had two small kids and a busy health journalism career.
Her list of symptoms included fatigue, hot flushes, insomnia, irritability, brain fog, memory loss, overwhelm, loss of libido, weight gain and vertigo... and she realized that they were related to her hormones and not just her stressful life.
After being diagnosed with early menopause, Karen was left to her own devices and spent several years trying everything to feel better and keep her weight off.

It wasn’t until she turned 50 that she stumbled upon the answer: Intermittent Fasting.
And to Karen's delight, IF was the perfect way to change her eating habits. She'd tried cutting sugar in the past, but she kept "falling off the wagon". However, with IF, her tastes started to change, and she was more attracted to real whole foods, and less to sweet and processed foods.
In this episode, we talk about all things menopause... and how IF and eating whole foods in your window can keep insulin low and help with menopause symptoms.
Find Karen here: https://karenfinn.net/, and her Facebook group Fasting4Menopause here.
To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier intermittent fasting lifestyle with less sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
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116. Small but powerful mindset tips for sugar free living Apr 02, 2023

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You probably don't want to "give up" sugar.
Who would?
I certainly didn't!
But actually, you're gaining far more than you're losing.
The key to living your "life after sugar" has as much to do with your mindset and beliefs as with what's on your plate (or not).
In this episode, you'll get some small but powerful mindset shifts and tips to help you reframe how you see sugar and your relationship with it... and your life!
You'll get some of my tips from inside of the After Sugar Club, and also tips from lots of other people who are on the path to living their sugar free life!
To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier intermittent fasting lifestyle with less sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
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115. "Stabilizing blood sugar and insulin is key to better health": Victoria Mar 26, 2023

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All through her youth and her studies, Victoria (VJ) suffered from chronic fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, unexplained lightheadedness, swollen and painful joints, and cravings.
She also had the symptoms of multiple autoimmune disorders that she'd been diagnosed with from the age of 7.
As a result, VJ went on to study immunology at university and focused on autoimmune disease. But learning about the underlying biology of autoimmune disease gave her no solutions for easing her symptoms.
So she went into nutritional therapy training, and started to understand that uncovering the root causes of her conditions was a better approach than just trying to appease her symptoms. And she transformed her health within 12 months – no napping, no aching muscles and restless legs, no irritated and inflamed skin, and best of all, her brain was back.
Stabilizing her blood sugar and insulin was key to improving VJ's health and her autoimmune disorders. In this episode, VJ shares the diet and lifestyle changes she made, especially vastly reducing sugar and processed foods.
Find VJ here: https://theautoimmunitynutritionist.com/
To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
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114. "I was addicted to sugar... Are you?": Clarissa Mar 19, 2023

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Are you a normal eater, an emotional eater, or a food addict?
Clarissa has a touching history of disordered eating.
In fact, she says that she's a food addict.
The problem was that for most of her life, she didn't know it. Clarissa just always thought that something was wrong with her or that she didn't have enough willpower when it came to how much she ate.
In this episode, Clarissa shares her story about how she fought daily to control her weight and her obsessive compulsive thinking about food.
It was only when Clarissa was introduced to the concept of food addiction that it was like someone finally switched on a light in her mind.
She learned about the dangers of sugar, and how it negatively affects all aspects of our overall health. She learned to eat real whole foods, and not to be scared of healthy fats. Her whole relationship with food completely changed.
Clarissa had been working in the field of addictions and mental health for years, but then she started studying how certain types of foods (sugar/flour/grains) have the ability to activate the pleasure centre of the brain, exactly like hard drugs do.
This was the key to her stopping the addictive cycle.
Now Clarissa teaches that food is not the enemy, diets are. And she's not ashamed to say that she was addicted to processed foods.
In the "Sweet Sobriety" online coaching and community for food addiction, Clarissa helps her clients feel relief when the mind chatter with food stops. The goal is for you to find peace with food, with eating disorders, and with food addiction.
Find Clarissa at Sweet Sobriety here.

To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!
To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
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113. Are we addicted to dopamine? Mar 12, 2023

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Have you heard of the book "Dopamine Nation", written by Dr. Anna Lembke?
As a psychiatrist, the author explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it.
In this episode, I summarize parts of Dr. Lembke's book.
Disclaimer: It isn't specifically about sugar.
But I can definitely see a parallel between the need for a dopamine high from drugs and other types of addictive behaviours, and our addiction to highly palatable processed food products, most of which contain refined sugar and flour.
This episode talks about:

what dopamine is
what neurotransmitters are
motivation and pleasure
the addictive potential of a behaviour or drug
the brain's reward pathway
the pleasure-pain balance
how some brains are more wired for addiction
food addiction
the link between alcohol, sugar, and liquid sugar (like soda or juice)
why we're more vulnerable to overconsumption in our Western culture
the "dopamine fast"
the advantages of abstinence
feeling good versus feeling "less bad"
how to get smaller doses of dopamine and feel good in other ways than with sugar
how Life After Sugar can help YOU live a more joyful life without needing a dopamine high from sugar

Find "Dopamine Nation" here.
To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
To rate and review this podcast:

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112. How sugar causes cravings and insulin resistance: Dr. Teitelbaum Mar 05, 2023

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Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum is a nationally known expert in the USA in the fields of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, sleep, and pain.
His own personal story is touching and inspiring, and he tells about his own health struggles in this episode.
In this episode, Dr. Teitelbaum also talks about 4 major sources of cravings:

low energy
feeling irritable when hungry ("hangry") - low blood sugar
candida or yeast overgrowth
menopause/hormones that trigger anxiety & depression

We also talk about insulin resistance on a cellular level, and he explains how blood sugar and insulin work, and how insulin is involved with fat storage, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, low blood sugar, mood swings, cortisol, and adrenal fatigue.
There is no "one size fits all" approach, but his (and my!) conclusion is this:
Eat real whole foods that are nutrient dense and that don't spike your insulin.
Find Dr. Teitelbaum's books here: https://secure.endfatigue.com/products/books

To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!
To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
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111. "I don't need alcohol or sugar as a coping skill anymore": Kate Feb 26, 2023

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Kate Bee is the founder of The Sober School. Right back from her childhood surrounded by family members who drank, she says that alcohol was the most normalized drug around.
When she became an adult, Kate used alcohol to be cool, as well as to help her forget about all the things that she thought were wrong with her.
Looking back, she realizes that she'd also used food for comfort and reward... especially sugar. Sugar helped her cope with her feelings and was an end-of-the-day stress buster, she says.
And when Kate entered her 20s, she added alcohol to fill those same needs for comfort and stress relief. She'd come home every night and pour herself a glass of wine.
Many wines are full of sugar... and Kate recognizes now that she was using alcohol as well as sugar as an emotional crutch.
And guess what she ate while she was drinking and when she was hungover?
Sugar and junk food!
In this episode, Kate and I talk about the close relationship between sugar and alcohol, including how we use them when we have a dependency on them.
We also talk about willpower, having fun, our perceptions, social pressure, our beliefs about sugar and/or alcohol, and the freedom of living alcohol free and sugar free.
Find Kate Bee's The Sober School here.

To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!
To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
To rate and review this podcast:

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110. "Intermittent fasting helped me change my mindset about food": Martin Feb 19, 2023

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Martin was lucky enough to have 3 mothers who raised him.
As they came from the Depression, they wanted him to eat to make them happy.
So he did.
And over time, he put on weight.
And he overate, especially desserts.
Martin recognizes that he had an emotional connection to food.
As a businessman, he decided to approach his weight and health as if he was the CEO of a business.
He identified 14 problems in his life (half of them about food), and set out to find solutions for them.
One solution that Martin came across was intermittent fasting. It made total sense to him.
In this episode, Martin tells how he identified and prioritized his problems, and he shares the affirmations he created for his life. His tiny habit changes led to slow but sustainable weight loss and a complete transformation of his mind, body and spirit.
Join Martin's free Facebook group Permanent Weight Loss.
And on Twitter: @martin_sher
Get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle when you let go of sugar: Join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
To rate and review this podcast:

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109. Valentine's edition: How I broke up with chocolate Feb 12, 2023

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Hi, I'm Netta.
All my life, I loved chocolate.
Chocolate helped me to feel better whenever I felt sad, or angry, or frustrated, or bored... or when I needed comfort or a way to reward myself.
And if you were looking to give me a gift for any type of special occasion, chocolate was always the right choice!
So... what happened to make me break up with chocolate?
And how did I do it?
In this Valentine's episode, I'll tell you about my 45-year love affair with chocolate, and all the details of our sweet break-up.
Get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle when you let go of sugar: join the the After Sugar Club today!

To get rid of cravings, especially if you're an intermittent faster, download your 5 tips here.
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.
To rate and review this podcast:

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