Life After Sugar

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088. "Now sugar is non-negotiable for me": Scott Sep 18, 2022

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Sugar was a reward during Scott's childhood.
And as a result, Scott was overweight as a child, and his mother put him on all kinds of diets.
He felt like a disappointment at weigh-ins. It was a struggle to keep his weight down most of his life.
As he grew up, his mental framework was that sugar was a treat... it was fun and enjoyable and decadent.
But he also wondered: Why is something that tastes so good also so bad for me?
Plus he saw that sugar's in everything. It felt very confusing.
Then he made an important switch. Sugar became non-negotiable.
And yoga became an integral part of his life.
Listen to Scott's inspiring story of how he made the switch to a whole foods diet and a mindful approach to his food, his yoga practice, and his life.
Download Netta's list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting here.
Here are your 5 tips to get rid of cravings.
And to get guidance, support and accountability to let go of sugar and experience true freedom from sugar and the diet mentality, join us in the the After Sugar Club today!

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!

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087. "Cutting sugar made me stop craving it": Gabrielle Sep 11, 2022

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Gabrielle had leukemia as a very young child. But it wasn't until her 20s that she started to realize what some of the long term effects of chemotherapy were.
Gabrielle tells how during her younger years, her lack of knowledge about nutrition did her a disservice. Up to her her mid 20s, she'd been following the classic American diet. And she started having weight issues, even though she exercised a lot.
It turns out that studies are showing that a lot of young children who had cancer are more likely to be obese.
Gabrielle says that she followed terrible dietary advice. For example, she was consuming a high amount of dairy... including drinking large amounts of milk. And she often ate ice cream. And cheese. For Gabrielle and her brother, dairy gave them physical symptoms. So she cut milk, gradually... and after about 3 months she stopped craving it.
For Gabrielle, gradually replacing dairy products (and other types of foods) means she can moderate them now.
Once she was in her mid 20s, she started to learn more about functional nutrition, and adopted a more holistic approach to her health. She recognizes that the sugary foods she was hooked on as a child were the hardest to cut as an adult. But she learned to cut certain foods (and behaviours) that weren't benefitting her.
Find Gabrielle here: https://morningteacoaching.com/
Get my 5 tips for getting rid of cravings here.
And for more guidance, support, and accountability to help you let go of sugar without the need for willpower, so that you don't need it or miss it anymore become a member of the After Sugar Club here!

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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086. "Now I enjoy cooking with real, whole foods": Annie Sep 04, 2022

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Annie chose to be vegetarian early on in her life, but unfortunately she ate a lot of processed grains rather than fruit and vegetables. She admits that she didn't really know what to focus on at that time.
"My body never felt great and my mind never really felt great", Annie told me.
It took several years of figuring out which way of eating worked for her. She tried several diets, including the keto diet which is heavy on fats and meat, with very little sugar.
Living in Wisconsin, Annie gradually became involved in local food systems, farming, and gardening. Her focus shifted to foods that could be grown and sourced locally, which naturally led to a more plant-based diet (although it still includes some meat).
Annie's learning about what makes her body feel good - and whole foods are a big part of that. And during the pandemic, like many people, Annie found that cooking at home became a bigger part of her life. But a lot of online recipes are buried in pop-ups and ads and long text, which made it frustrating to use them.
So Annie created https://recip.ly/, which is the first ad-free subscription-based recipe platform that is equitable to small creators. Bloggers and recipe developers submit their content to the platform, and get paid on a per-view basis of their recipe. Users can access unlimited recipes with zero distractions, ads, or popups on a subscription basis.
Listen to Annie's inspiring story of cutting sugar naturally through adopting a whole foods diet, and how you can use https://recip.ly/ to get all the recipes you need!
Get some free resources form Life After Sugar here:
Download your simple guide to getting more energy here.
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.
Ready to get the guidance, support, encouragement and accountability to be able to let go of sugar in a deep and sustainable way? Sign up to be part of the After Sugar Club here!

Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.
Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.com

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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085. You can't fail at your life after sugar! Aug 28, 2022

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I know a thing or two about failing - I've been a teacher for 30 years!
But I'm not talking about passing or failing exams here.
This episode is about the feeling of failure many of us have had in the past, about our weight especially. And I blame the diet industry for manufacturing this fear of failure!
It was only when I stopped eating sugar in July 2015 that I was able to step out of this pass-fail mentality. And I created my own reality!
Fear of failure is natural when we risk doing something new - that's what learning is all about. But if we let go of an all-or-nothing perfectionist approach, and accept that the learning process (and life in general!) is IMperfect... then there is no failure!
"You can't fail - you can only learn". That's the message in this episode!
Ready to get the guidance, support, encouragement and accountability to be able to let go of sugar in a deep and sustainable way? Sign up to be part of the After Sugar Club here!
Get some free resources here:
Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting 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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084. "I'm so much more aware now": Rochelle Aug 21, 2022

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In this episode, you'll get a "sneak peek" into the check-in calls that we have in the After Sugar Club. You'll be in good company with Eloisa, Rochelle, Wendy and Debbie.
Curious about what kinds of things we talk about (and how we have fun together!)?

The link between sugar, hunger, and intermittent fasting.
How members deal with social situations, like a birthday.
What we take along to parties and social occasions.
How we all have different tastes and eating habits.
How we step out of the diet mentality and perfectionism.
How the members' level of awareness about their relationship with sugar is heightened and sustainable.
How surprisingly fast the changes can come.
How members get the guidance, support, and encouragement they need.
How the group dynamic helps members share honestly and bravely so that they can make steps forward.

You're always welcome to join us in our check-in calls! Sign up to be part of the After Sugar Club here!
Get some free resources here:
Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting 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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083: "The better I feel, the more I want to feel good": Barbi Aug 14, 2022

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Barbi has a special place in my heart.
Early in 2022, she followed my step-by-step process over 6 weeks to let go of sugar.
We really dove deep into her relationship with sugar, and as you'll hear, Barbi made huge strides in her awareness of her relationship with sugar over a short period of time.
(The Life After Sugar Program that Barbi followed is not available now, but the After Sugar Club is open! Click here to find out more about the After Sugar Club!)
Barbi signed up because she was ready and committed to get to the heart of her attraction to sugary foods. She wanted to be healthier, lose weight, be comfortable in her clothes, stop being a homebody, reduce her medications, make her intermittent fasting easier, and change her behaviour... and her mindset!
She realized that changing not just her behaviour with sweet foods and drinks but here relationship with them was the key. Barbi wanted to feel good!
But she needed help, support, and accountability.
Listen to Barbi's inspiring story in this episode. It includes her growing awareness, her ups and downs, her new habits, and her amazing and touching breakup letter to sugar.
Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting here.

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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082. Listener question: What about fruit?? Aug 07, 2022

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This is a question I get asked all the time: What about fruit??
And:
Netta, do you eat fruit?
The short answer: Yes. Yes, Netta eats fruit.
Whether or not you eat fruit is entirely up to you!
The long answer is in this episode.
This episode talks about:

why I say: "I eat as much fruit as I want, as often as I want" (and it's the same for sugar!)
why I'm not always looking for sweet tastes
fructose in fruit and in sugar/HFCS
high sugar and low sugar fruits
whole fruit vs juice and smoothies
organic or not?
seasonal vs imported
vitamin C
dried fruit
fructose and fatty liver
fructose malabsorption (FODMAP)

To get personalized guidance to stop emotional eating and break free from sugar cravings, plus support and accountability... join the 12-week program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.

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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081. “For me, less sugar and fasting are forms of self-care": Michelle Jul 31, 2022

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When Michelle was in her 30s, she got gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with her second child.
She had to change her diet and she felt restricted, so after she had the baby and was told that she could eat "normally" again, she went bonkers! She would buy dozens of candy bars, eat them, and hide the wrappers. She felt so ashamed.
At 5 feet 3 inches Michelle reached 200lbs. She felt heavy, physically and mentally. She felt lost. She had pain and flare-ups in her neck and back, migraines... it was hard. And she says that the sugar and processed foods she was consuming made every day more difficult.
Michelle was never allowed sugar as a child by her "health nut" mother (her words), so she felt deprived. She feels today that it's a difficult balancing act between feelings of deprivation and dependency.
When her youngest child was about 2.5, Michelle was using calorie cutting and exercise to lose weight, but it wasn't really working. After her wellness appointment with her doctor, she made a decision to do something different.
She overheard somebody talking about intermittent fasting (IF). It sounded crazy to her! But then she did some research about it and discovered Gin Stephen's books. On January 24, 2020, Michelle started intermittent fasting. She started with a 14-hour fasting time, which was amazing because she'd been used to snacking all the time.
After about 3 months, she was clean fasting 18 hours a day. In this episode, Michelle tells how her life and her health were transformed by IF.
Now Michelle enjoys non-food ways to practice self-care, including intermittent fasting.
Find Michelle's Facebook group here.
Find Michelle's "Fast and Fabulous" podcast here.
Download Netta's list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting.

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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080. FAQs about sugar and intermittent fasting Jul 24, 2022

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In this episode, you’ll get the answers to frequently asked questions such as:

What is intermittent fasting (IF)?
Won't I get hungry if I don't eat?
How are sugar and IF connected?

Find these FAQs on my website here.

Are you saying that I can’t eat sugar ever again?
I thought cutting calories was the way to lose weight. What’s all the fuss about insulin?
Isn't it unhealthy to skip meals or fast for many hours?
What are fermented foods and what’s the connection with gut health?

Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting here.
Also, get my 5 tips for getting rid of cravings here.
And for more guidance, support, and accountability to help you let go of sugar so that your intermittent fasting lifestyle becomes easy and natural, become a member of the After Sugar Club here!

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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079: "I let go of my addiction to sugar one day at a time": Natalie Jul 17, 2022

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Natalie Speakman was a teenage drug addict and alcoholic.
She got clean and sober when she was 22 years old, but continued to smoke cigarettes for 18 months after. And then her food and sugar consumption went way up.
In this episode Natalie tells how she remembers that eating sugar made her feel "high" and gave her a shift in her mood. For years after she got sober, she used to eat desserts and sugar alone every night. The thing is, Natalie was very health conscious... but she was still eating lots of sugar.
After 20 years of sugar addiction, Natalie decided to stop eating sugar, one day at a time. She tells about her recovery journey and her struggles with cravings and repetitive Day 1s.
Natalie has been in 12-step programs since she was 17 years old, and that approach suits her. Now she is sugar free, and she still eats fruit and smoothies, but no added sugar. She now identifies herself as being sugar free.
Find Natalie here: https://nataliemspeakman.com/
Get my 5 tips for getting rid of cravings here.
And for more guidance, support, and accountability to help you let go of sugar so that your intermittent fasting lifestyle becomes easy and natural, become a member of the After Sugar Club here!
Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.
Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.com

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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