Life After Sugar

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058: "I just couldn't stop, I was so ashamed": Zippi Feb 20, 2022

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Zippi says that she was born with a "fatal attraction" to sugar. No amount of sugar was enough for her.
When she moved to Israel and became a nurse, she knew all the theory and the caloric value of different foods.
So, as a nurse, the problem wasn't the knowledge. She knew what to do. The problem was applying that knowledge.
She felt so ashamed, like something was seriously wrong with her, because she wanted to eat healthy, she wanted to lose weight, but she was doing exactly the opposite.
It harmed her self-esteem and her self-image.
When Zippi realized that she was addicted to food - more specifically junk food - it was like a light went on. With the help of a 12-step program, Zippi got the type of support and help she needed. For the first time in her life she started abstaining from sugar a white flour.
Her recovery had started.
She started losing weight without feeling like she was on a diet.
With her experience and knowledge, she researched the science behind food addiction and became a food addiction counsellor.
Now Zippi helps food addicts in Israel who eat kosher with her science-based educational program.
Find Zippi here: https://www.facebook.com/zippilivneh/
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057. Valentine's edition: So you think you LOVE sugar? Feb 13, 2022

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Do you love sugar?
I certainly used to!
Sugar in all its forms: chocolate, desserts, ice cream, cookies, as well as bread and pasta.
But then when I stopped eating sugar, I realized that... well, maybe it wasn't really love!
In this special Valentine's edition, I encourage you to question whether the relationship you have with sugar is really "love".
Maybe it is.
Or maybe you do what I used to do, and you USE sugar for all sorts of reasons: to soothe your emotions, as a stress reliever, as a coping mechanism, as a way to celebrate...
Is it really love when what you love is actually hurting you?
That's what this episode is all about. I hope you love it. :-)
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056: "Sugar brought out my negative emotions": Paula Feb 06, 2022

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Paula Yolles grew up like most people: eating sugar.
Sugar was part of her daily life.
Throughout her childhood and into adulthood and parenthood, she had stomach aches, and she was constipated, with gas and bloating. Plus she put on weight, even though her family ate relatively healthy.
After an emotional divorce, Paula needed a change.
But she never intended to stop eating sugar. (Who does?!)
Slowly, gradually, she changed her way of eating and started doing the emotional work that she needed to do to reconnect with herself.
Cutting sugar was part of that reconnection, and it helped Paula stop spinning and giving in to the negative mind chatter which was affecting her self-esteem.
Whenever she'd slip, she would quickly notice the effect sugar had on her energy, her mood, her anger, and her relationships.
In this episode, Paula tells how she created a new relationship with her food... and herself.
Join Paula's free Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hellotohealthsisterhood

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!

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055. "Just get started": 1 year later Jan 30, 2022

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On January 31, 2021 I hit "publish" and the Life After Sugar podcast was born!
In this 1st birthday edition, I'm talking about the highlights over the last year with my special guest Dan Greef from the UK Low Carb podcast.
As we were recording this podcast, it got me thinking: Making a podcast, or reducing / cutting sugar, as with anything in life, requires one thing of us:
Just get started!
It may be easier said than done (which is why I'm here - to help you take action)...
You may need help and guidance (which is why I created the 6-week Life After Sugar Program and our monthly membership the After Sugar Club)...
but nothing changes if nothing changes... as testified by the guests on the podcast over the last 12 months.
And getting started is the only way to move forward!
Thank you for listening over the past year, and for all the positive reviews and messages. Here's to many more happy years of Life After Sugar!

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!

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054. From almost blind to no more diabetes meds: Gord Jan 23, 2022

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Before January 2021, Gord Isman used food to alleviate stress, isolation, and tough emotions. He would turn to food to find solace.
Over the course of the pandemic, Gord says he started to get lazy with his eating, and would turn to pizza, Chinese food, sweets, soda, and late-night snacking. And of course, he started to gain weight.
On January 18 2021, Gord had to be taken to the hospital in an emergency. He thought that his recent rapid weight loss was a good thing. But he was also not sleeping well because he had dry mouth. He was having to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes. He just wasn't feeling right.
And then he started to lose his vision.
After blood tests and scans at the hospital, Gord was told that he was considered DKA status, in other words, in diabetic ketoacidosis. He was close to a diabetic coma and could have died.
Listen to Gord's courageous and inspiring story of how he turned his health around and is now diabetes free and medication free!
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Get a sneak peek here into our monthly membership, the After Sugar Club and join us to get ongoing support, guidance and accountability to break free from sugar for good.

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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053. "I wanted to get to the heart of my problem with sugar": Debbie Jan 16, 2022

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This week's episode is a sneak peek into our regular support calls, which I call "check-in calls".
These calls allows participants to share their challenges, their wins and their aha! moments and get all the empathetic support, encouragement and accountability they need. This is where we have real, personal interactions in a safe environment.
We go way deeper than just talking about food and sugar.
Debbie joined the Life After Sugar Program after she'd tried keto, and she knew that she had to get to the heart of her problem with sugar. With her permission, I'm sharing one of her big wins during this call.
Veronica also shares her experience with mindless snacking and becoming more mindful and aware.
And Ellen shares about what attracted her to the program, even though she already has a science background. Spolier alert: it was all the info about gut health and the microbiome. She was also looking to change her habits and to her surprise, she discovered what made her cravings disappear!
If the Life After Sugar Program sounds like a good fit for you, go here.
If you would like to join the monthly After Sugar Club, go 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!

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052. "The benefits go far beyond weight loss": Laura Jan 09, 2022

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Laura Bonicelli grew up with Italian food in Minnesota. With home-cooked meals and surrounded by a close community, she became a chef. She created a meal delivery service to bring fresh, organic meals to people.
Her business allowed her to learn about all kinds of different needs and eating habits, and this led her to develop a meal plan for weight loss. After she closed her own restaurant, she opened her cooking club in order to teach people home cooking.
Laura realized that her own diet had become carb-based, with too much cheese and the addition of sneaky sugars. She gained about 50lbs, she had joint pain, and other niggling health issues.
So she came up with a formula for herself. Apart from the food, mindfulness is a big part of it. As a food lover, Laura is also a "moderator" who can work with portion control.
Once she changed her diet, aside from weight loss, Laura experienced so many benefits: her joint pain went away, her hair became much healthier, her skin improved, her gastro-intestinal problems stopped, her stress was lower, she could wear the clothes she used to 20 years ago, and she became all-round happier.
Listen to how Laura is helping others discover the benefits of a whole foods diet.
Find Laura's cooking club here: https://bonicellicookingclub.com/
Download your simple guide to getting more energy with less sugar here.
To get support, guidance and accountability and break free from sugar for good, join us in 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!

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051. "I just can't have sugar in the house": Jen Jan 02, 2022

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Dr. Jen Unwin is a clinical psychologist and a self-confessed lifelong carbohydrate addict. She's the author of Fork in the Road.
In this episode, she tells her own personal story about her addiction to sugar and all processed carbs. From her early childhood, through her teens and into adulthood, Jen had a love-hate relationship with food, especially sugar. Her mother was always on a diet and Jen herself started dieting at about age 16. She tried all the fad diets - all of them!
That set off an up-and-down cycle with her weight. She followed the popular advice to eat "everything in moderation", not realizing that she has the sort of brain that can't moderate certain foods (ie: refined carbs like sugar and flour).
This went on until her early 40s, when she stumbled across a book called "Escape The Diet Trap", which was basically about low carb eating.
Jen tells how her whole world changed after that, and how she now helps people who suffer with food addiction. As a medical professional, she understands food and sugar addiction because she's been there.
After working for over 30 years in the NHS, Jen now spends her time researching, campaigning and writing about sugar addiction. She is a founding member of the Public Health Collaboration, a UK charity campaigning for better public health advice.
Find Dr. Jen Unwin here: https://forkintheroad.co.uk/
Download your simple guide to getting more energy with less sugar here: https://aftersugarclub.com/energy-guide/.
To get all the support, encouragement and accountability you need every month in order to break free from sugar for good, join us in the After Sugar Club!

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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050. "You can heal yourself with food": Vikki Dec 26, 2021

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Vikki Jones is a former competitive athlete. She moved from the UK to the US in the 1980s and excelled in the pentathlon. She had a coach for every sport she did, as well as being supported by the US Olympic Committee.
In this episode, Vikki tells how as an athlete, she wasn't taught how to eat. Because she was so active, she would pick herself up with sugar to get quick energy. She would "carb load" before any sporting event.
When she retired from professional sports, she realized that her education in nutrition was missing, so she started to study it. In her Master's degree in human nutrition in the 90s, she was taught that fat is bad and that artificial sweeteners were better than sugar.
Only years later did Vikki read more about fats and sugars. She tells about how her own education evolved, how she started questioning what she was taught, and how she is able to help others now.
She has come to the conclusion that food is medicine, because we all need good nutrition, not just as professional athletes. Vikki also tells about her experience with long Covid, from which she still suffers today, but how looking after her own nutrition and keeping sugar to a minimum has helped her.
Here's where to find Vikki: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondFitness.VikkiArmstrong
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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049. Hormones, menopause, cancer, and sugar: Megan Dec 19, 2021

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Megan Lifto is a nurse who's had her own health issues, including having her ovaries removed. She knew that the decrease in estrogen would affect her metabolism, and indeed her weight went up 60lbs, mostly around her belly, even though she was still active.
With the extra weight, she started to have joint pain when she bent down, as well as in her hands. Some hormone therapy (low dose estrogen) helped her lose 10lbs right away.
What does this have to do with sugar?
Well, the hormone fluctuations that Megan was experiencing also brought with them intense sugar cravings. She used ice cream or donuts to calm her pain and give her comfort... but the cravings kept coming. She was experiencing energy crashes and disturbed sleep, and her weight loss stalled.
Listen to Megan's tips for what she did and what you can do if you're suffering from hormonal swings, menopause, cancer or other related health issues.
Find Megan here: https://www.facebook.com/comfortcareexpert/
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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