Life After Sugar

This is a crossover episode with my friend Michelle from the Fast and Fabulous podcast.

We talk about:

• how I fought against cutting sugar for the longest time 
• how I fell into intermittent fasting 
• how eating more often can make you feel more hungry, and eating less often can make you feel less hungry
• building our relationship up with food
• how the idea of not eating any sugar and flour/grains seems so extreme
• how we got rid of our sugar cravings
• how our relationship with sugar has changed (also as moms)
• how we started to heal our guts
• what makes our cravings, hunger levels, gut issues, and digestive issues worse (or better!)

Find Michelle's Fast and Fabulous podcast here.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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Thank you! - Netta

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Dr. Michael Mosley is the author of several books, including The Fast 800, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, and The Clever Guts Diet.

Sadly, he passed away in June 2024 while on holiday in Greece.

In this episode, I want to share with you a book report that I made a couple of years ago for the members of the After Sugar Club private community (find us here).

This episode is my summary of his book The Clever Guts Diet that was published in 2017. This book (and this episode) talks about gut health and its importance for your general health, and also for weight and hunger.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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My guest this week is Nikki, who's a fellow mom with 3 boys at home. 

In this episode, we talk about whole foods, how she feeds her family, and how she helps other moms find more energy in the sometimes overwhelming life that we live as moms.

Nikki grew up with pretty healthy meals, usually some sort of meat or fish and  vegetables. Rarely desserts, she says - they were just for special occasions.

And in college, she went through a phase where she didn't eat as healthy as she should. And once she moved out on her own, she wasn't making much money, so she went more for convenience foods. 

However, as a mom, she's grown and learned and focused on always having veggies, fruits and whole foods in the house. And that's also when Nikki realized just how much sugar and how many chemicals are added to processed foods. 

And and so it was only when she changed her diet that she realized why she wasn't feeling well. 

Without the extra hidden sugar, she felt so much better. Her skin looks better. She feels better. Her stomach feels better. Just everything feels so much better.

Nikki is now much more aware of how much added sugar goes into certain products. Just because a product looks healthy, or it's gluten free, the marketing does a really great job of portraying only specific aspects, she says.

But when you really start to look deep into some of these ingredients and some of the labels, you start to recognize that they're adding in hidden sugars. 

Now Nikki helps other moms juggle family, work, and me-time without the stress. She shares easy, real-life tips to help them stay energized, so they can tackle their day and enjoy time with their family.

Find Nikki here.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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From November 2023 to June 2024, we had an Italian student staying with us. Not exactly an exchange student, more like a big brother for our daughter.

And during those months of his stay with us, I learned quite a few things about food, especially carbs like pasta and flour.

For example: 

• teenage boys eat a LOT!
• he doesn't eat between meals
• he doesn't often eat desserts
• he didn't grow up with junk food or processed foods
• he tried some North American junk foods and wasn't impressed
• he's used to eating pasta every day, but he's still slim
• he doesn't like vegetables, but he's still healthy
• most Italian flour isn't as refined as white flour
• spending time on cooking and eating with family is a top priority for his family and for ours

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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From early childhood, Siobhan remembers sneaking cookies before anyone else woke up in the morning. Even as a toddler, she was never able to eat sugar in moderation.
Once she hit puberty, this addiction caused her to gain weight and so she started dieting, which led to a diet/binge cycle that lasted decades.

After college, Siobhan struggled more and more with weight control and grew increasingly more frustrated around food. 

She tried every diet, workout method, therapist, alternative modality and vitamin/supplement regimen known... but NOTHING worked.

It was when Siobhan found out about about food addiction that she finally decided to abstain from all sugar and all flour to really overcome her addiction.

Although she was terrified at the idea, she committed to doing it for one year, beginning in January of 2018. 

In Part 1 of our chat together, listen to how Siobhan reached that initial goal,  and why she has continued to commit to living a sugar-free, flour-free lifestyle for life. 

Find Siobhan here and her podcast Unsweetened Sio here.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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Claire grew up in New England with European parents. She enjoyed a whole foods diet and loved fresh seasonal foods, including fruit, vegetables, and cheeses.

Processed foods didn't hold much attraction for her. She grew up loving to cook. So she didn't eat foods with added sugars.

So she didn't feel like she was missing out.

But with the stress from her job and the breakdown of her marriage, Claire suffered from debilitating adrenal fatigue. She was in her early 40s.

After many appointments with doctors, she went to see a naturopath who recommended she cut foods that include dairy, soy, and gluten to reduce her inflammation. Cutting sugar was a given.

But Claire was confused about what she could eat. She didn't feel supported.  So it was hard to stick to these changes, because she didn't understand the information she was given.

It was only when Claire got the right kinds of tests that she was able to get to the root cause of her fatigue and inflammation. And she decided to educate herself and to help others.

Find Claire here.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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Susannah grew up with a typical North American diet. Sugar was part of that diet, and sweets were a very big part of her family's everyday life.

Susannah's mother would serve ice cream every night after dinner, and every weekend she would bake something like a cake, cookies, or a pie.

Sugar is a part of daily life, she says, and nobody thought about it.

Many years later, when her mother was in a care home with Alzheimer's, Susannah discovered that Alzheimer's is sometimes misdiagnosed Lyme disease. When she consulted for achy joints and brain fog, Susannah found out that she had Lyme disease.

So her doctor recommended she stop eating all grains, all gluten, and all sugar to reduce inflammation in her body. Which meant cutting out her favourite comfort foods.

And what Susannah had to learn next was how to find comfort from other sources.
Now Susannah uses hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis to help others reduce anxiety without needing sugar.

Find Susannah here.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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In this short episode, you'll get some consumer tips for how to spot hidden sugar in cereal.

For example:

1. Beware of health claims on the packaging!
2. Read the list of ingredients before you look at the Nutrition Facts table.
3. Watch out for the serving amount.
4. The amount of total carbohydrates does not always tell the whole story (find out why in this episode!).
5. Stick to real, whole foods to start your day.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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Danielle's journey with sugar started in childhood. 
She remembers that sugar was a massive part of her upbringing.

With her family, she always had ice cream after dinner.  Sugar was always a treat.
They even had a trunk in their house that had little goodie bags with sweet treats for whenever she and her brother were good. 

So there was a lot of rewarding with sugar.
As a child, Danielle was an extremely picky eater. She ate lots of carbs, like white pasta and rice cakes... which, she says, no doubt really put her on a blood sugar roller coaster at a very young age.

Danielle says that sugar was the coping and addictive mechanisms that had been handed down through her family line.  
Her mom, she explains, was someone who never felt emotions, and she used food to numb and escape. So Danielle got that pattern from her.

But then in her late twenties, Danielle started looking more deeply into her early childhood traumas and what contributed to the addictive patterning in her brain.
And that was the start of an awakening for her.   

Listen to Danielle describe her slow 3-year process to finally feel free from the hold sugar had on her.

Find Danielle here.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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Do you remember Episode 6 of the Life After Sugar podcast, where I interviewed my daughter Lily?
She was 12 at the time. She's 16 now.

In this special Mother's Day edition, I take a quick trip down memory lane to revisit some of what Lily talked about with relation to my hiding chocolate in the car,  her Halloween candies, and her own interest in sugar.

Whether or not you have kids or grandkids, this episode is for you if you want to know how to be a positive role model with respect to sugar for the next generation.

To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day 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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Disclaimer: Information provided by Life After Sugar is not designed to and does not provide medical advice, professional diagnosis, opinion, treatment or services to you or to any other individual. This is general information for educational purposes only. The information provided ...