Life After Sugar

A listener recently asked me this question: "How strict are you, Netta?"

It's a great question, so I thought I'd take the time to answer it properly.

In this episode, you'll learn about:

• my definition of "strict"
• why I think this question may come from the diet culture
• whether or not I check labels and lists of ingredients
• how YOU can save time at the grocery store
• what "life after sugar" feels like
• how YOU can get guidance and support to find your freedom from cravings... without needing to be "strict"!

Also check out these free resources: 

1. Download your 5 tips to get rid of cravings  here.
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.

Want to start living your craving-free life with confidence TODAY? Get group support, encouragement, and the accountability you need to get rid of your cravings! Join our private community, the After Sugar Club! It's a monthly membership and it's open all year round, so join us today!

And to get more personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula.
It's specifically designed for women over 50 who want to get rid of cravings so that they can slim down and finally feel in control around food.
Check out everything that's included and book a complimentary Clarity Call with me here: https://aftersugarclub.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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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

Most of Kristy's life was  spent being overweight and food obsessed. 

She turned to food for every emotion: sadness, joy, fear, excitement, happiness, anger, boredom, chaos – you name it!

For Kristy, food was the answer.

In this episode, Kristy shares how she had tried every diet and plan available. She might have short term success, but eventually she was right back to obsessing over food and bingeing on sugar and flour filled foods.

Kristy's life changed when she discovered the concept of following boundaries in regards to food: no sugar, no flour, no sweeteners, 3 meals a day, and measured portions.

For Kristy, this was a lifestyle change rather than a diet... and it was exactly what she needed to find her freedom from food obsession.

Find Kristy here.
 
Also check out these free resources: 

1. Download your 5 tips to get rid of cravings  here.
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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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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 ...

What's the real challenge for you where sugar's concerned?

Is it to change what you eat? Or is it something else?

Do you eat sugar because of cravings?
Or for comfort?
To celebrate?
As a habit?
Because you love sweet tastes?

Or is your real challenge something deeper?

In this episode, I'll tell you about my own challenges... and what I learned over my years of living my "life after sugar".

And you'll get some insight into an exercise that I teach inside of the Freedom from Cravings Formula 90-day program - book a free Clarity Call with me here to see if this program is a good fit for you.

The exercise that I describe in the episode will help you go deeper into the real reason for your challenge with cravings. 

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

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 ...

Are you struggling with cravings?

You're not alone!

You may feel like certain foods have a hold on your emotions.
Or that you're in a vicious cycle.
Or that the diet culture makes you feel like a failure.
Or that you'll NEVER feel free from cravings!

Changing what you eat (or when you eat, like with intermittent fasting) may help, but it may not be enough to get to the heart of the matter.

A lot of people focus on  WHAT they're craving instead of WHY.

And that's what I'm going to help you with in this episode: Your WHY.

It's also what we dive deep into inside of the 90-day program Freedom from Cravings Formula - get all the details 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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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

Grace was  23 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is a is a potentially disabling autoimmune disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).

Despite taking drugs, Grace continued to have attacks every 3 or 4 months, for another 11 years. Her immune system was totally out of whack, she says. 

Then, she got pregnant. The doctors took her off all of her medications, which were much too toxic for her child. 

As her son grew older, Grace had an idea: What if she ate the same foods as she was  introducing to her toddler son? Could she reset her own immune system with whole foods? 

So she ate exactly what her son was eating, introducing one new food at a time for them both.  Real, whole foods... which automatically exclude sugar.
She never resumed the medications.

After a while, she was elated to see that not only was he doing fine, but all her allergies and symptoms had disappeared! And she had no  more MS attacks. For weeks, then months... then years.

That was 19 years ago, and Grace has never had another episode of MS since.
Listen to Grace's inspiring story of how her whole foods diet allowed healing to take place at the most basic level.

Find Grace here.

Also check out these free resources I have for you: 

1. Download your 5 tips to get rid of cravings  here.
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

Erin Tjam was my guest a few weeks ago, and I invited her back to talk about skin aging, more specifically about glycation.

Glycation is a concept you may not have heard of (I hadn't!). 

Basically, collagen and elastin keep your skin firm and supple.
But your skin can age faster when sugar molecules like glucose and fructose adhere to your skin’s collagen and elastin proteins. And this can trigger more responses that can result in inflammation and signs of skin aging.

Erin explains how the glycation process causes something called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) to form in your skin. These AGEs can play a major role in skin aging, and over time, the end-products make collagen rigid, so your skin looks less firm.

Eating a diet high in processed sugars can accelerate  glycation, which can also increase inflammation, resulting in dryness or discomfort of the skin.

Listen to Erin as she explains what to do to slow the process of aging for your skin.

Also check out these free resources: 

1. Download your 5 tips to get rid of cravings  here.
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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:

1. scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. 
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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

You may think that cutting sugar completely will make your cravings worse... but actually, eating no sweet-tasting foods for a while can help beat your cravings!

Which foods keep cravings at bay? And which foods feed your cravings?
I'll tell you in this episode.

And how can you "retrain" your tastebuds to get used to less sweetness, so that you're not always looking to replace sugar?

You'll also learn about a fun game I teach my program participants, called The Tasting Game. You can play it too!

To get rid of cravings so that you can finally feel in control around food, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out these free resources: 

1. What to eat that doesn't contain added sugar
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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:

1. scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. 
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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

8 years sugar free - can you believe it??

Who can live for 8 years without eating refined or added sugars, sweeteners, and flour? Is it even possible?

Well, I never would have thought it was possible if I wasn't living it myself!
In July 2015, I stopped eating foods made with sugar, sweeteners, and flour. For just 2 weeks.
Really!
It was only supposed to be a temporary experiment...

But here I am 8 years later, living my "life after sugar". Sure, I'm not perfect, and life's given me (and all of us!) plenty of challenges.

So  in this episode, I want to share with you 8 things I've learned during my 8 years sugar free, as well as my #1 tip for you!

To get rid of cravings so that you can finally feel in control around food, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out these free resources: 

1. What to eat that doesn't contain added sugar
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

Bethany is a self-identified sugar addict who struggled with food, sweets, weight and dieting for as long as she can remember.

As a child, she remembers scheming ways to get more than her share of cookies, chocolate, or candies. 

Bethany started dieting at about age 11, and didn't stop seeking out and trying different diets until her late 40's. All of this left her feeling as though she was deficient in some way, and wondering if she'd ever figure it out.

Two huge shifts came when Bethany learned that there's such a thing as sugar addiction. She realized that she was a sugar addict. She ditched sugar, sweeteners, and the scale in order to become free. 

Listen to Bethany's touching, insightful, and inspiring story as she tells how peace with food is now her number one goal (instead of being at a goal weight).

Find Bethany here.

To get rid of cravings so that you can finally feel in control around food, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out these free resources: 

1. What to eat that doesn't contain added sugar
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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:

1. scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. 
2. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". 
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Thank you! - Netta

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 ...

Do you struggle with cravings?

There are 3 types of cravings that I talk about in this fifth and last episode in the series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.

You'll also get my 5 tips to reduce or get rid of cravings.

Plus to get rid of cravings, download your 5 tips here.

Also check out these free resources: 

1. What to eat that doesn't contain added sugar
2. Life After Sugar Facebook page
3. Subscribe to my Instagram account,  TikTok, 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:

1. scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. 
2. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". 
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After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon.
Thank you! - Netta

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 ...