Life After Sugar

Almost 2500 years ago, Hippocrates said: "All disease begins in the gut".

But what does "gut health" mean?

Why is it so important?

And how does sugar affect your gut health?

To get answers, listen to this fourth episode in the series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.

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.

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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 ...

What's the difference between short-term acute inflammation, and chronic inflammation?

Is inflammation always a bad thing?

Is sugar inflammatory?

Listen to this third episode in the series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.

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:

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Does sugar "cause" diabetes?

And if not, what is the connection between sugar and diabetes?

To get my answers, listen to this second episode in the series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.

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. 
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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 ...

How does sugar affect your weight?

Is it the "empty calories", or is it something else?

Listen to this first episode in a 5-part series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.

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:

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Dr. Erin Tjam is the author of "Skin Sobering: 99% of Products Age and Harm Your Skin".

In this episode, we talk about how after her own skin failed her, Erin researched how to take care of skin.

What she found in clinical studies is that a lot of skin care products contain chemical additives that are actually disrupting our natural skin.

What if we didn't need skincare products?

Advertising for beauty products was introduced back in the 1940s, so the idea of using less or no skincare products is a huge mindset shift!

As Erin did more research, she found out that what affects your skin the most is how you protect it... and what you eat. Or what you DON'T eat - like sugar and processed foods that contain sugar.

Listen to Erin's advice about how sugar can negatively affect your skin, and what you can do to have healthy, beautiful skin.

Find Dr. Erin Tjam 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:

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Thank you! - Netta

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Gastroenterologist Dr. Cecilia Minano had so many health issues as well as high stress levels. When she finally got coaching, she learned empowering boundaries and self-care that changed her life.

She tells about her childhood when she would calm her insecurities and self-soothe with sugar. With her medical background, she now knows that sugar and industrially manufactured food products can lead to dysbiosis (an unbalanced gut).
 
Once she eliminated most sugar from her own diet, her life changed for the better.

Cecilia explains how the physical and emotional tension in our body that we call stress affects all aspects of our physical and emotional health, including in the microbiome. And processed foods make everything worse.

Our gut health is central to our general and emotional health. For example, serotonin is made in the gut and helps to regulate mood and reactions to stress.
Stress can increase blood sugar levels, and eating less sugar can help improve your gut health.

Find Dr. Cecilia Minano here.

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:

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How much sugar is too much?

In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its recommendations for free or added sugars: 6 teaspoons for women, and 9 teaspoons for men. Per day.

But is that still "too much"?

Where's the line between an "OK" amount of sugar, and "too much"?

In my humble opinion, there's no one-size-fits-all answer.
For some of us, zero is freedom. For others, moderation is key.

Listen to this episode to discover how much is too much for YOU.

Download your 5 tips here to get rid of cravings so that you can slim down and finally feel in control around food,
Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and 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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Keith used to drink six cans of Coke a day. And with each soda, he would have a bag of crisps (chips), or a chocolate bar.

He knew it wasn't healthy, but he couldn't stop. When he tried to quit, he'd get withdrawal symptoms.

As an adult, Keith learned hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and coaching. These skills helped him with his shyness and his panic attacks.

Keith developed a process that makes your brain turn something you like into something you dislike. He tried it with Coke... and it worked! He went from craving Coke to feeling physically nauseous just at the thought of drinking it.

Over the course of six months, he lost 25 kilograms.

He was able to change the associations in his mind, as well as his feelings about the memories he had around soda.

Listen to Keith's tips on how you can "overwrite" the associations you have with sugar, without losing or dishonouring your memories of comfort foods.

Find Keith here.

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,  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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Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD, is the founder of Bright Line Eating (BLE).

In her teens, she started using drugs, just for fun and experimentation at first. But she got really hooked and her drug abuse got worse and worse.

By the time she picked up speed (or crystal meth), she was 16 and was very concerned about her weight already. Except that when she used speed, she didn't feel she had to eat on it. And she lost a lot of weight.

Susan finally got clean and sober when she was 20. Her drug addiction had lasted six years.

But within nine months she'd gained 40 pounds. Susan started teaching in a community college, obtained her PhD, and got to develop courses in the psychology of eating and positive psychology. These laid the framework for what she ended up developing in Bright Line Eating.

Eventually, Susan traded her 12-step meetings for food meetings. She finally found the right configuration of what to do with her food. She lost her excess weight... and kept it off.

Susan has been slender now for 19 years. She learned the miracle of not eating sugar and flour. She also weighs and measures her food. Her life got so much better after that.

For Susan, "none is easier than some".
In this episode, Susan and I talk about food groups, whole foods, the NOVA food classification scale, individuality, what we need and what we want, her identity as a food addict, following rules, intuitive eating, and freedom.

Find Susan and BLE here.

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,  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 ...

Lesya was always on diets when she was growing up.

So she thought: If I become a nutritionist, I'll finally know the secret to how to eat, how to lose weight, and how to keep weight off.

But she was severely disappointed when she graduated. She questioned what she learned in nutrition school because it just didn't make sense to her. So she decided not to become a registered dietitian, and pursued a different career.

She'd tried the traditional "Eat less, move more" to lose her post-baby extra pounds. But that didn't work.
She discovered keto in 2015, and that helped suppress her issues with sugar.

She also started learning things about food that went totally against what she'd been taught in nutrition school. More fat? Even saturated fat?? She was shocked... but it worked!She lost a lot of weight.

But Leysa realized that she was using keto to mask her sugar addiction. She wasn't getting to the root of her issues.

Leysa had to address her underlying reasons for struggling with sugar, desserts, and keto sweeteners. She's an abstainer - she couldn't stop at one bite.

Listen to how Lesya overcame her dependency on sweet foods and how she's found the freedom from sugar that suits her.

Check out Lesya's podcast: Fit Moms Squad.

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,  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 ...