Life After Sugar

Life After Sugar is  about way more than just changing what you eat.

It's not about being "against" or "anti" sugar.
It's about creating a whole new relationship with sugar, with your food... and with yourself.
And that includes self-care.

The diet culture has failure built in. It makes us feel bad about ourselves. It taps into our vulnerabilities and makes us suffer.

All those rules! Ugh! What if you don't do things "properly"? You feel frustrated and discouraged and stressed... and less than perfect!

In fact, perfectionism is the opposite of self-care.

Life After Sugar embraces your imperfection and your humanity.

Listen to this episode to get lots of tips for healthier self-care than reaching out for sugar when you're feeling stressed, tired, annoyed, angry, bored, or any other emotion.

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.

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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 ...

Wendy was born in 1947 in England, when sugar was still rationed. At that time, sweets and chocolate were rare treats - they ate them every six months or so.

Wendy shares her memories of growing up on a smallholding where her parents and grandparents grew their own food. They ate three meals a day and worked hard outdoors. Wendy brought up her daughter with all kinds of foods available on the table.

Today, Wendy's grandchildren's reality is very different.

In her 50s, Wendy had some serious health issues that left her crippled and bedridden. Through the power of gratitude, positive affirmations, and mirror work, and a diet that reduced her inflammation, Wendy was able to make her dream come true of running on the beach and living a long and healthy life.

Today, Wendy is 75 and full of vitality. As a member of the After Sugar Club, she's still taking care of her health and making small tweaks to feel her best.

Listen to this episode for her sage advice for us youngsters!

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.

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Karin was diagnosed with colon cancer after a routine colonoscopy when she was 51 years old, in January 2020.

Yes, she had digestive issues, but this was a shock because she'd always taken care of her health.
Karin decided that this wasn't going to be the end of her. After resection surgery, she was lucky not to need chemotherapy or radiation therapy. 

Thinking back to when she grew up in the 70s and 80s, Karin remembers that she ate the Standard American Diet, which is full of highly processed foods. But she was generally healthy and slim.

Now Karin says that her body looked healthy on the outside, but it wasn't necessarily healthy on the inside. So she decided to look after her diet.

The first thing she did was to research and educate herself about nutrition and gut health. She started by listening to her body. 

Karin didn't think she ate that much sugar. But all the processed foods she was eating (including condiments like ketchup!) and soda contain hidden sugars and sweeteners and refined seed oils. So she learned to read labels and ingredients lists.

In this episode, Karin shares her empowering message and wealth of knowledge about gut health and the importance of eating whole nutritious foods... which automatically excludes sugar and ultra-processed foods!

Find Karin here and her Health Yeah Life podcast.

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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Angela says that being an alcoholic is the best thing that ever happened to her.

It was the catalyst that made her look at her life differently and make a commitment to be better.

In this episode, Angela shares about many of her biggest challenges, especially her addiction to alcohol. When she decided to get sober in her 30s, Angela's life changed for the better.

Being sober helped her work through the guilt and shame of her past choices, and this led her to move forward and create a new life and a better version of herself.

When Angela quit alcohol, she turned to sugar. She felt she "needed" sugar because her body was so used to metabolizing the sugar in alcohol.
And she discovered that cutting sugar is not that easy!

Angela tells about her challenges with sugar, both personal and social... and how for her, quitting sugar is tougher than quitting alcohol.

Find Angela here: https://angelapugh.com/

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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Let's face it: Life after sugar is pretty unpopular!
Why?

Well... Did you want to stop eating sugar?
Of course not!
Who would?

I certainly never wanted to cut sugar ! No more chocolate?
NO WAY!

Not many people actually want to quit sugar or their favourite comfort foods... but they often feel like they have to do something when their weight or health issues force them to make a change.

Nothing changes if nothing changes.

And changing your mindset, your habits, and even your beliefs about sugar - all this requires effort.
And some deep thinking.

And that's also unpopular!

Listen to this tongue-in-cheek episode about why even if this podcast is popular, life after sugar is so UNpopular... and how you can be unpopular too! ;-)

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 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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Greg's been a marathon runner for years.
He'd always believed that you need to "carb load" before and during a long-distance run.

So he would use gels and other quick-burning sugars to get an energy boost. But then he'd suffer from the energy crash that came with them, as well as cramping.

What Greg found after several experiments was that he runs better and longer with other sources of fuel: protein and fat.

And also, it's not just what runners eat on the day, but also in between races or marathons that makes a difference: You can't run off a bad diet!
Now Greg sees rewards as foods that make him feel good and run better. He recognizes that for his physiology, less processed foods and much less sugar works for him.

Whether you're a marathon runner or you lead a more sedentary lifestyle, Greg has some inspiring insight about living a happy and healthy life.

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 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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Karen started having menopausal symptoms around age 39. At the time, she had two small kids and a busy health journalism career.

Her list of symptoms included fatigue, hot flushes, insomnia, irritability, brain fog, memory loss, overwhelm, loss of libido, weight gain and vertigo... and she realized that they were related to her hormones and not just her stressful life.

After being diagnosed with early menopause, Karen was left to her own devices and spent several years trying everything to feel better and keep her weight off. 

It wasn’t until she turned 50 that she stumbled upon the answer: Intermittent Fasting.

And to Karen's delight, IF was the perfect way to change her eating habits. She'd tried cutting sugar in the past, but she kept "falling off the wagon". However, with IF, her tastes started to change, and she was more attracted to real whole foods, and less to sweet and processed foods.

In this episode, we talk about all things menopause... and how IF and eating whole foods in your window can keep insulin low and help with menopause symptoms.

Find Karen here: https://karenfinn.net/, and her Facebook group Fasting4Menopause here.

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 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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You probably don't want to "give up" sugar.
Who would?
I certainly didn't!

But actually, you're gaining far more than you're losing.
 
The key to living your "life after sugar" has as much to do with your mindset and beliefs as with what's on your plate (or not).

In this episode, you'll get some small but powerful mindset shifts and tips to help you reframe how you see sugar and your relationship with it... and your life!

You'll get some of my tips from inside of the After Sugar Club, and also tips from lots of other people who are on the path to living their sugar free life!

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 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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All through her youth and her studies, Victoria (VJ) suffered from chronic fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, unexplained lightheadedness, swollen and painful joints, and cravings.

She also had the symptoms of multiple autoimmune disorders that she'd been diagnosed with from the age of 7.
 
As a result, VJ went on to study immunology at university and focused on autoimmune disease. But learning about the underlying biology of autoimmune disease gave her no solutions for easing her symptoms.

So she went into nutritional therapy training, and started to understand that uncovering the root causes of her conditions was a better approach than just trying to appease her symptoms. And she transformed her health within 12 months – no napping, no aching muscles and restless legs, no irritated and inflamed skin, and best of all, her brain was back.
 
Stabilizing her blood sugar and insulin was key to improving VJ's health and her autoimmune disorders. In this episode, VJ shares the diet and lifestyle changes she made, especially vastly reducing sugar and processed foods.

Find VJ here: https://theautoimmunitynutritionist.com/

To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of 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 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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Are you a normal eater, an emotional eater, or a food addict?

Clarissa has a touching history of disordered eating.
In fact, she says that she's a food addict.
 
The problem was that for most of her life, she didn't know it. Clarissa just always thought that something was wrong with her or that she didn't have enough willpower when it came to how much she ate.

In this episode, Clarissa shares her story about how she fought daily to control her weight and her obsessive compulsive thinking about food.

It was only when Clarissa was introduced to the concept of food addiction that it was like someone finally switched on a light in her mind.

She learned about the dangers of sugar, and how it negatively affects all aspects of our overall health. She learned to eat real whole foods, and not to be scared of healthy fats.  Her whole relationship with food completely changed.

Clarissa had been working in the field of addictions and mental health for years, but then she started studying how certain types of foods (sugar/flour/grains) have the ability to activate the pleasure centre of the brain, exactly like hard drugs do.
This was the key to her stopping the addictive cycle.

Now Clarissa teaches that food is not the enemy, diets are. And she's not ashamed to say that she was addicted to processed foods.

In the "Sweet Sobriety" online coaching and community for food addiction, Clarissa helps her clients feel relief when the mind chatter with food stops.  The goal is for you to find peace with food, with eating disorders, and with food addiction.

Find Clarissa at Sweet Sobriety here.

To get personal guidance, support, and accountability to live your healthier lifestyle and let go of 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 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 ...