Life After Sugar

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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

Discover powerful mindset shifts for a sugar-free life, managing cravings and emotions, regaining personal power, understanding the link between sugar and mental health, focusing on the foods you can eat, and finding peace with food.

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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

Have you heard of the book "Dopamine Nation", written by Dr. Anna Lembke? As a psychiatrist, the author explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it.In this episode, I summarize parts of Dr. Lembke's book. Disclaimer: It isn't specifically about sugar. But I can definitely see a parallel between the need for a dopamine high from drugs and other types of addictive behaviours, and our addiction to highly palatable processed food products, most of which contain refined sugar and flour.This episode talks about:what dopamine iswhat neurotransmitters aremotivation and pleasurethe addictive potential of a behaviour or drugthe brain's reward pathwaythe pleasure-pain balancehow some brains are more wired for addictionfood addictionthe link between alcohol, sugar, and liquid sugar (like soda or juice)why we're more vulnerable to overconsumption in our Western culturethe "dopamine fast"the advantages of abstinencefeeling good versus feeling "less bad"how to get smaller doses of dopamine and feel good in other ways than with sugarhow  Life After Sugar can help YOU live a more joyful life without needing a dopamine high from sugarFind "Dopamine Nation" 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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...

Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, a nationally recognized expert in chronic fatigue syndrome, shares his inspiring health journey while unpacking the root causes of sugar cravings. He identifies four major culprits for cravings, including low energy and hormonal shifts. The conversation dives into the mechanics of insulin resistance and its links to various health issues like diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Teitelbaum advocates for nutrient-dense whole foods as a key to maintaining energy and managing cravings effectively.

Kate Bee is the founder of The Sober School. Right back from her childhood surrounded by family members who drank, she says that alcohol was the most normalized drug around.When she became an adult, Kate used alcohol to be cool, as well as to help her forget about all the things that she thought were wrong with her.Looking back, she realizes that she'd also used food for comfort and reward... especially sugar. Sugar helped her cope with her feelings and was an end-of-the-day stress buster, she says.And when Kate entered her 20s, she added alcohol to fill those same needs for comfort and stress relief. She'd come home every night and pour herself a glass of wine.Many wines are full of sugar... and Kate recognizes now that she was using alcohol as well as sugar as an emotional crutch.And guess what she ate while she was drinking and when she was hungover?Sugar and junk food!In this episode, Kate and I talk about the close relationship between sugar and alcohol, including how we use them when we have a dependency on them.We also talk about willpower, having fun, our perceptions, social pressure, our beliefs about sugar and/or alcohol, and the freedom of living alcohol free and sugar free.Find Kate Bee's The Sober School 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.Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings! Struggling with 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: scroll down in your podcast player on your phone and click on the stars. To leave a review, scroll down a little more and click on "Write a Review". Once you’ve finished, select “Send” or “Save” in the top-right corner. If you’ve never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed on your review. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible, but it should be posted soon. Thank you! - NettaDisclaimer: 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 is not a substitute for medical or professional care. Life After Sugar is not liable or responsible for any advice, information, services or product you obtain through Life After Sugar. You should always seek...