Life After Sugar

In this episode, you'll get a "sneak peek" into the check-in calls that we have in the After Sugar Club. You'll be in good company with Eloisa, Rochelle, Wendy and Debbie.Curious about what kinds of things we talk about (and how we  have fun together!)? The link between sugar, hunger, and intermittent fasting.How members deal with social situations, like a birthday.What we take along to parties and social occasions.How we all have different tastes and eating habits.How we step out of the diet mentality and perfectionism.How the members' level of awareness about their relationship with sugar is heightened and sustainable.How surprisingly fast the changes can come.How members get the guidance, support, and encouragement they need.How the group dynamic helps members share honestly and bravely so that they can make steps forward.You're always welcome to join us in our check-in calls! Sign up to be part of the After Sugar Club here!Get some free resources here:Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting here.Also check out the Life After Sugar Facebook page, and subscribe to my Instagram account and to the Life After Sugar YouTube channel.Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

Barbi has a special place in my heart. Early in 2022, she followed my step-by-step process over 6 weeks to let go of sugar.We really dove deep into her relationship with sugar, and as you'll hear, Barbi made huge strides in her awareness of her relationship with sugar over a short period of time.(The Life After Sugar Program that Barbi followed is not available now, but the After Sugar Club is open! Click here to find out more about the After Sugar Club!)Barbi signed up because she was ready and committed to get to the heart of her attraction to sugary foods. She wanted to be healthier, lose weight, be comfortable in her clothes, stop being a homebody, reduce her medications, make her intermittent fasting easier, and change her behaviour... and her mindset!She realized that changing not just her behaviour with sweet foods and drinks but here relationship with them was the key. Barbi wanted to feel good! But she needed help, support, and accountability.Listen to Barbi's inspiring story in this episode. It includes her growing awareness, her ups and downs, her new habits, and her amazing and touching breakup letter to sugar. Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting here.Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

This is a question I get asked all the time: What about fruit??And:Netta, do you eat fruit?The short answer: Yes. Yes, Netta eats fruit.Whether or not you eat fruit is entirely up to you!The long answer is in this episode.This episode talks about:why I say: "I eat as much fruit as I want, as often as I want" (and it's the same for sugar!)why I'm not always looking for sweet tastesfructose in fruit and in sugar/HFCShigh sugar and low sugar fruitswhole fruit vs juice and smoothiesorganic or not?seasonal vs importedvitamin Cdried fruitfructose and fatty liverfructose malabsorption (FODMAP)For more tips about foods that don't contain added sugars, watch the 3 short videos here.Also, download your simple guide to getting more stable energy with whole foods here.And for more guidance, support, and accountability to help you let go of sugar so that your intermittent fasting lifestyle becomes easy and natural, become a member of the After Sugar Club here!Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

When Michelle was in her 30s, she got gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with her second child. She had to change her diet and she felt restricted, so after she had the baby and was told that she could eat "normally" again, she went bonkers! She would buy dozens of candy bars, eat them, and hide the wrappers. She felt so ashamed.At 5 feet 3 inches Michelle reached 200lbs. She felt heavy, physically and mentally. She felt lost. She had pain and flare-ups in her neck and back, migraines... it was hard. And she says that the sugar and processed foods she was consuming made every day more difficult.Michelle was never allowed sugar as a child by her "health nut" mother (her words), so she felt deprived. She feels today that it's a difficult balancing act between feelings of deprivation and dependency.When her youngest child was about 2.5, Michelle was using calorie cutting and exercise to lose weight, but it wasn't really working. After her wellness appointment with her doctor, she made a decision to do something different.She overheard somebody talking about intermittent fasting (IF). It sounded crazy to her! But then she did some research about it and discovered Gin Stephen's books. On January 24, 2020, Michelle started intermittent fasting. She started with a 14-hour fasting time, which was amazing because she'd been used to snacking all the time. After about 3 months, she was clean fasting 18 hours a day. In this episode, Michelle tells how her life and her health were transformed by IF.  Now Michelle enjoys non-food ways to practice self-care, including intermittent fasting.Find Michelle's Facebook group here.Find Michelle's "Fast and Fabulous" podcast here.Download Netta's list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting.Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheDo 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...

In this episode, you’ll get the answers to frequently asked questions such as:What is intermittent fasting (IF)?Won't I get hungry if I don't eat?How are sugar and IF connected?Find these FAQs on my website here.Are you saying that I can’t eat sugar ever again?I thought cutting calories was the way to lose weight. What’s all the fuss about insulin?Isn't it unhealthy to skip meals or fast for many hours?What are fermented foods and what’s the connection with gut health?Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting here.Also, get my 5 tips for getting rid of cravings here.And for more guidance, support, and accountability to help you let go of sugar so that your intermittent fasting lifestyle becomes easy and natural, become a member of the After Sugar Club here!Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

Natalie Speakman was a teenage drug addict and alcoholic.She got clean and sober  when she was 22 years old, but continued to smoke cigarettes for 18 months after.  And then her food and sugar consumption went way up.In this episode Natalie tells how she remembers that eating sugar made her feel "high" and gave her a shift in her mood. For years after she got sober, she used to eat desserts and sugar alone every night. The thing is, Natalie was very health conscious... but she was still eating lots of sugar.After 20 years of sugar addiction, Natalie decided to stop eating sugar, one day at a time. She tells about her recovery journey and her struggles with cravings and repetitive Day 1s. Natalie has been in 12-step programs since she was 17 years old, and that approach suits her. Now she is sugar free, and she still eats fruit and smoothies, but no added sugar. She now identifies herself as being sugar free. Find Natalie here: https://nataliemspeakman.com/Get my 5 tips for getting rid of cravings here.And for more guidance, support, and accountability to help you let go of sugar so that your intermittent fasting lifestyle becomes easy and natural, become a member of the After Sugar Club here!Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

Phoebe Lapine knows all about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)... and sugar!Phoebe is the author of SIBO Made Simple, which is a must-read not just for those suffering from unwanted GI symptoms, but anyone looking to improve their gut health without sacrificing delicious food. In this episode, Phoebe talks about her health issues, including the auto-immune disease Hashimoto's thyroiditis and its symptoms. It caused her to have a horrible skin rash, fatigue, unhealthy weight loss, disturbed digestion...Eventually she went to see a holistic practitioner and started to do an elimination diet, starting with one month excluding gluten, caffeine, alcohol... and added sugars.After 10 years of chronic issues, Phoebe's symptoms improved dramatically. Her liver healed, her skin cleared up, her inflammation went down which meant that her auto-immune issues improved. Amazing!Phoebe tells her inspiring story in this episode and in her book The Wellness Project. Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting. And for step-by-step guidance to let go of sugar and find freedom from the hold sugar has on you, become a member of the After Sugar Club here!Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

Jan Steele found out that she's celiac early on in life. The transition to a gluten free diet was done by her mother because Jan was a child. Because she grew up with celiac disease, and because of the immediate physical reaction she had whenever she did eat gluten, her gluten-free habits became second nature.When pregnancy and the exhaustion of having small children made her auto-immune issues flare up again, Jan became motivated to look after herself as a mother so that she could be there for her children.She started with the GAPS diet (Gut and Psychology Syndrome), and the fog started to lift. As she started to feel better, she felt more motivated. She focused on real, whole foods. De facto, she also eliminated sugar.Everything started to get better, especially less inflammation. Listen to the inspiring story of how Jan educated herself and turned her health around. Today, as a Nutritional therapy Consultant, Jan helps people learn to harness the power of real food, to feel better.  Jan's B&B is in the beautiful Cévenne mountains, near Montpellier (France). She hosts people for holidays, allowing them to discover this beautiful region while, at the same time, ensuring that their food restrictions and sensitivities are respected to a T. Find Jan and her wonderful B&B here: https://lagoose.fr/the-bb/Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting.Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

Oh I know you're listening, dear listener!But this is a gentle rant about the intuitive eating (IE) approach.When I first found out about IE, I was so happy! I thought I'd found "my" people!Intuitive eating is all about rejecting the diet mentality, honouring your hunger,  making peace with food, not restricting or obsessing, and not using food to fill your emotional needs.The IE approach really resonated with me when I first discovered it, so I reached out to several IE experts and invited them to be on my podcast.Imagine my dismay when every single one of them turned me down.Why?Listen to this episode and find out why.To experience letting go of sugar in an inclusive, liberating, and supportive environment, become a member of the After Sugar Club!Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting.Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...

Donna Schwenk first discovered the power of fermented foods when she was 41. She had just given birth to her third child prematurely, and in this episode she tells her story of how cultured (fermented) foods changed her life!Donna tells how her body was shutting down. She had several health issues, including high blood pressure and gestational diabetes that came back as T2 diabetes several months later.She wanted to be healthy and be there to see her daughter grow up.One day she came across information about kefir. She started making it and she would give her daughter a teaspoon of it every day. In a short time, all her daughter's preemie health issues went away.Donna was also drinking kefir, and she started feeling so much better! So she started researching it and understanding the trillions of bacteria that live inside us... and sharing what she learned!Click here to find out more about the link between sugar and fermented foods.In this episode, Donna tells how she started making and consuming more types of cultured foods and drinks, and helping others to create wellness, including her daughter's.Find Donna here: https://www.culturedfoodlife.com/about-me/Download my list of Top 10 books about sugar, gut health, and intermittent fasting.Plus check out my sponsor, Medicine with Heart, which is an international functional medicine clinic specializing in difficult chronic cases of hormone imbalance, Lyme disease, mold illness and digestive dysfunction. Sign up for a consultation with their team to see if they can help reverse your disease! You can find more about them at medicinewithheart.com.Functional Medicine International Clinic: https://medicinewithheart.com/ Functional Medicine Online Certification: mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.comDo 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...