Life After Sugar

Before January 2021, Gord Isman used food to alleviate stress, isolation, and tough emotions. He would turn to food to find solace.Over the course of the pandemic, Gord says he started to get lazy with his eating, and would turn to pizza, Chinese food, sweets, soda, and late-night snacking. And of course, he started to gain weight.On January 18 2021, Gord had to be taken to the hospital in an emergency. He thought that his recent rapid weight loss was a good thing. But he was also not sleeping well because he had dry mouth. He was having to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes. He just wasn't feeling right.And then he started to lose his vision.After blood tests and scans at the hospital, Gord was told that he was considered DKA status, in other words, in diabetic ketoacidosis. He was close to a diabetic coma and could have died.Listen to Gord's courageous and inspiring story of how he turned his health around and is now diabetes free and medication free!Download your simple guide to start cutting sugar here.Get a sneak peek  here into our monthly membership, the After Sugar Club and join us to get ongoing support, guidance and accountability to break free from sugar for good.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...

This week's episode is a sneak peek into our regular support calls, which I call "check-in calls".These calls allows participants to share their challenges, their wins and their aha! moments and get all the empathetic support, encouragement and accountability they need. This is where we have real, personal interactions in a safe environment. We go way deeper than just talking about food and sugar.Debbie joined the Life After Sugar Program after she'd tried keto, and she knew that she had to get to the heart of her problem with sugar. With her permission, I'm sharing one of her big wins during this call.Veronica also shares her experience with mindless snacking and becoming more mindful and aware.And Ellen shares about what attracted her to the program, even though she already has a science background. Spolier alert: it was all the info about gut health and the microbiome. She  was also looking to change her habits and to her surprise, she discovered what made her cravings disappear!If the Life After Sugar Program sounds like a good fit for you, go here.If you would like to join the monthly After Sugar Club, go here.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...

Laura Bonicelli grew up with Italian food in Minnesota. With home-cooked meals and surrounded by a close community, she became a chef. She created a meal delivery service to bring fresh, organic meals to people. Her business allowed her to learn about all kinds of different needs and eating habits, and this led her to develop a meal plan for weight loss. After she closed her own restaurant, she opened her cooking club in order to teach people home cooking.Laura realized that her own diet had become carb-based, with too much cheese and the addition of sneaky sugars. She gained about 50lbs, she had joint pain, and other niggling health issues. So she came up with a formula for herself. Apart from the food, mindfulness is a big part of it. As a food lover, Laura is also a "moderator" who can work with portion control.Once she changed her diet, aside from weight loss, Laura experienced so many benefits: her joint pain went away, her hair became much healthier, her skin improved, her gastro-intestinal problems stopped, her stress was lower, she could wear the clothes she used to 20 years ago, and she became all-round happier. Listen to how Laura is helping others discover the benefits of a whole foods diet. Find Laura's cooking club here: https://bonicellicookingclub.com/Download your simple guide to getting more energy with less sugar here.To get support, guidance and accountability and break free from sugar for good, join us in the After Sugar Club here!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. Jen Unwin is a clinical psychologist and a self-confessed lifelong carbohydrate addict. She's the author of Fork in the Road.In this episode, she tells her own personal story about her addiction to sugar and all processed carbs. From her early childhood, through her teens and into adulthood, Jen had a love-hate relationship with food, especially sugar. Her mother was always on a diet and Jen herself started dieting at about age 16. She tried all the fad diets - all of them!That set off an up-and-down cycle with her weight. She followed the popular advice to eat "everything in moderation", not realizing that she has the sort of brain that can't moderate certain foods (ie: refined carbs like sugar and flour). This went on until her early 40s, when she stumbled across a book called "Escape The Diet Trap", which was basically about low carb eating.Jen tells how her whole world changed after that, and how she now helps people who suffer with food addiction. As a medical professional, she understands food and sugar addiction because she's been there. After working for over 30 years in the NHS, Jen now spends her time researching, campaigning and writing about sugar addiction. She is a founding member of the Public Health Collaboration, a UK charity campaigning for better public health advice.Find Dr. Jen Unwin here: https://forkintheroad.co.uk/Download your simple guide to getting more energy with less sugar here: https://aftersugarclub.com/energy-guide/.To get all the support, encouragement and accountability you need every month in order to  break free from sugar for good, join us in the After Sugar Club!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...

Vikki Jones is a former competitive athlete. She moved from the UK to the US in the 1980s and excelled in the pentathlon. She had a coach for every sport she did, as well as being supported by the US Olympic Committee. In this episode, Vikki tells how as an athlete, she wasn't taught how to eat. Because she was so active, she would pick herself up with sugar to get quick energy. She would "carb load" before any sporting event. When she retired from professional sports, she realized that her education in nutrition was missing, so she started to study it. In her Master's degree in human nutrition in the 90s, she was taught that fat is bad and that artificial sweeteners were better than sugar. Only years later did Vikki read more about fats and sugars. She tells about how her own education evolved, how she started questioning what she was taught, and how she is able to help others now.She has come to the conclusion that food is medicine, because we all need good nutrition, not just as professional athletes. Vikki also tells about her experience with long Covid, from which she still suffers today, but how looking after her own nutrition and keeping sugar to a minimum has helped her.Here's where to find Vikki: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondFitness.VikkiArmstrongDownload your simple guide to get more energy with less sugar here: https://aftersugarclub.com/energy-guide/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...

Megan Lifto  is a nurse who's had her own health issues, including having her ovaries removed. She knew that the decrease in estrogen would affect her metabolism, and indeed her weight went up 60lbs, mostly around her belly, even though she was still active.With the extra weight, she started to have joint pain when she bent down, as well as in her hands.  Some hormone therapy (low dose estrogen) helped her lose 10lbs right away. What does this have to do with sugar?Well, the hormone fluctuations that Megan was experiencing also brought with them intense sugar cravings. She used ice cream or donuts to calm her pain and give her comfort... but the cravings kept coming. She was experiencing energy crashes and disturbed sleep, and her weight loss stalled. Listen to Megan's tips for what she did and what you can do if you're suffering from hormonal swings, menopause, cancer or other related health issues. Find Megan here: https://www.facebook.com/comfortcareexpert/To get my 5 tips to help you with cravings, go here: https://aftersugarclub.com/podcast/To get support and break free from sugar for good, join us in the After Sugar Club here: https://aftersugarclub.com/asc1/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...

This is our special holiday edition of the Life After Sugar podcast!This week I'm talking to Holly Howe, a Fermentation Educator, a cookbook author, photographer, and blogger. Holly's goal  is to have sauerkraut fermenting in 100,000 homes... including yours!If you're anything like I was a few years ago, you may not know much about  fermented foods. Maybe you know that yogurt is fermented? Or maybe you've tasted kombucha? That's fermented too. Or sauerkraut? These are all fermented (or cultured) foods and drinks, and are therefore probiotic and good for your gut health.In this episode, Holly shares her story and gives her recipe for fermented cranberry relish and carrot sticks. Plus I give my recipe for a happy sugar free  holiday season!And in future episodes, Holly and I will continue to demystify the world of fermentation.Why is gut health so important? And what does sugar have to do with gut health? Listen to find out!Here's Holly's recipes for yummy fermented cranberry relish and carrot sticks: https://www.makesauerkraut.com/lifeaftersugar/Download my simple guide for getting more energy with less sugar here: https://aftersugarclub.com/energy-guide/And if you want to learn how to make your own fermented foods and drinks and make your gut happy all year round by reducing sugar, join us in the After Sugar Club here! (You don't need to wait until January New Year's resolution time...)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...

Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds are the hosts of the Fabulously Keto podcast.After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, Jackie  discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto.Jackie tells about her childhood, when she always felt left out and overweight. She tried yo-yo dieting, but she couldn't sustain it. Eventually, in her 40s, she was at her heaviest, she felt like a failure, but she didn't even go to the doctor's because she had no intention of changing what she was eating. Then she listened to the audio version of Gary Taube's book "Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It". And it had a huge impact on her, because that's when she started to understand low carb eating. She changed her diet, adopted keto, then added intermittent fasting. Now she doesn't feel like she's on a diet, even though she's aware that she needs to be mindful of how she relates to her "head hunger", which is really just an emotional want of food, and not real hunger. Her current mantra is "Food does not control me...". Since late 2015, Louise has used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues.Louise talks about how she used to live with her emotional eating habits and stress in her life. Her tipping point came when she consulted a colleague who was knowledgeable about eating disorders. She'd tried all kinds of diets, and then decided to have weight loss surgery. After a severe motorcycle accident, her mom - who'd discovered low carb - suggested Louise change what she was eating in order to help with her pain and inflammation. It was the science that made sense to Louise. And indeed, she tried a low carb/keto diet, and never looked back.You can find Jackie and Louise here: https://fabulouslyketo.com/If you need help to get rid of cravings, download my 5 tips here. And to get all the support, encouragement and guidance you need to break free from sugar, emotional eating and mindless snacking, join us in the After Sugar Club here!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. Vera Tarman is the author of the book Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction. Her book (as well as the podcast Food Junkies) tackles the complex and often poorly understood issue of food addiction. It's so poignant because it's written from her own clinical experience with dozens of her patients who suffer from overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia.But Vera is also the person behind the white coat. In this episode, she tells her own touching personal story about her addiction to food, especially to sugar and flour. She talks about how it began and developed, and how she found peace from that "hornet's nest" of self-destructive addictive tendencies. Hers is a journey of discovery and self-acceptance, as a patient as much as a doctor. For people struggling with food addictions, finding health professionals who understand and recognize their condition remains a frustrating battle, even today. Thanks to her book, podcast and Facebook group, Dr. Vera Tarman continues to lead the way in research as well as giving practical strategies for people facing the complicated challenges of eating disorders and addictions.Find Dr. Tarman, her book, podcast and Facebook group here: https://www.addictionsunplugged.com/And if you're ready and motivated to break free from sugar for good, you can get all the support, encouragement and guidance you need when you join the After Sugar Club here.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...

Colli Christante grew up eating whole foods and very little sugar, and she brought up her daughter that way too. She doesn't remember her daughter being sick as a child.Naturally, as she grew up, Colli's daughter experimented with sugar and other types of processed foods, but then when she herself became a mother, she reverted back to whole foods.Colli tells about her experience with alcoholism, first with her father and then with her ex-husband. Their consumption of alcohol affected their mood and behaviour... causing suffering for herself and her family. The thing is, alcohol affects the body in a similar way to sugar.Colli's field of expertise is as a family trauma therapist. From her practice and her personal experience, she knows all about trauma and self-sabotage. In this episode, we talk about the connection between trauma and emotional eating, and how consuming sugar and alcohol can be a form of self-sabotage. We also talk about how to deal with reaching out for sugary foods or alcohol as a coping mechanism, and how to create a "new normal". You can contact Colli here: https://www.collikchristante.com/ And if you're ready and committed to breaking free from sugar for good, join us in the After Sugar Club here.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...