Life After Sugar

From early childhood, Siobhan remembers sneaking cookies before anyone else woke up in the morning. Even as a toddler, she was never able to eat sugar in moderation. Once she hit puberty, this addiction caused her to gain weight and so she started dieting, which led to a diet/binge cycle that lasted decades. After college, Siobhan struggled more and more with weight control and grew increasingly more frustrated around food.  She tried every diet, workout method, therapist, alternative modality and vitamin/supplement regimen known... but NOTHING worked. It was when Siobhan found out about about food addiction that she finally decided to abstain from all sugar and all flour to really overcome her addiction. Although she was terrified at the idea, she committed to doing it for one year, beginning in January of 2018.  In Part 1 of our chat together, listen to how Siobhan reached that initial goal,  and why she has continued to commit to living a sugar-free, flour-free lifestyle for life.  Find Siobhan here and her podcast Unsweetened Sio here.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

Claire grew up in New England with European parents. She enjoyed a whole foods diet and loved fresh seasonal foods, including fruit, vegetables, and cheeses.Processed foods didn't hold much attraction for her. She grew up loving to cook. So she didn't eat foods with added sugars. So she didn't feel like she was missing out.But with the stress from her job and the breakdown of her marriage, Claire suffered from debilitating adrenal fatigue. She was in her early 40s.After many appointments with doctors, she went to see a naturopath who recommended she cut foods that include dairy, soy, and gluten to reduce her inflammation. Cutting sugar was a given.But Claire was confused about what she could eat. She didn't feel supported.  So it was hard to stick to these changes, because she didn't understand the information she was given.It was only when Claire got the right kinds of tests that she was able to get to the root cause of her fatigue and inflammation. And she decided to educate herself and to help others.Find Claire here.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

Susannah grew up with a typical North American diet. Sugar was part of that diet, and sweets were a very big part of her family's everyday life.Susannah's mother would serve ice cream every night after dinner, and every weekend she would bake something like a cake, cookies, or a pie.Sugar is a part of daily life, she says, and nobody thought about it.Many years later, when her mother was in a care home with Alzheimer's, Susannah discovered that Alzheimer's is sometimes misdiagnosed Lyme disease. When she consulted for achy joints and brain fog, Susannah found out that she had Lyme disease.So her doctor recommended she stop eating all grains, all gluten, and all sugar to reduce inflammation in her body. Which meant cutting out her favourite comfort foods.And what Susannah had to learn next was how to find comfort from other sources. Now Susannah uses hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis to help others reduce anxiety without needing sugar.Find Susannah here.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

In this short episode, you'll get some consumer tips for how to spot hidden sugar in cereal.For example:Beware of health claims on the packaging!Read the list of ingredients before you look at the Nutrition Facts table.Watch out for the serving amount.The amount of total carbohydrates does not always tell the whole story (find out why in this episode!).Stick to real, whole foods to start your day.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

Danielle's journey with sugar started in childhood. She remembers that sugar was a massive part of her upbringing.With her family, she always had ice cream after dinner.  Sugar was always a treat.They even had a trunk in their house that had little goodie bags with sweet treats for whenever she and her brother were good. So there was a lot of rewarding with sugar.As a child, Danielle was an extremely picky eater. She ate lots of carbs, like white pasta and rice cakes... which, she says, no doubt really put her on a blood sugar roller coaster at a very young age.Danielle says that sugar was the coping and addictive mechanisms that had been handed down through her family line.  Her mom, she explains, was someone who never felt emotions, and she used food to numb and escape. So Danielle got that pattern from her.But then in her late twenties, Danielle started looking more deeply into her early childhood traumas and what contributed to the addictive patterning in her brain.And that was the start of an awakening for her.   Listen to Danielle describe her slow 3-year process to finally feel free from the hold sugar had on her.Find Danielle here.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

Do you remember Episode 6 of the Life After Sugar podcast, where I interviewed my daughter Lily? She was 12 at the time. She's 16 now.In this special Mother's Day edition, I take a quick trip down memory lane to revisit some of what Lily talked about with relation to my hiding chocolate in the car,  her Halloween candies, and her own interest in sugar.Whether or not you have kids or grandkids, this episode is for you if you want to know how to be a positive role model with respect to sugar for the next generation.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

Krissy grew up eating a normal American diet: lots of carb-heavy processed and packaged foods.When she was younger, she was active, which together with her tall frame helped her stay slim.Then in her late 30s, stress and hormones started to change her body. She consulted a personal trainer and started calorie counting and eating less, without necessarily changing what she was eating.But the "eat less, move more" approach left her feeling starving, hangry, and miserable! But she was motivated to lose a few pounds and get to her goal... which unfortunately, she didn't. Only once Krissy learned more about the functional approach to the body did she begin to really understand that she was burned out from the stress of her job, overexercising,  and undereating.So Krissy signed up to study ant the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Then she studied functional lab testing.And that's when she learned more about perimenopause, stress, and hormones.In this episode, Krissy explains the difference between PRE-menopause and PERI-menopause. She also explains the role of progesterone and estrogen and the symptoms of hormonal changes in women. And Krissy explains how stress management, strength training, lifestyle and diet changes - especially reducing sugar! - can help reduce perimenopause symptoms.Find Krissy here and here.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

In this discussion with Dr. Paul Kolodzik, an MD trained in emergency medicine, the importance of nutrition in combating insulin resistance takes center stage. He reveals that cutting sugar and adopting a low-carb, high-protein diet can reverse pre-diabetes, a topic often overlooked in traditional medical training. Dr. Kolodzik critiques the conventional treatment of insulin resistance and highlights the transformative potential of lifestyle changes. He advocates for the use of continuous glucose monitors to empower patients in managing their health effectively.

This episode actually comes from a request from listeners of this podcast to talk about the long-term benefits that I've experienced after all these years of living sugar-free.Because it can seem pretty hard to imagine what it can be like to live day after day,  feeling free from cravings and free from the hold that sugar has on you. Oh! And I just wanted to clarify that when I say "sugar free", for me personally, that includes added and refined sugar, refined grains or flour, and also nut flours, and sweeteners.So what sugar free means for me doesn't necessarily have to be the same for you.The first long term benefit is way more energy. Not necessarily to run a marathon (I don't want to!), but it's the type of energy that gives me this enthusiasm for life.And this type of energy allows me to get through the day without any energy slumps, which I certainly couldn't do when I was still eating sugar.What are the other long term benefits that I've experienced?zero cravings  peace around foodfat loss in all the strategic places better concentrationmore mental claritybetter digestionless swelling, inflammation, and joint painless headachesmore stable moodAnd many more! If YOU want to want to feel your best for as long as possible, for the rest of your life, listen to this episode to find out how "life after sugar" can benefit YOU.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...

Wendi and I have been good friends for several years. We have lots of things in common, including living our lives with less sugar and more joy. We can't chat without breaking into giggles!In this episode, we talk about whole foods, as well as Wendi's prepping and self-reliance skills that help her look after her large family.But especially, we talk about life, and how we choose to live it. Wendi recognizes that like most of us, she tends to lean towards comfort and getting out of pain versus dealing with the difficulties of life and choosing the joy and the freedom that comes with dealing with reality.Wendi freely admits that all her life, she's turned to food to cope with her pain. And now she's learning to work through her emotions, instead of eating to cope with her pain.She's learning that she can just feel the pain, be sad about the pain, and move on.Wendi and I don't take ourselves too seriously. But we do talk about serious subjects from time to time, such as learning coping skills, choosing how we want to live our lives, and dealing with pain.Find Wendi's podcast The Joyful Prepper here, and her free Facebook group here.To get personalized guidance from me, plus support and accountability in a small group, so that you can  get rid of cravings, slim down, and finally feel in control around food... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.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...