Life After Sugar

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  290. "Sweet foods helped me to cope with my emotions": Lisa 02.08.2026 35min

  Many of us turn to sugar or comfort food without really understanding why. In fact, most of us haven't been taught how to name or cope with our emotions. For Lisa, emotional eating became a way of coping with life's difficult moments when she was a child. It wasn't until much later in life that she began to uncover what she really needed to do when her emotions overwhelmed her. In this episode, Lisa shares how childhood experiences, including the loss of her brother at the age of six, s...
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  289. "I realized sugar was making me crash": Jodi 26.07.2026 30min

  A dramatic sugar crash during a swimming race at just 11 years old became the turning point that shaped Jodie's entire approach to health. In this episode, Jodi shares how that early experience led her to question the role of sugar, discover the power of whole foods, and become much more aware of how food affects the body. We also explore inflammation, the gut and skin microbiome, why what you eat shows up on your skin, and how Jodi's decision to eat differently led to her creating a li...
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  288. GLP-1 drugs versus cutting sugar 19.07.2026 21min

  Did you know that your body already makes its own natural version of Ozempic? In this episode, you'll hear how GLP-1 works as a natural hormone, and why drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy exist: they copy the same hormone but are designed to last much longer. You'll hear how the GLP-1 that naturally disappears from your body in two minutes got turned into an appetite-reducing drug that lasts a full week. You'll also hear about what happens to people's weight after they stop taking GLP-1 drugs, as ...
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  287. "I reversed my prediabetes when I cut out processed sugar": Dr. Jonar 12.07.2026 36min

  In this episode, you'll hear from Dr. Jonar, an internal medicine physician and lifestyle medicine expert, about his own struggle with processed sugar. Sugar was at the heart of Dr. Jonar's emotional eating, insulin resistance, and prediabetes. He explains why so many chronic diseases are driven by lifestyle, why nutrition receives so little attention in medical training, and how processed sugar affects the brain, the gut microbiome, and long-term health. We also discuss sugar addiction...
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  286. "My perfectionism led to emotional eating": Meg 05.07.2026 37min

  In this episode, Meg shares how she was diagnosed with anorexia at just 13 years old, and spent the next 16 years in and out of treatment before finally reaching full recovery in her late twenties. You'll hear Meg talk candidly about what it was like to be a dangerously underweight teenager caught in a cycle of perfectionism and control. Meg describes what treatment actually looked like for her, and the gap she found between learning coping tools in a clinical setting and applying them in rea...
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  285: Life after sugar - Keep it simple! 28.06.2026 19min

  What if the thing standing between you and your "life after sugar" isn't sugar at all? What if it's the way you think? In this episode, you'll learn about a trap so many women fall into: a habit of overcomplicating things until failure feels inevitable. You know the pattern. You set an impossible rule, break it by lunchtime, throw in the towel, and reach for the sugar because... well, you already "messed up." You'll also find out why a sugar-free life may be perceived as bei...
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  284. "Mindful eating can help you when life gets busy": Cassandra 21.06.2026 45min

  Cassandra grew up on a classic American diet, sugar included. It wasn't until her 20s that she started noticing the connection between what she was eating and how she was feeling. As someone with ADHD, the moment she cut out sugar and experienced real mental clarity for the first time, there was no going back. In this episode, Cassandra explains what mindful eating is: It means bringing awareness to what you eat, how you eat it, and how it makes you feel. We talk about why North American food...
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  283. "Your gut health and your cravings are connected": Zuzu 14.06.2026 36min

  What's the connection between gut health and sugar cravings? In this episode, ZuZu, a holistic healthcare practitioner, explains how poor gut health, candida, and SIBO can actually drive your cravings, and why healing the gut can make those cravings disappear almost entirely. She also explains why your body only needs one teaspoon of sugar in the bloodstream at any given time, why grains and starches count as sugar, and how excess sugar damages the nervous system and why this affects everythi...
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  282. Why aren't I sugar free yet? 07.06.2026 22min

  If you've ever asked yourself the question: Why aren't I sugar free yet? with frustration, this episode is for you. In my experience, one of the most common — and most damaging — expectations around going sugar-free is that it should happen instantly, completely, and permanently. Spoiler: it doesn't always work that way, and it doesn't have to. In fact, I challenge the idea that going sugar-free should be instant and effortless — like someone waving a magic wand. (Me, for example!...
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  281. "Heal your inner child, heal your cravings": Helen 31.05.2026 36min

  My guest this week is Helen Ye, who grew up in Guangzhou, China. In this episode, Helen shares how she learned from an early age that food is medicine and that balance is everything. As an Ayurveda practitioner and psychic, she brings a fascinating Eastern perspective to what's really driving cravings for sweets and sugar. Helen explains the difference between Eastern and Western sugar, and why some people are more prone to sugar addiction. She also goes deeper into why healing your inner chi...
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  280. "Your life can be so much sweeter without sugar": Dr. Kelly 24.05.2026 37min

  In this episode, I'm talking with Dr. Kelly McCann, a medical doctor with a background in integrative medicine, and she connects the dots between mold exposure, gut health, and sugar cravings in a way I've never heard before. And then she takes it even deeper — into the emotional and spiritual side of why we reach for sweetness in the first place. Because as Dr. Kelly explains, sugar cravings aren't just about willpower or habit. In fact, they can be a signal from your body that somethi...
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  279. Break Free from Sugar Cravings: My book! 17.05.2026 19min

  This episode will walk you through my new book, called "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". I'm so excited that this book is finally out in the world! (It's available here) Based on my 12-week program, the Freedom from Cravings Formula, I wrote this book so that it can offer you more than just recipes or a food list. This book is designed to be a practical step-by-step guide to help you think more deeply and get insights into changing your relationship with food, especially sugar. Why? Because w...
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  278. "Cutting sugar can help lessen symptoms of Hashimoto's": Monica 10.05.2026 33min

  Monica grew up in Australia with pretty health-conscious parents. But as life got busier and more stressful, she started eating more and more sugar. And eventually, working in the health industry of all places, she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. In this episode, Monica breaks down what Hashimoto's actually is, why it's so often missed or misdiagnosed for years, and why sugar plays a much bigger role in this autoimmune condition than most people — and most doctors — realize. This one is...
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  277. "I'm more connected with my body when I don't eat sugar": Suann 03.05.2026 24min

  Suann grew up in northeastern Canada eating the way most of us did: a diet full of sugary cereals and processed foods. But when she grew older, she started listening to her body. She became vegetarian, then vegan, moved off-grid, and built a life that suits her. And she's never felt more free. In this conversation, we talk about what Suann calls embodiment — what it actually means to feel at home in your body, to know what it needs, and to trust it. And how that connects to the way we e...
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  276. Which is worse: cholesterol or insulin? 26.04.2026 21min

  In this episode, I want to talk about something that confuses a lot of people: cholesterol. What it actually is, why your body needs it, and why the LDL number on your lab report doesn't tell the whole story. A new documentary that just came out in April 2026 called The Cholesterol Code got me thinking. It follows Dave Feldman, an engineer who went low-carb, stabilized his blood sugar, felt great, but then saw his LDL go up, and decided to find out why. What he discovered is turni...
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  275. "Cutting refined carbs helped me train for a marathon": John 19.04.2026 33min

  John grew up in Indiana eating Hungry Man dinners, boxes of sugary cereal, and green-frosted Ninja Turtle pies... and no-one ever told him sugar was a problem! By his early 30s he was pushing 290 pounds, prediabetic, and on blood pressure medication. After discovering low-carb eating and spending years experimenting with ketosis, John learned how to train his body to burn fat instead of sugar and refined carbs for fuel. John's wake-up call at age 46 led him to build Rebel Health A...
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  274. "My faith helped me quit sugar": Christine 12.04.2026 34min

  Christine spent 30 years trapped in the cycle of yo-yo dieting. She tried everything from Weight Watchers to a hospital-supervised liquid protein program. But nobody ever taught her why her body was working against her. In this episode, Christine opens up about growing up on the Standard American Diet (SAD), the childhood bullying that shaped her relationship with food, and how she reached 230 pounds. It was when she began to understand the role of insulin, carbohydrate intol...
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  273. What to say when someone offers you sugar 05.04.2026 15min

  What do you say when someone offers you something with sugar in it… and you don’t want it? Or you kind of do... but you don't want to sabotage your efforts to break free from sugar cravings? In this episode, I walk you through simple, real-life ways to respond without feeling rude, awkward, or pressured to explain yourself. We also look at what’s really going on in those moments, including the self-doubt that can show up later, even after you’ve said no. This is about learning to have more co...
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  272. "Mindful eating helped reduce my sugar cravings": Angela 29.03.2026 42min

  Angela grew up with a lot of stress and tension around food at home. In her 20s, she struggled with severe sugar addiction alongside anxiety and depression, using sugar as a primary coping mechanism. In this conversation, Angela shares how that breaking point led her to eat more mindfully, and how learning to be present in everyday moments slowly changed her relationship with food, cravings, and emotions. Today, Angela is a functional and integrative health practitioner. Her work blends...
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  271. "White sugar and flour were our biggest triggers": Violet 22.03.2026 27min

  When Violet's husband’s health crisis forced them to look for solutions, sugar and white flour weren’t even on the list. In this episode, Violet shares how her husband’s Crohn’s disease led them to completely rethink the way they eat. They were trying to keep him off of meds because he didn't like the side effects that came with them. But when their version of healthy eating wasn't working, Violet and her husband decided to dive into functional medicine. And that really changed th...