Dana stopped sugar - more specifically, white sugar and flour - in December of 2021.

In this episode, Dana tells how she was very addicted to sugar for 40 some years. Today, she recognizes that for her, it's better not to have any than to try to have a little.

It was when she was in the hospital in 2021 after an accident that Dana remembered that her grandmother had lost both her legs to diabetes. Dana herself had been diabetic since she was 40 and still didn't give up the sugar.

In fact, she even had a heart attack and bypass surgery when she was 50, and that still didn't help her give up sugar.

But then she thought: What if I've screwed up my life with this sugar? What if my leg doesn't heal?

In this episode, you'll hear how Dana finally became sugar free and reversed her diabetes. For Dana, being sugar free means that she tries not to eat any processed food.

She lost 85lbs when she cut sugar and flour. She also discovered intermittent fasting. Plus she walks every day.

And most of all, she feels good. In fact, Dana says that she didn't know what feeling good felt like.

She says she can live her life more honestly now because she's not hiding anything.

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.

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Beck signed up for the Freedom from Cravings Formula 5-step program in the spring of 2024 because although she knew all about the negative effects of sugar, she was still struggling with sugar cravings.

Especially for chocolate.

Chocolate with nuts, to be precise.

In fact, Step 2 of the program is designed to be a deep dive into learning to make sustainable habit changes.

One example is that instead of focusing so much on stopping a bad habit (reaching for chocolate), Beck reframed that into introducing a good habit (eating foods that don't contain added sugar).

This positive reframe made a huge difference for her to be able to claim back her personal power with respect to sugar and chocolate.

This episode is an excerpt from one of Beck's accountability calls with me (published with her permission, of course). You get to be a fly on the wall and listen in on how Beck is working on changing her habits around chocolate.

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In this episode, I talk about what I ate on my recent trip to visit my family in the UK.

Yes, you can travel and still choose to eat real, whole foods!

But it may not always be possible to make the best choices... Do the best you can with the options available. I didn't eat sugar, but I did eat foods that I wasn't used to.

Listen to how the temporary change of routine in my diet affected my system, and what I chose to eat (or not eat!) during the 2-week trip.

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.

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