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.

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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.

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This episode is Part 2 of my chat with Siobhan Harris, who struggled with sugar addiction her whole life.

Listen to Part 1 (Episode 179) here.

In this episode, Siobhan shares the 5 tools that she uses in her recovery from sugar addiction. These tools are helping Siobhan to remain happily committed to living a sugar-free, flour-free lifestyle for life.

These tools may surprise you... and they could help YOU to feel amazing and confident in your sugar-free life too!

Find Siobhan and her resources 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.

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This is a crossover episode with my friend Michelle from the Fast and Fabulous podcast.

We talk about:

• how I fought against cutting sugar for the longest time
• how I fell into intermittent fasting
• how eating more often can make you feel more hungry, and eating less often can make you feel less hungry
• building our relationship up with food
• how the idea of not eating any sugar and flour/grains seems so extreme
• how we got rid of our sugar cravings
• how our relationship with sugar has changed (also as moms)
• how we started to heal our guts
• what makes our cravings, hunger levels, gut issues, and digestive issues worse (or better!)

Find Michelle's Fast and Fabulous podcast here.

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Dr. Michael Mosley is the author of several books, including The Fast 800, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, and The Clever Guts Diet.

Sadly, he passed away in June 2024 while on holiday in Greece.

In this episode, I want to share with you a book report that I made a couple of years ago for the members of the After Sugar Club private community (find us here).

This episode is my summary of his book The Clever Guts Diet that was published in 2017. This book (and this episode) talks about gut health and its importance for your general health, and also for weight and hunger.

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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My guest this week is Nikki, who's a fellow mom with 3 boys at home.

In this episode, we talk about whole foods, how she feeds her family, and how she helps other moms find more energy in the sometimes overwhelming life that we live as moms.

Nikki grew up with pretty healthy meals, usually some sort of meat or fish and vegetables. Rarely desserts, she says - they were just for special occasions.

And in college, she went through a phase where she didn't eat as healthy as she should. And once she moved out on her own, she wasn't making much money, so she went more for convenience foods.

However, as a mom, she's grown and learned and focused on always having veggies, fruits and whole foods in the house. And that's also when Nikki realized just how much sugar and how many chemicals are added to processed foods.

And and so it was only when she changed her diet that she realized why she wasn't feeling well.

Without the extra hidden sugar, she felt so much better. Her skin looks better. She feels better. Her stomach feels better. Just everything feels so much better.

Nikki is now much more aware of how much added sugar goes into certain products. Just because a product looks healthy, or it's gluten free, the marketing does a really great job of portraying only specific aspects, she says.

But when you really start to look deep into some of these ingredients and some of the labels, you start to recognize that they're adding in hidden sugars.

Now Nikki helps other moms juggle family, work, and me-time without the stress. She shares easy, real-life tips to help them stay energized, so they can tackle their day and enjoy time with their family.

Find Nikki 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.

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From November 2023 to June 2024, we had an Italian student staying with us. Not exactly an exchange student, more like a big brother for our daughter.

And during those months of his stay with us, I learned quite a few things about food, especially carbs like pasta and flour.

For example:

• teenage boys eat a LOT!
• he doesn't eat between meals
• he doesn't often eat desserts
• he didn't grow up with junk food or processed foods
• he tried some North American junk foods and wasn't impressed
• he's used to eating pasta every day, but he's still slim
• he doesn't like vegetables, but he's still healthy
• most Italian flour isn't as refined as white flour
• spending time on cooking and eating with family is a top priority for his family and for ours

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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