Judi came from a home with a lot of trauma.

Growing up, there was always sugar around. Her mother baked a lot, and that was Judi's go-to whenever she felt any kind of emotional need.

As she started to grow older, she felt like she didn't belong. She just didn't fit in. She felt so different - like an outcast, not connected with people and not connected with herself, but she didn't know why.

As an adult, severe depression took over to the point where Judi had thoughts like: Why am I on this Earth? Why is my life like this? What have I done to deserve all this?

But she pretended that everything was OK. She made it look good on the outside.

She was a people pleaser, a caretaker, a workaholic, she says. In her work, Judi would always rise to the top because she was an overachiever.

Judi developed several addictions, but sugar was the hardest to let go of.

Listen to how Judi went from not being able to sleep, depression, self hate, and feeling desperate... to healing her trauma, and feeling free from the hold that sugar had on her.

Find Judi here.

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In this episode, I'll be answering a few common questions that I often get from listeners, including:

• how do you know if a product has naturally occurring sugars or added sugars?
  and
• are natural sugars okay?
  and
• I've reduced my sugar intake. Why am I still getting cravings?

Even if the questions and answers were recorded a year or two ago, they're still relevant today.

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When Lisa was around 20 years old, she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism.

One of the main side effects was weight gain.
And that set her down a path of obsession with food and exercise because she didn't want to gain weight.

Previous to that, she had digestive issues. So to try to find a solution, Lisa did everything to the extreme. For example, massive elimination diets. She cut all starchy, carby, and sugary foods.

But it was exhausting for her, and she felt restricted... which led to cravings and bingeing.

In her quest to find a sustainable solution to help with her digestion, keep her weight stable, stabilize her blood sugar, and get rid of her cravings, Lisa discovered intermittent fasting.

Once she started fasting, Lisa realized that sugar was the one thing that made her feel like once she had it, she wanted more of it. She was able to moderate everything else... but not sugar.

Listen to how Lisa finally let go of sugar - and alcohol - and how easy and freeing her intermittent fasting lifestyle is today!

Find Lisa here.

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When Lori was growing up in Los Angeles, she loved all cookies, deserts, and ice cream. Every week when she got her allowance, she spent it on candy and ice cream.

Before she knew it she was getting chubby, she says. And she reached 200lbs and started suffering from depression.

Her mom tried to help her to lose weight and baked her Atkin’s low carb bread, and Lori was able to get her weight down to about 150lbs.

But Lori's weight loss battle had just begun, and her weight yo-yo'd. Like many of us, she was told not to eat fat, but sugar was okay to eat. So she continued to struggle with her weight, and got up to 225lbs in her mid 30s.

Lori was desperate. After much reading and research, she discovered keto and never looked back. By cutting sugar and wheat and eating more protein and healthy fats, Lori lost 100 lbs and has kept it off.

At 61 years old, she says she feels better than in her 20s! As a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Lori's mission is to serve and educate women over 50 to be empowered to choose health for natural weight loss.

Find Lori here.

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Want some simple sugar free recipes?

You'll find several in this episode!

You'll also find my general tips to avoid refined sugar and starches.

And also ideas and recipes for:

• breakfast foods
• my yummy chia jam
• salad dressings
• alternatives to pasta
• condiments like ketchup and mayonnaise
• flour free Hollandaise sauce

Eating real, whole foods that don't contain added sugar doesn't need to be complicated or time-consuming.

But just changing what you eat isn't enough.

The key is to change how you think.

Need guidance and support to get rid of cravings so that you can slim down and finally feel in control around food?

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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.

Need guidance and support to get rid of cravings so that you can slim down and finally feel in control around food?

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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.

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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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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