Life After Sugar
Welcome to Life After Sugar: Stories to Inspire, with Netta Gorman. The podcast that's not just about sugar, but about your relationship with it, and especially with yourself. This podcast is for you if you know that you need to cut down sugar, but you're not sure where to start, and you're feeling tired, sluggish, and overwhelmed because sugar seems to be everywhere. Get back your energy, lose your extra weight and the stiffness in your joints, get your digestion back on track, without feeling like you're depriving yourself of anything or being on a diet! Here you'll hear inspiring stories of people who cut out sugar in their own way, at their own pace, and for their own reasons. I hope that this podcast will inspire you to discover your life after sugar too! For more details, visit the Life After Sugar website at aftersugarclub.com.
Episodes
226 episodes
225. "Sugar affected my migraines": Marieke
Marieke lives in Belgium. She grew up eating healthy foods like whole grains and vegetables. But Marieke also had a bit of a sweet tooth.And she had been suffering from migraines since she was 3 years old. And when she became...
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224. "Cutting dairy and sugar gave me back my health": Mark
Mark's health issues started early in his teenage years. Growing up in the north east of the UK, he'd been put on antibiotics for an ear infection, and at the age of 16 his doctor wanted to put him on anti-depressants. But instead, ...
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223. Listener question: What if I don’t have enough willpower to cut sugar?
It's a question I get a lot: What if I don't have enough willpower to cut sugar?Well... here's my own question: What if it's not even about willpower?In fact, you don't need willpower to cut sugar. Really!So in this episode...
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222. Talking about probiotic foods with Dr. Steven Gundry (Part 2)
This is part 2 of my chat with best-selling author Steven Gundry MD.Listen to Part 1 of our chat here.2500 years ago, Hippocrates said: "All disease begins in ...
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221. Talking about gut health with Dr. Steven Gundry (Part 1)
Steven Gundry, MD is a cardiothoracic surgeon and bestselling author of "The Plant Paradox" as well as his most recent book, "The Gut-Brain Paradox".In this episode, we talk about gut health, a subject that is close to my heart ...
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220. Listener question: What is insulin resistance?
If you're a layperson like me (that is, not a health professional or a nutrition expert), then you may not know what "insulin resistance" is.I certainly didn't.It was only when I stopped eating sugar in my mid-40s, and experienced...
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219. "My health was transformed when I cut gluten and sugar": Colleen
Back in her 20s, Colleen was suffering from chronic exhaustion, pain, and bloating. She was unable to function and she was sleeping all the time.Despite taking a cocktail of medications, nothing seemed to work.Then Colleen discove...
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218. "Genetics affect how your body deals with sugar and cravings": Martin
Martin grew up post World War II in the Czech Republic in central Europe, in a small village.He says that his family was poor, but they ate all kinds of organic foods, as well as hunted food, like pheasants and hares.Then Martin l...
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217. "THIS made living sugar free so much easier!": Netta
Hi! It's me, Netta. And I have to tell you that all my life I was a real sweet tooth.People made desserts just for me, and my whole identity was wrapped up in my love for sweet foods, desserts, chocolate, ice cream, whatever.
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216. "Now I eat the foods that make me feel good": Cindy
Cindy started swimming competitively when she was 10 years old. She didn't really think about what she was eating because she was just swimming so much.So she ate whatever was presented to her.But when she hit puberty, she became ...
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215. "Sugar is instant pleasure, but long-term pain": Dr. Bob
My expert guest this week is Dr. Bob Rakowski who is a seasoned functional medicine practitioner with over three decades of experience. In this episode, Dr. Bob describes how as a teen growing up in the USA, he lived on milkshakes, ...
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214. What does it feel like to live sugar free?
What does it feel like to live sugar free?Every individual has a different answer. And in this episode, Freedom from Cravings Formula graduate Noreen shares how she feels one year after signing up for the program.
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213. "Fasting and less sugar helped with my weight at menopause": Karen
When she was younger, Karen never had a weight problem. She was tall and slim.But then with the ups and downs of life, including several very stressful situations, her weight went up. Covid and menopause definitely didn't hel...
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212. "Eating sugar can create stress in your body": Amy
Amy is a functional medicine nurse practitioner who is passionate about helping patients reverse disease and obtain true health and healing.In this episode, we talk about stress, and how sugar can actually increase the stress l...
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211. Listener question: Are sweeteners better than sugar?
"Netta, are sweeteners better than sugar?"It's a question I often get asked.So you'll get my answer in this episode... although it might not be what you're expecting!Because I question the concept of "good" and "bad" wit...
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210. "For me, less sugar fits perfectly with intermittent fasting": Pamela
Pamela is an intermittent faster.And for her, eating less sugar (or low carb) fits perfectly with her IF lifestyle.For Pam, it was a process to find what works for her. And it may not be the same for you (in fact, it probably is...
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36:50
209. "I used to love chocolate... Now I don't need it": Sharon
Sharon used to LOVE chocolate. She ate it every day. She couldn't imagine life without it.And she certainly never wanted to give up chocolate.So how did Sharon go from loving and needing chocolate to not wanting it or missing it...
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208. How to make new and sustainable habit changes
It's the new year, and there might be some tweaks you can make to your everyday habits so that gradually you get to freedom from cravings.The book Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great reference if you're struggling with crav...
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207. How will you feel with less sugar? (Part 3)
This is the last episode of 2024, so let's finish off the year in good cheer and in good health. And maybe good health for you includes less sugar.But maybe it's difficult for you to imagine actually feeling better with less sug...
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206. How will you feel with less sugar? (Part 2)
One of the fears that people have (and I definitely had it myself) is that if they cut sugar from their diet, then there's nothing left to eat.I mean, sugar is everywhere. Right? Well, not quite. Sugar - added sugar I me...
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205. How will you feel with less sugar? (Part 1)
It's the end of 2024, and this short episode will help you start to shift a few beliefs about how you will feel with less sugar.For example:how reducing or cutting out sugar can help reduce mood swingshow eating les...
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204. "It was sugar - not fat - that made me put on weight": Meredith
Meredith grew up in the 80s and 90s eating all the "low fat" products because she was convinced that eating fat made her put on weight. It was only years later, after grad school, that she learned that those products contain a bunch of ...
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203. "Eating clean improved my health after bariatric surgery": Camilla
Camilla has experienced a lot of health issues in her life, including bariatric surgery.In this episode, she talks about how early her sugar addiction began, and how she almost lost her life because of post-surgery complications.
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202. Is it possible to enjoy the holidays with less sugar?
It's November, and the holiday season is upon us.So is it really possible to enjoy the holidays with less sugar?You'll find the answer (well, MY answer) in this short excerpt from a recent online workshop I gave on November 16, ...
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201. "My obsession has been replaced with peace around sugar": Vanessa
Vanessa has traveled all over the world.And she came to the conclusion that sugar is literally everywhere!That's not good news for anyone... but especially for her, because as she freely admits, Vanessa is a sugar addict.So ...
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