Life After Sugar
Life After Sugar
Netta
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.
294. How to end sugar cravings for good (without diets or willpower)
You probably don't need another diet, another list of foods to avoid, or another reminder about what you already know you should be doing. If you've been struggling with sugar cravings for years, the problem may not be a lack of information... or a lack of willpower. It may be that you're trying to change a deeply ingrained pattern without the right process, support, and accountability. In this episode, I explain why so many capable, motivated women can know exactly what they want to change a...
Aug 30
18 min
293. "I ate sugar because I didn't feel loved": Sharon
For Sharon, sugar was much more than a sweet treat. Sugary foods were something she used to help her through all-nighters and cope with difficult times. But eventually, she realized that sugar was was helping her cope with difficult relationships and family issues. In this episode, Sharon shares her journey from eating brownie batter straight from the bowl to adopting a raw vegan lifestyle. She talks about the difficult events that fuelled her sugar addiction, and the moment she realized she ...
Aug 23
36 min
292. "Sugar, inflammation, and heart health are connected": Dr. Boone
What does sugar have to do with heart disease? According to Dr. Geoffrey Boone, preventive cardiologist, much more than most people realize. After decades of helping people prevent heart disease, he explains how sugar contributes to inflammation, damages the lining of the arteries, and why these changes can begin years before any symptoms appear. In this episode, we talk about why Dr. Boone believes prevention still isn't the main focus of healthcare, how modern imaging can detect...
Aug 16
40 min
291. The power of support and accountability
You've probably tried to stop eating sugar on your own. More than once. And it can work for a while. You promise yourself you'll do better, you rely on willpower, and maybe you even have a few good days or weeks. But when life gets stressful or overwhelming, it's all too easy to slip back into old habits. In this episode, I talk about why lasting freedom from sugar cravings isn't about having more knowledge or finding the perfect meal plan. It's about getting the right suppo...
Aug 9
19 min
290. "Sweet foods helped me to cope with my emotions": Lisa
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...
Aug 2
35 min
289. "I realized sugar was making me crash": Jodi
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...
Jul 26
30 min
288. GLP-1 drugs versus cutting sugar
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 ...
Jul 19
21 min
287. "I reversed my prediabetes when I cut out processed sugar": Dr. Jonar
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...
Jul 12
36 min
286. "My perfectionism led to emotional eating": Meg
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...
Jul 5
37 min
285: Life after sugar - Keep it simple!
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...
Jun 28
19 min
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