Life After Sugar

Tracy was my guest on Episode 10, and we check back in with her in this episode to see how she's doing. Tracy says that she feels that she's grown in the last year since she left sugar behind. She feels like she's no longer enslaved. She's gained the self-confidence that she was lacking for a really long time because she was so ashamed of her secret war with sugar. In this epis...

This episode is Part 2 of answers to listeners' questions for the 100th episode of the Life After Sugar podcast. In this episode, you'll get answers to questions such as: What do you do with cravings that hit at night? Was there ever a moment in my (Netta's) first year when I considered going back to life with sugar? What do you do when you live with people who still consume sugar?...

It's the 100th episode of the Life After Sugar podcast! Woo hoo!! And to celebrate, I asked my listeners to submit the questions they'd like me to answer on the 100th episode... and I got so many that I'm going to answer them in 2 episodes (#100 and #101)! In this episode, you're going to get answers to questions such as: What can you replace sugar with? What can you use to rep...

Jenn Trepek's passion for nutrition and helping others stems from kicking her own food issues and weight management. As a kid, she ate lot of vegetables... but she also consumed lots of bread, chips, pasta... and soda! As she got older, Jenn noticed conversations around cholesterol and weight for her dad, but she didn't question it. Her family followed the food pyramids (with grains as i...

Dr. Lucy Burns used to identify as (in her words) a sweet tooth, a chocoholic, and a lollytarian! Her whole life revolved around getting sugar in some form. Sugar was such a big part of her identity that she wasn't aware of her dependence on it. And because all that sugar made her gain weight, she also went on diets. As a doctor, she was always caring for others... and she turned to reward ea...

In this episode, Rachel talks openly and candidly about her struggles with sugar and food addiction. She says that sugar had been a problem since childhood, but through her teen years and into her twenties, she didn't recognize that sugar and her disordered eating were problematic. As a registered nurse and a nutritionist, Rachel was looking for tools to help her clients. And that's wher...

Michael Moss' book "Hooked" came out in 2021, and when I read it... it blew my mind! As a consumer, it doesn't feel like the food manufacturers care about nourishing us, and even less about our health! How has the processed foods industry "hooked" us on their processed products? Are they really created to be addictive? Moss' book addresses questions about how fas...

Nicola grew up in the 70s and 80s, and says that she doesn't remember food being an issue during her childhood. She wasn't overweight as a child. In her 20s and 30s, once she had her own money, all she wanted to do was to buy the food that was available at the canteen at the hospital where she worked. She also had the attitude that if she needed to lose weight, she would crash diet. It w...

You may self-identify as a sugar addict... But are you really "addicted"? In this episode, I'm talking to my friend Molly Painschab, who is a mental health professional, addiction strategist, behavior specialist, and certified international food addiction counselor. Molly has her own personal experience of a disordered relationship with food. She experienced gestational diabetes, we...

Do you have kids? (Or grandkids) In this episode, I'm talking with Lauren Bryson, who's a cooking instructor for kids, Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition and host of the Go Play in the Dirt Podcast. Lauren  specializes in digestive wellness, the microbiome, autoimmune conditions and the gut-brain connection. And she also teaches kids how to cook with real whole foods! (ie: NOT sugar.....

Robyn and I are friends and we share something that I kind of wish we didn't: our long and difficult struggle with infertility. In this episode, Robyn tells about her childhood in the 80s and her eating habits. She also talks about how later in life she discovered a love for food and cooking. In her early 30s, Robyn and her husband tried unsuccessfully to have a baby. It was a difficult and f...

Letting go of sugar and living happily sugar free is 100% possible... but it's definitely easier when you have guidance and support so that you're not struggling on your own. In this episode, you'll discover the framework and the structure we follow in Life After Sugar. I'll walk you through 3 practical exercises from the Life After Sugar Program, so that you can become more aw...

So you're ready to start reducing or cutting sugar. Wonderful! But where do you start? HOW do you start? Most people make the mistake of concentrating on the food first. I have another approach. I suggest starting with YOU. What's your natural personality? What's your big WHY? Your reason for wanting to reduce or cut sugar? And yes - what's left to eat when you take away sugar...

Dr. Orlena Kerek is a paediatric doctor turned family health advocate. She worked as a doctor in the UK and now she practices in Spain. It broke her heart to see so many sick people in hospital dying of “lifestyle disease” that could have been prevented with a healthy lifestyle. She has 4 kids so she knows how crazy life can get.  Dr. Orlena helps ambitious mums have more energy and overcome the f...

Sugar was a reward during Scott's childhood. And as a result, Scott was overweight as a child, and his mother put him on all kinds of diets. He felt like a disappointment at weigh-ins. It was a struggle to keep his weight down most of his life. As he grew up, his mental framework was that sugar was a treat... it was fun and enjoyable and decadent. But he also wondered: Why is something that t...

Gabrielle had leukemia as a very young child. But it wasn't until her 20s that she started to realize what some of the long term effects of chemotherapy were. Gabrielle tells how during her younger years, her lack of knowledge about nutrition did her a disservice. Up to her her mid 20s, she'd been following the classic American diet. And she started having weight issues, even though she...

Annie chose to be vegetarian early on in her life, but unfortunately she ate a lot of processed grains rather than fruit and vegetables. She admits that she didn't really know what to focus on at that time. "My body never felt great and my mind never really felt great", Annie told me. It took several years of figuring out which way of eating worked for her. She tried several diets,...

I know a thing or two about failing - I've been a teacher for 30 years! But I'm not talking about passing or failing exams here. This episode is about the feeling of failure many of us have had in the past, about our weight especially. And I blame the diet industry for manufacturing this fear of failure! It was only when I stopped eating sugar in July 2015 that I was able to step out of...

In this episode, you'll get a "sneak peek" into the check-in calls that we have in the After Sugar Club. You'll be in good company with Eloisa, Rochelle, Wendy and Debbie. Curious about what kinds of things we talk about (and how we  have fun together!)?  The link between sugar, hunger, and intermittent fasting. How members deal with social situations, like a birthday. What we...

Barbi has a special place in my heart.   Early in 2022, she followed my step-by-step process over 6 weeks to let go of sugar. We really dove deep into her relationship with sugar, and as you'll hear, Barbi made huge strides in her awareness of her relationship with sugar over a short period of time. (The Life After Sugar Program that Barbi followed is not available now, but the After Sugar Cl...

This is a question I get asked all the time: What about fruit?? And: Netta, do you eat fruit? The short answer: Yes. Yes, Netta eats fruit. Whether or not you eat fruit is entirely up to you! The long answer is in this episode. This episode talks about: why I say: "I eat as much fruit as I want, as often as I want" (and it's the same for sugar!) why I'm not always looking for s...

When Michelle was in her 30s, she got gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with her second child. She had to change her diet and she felt restricted, so after she had the baby and was told that she could eat "normally" again, she went bonkers! She would buy dozens of candy bars, eat them, and hide the wrappers. She felt so ashamed. At 5 feet 3 inches Michelle reached 200lbs. She fe...

In this episode, you’ll get the answers to frequently asked questions such as: What is intermittent fasting (IF)? Won't I get hungry if I don't eat? How are sugar and IF connected? Find these FAQs on my website here . Are you saying that I can’t eat sugar ever again? I thought cutting calories was the way to lose weight. What’s all the fuss about insulin? Isn't it unhealthy to skip...

Natalie Speakman was a teenage drug addict and alcoholic. She got clean and sober  when she was 22 years old, but continued to smoke cigarettes for 18 months after.  And then her food and sugar consumption went way up. In this episode Natalie tells how she remembers that eating sugar made her feel "high" and gave her a shift in her mood. For years after she got sober, she used to eat des...

Phoebe Lapine knows all about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)... and sugar! Phoebe is the author of SIBO Made Simple , which is a must-read not just for those suffering from unwanted GI symptoms, but anyone looking to improve their gut health without sacrificing delicious food. In this episode, Phoebe talks about her health issues, including the auto...