Life After Sugar

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 h...

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...

Cassandra grew up on a classic American diet, sugar included. It wasn't until her 20s that she started noticing the connection between what she was eating and how she was feeling. As someone with ADHD, the moment she cut out sugar and experienced real mental clarity for the first time, there was no going back. In this episode, Cassandra explains what mindful eating is: It means bringing aware...

What's the connection between gut health and sugar cravings? In this episode, ZuZu, a holistic healthcare practitioner, explains how poor gut health, candida, and SIBO can actually drive your cravings, and why healing the gut can make those cravings disappear almost entirely. She also explains why your body only needs one teaspoon of sugar in the bloodstream at any given time, why grains and...

If you've ever asked yourself the question: Why aren't I sugar free yet? with frustration, this episode is for you.  In my experience, one of the most common — and most damaging — expectations around going sugar-free is that it should happen instantly, completely, and permanently.  Spoiler: it doesn't always work that way, and it doesn't have to. In fact, I challenge the idea t...

My guest this week is Helen Ye, who grew up in Guangzhou, China. In this episode, Helen shares how she learned from an early age that food is medicine and that balance is everything. As an Ayurveda practitioner and psychic, she brings a fascinating Eastern perspective to what's really driving cravings for sweets and sugar. Helen explains the difference between Eastern and Western sugar, and w...

In this episode, I'm talking with Dr. Kelly McCann, a medical doctor with a background in integrative medicine, and she connects the dots between mold exposure, gut health, and sugar cravings in a way I've never heard before.  And then she takes it even deeper — into the emotional and spiritual side of why we reach for sweetness in the first place. Because as Dr. Kelly explains, sugar cr...

This episode will walk you through my new book, called "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". I'm so excited that this book is finally out in the world! (It's available here ) Based on my 12-week program, the Freedom from Cravings Formula , I wrote this book so that it can offer you more than just recipes or a food list. This book is designed to be a practical step-by-step guide to...

Monica grew up in Australia with pretty health-conscious parents. But as life got busier and more stressful, she started eating more and more sugar.  And eventually, working in the health industry of all places, she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. In this episode, Monica breaks down what Hashimoto's actually is, why it's so often missed or misdiagnosed for years, and why sugar plays...

Suann grew up in northeastern Canada eating the way most of us did: a diet full of sugary cereals and processed foods. But when she grew older, she started listening to her body. She became vegetarian, then vegan, moved off-grid, and built a life that suits her .  And she's never felt more free. In this conversation, we talk about what Suann calls embodiment — what it actually means to feel a...

In this episode, I want to talk about something that confuses a lot of people: cholesterol. What it actually is, why your body needs it, and why the LDL number on your lab report doesn't tell the whole story. A new documentary that just came out in April 2026 called The Cholesterol Code got me thinking.  It follows Dave Feldman, an engineer who went low-carb, stabilized his blood sugar, felt...

John grew up in Indiana eating Hungry Man dinners, boxes of sugary cereal, and green-frosted Ninja Turtle pies... and no-one ever told him sugar was a problem!  By his early 30s he was pushing 290 pounds, prediabetic, and on blood pressure medication. After discovering low-carb eating and spending years experimenting with ketosis, John learned how to train his body to burn fat instead of sugar and...

Christine spent 30 years trapped in the cycle of yo-yo dieting.  She tried everything from Weight Watchers to a hospital-supervised liquid protein program. But nobody ever taught her  why her body was working against her.  In this episode, Christine opens up about growing up on the Standard American Diet (SAD), the childhood bullying that shaped her relationship with food, and how she reached 230...

What do you say when someone offers you something with sugar in it… and you don’t want it? Or you kind of do... but you don't want to sabotage your efforts to break free from sugar cravings? In this episode, I walk you through simple, real-life ways to respond without feeling rude, awkward, or pressured to explain yourself. We also look at what’s really going on in those moments, including th...

Angela grew up with a lot of stress and tension around food at home. In her 20s, she struggled with severe sugar addiction alongside anxiety and depression, using sugar as a primary coping mechanism. In this conversation, Angela shares how that breaking point led her to eat more mindfully, and how learning to be present in everyday moments slowly changed her relationship with food, cravings, and e...

When Violet's husband’s health crisis forced them to look for solutions, sugar and white flour weren’t even on the list. In this episode, Violet shares how her husband’s Crohn’s disease led them to completely rethink the way they eat.  They were trying to keep him off of meds because he didn't like the side effects that came with them.  But when their version of healthy eating wasn'...

If you’ve ever thought about cutting sugar, flour, and processed foods, it's better to be prepared for what you might experience. In this episode, I talk about the symptoms people often call “detox” and what’s actually happening in the body during that transition.  We look at why you might be peeing more, why headaches are so common, what metabolic flexibility means, cravings, and why the bra...

Evon Dennis grew up in a large family where most meals were home-cooked. But as her family’s income increased, so did the presence of ultra-processed foods.  After leaving home as a teenager, and becoming a young mom, food became comfort for Evon. It became numbness. It became a coping tool. In this episode, Evon shares: how ultra-processed food slowly became her main coping tool her experience wi...

You can do everything “right” and still not feel like you're "good enough". In this episode, I talk with Courtney, a health coach and former dancer, about growing up in diet culture, and how looking healthy on the outside doesn't always reflect how we feel on the inside. We talk about why weight loss so often backfires (hint: it's not your fault!). And we also talk about h...

If you’re over 50 and sugar cravings feel stronger or harder to manage than they used to, you’re not imagining it. In this episode (which I recorded a few weeks before my 56th birthday), I talk about what’s actually happening in the body after midlife and why the strategies that used to work often stop working.  For most of us, shifting hormones affect blood sugar, stress, sleep, and cravings, so...

You probably don’t need more health information. Chances are, you’re already overwhelmed by it. In this episode, I talk with Jenn Trepeck, health coach and author of Uncomplicating Wellness , about why eating well and taking care of yourself has become so confusing, and why it doesn’t have to be. We talk about how to make sense of all the conflicting nutrition headlines, why chasing the “right” pl...

Cravings don’t usually come out of nowhere.  They’re often the body’s way of asking for relief, comfort, or a break from stress, even when it feels like the craving is “just for sugar.” In this episode, my guest is Dr. David Clark, a board-certified gastroenterologist who spent decades working not only with people who suffer with digestive issues, but also chronic pain, fatigue, and cravings.  In...

What is emotional eating? For a long time, I didn’t think emotional eating had anything to do with me. I thought I just liked sugar.  I thought I needed more discipline. I thought I should “do better.” You may relate. In this episode, I share my own experience with comfort foods and the role sugar played in helping me cope and unwind at the end of a long day.  I talk about why comfort foods feel s...

My guest this week, Dr. Elizabeth Wanek, has a chemistry degree, a medical doctorate, and decades of practice. She challenges conventional healthcare thinking by connecting physics, chemistry, and biology to how we see energy, food, sugar, and cravings. You don't need a science background or a medical degree to get inspiration from this episode. In fact, both Elizabeth and I agree that the ba...

What actually counts as a whole food — and why does that matter when it comes to sugar? In this episode, I unpack the difference between foods with added sugars and whole foods that naturally contain sugar, like fruit and dairy.  I talk about what “minimally processed” really means, why "food products" that contain forms of added sugars have quietly become part of everyday eating... and...