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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 244
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
063. "If it's good for Netta, I'll give it a try": Marcia (my mum!)
Today's episode is a tribute to my lovely mum, Marcia, especially as it's Mother's Day in the UK (March 27, 2022).
My mum's in her mid-70s and she tells how in 2015 when I first told her that I'd cut …
062. "I feel better in my 40s than I did in my 20s": Dr. Diane
Dr. Diane Mueller is a functional doctor. She's passionate about helping others restore their health and passion for life. Just like many of her patients, Dr. Diane struggled with chronic fatigue, fi…
061. "I wanted to make food that could heal me": Chef AJ
Chef AJ considers sugar was a drug for her. For the first 43 years of her life, she says that she was addicted to sugar and caffeine. She needed sugar to function.
But in general, the medical professi…
060. "My fasts got easier the less sugar I ate": Emily
Emily Harveaux's childhood was filled with sugar and sweet treats.
From a very young age, she associated comfort and warmth with candy (like most of us!).
Over her lifetime Emily says that she has run…
059: "Now with fasting and real foods, I have an off switch!": Allison
Allison would eat to cope with all her emotions. Primarily highly processed foods made from flour and sugar (bread was her thing!), especially crunchy and salty.
By the time she was in her 20s, she w…
058: "I just couldn't stop, I was so ashamed": Zippi
Zippi says that she was born with a "fatal attraction" to sugar. No amount of sugar was enough for her.
When she moved to Israel and became a nurse, she knew all the theory and the caloric value of di…
057. Valentine's edition: So you think you LOVE sugar?
Do you love sugar?
I certainly used to!
Sugar in all its forms: chocolate, desserts, ice cream, cookies, as well as bread and pasta.
But then when I stopped eating sugar, I realized that... well, maybe …
056: "Sugar brought out my negative emotions": Paula
Paula Yolles grew up like most people: eating sugar.
Sugar was part of her daily life.
Throughout her childhood and into adulthood and parenthood, she had stomach aches, and she was constipated, with g…
055. "Just get started": 1 year later
On January 31, 2021 I hit "publish" and the Life After Sugar podcast was born!
In this 1st birthday edition, I'm talking about the highlights over the last year with my special guest Dan Greef from th…
054. From almost blind to no more diabetes meds: Gord
Before January 2021, Gord Isman used food to alleviate stress, isolation, and tough emotions. He would turn to food to find solace.
Over the course of the pandemic, Gord says he started to get lazy wi…
053. "I wanted to get to the heart of my problem with sugar": Debbie
This week's episode is a sneak peek into our regular support calls, which I call "check-in calls".
These calls allows participants to share their challenges, their wins and their aha! moments and get …
052. "The benefits go far beyond weight loss": Laura
Laura Bonicelli grew up with Italian food in Minnesota. With home-cooked meals and surrounded by a close community, she became a chef. She created a meal delivery service to bring fresh, organic meal…
051. "I just can't have sugar in the house": Jen
Dr. Jen Unwin is a clinical psychologist and a self-confessed lifelong carbohydrate addict. She's the author of Fork in the Road.
In this episode, she tells her own personal story about her addiction …
050. "You can heal yourself with food": Vikki
Vikki Jones is a former competitive athlete. She moved from the UK to the US in the 1980s and excelled in the pentathlon. She had a coach for every sport she did, as well as being supported by the US…
049. Hormones, menopause, cancer, and sugar: Megan
Megan Lifto is a nurse who's had her own health issues, including having her ovaries removed. She knew that the decrease in estrogen would affect her metabolism, and indeed her weight went up 60lbs,…
048: Special holiday edition: Happy Gut, Happy Holidays!
This is our special holiday edition of the Life After Sugar podcast!
This week I'm talking to Holly Howe, a Fermentation Educator, a cookbook author, photographer, and blogger. Holly's goal is to hav…
047. "Low carb and fasting were real game-changers": Jackie and Louise
Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds are the hosts of the Fabulously Keto podcast.
After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018…
046. The food addict behind the white coat: Dr. Vera Tarman
Dr. Vera Tarman is the author of the book Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction.
Her book (as well as the podcast Food Junkies) tackles the complex and often poorly understood issue of food addi…
045: "Consuming sugar can be a form of self-sabotage": Colli
Colli Christante grew up eating whole foods and very little sugar, and she brought up her daughter that way too. She doesn't remember her daughter being sick as a child.
Naturally, as she grew up, Col…
044. "My comfort food has changed completely": Nikola
When Nikola Howard was still eating sugar, she had no energy, she was in pain, she had skin issues, and she was often moody and "hangry" (which is when you're so hungry that you're angry). She had to…