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
143. Listener question: How strict are you, Netta?
A listener recently asked me this question: "How strict are you, Netta?"
It's a great question, so I thought I'd take the time to answer it properly.
In this episode, you'll learn about:
- my definition o…
142. "I'm not obsessed with food anymore!": Kristy
Most of Kristy's life was spent being overweight and food obsessed.
She turned to food for every emotion: sadness, joy, fear, excitement, happiness, anger, boredom, chaos – you name it!
For Kristy, …
141: You & sugar: The real challenge
What's the real challenge for you where sugar's concerned?
Is it to change what you eat? Or is it something else?
Do you eat sugar because of cravings?
Or for comfort?
To celebrate?
As a habit?
Because yo…
140. Your biggest struggles with cravings
Are you struggling with cravings?
You're not alone!
You may feel like certain foods have a hold on your emotions.
Or that you're in a vicious cycle.
Or that the diet culture makes you feel like a failure…
139. "Eating whole foods helped my MS symptoms disappear": Grace
Grace was 23 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is a is a potentially disabling autoimmune disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).
Despite taking drugs, Gr…
138. "Want to look younger? Eat less sugar!": Erin
Erin Tjam was my guest a few weeks ago, and I invited her back to talk about skin aging, more specifically about glycation.
Glycation is a concept you may not have heard of (I hadn't!).
Basically, co…
137. Foods to beat cravings
You may think that cutting sugar completely will make your cravings worse... but actually, eating no sweet-tasting foods for a while can help beat your cravings!
Which foods keep cravings at bay? And …
136. 8 years sugar free: 8 things I learned
8 years sugar free - can you believe it??
Who can live for 8 years without eating refined or added sugars, sweeteners, and flour? Is it even possible?
Well, I never would have thought it was possible i…
135. "I found peace with food when I cut sugar": Bethany
Bethany is a self-identified sugar addict who struggled with food, sweets, weight and dieting for as long as she can remember.
As a child, she remembers scheming ways to get more than her share of coo…
134. Summer shorts: Sugar and cravings
Do you struggle with cravings?
There are 3 types of cravings that I talk about in this fifth and last episode in the series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.
You'll also get my 5…
133. Summer shorts: Sugar and gut health
Almost 2500 years ago, Hippocrates said: "All disease begins in the gut".
But what does "gut health" mean?
Why is it so important?
And how does sugar affect your gut health?
To get answers, listen to thi…
132. Summer shorts: Sugar and inflammation
What's the difference between short-term acute inflammation, and chronic inflammation?
Is inflammation always a bad thing?
Is sugar inflammatory?
Listen to this third episode in the series of "summer sh…
131. Summer shorts: Sugar and diabetes
Does sugar "cause" diabetes?
And if not, what is the connection between sugar and diabetes?
To get my answers, listen to this second episode in the series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects you…
130. Summer shorts: Sugar and weight
How does sugar affect your weight?
Is it the "empty calories", or is it something else?
Listen to this first episode in a 5-part series of "summer shorts" about how sugar affects your health.
To get rid…
129. "Sugar can negatively affect your skin": Erin
Dr. Erin Tjam is the author of "Skin Sobering: 99% of Products Age and Harm Your Skin".
In this episode, we talk about how after her own skin failed her, Erin researched how to take care of skin.
What…
128. "Stress and sugar are terrible for gut health": Dr. Cecilia
Gastroenterologist Dr. Cecilia Minano had so many health issues as well as high stress levels. When she finally got coaching, she learned empowering boundaries and self-care that changed her life.
Sh…
127. How much sugar is too much?
How much sugar is too much?
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its recommendations for free or added sugars: 6 teaspoons for women, and 9 teaspoons for men. Per day.
But is that sti…
126. "You can train your brain to NOT like sugar anymore": Keith
Keith used to drink six cans of Coke a day. And with each soda, he would have a bag of crisps (chips), or a chocolate bar.
He knew it wasn't healthy, but he couldn't stop. When he tried to quit, he'd …
125. "I found my freedom from sugar addiction": Susan
Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD, is the founder of Bright Line Eating (BLE).
In her teens, she started using drugs, just for fun and experimentation at first. But she got really hooked and her drug abuse …
124. "What I learned in nutrition school just didn't make sense": Lesya
Lesya was always on diets when she was growing up.
So she thought: If I become a nutritionist, I'll finally know the secret to how to eat, how to lose weight, and how to keep weight off.
But she was s…