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
083: "The better I feel, the more I want to feel good": Barbi
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, Ba…
082. Listener question: What about fruit??
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 ans…
081. “For me, less sugar and fasting are forms of self-care": Michelle
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…
080. FAQs about sugar and intermittent fasting
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?
079: "I let go of my addiction to sugar one day at a time": Natalie
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 consum…
078. "Cutting sugar helped with my IBS, SIBO, and auto-immune issues": Phoebe
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 …
077: "I felt like I couldn't survive much longer": Jan
Jan Steele found out that she's celiac early on in life.
The transition to a gluten free diet was done by her mother because Jan was a child. Because she grew up with celiac disease, and because of t…
076. Gentle rant: Are you even listening??
Oh I know you're listening, dear listener!
But this is a gentle rant about the intuitive eating (IE) approach.
When I first found out about IE, I was so happy! I thought I'd found "my" people!
Intuitive…
075. "Fermented foods changed my health and my life!": Donna
Donna Schwenk first discovered the power of fermented foods when she was 41. She had just given birth to her third child prematurely, and in this episode she tells her story of how cultured (fermente…
074. Listener request: The marketing and advertising of sugar
This episode comes from a request from a listener who asked me to talk about how advertising from the sugar industry has made us believe that sugar is a good source of energy... a necessary part of …
073. Raising kids with less sugar
This episode is a recording of a live video I did in May 2022 on the Life After Sugar Facebook page, with my friend Michelle Montone.
I know that a lot of parents and grandparents listen to this podc…
072: "Intermittent fasting helped me to quit sugar": Lucie
Lucie found out that she's a Type 1 diabetic when she was 17. That means that the beta cells in her pancreas don't produce insulin.
She had to go to the hospital where she was given insulin and told …
071. 5 mistakes people make when they want to reduce sugar (Pt 2)
This is Part 2, continued from Episode 70, about the 5 mistakes people make when they want to reduce sugar.
Mistake #3: Replacing sugar with other types of sweeteners, or recreating desserts and simil…
070: 5 mistakes people make when they want to reduce sugar (Pt 1)
In my experience, a lot of people make some or all of these 5 mistakes when they want to reduce sugar.
In this episode, I talk about the first 2 mistakes:
1. Not respecting your natural personality. He…
069: "Now I'm free from pain and inflammation": Kate
When Kate's brother passed away in his 40s from cancer, Kate felt so powerless. The acute stress triggered a physical response in her body, and her work and lifestyle made it worse.
She was eating mor…
068: How to celebrate without sugar
A birthday without cake??
A dinner without dessert?!
A celebration without traditional sweet dishes?
Does that sound sad or dull to you?
If you think that it's not possible to celebrate without sugar, th…
067. "Now I can focus on the positive in my life": Alison
As a busy professional in New York, Alison followed all the healthy eating advice: she was vegetarian, ate lots of smoothie bowls and salads (all takeout!)... but she was still suffering from all kin…
066: Listener question: What do you eat in a day?
"Netta, what do you eat in a day?"
In this episode, I give you the answer, as well as examples of my meals.
When I first cut sugar and flour back in 2015, I was given a list of whole foods to help me. …
065. "I thought my problem was food, but in fact it was sugar": Alicia
From a young age, food had always seduced Alicia.
As an example, she remembers in the 80s looking forward to going out to a Chinese restaurant. She would fantasize all day about the food, then devour…
064. Listener question: What about monk fruit and stevia?
A listener recently asked me to talk about sweeteners, specifically monk fruit and stevia.
Disclaimer: I don't use either of these sweeteners... but this isn't about me! ;-)
In this episode I talk abou…