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.
Sarah grew up with a mother who was very intentional with feeding her family healthy food. She cooked everything from scratch.
As a child, Sarah didn't have any exposure to sugar whatsoever.
And because there was no option for sugar in her life, Sarah says that she was neutral around food.
Until her late thirties, when she decided to do a popular elimination diet. She had no weight to lose at the ti...
Acquanda grew up eating what she calls "semi-healthy foods", like flavoured yogurts.
Then when she moved close to her sister, who's a great cook and dessert maker, Acquanda started eating sweets more often... and craving them!
That's when she realized that she had a problem with sugar. She felt powerless.
Acquanda was doing research on African American women in the southern states who ...
Whole foods... processed foods... and ultra-processed foods (UPFs)... What's the difference?
I'm not the first to ask this question.
In fact, the NOVA system assigns foods to one of four groups, based on how much processing they have been through:
Group 1 - Unprocessed or minimally processed foods
Group 2 - Processed culinary ingredients
Group 3 - Processed foods
Group 4 - Ultra-processed food and drink prod...
Barry is 62 years old. He's a 4-time world juggling champion. He spent 34 years touring around the world doing shows, corporate events, TV shows, and being on TED stages.
2012 was a leap year. On February 29, Barry's 8-year-old son challenged him to "leap" something. So Barry decided to "leap" sugar for 24 hours.
Barry went to sleep that night and couldn't believe how great he fe...
Ellen was a food addict from the age of about 7, she says, with a history of obesity. Doctors and dietitians had put her on many diets as she was growing up, to the point of her doctor suggesting bariatric surgery.
She spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom eating ultra processed foods like crisps and chocolate, with the radio on so that nobody would know. And thinking about how to end it all because she was just so mise...
Maybe you believe that a meal isn't complete without dessert.
I mean, you can't have a meal without finishing it off with something sweet. Right? It's just not done.
Or maybe you feel that if you don't have sweet treats, you'll feel deprived.
And you don't want to feel like you're missing out.
Maybe you're wondering how you can get through the summer without fr...
Judi came from a home with a lot of trauma.
Growing up, there was always sugar around. Her mother baked a lot, and that was Judi's go-to whenever she felt any kind of emotional need.
As she started to grow older, she felt like she didn't belong. She just didn't fit in. She felt so different - like an outcast, not connected with people and not connected with herself, but she didn't know why.
In this episode, I'll be answering a few common questions that I often get from listeners, including:
Even if the questions and answers were recorded a year or two ago, they're still relevant today.
Need guidance and supp...
When Lisa was around 20 years old, she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
One of the main side effects was weight gain.
And that set her down a path of obsession with food and exercise because she didn't want to gain weight.
Previous to that, she had digestive issues. So to try to find a solution, Lisa did everything to the extreme. For example, massive elimination diets. She cut all starchy, carby, and...
When Lori was growing up in Los Angeles, she loved all cookies, deserts, and ice cream. Every week when she got her allowance, she spent it on candy and ice cream.
Before she knew it she was getting chubby, she says. And she reached 200lbs and started suffering from depression.
Her mom tried to help her to lose weight and baked her Atkin’s low carb bread, and Lori was able to get her weight down to about 150lbs...
Want some simple sugar free recipes?
You'll find several in this episode!
You'll also find my general tips to avoid refined sugar and starches.
And also ideas and recipes for:
Eating real, whole foods that don't contain added sugar doesn't need ...
Dana stopped sugar - more specifically, white sugar and flour - in December of 2021.
In this episode, Dana tells how she was very addicted to sugar for 40 some years. Today, she recognizes that for her, it's better not to have any than to try to have a little.
It was when she was in the hospital in 2021 after an accident that Dana remembered that her grandmother had lost both her legs to diabetes. Dana herse...
Beck signed up for the Freedom from Cravings Formula 5-step program in the spring of 2024 because although she knew all about the negative effects of sugar, she was still struggling with sugar cravings.
Especially for chocolate.
Chocolate with nuts, to be precise.
In fact, Step 2 of the program is designed to be a deep dive into learning to make sustainable habit changes.
One example is that inst...
In this episode, I talk about what I ate on my recent trip to visit my family in the UK.
Yes, you can travel and still choose to eat real, whole foods!
But it may not always be possible to make the best choices... Do the best you can with the options available. I didn't eat sugar, but I did eat foods that I wasn't used to.
Listen to how the temporary change of routine in my diet affected my sys...
This episode is Part 2 of my chat with Siobhan Harris, who struggled with sugar addiction her whole life.
Listen to Part 1 (Episode 179) here.
In this episode, Siobhan shares the 5 tools that she uses in her recovery from sugar addiction. These tools are helping Siobhan to remain happily committed to living a sugar-free, flour-free lifestyle for life.
These tools may surprise you... and they could help...
This is a crossover episode with my friend Michelle from the Fast and Fabulous podcast.
We talk about:
Dr. Michael Mosley is the author of several books, including The Fast 800, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, and The Clever Guts Diet.
Sadly, he passed away in June 2024 while on holiday in Greece.
In this episode, I want to share with you a book report that I made a couple of years ago for the members of the After Sugar Club private community (find us here).
This episode is my summary of his book The Clever...
My guest this week is Nikki, who's a fellow mom with 3 boys at home.
In this episode, we talk about whole foods, how she feeds her family, and how she helps other moms find more energy in the sometimes overwhelming life that we live as moms.
Nikki grew up with pretty healthy meals, usually some sort of meat or fish and vegetables. Rarely desserts, she says - they were just for special occasions.
An...
From November 2023 to June 2024, we had an Italian student staying with us. Not exactly an exchange student, more like a big brother for our daughter.
And during those months of his stay with us, I learned quite a few things about food, especially carbs like pasta and flour.
For example:
From early childhood, Siobhan remembers sneaking cookies before anyone else woke up in the morning. Even as a toddler, she was never able to eat sugar in moderation.
Once she hit puberty, this addiction caused her to gain weight and so she started dieting, which led to a diet/binge cycle that lasted decades.
After college, Siobhan struggled more and more with weight control and grew increasingly more frustrated aroun...
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