Me: “I’m waking up at 2 am every night STARVING!”

My Dr: “Naomi, you have a blood sugar problem.”

This solo episode is the first in a series of solo episodes over the next few months taking you on a journey of my health history over the past 8-ish years. And we’re starting off talking about my blood sugar problem.

You’ll hear:

• What blood sugar is

• Why is fundamentally important to everyone’s general health (even just diabetics)

• How I struggled with a blood sugar imbalance

And then I’ll give you a little bit of coaching by sharing what I did to address it, and what you can do too.

In this episode, I’m joined by Jennifer Tyler Lee. Jennifer is an award-winning author, game creator, self-trained home cook, and healthy eating advocate. 

Her first book, The 52 New Foods Challenge, was nominated for an IACP Cookbook Award, and her nutrition game, Crunch a Color®: The Healthy Eating Game, was named one of Dr. Toy’s “10 Best” Children’s Products and received the Parent-Tested Parent-Approved seal of approval.

In her newest book is called Half the Sugar, All the Love.

Jennifer and I connected on Instagram as we both help people with sugar addiction. But as you’ll hear in this episode, we have different approaches. I coach people through the 21-Day Sugar Detox where they learn how to stop eating sugar to change their palette (and mindset) so they no longer crave sweet things.

Jennifer shares delicious low-sugar recipes to show that reducing added sugar doesn’t mean completely giving up the foods you love. She shows you how to sweeten foods, both savory and sweet, naturally with fruits and vegetables instead of added sugar.

Jennifer’s easy, healthy recipes have also been spotlighted by Jessica Alba, Jamie Oliver, Michael Pollan, Oprah, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn Kids, Whole Foods, Parents Magazine, and US Weekly, among many others.  She is a featured contributor at Red Tricycle and shares her recipes each week on her blog, www.52newfoods.com.

In this episode, I answer the most frequently and uniquely asked questions I’ve received as a 21-Day Sugar Detox coach, about the 21-Day Sugar Detox program. You’ll hear questions and answers about Yes/No foods and why, tips on how to navigate the program, and we even have some real talk about your mindset, and how and why it matters in how you approach this program. 

As a 21-Day Sugar Detox coach, I’ve led dozens of people through the program. And over the years, I’ve seen the same mistakes made over and over again.

So in this episode, I’ve pulled together a collective list of the ten of the most common missteps made and how to avoid them.

In this episode, I’m sharing my personal struggles with sugar, the biggest myths that I believed, my blind spots about it, and what my wake-up call was that finally made me decide to quit sugar (and the I do not recommend doing it!).