Say Goodbye to Sugar Dependence and Anxiety

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Simplicity of Wellness podcast.
I'm your host, board-certifiedholistic nutritionist and
professional life coach, amyWhite.
The purpose of this podcast isto share information that you
can use to become leaner,stronger and healthier by losing
weight, shedding inches,maintaining muscle and managing

(00:21):
your mind, all while living yournormal, busy life life in this
modern, sugar-filled world.
Let's talk about foodemergencies.
When your body's out of balancemetabolic balance and you're
primarily using sugar as yourfuel source, you do a lot of ups

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and downs, peaks and valleys.
This is your energy level, thisis your mood, this is even your
sleep pattern.
A body out of balance has whatI call food emergencies.
This is when you go from notbeing hungry so red light to all
of a sudden being so hungry.
You can't think about anythingelse.

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You go red light to green light.
I must eat immediately.
You can't focus on work, youcan't have a conversation.
All you can do is think aboutwhat am I going to eat and how
am I going to get it?
That is a food emergency.
And when you're living as asugar burner, you are having a
lot of food emergencies.
You go from red to green.

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What you may not realize is abody imbalance.
Doesn't go from red not hungryto green I have to eat.
Right now, a body imbalancegoes from red to yellow.
Food becomes a suggestion ratherthan an emergency.
Your body in balance is fuelflexible, so it can burn sugars

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and fats very effectively andefficiently.
So there are no dips and peaks,you just have this very lovely
wave of constant energy.
So your body is not freakingout and going oh my gosh, if we
don't eat something right now,we're going to die, which is
basically what's happening whenyou're doing this, when you're

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on a blood sugar roller coaster.
That's what your body thinks Ifwe don't eat right now, we're
going to die.
And so your sole focus becomesfood.
A body in balance eatsnutrient-dense food.
You know how to build meals sothat you feel full and satisfied
for four or more hours.

(02:30):
One thing that happens is youstop snacking because you are so
full and satisfied, so you'renot spending a lot of time
thinking about food beyond yourmeals and even those meals,
again, are not an emergency,it's a suggestion.
It's your body going hey, it'sprobably time to top us up.

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We need those nutrients.
That's all your body's askingof you.
It's not thinking you're goingto die.
There's no emergency.
It's just, if we want to runefficiently and optimally, we
should probably get some morenutrients in here so that things
continue to run smoothly.
So along with hunger emergenciescomes this idea of hunger

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anxiety.
That's something that I talk toclients about all the time New
clients they eat when they'renot hungry in anticipation of
having a hunger emergency.
It doesn't feel good, it feelsterrible.
Nobody wants to get there.
But if that's how you're livingwith this, you know one
emergency to the next, you'regoing to do everything you can

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to make sure the emergencydoesn't happen.
So you have this hunger anxietythat you live with, trying to
figure out when you're going toneed to get food, how you're
going to get that food, so thatyou can avoid that sort of
moment in time when you can't doanything except figure out how
to eat.
Hunger anxiety is something thatwill send you to the drive-thru

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.
It will have you grabbing a bagof chips.
It will keep you snacking allday.
You're eating preemptively toshut down your appetite, but
you're doing it from a placewhere you're not actually hungry
yet.
So the worst thing you can dowhen it comes to weight loss is
eat when you're not actuallyhungry yet.
So the worst thing you can dowhen it comes to weight loss is
eat when you're not hungry.
Being metabolically out ofbalance and running on sugar

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makes it very difficult to loseweight.
When you learn how to bringyour body into balance, balance
those metabolic hormones so thatyour hunger calms down, your
sugar cravings go away, yourenergy goes up, your sleep gets
better, your anxiety totallycalms down, weight loss feels
easier, weight loss feels doable, weight loss feels good, it's

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fun to lose weight.
When losing weight is makingeverything else feel better.
Traditional weight loss, calorierestriction, deprivation,
ignoring your hunger thatdoesn't feel good, it feels
terrible and it's something thatyou want to end very fast.
You're just watching the finishline, hoping for that finish

(05:08):
line because you're just notsure how much of this you can
keep doing.
Healthy weight loss doesn'tfeel like that.
Healthy weight loss is takingyou from hunger emergency to
hunger.
Suggestion.
Healthy weight loss feels good.
You feel full and satisfied,you eat when you're hungry and

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you don't actually think aboutfood when you're not hungry.
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