The Simplicity of Wellness Podcast

Say Goodbye to Sugar Dependence and Anxiety

• Amy White

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Welcome to the Simplicity of Wellness podcast .

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I'm your host , board-certified holistic nutritionist and professional life coach , amy White . The purpose of this podcast is to share information that you can use to become leaner , stronger and healthier by losing weight , shedding inches , maintaining muscle and managing your mind , all while living your normal , busy life life in this modern , sugar-filled world . Let's talk about food emergencies . When your body's out of balance metabolic balance and you're primarily using sugar as your fuel source , you do a lot of ups and downs , peaks and valleys . This is your energy level , this is your mood , this is even your sleep pattern . A body out of balance has what I call food emergencies . This is when you go from not being hungry so red light to all of a sudden being so hungry . You can't think about anything else . You go red light to green light . I must eat immediately . You can't focus on work , you can't have a conversation . All you can do is think about what am I going to eat and how am I going to get it ? That is a food emergency . And when you're living as a sugar burner , you are having a lot of food emergencies . You go from red to green . What you may not realize is a body imbalance . Doesn't go from red not hungry to green I have to eat . Right now , a body imbalance goes from red to yellow .

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Food becomes a suggestion rather than an emergency . Your body in balance is fuel flexible , so it can burn sugars and fats very effectively and efficiently . So there are no dips and peaks , you just have this very lovely wave of constant energy . So your body is not freaking out and going oh my gosh , if we don't eat something right now , we're going to die , which is basically what's happening when you're doing this , when you're on a blood sugar roller coaster . That's what your body thinks If we don't eat right now , we're going to die . And so your sole focus becomes food . A body in balance eats nutrient-dense food . You know how to build meals so that you feel full and satisfied for four or more hours . One thing that happens is you stop snacking because you are so full and satisfied , so you're not spending a lot of time thinking about food beyond your meals and even those meals , again , are not an emergency , it's a suggestion . It's your body going hey , it's probably time to top us up . We need those nutrients . That's all your body's asking of you . It's not thinking you're going to die . There's no emergency . It's just , if we want to run efficiently and optimally , we should probably get some more nutrients in here so that things continue to run smoothly .

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So along with hunger emergencies comes this idea of hunger anxiety . That's something that I talk to clients about all the time New clients they eat when they're not hungry in anticipation of having a hunger emergency . It doesn't feel good , it feels terrible . Nobody wants to get there . But if that's how you're living with this , you know one emergency to the next , you're going to do everything you can to make sure the emergency doesn't happen . So you have this hunger anxiety that you live with , trying to figure out when you're going to need to get food , how you're going to get that food , so that you can avoid that sort of moment in time when you can't do anything except figure out how to eat .

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Hunger anxiety is something that will send you to the drive-thru . It will have you grabbing a bag of chips . It will keep you snacking all day . You're eating preemptively to shut down your appetite , but you're doing it from a place where you're not actually hungry yet . So the worst thing you can do when it comes to weight loss is eat when you're not actually hungry yet . So the worst thing you can do when it comes to weight loss is eat when you're not hungry . Being metabolically out of balance and running on sugar makes it very difficult to lose weight . When you learn how to bring your body into balance , balance those metabolic hormones so that your hunger calms down , your sugar cravings go away , your energy goes up , your sleep gets better , your anxiety totally calms down , weight loss feels easier , weight loss feels doable , weight loss feels good , it's fun to lose weight .

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When losing weight is making everything else feel better .

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Traditional weight loss , calorie restriction , deprivation , ignoring your hunger that doesn't feel good , it feels terrible and it's something that you want to end very fast . You're just watching the finish line , hoping for that finish line because you're just not sure how much of this you can keep doing . Healthy weight loss doesn't feel like that . Healthy weight loss is taking you from hunger emergency to hunger .

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Suggestion . Healthy weight loss feels good . You feel full and satisfied , you eat when you're hungry and you don't actually think about food when you're not hungry . If this sounds interesting to you and you want to learn more about the idea of healthy weight loss , click the link in the notes below to join my Weight Loss for Women free membership community . When you're ready to feel what it's like to lose weight without feeling like you're trying to lose weight , come join me and the other members of the Weight Loss for Women community . It's free to join . Click the link below the show notes to gain access to this positive and encouraging place where women support each other as we lose weight and together become leaner , stronger and healthier .

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