Break Your Sugar Addiction
Show summary:
Nutritional Therapist and founder of Make Me Sugar Free, Leisa Cockayne, joins us to explore the impact sugar has on our health and why it can be so difficult to give up. Drawing on her own experience of stage four endometriosis and transforming her health through nutrition, Leisa explains our complex relationship with sugar and how we’re consuming far more than we realise. From cravings and hidden sugars to misleading food labels and sugar alternatives, she cuts through the confusion and shares realistic strategies for lasting change in both adults and children. If you want to break free from the sugar cycle without feeling deprived, this episode is for you.
What you’ll learn:
- How Leisa’s journey with stage four endometriosis led her to transform her diet and give up sugar.
- Why sugar is so hard to give up and how it drives cravings.
- The tell-tale signs you could be eating more sugar than you realise.
- How excess sugar can affect your energy, mood, inflammation and overall health.
- The surprising places sugar can hide in everyday foods.
- The difference between natural and added sugars – and whether sugar alternatives are really any better.
- How to cut back on sugar, manage cravings and avoid the common mistakes that can make quitting harder.
- Simple ways to reduce sugar in children without making them feel restricted.
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Guest Bio:
Leisa Cockayne is the founder of Make Me Sugar Free and author of ‘The 7-Day Sugar Cleanse’. She is a Nutritional Therapist specialising in sugar addiction and women’s hormonal health, with a focus on the connection between nutrition, blood sugar, hormones and long-term health.
Leisa completed a three-year diploma in Naturopathy and Nutrition at CNM and now works with a wide range of clients, including high-profile and celebrity clients, helping them make realistic, sustainable changes to their health and relationship with food.
Her approach combines evidence-based nutrition with practical, achievable strategies to help people break the cycle of sugar addiction and better support their long-term health.
Resources:
Book: The 7-Day Sugar Cleanse
CNM’s BSc (Hons) Nutritional Therapy
Naturopathic Nutrition Diploma
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