Ep 86- How I’m Resetting My Cravings in 30 Days

October 02, 2025

Today I’m giving you another exclusive audio that explains exactly how I’m resetting my cravings in 30 days.

You’ll learn…

• The difference between real and fake flavored foods

• How your body is impacted by processed sugar vs natural sugar vs flour

• Why avoidance is better than abstinence or moderation

• The problem with supplements and why to ditch your multivitamin

Transcript:

  Hello, confident eaters. So I had you vote on my Instagram story, which if you're not following me on Instagram, go over there and hang out with me. But I had you choose. Which audio you wanted on the podcast today? So I had you deciding between, did you wanna hear about how supplements and vitamins are causing you to secretly overeat, or what exactly I'm doing inside of the craving reset and the latter one.

So I'm going to be telling you about the exact things that I am doing to reset my cravings. I no longer want to eat processed food and sugar. Now if you have not heard about the Craving Reset live, listen up because this is where you are going to get to join me for 30 days to witness  my personal eating transformation using brand new groundbreaking research that no one is talking about.

Literally, I have never heard these ideas anywhere else. I have created them. And synthesize them from all of the research. So I'm gonna be giving you daily audios, little voice notes for me, like little love notes  with insights on my ideas on how you can stop overeating in this brand new way and eliminate all your cravings for sure and processed foods. You'll get to see exactly how I eat and who doesn't wanna see that, the insider access. You'll get my food recommendations and you'll see how I personally walk myself through a craving so I stay binge free even on my hardest days. Now we have already started, but you can join anytime between now and October 22nd, but the sooner you join me the more time you'll get access to me for written coaching and support so you can get all of your eating questions answered, then you'll have lifetime access to all 30 audios so they are yours to keep.

If you did not hear last week's episode, I gave you the very first audio if. Of the 30 Day Challenge, but I wanted to share another audio with you today because I truly believe that these ideas are so valuable and every single person on this planet Earth needs to be in this room with me hearing  this is the best place you could ever be inside the Craving Reset.

And I just hope you guys can hear how passionate I am about teaching this because again, I've never seen anyone explain it in this way. And when I heard these ideas and started to create this idea around natural flavorings and sugar and explaining them this new way, something clicked in my brain that literally every person I've told to about this has  told me, oh my God, this makes so much sense. Why is no one talking about this? Why has no one thought of this before? And I am planning on applying to do a TED talk with these ideas in the coming years. I am planning on speaking all over the world about this. So I just wanna stress the enormity that this is literally going to change the world and take the weight loss in health community by storm.

So the fact that I am giving these audios away in these 30 days for only $197 truly blows my mind, but I really just want as many people as possible to experience it. And we have so many people inside of the eating reset right now who have hopped on this opportunity fast. But if you are not one of them, I'd highly recommend getting an ASEP so you do not miss out on one of the most exciting things I have ever offered in my entire coaching, eating career, and will never offer again because you are witnessing my live eating transformation and that can only happen once.

So next week on the podcast, we're gonna have a awesome guest interview, but then we'll resume normal episodes, which will be amazing as always. But all of the rest of the Craving Reset audios are going to be exclusive to the reset, and you will not find them anywhere on the podcast or anywhere else after this. And you also won't be able to get that depth and closeness to me that people will be getting inside with support.

So pause this podcast right now. Go to the show notes and join the Craving Reset Live. If you wanna listen to the audio first to get another sneak peek, fine. But my friends, you do not want to miss out on this, and I would love to have you inside. Can't wait to see you. Here's the next audio.

So let's go a bit more in depth into what I'm actually gonna be doing during these next 30 ish days. The 30 days is a loose term because I will tell you secretly that some of these audios I recorded  not during real time. So like in the last couple of weeks. And then some of these audios I am recording in real time just because, like this journey one I've been researching for a long time.

And two, I've kind of been like toying in with adding some of the ideas  without fully doing it, and then kinda ebbing and flowing with the amount that I follow these guidelines I'm gonna be talking about today. But anyways, the changes that I am making in my life and to my program and what I am teaching based on all of this amazing research and  I literally feel like I have found something so incredible with this. I'm so excited to share it. But let's give a little summary here.

So the first thing I'm doing is essentially I'm having no foods with added sugar or flavoring. Now this could include a lot. Essentially  it is most processed foods, but processed foods include things like dried fruits. And let's talk about the difference between like a true industrial processed food and normal processed food. So  if you have a hundred percent dried fruit, the flavor that that fruit is matches the nutrition. So it is a honest, real flavored food. On the flip side, there are foods that do not match the nutrition.

So for example, I found out that my fruit leather bars had natural flavors in it. So even though that they were a hundred percent. I mean, technically they weren't a hundred percent fruit because they had natural flavors in it.  but it was like a hundred percent fruit plus natural flavors. The problem with that is it strengthens the natural flu fruit flavor without adding any additional fruit nutrition.

So let's just say for example, that if we were just to summarize that there was like the equivalent of one apple in my fruit bar. Then when they added  natural flavors, my body thinks that there's gonna be like three apple nutrition coming in because they've now strengthened the flavor. Right? That's an oversimplification, but like basically how it's gonna work.

So any foods that have natural flavors  artificial flavors of course, are included in that too because  artificial flavors are not really different. They're just like still chemically extracted compounds that increase the flavor of things without giving you any more nutrition. They have zero nutritional benefit. But with that, in a lot of natural foods, sorry, processed foods, there are additives that do not say natural flavors or artificial flavors, but are used to enhance the flavors. And I'm can't go over like every single compound that they could possibly put in foods to enhance the flavor, but it's a lot of them.

So basically we're going back to that age old knowledge that if you can't read the nutritional label, if you don't understand what's in it  we probably shouldn't be eating it. So that is kind of the guideline that I'm using  for example, if you know the brand  Lara Bars, I think, I actually haven't fact checked this. Maybe they use natural flavors too, but I think in theory they should just be dates and nuts and that would be something that is honestly flavored, where the dates nuts, taste sweet and fatty and they give you sweet and fatty nutrition so it like makes sense to your body. And then the problem with sugar is that sugar just naturally enhances whatever flavor it is.

So if you add sugar to strawberries, it just tastes more strawberry flavored. It doesn't taste like sugar plus strawberry.  sugar is just traditional white sugar, at least it's super bland and flavorless, and so it's just used as an enhancement. I kinda think about it as tofu. Like where tofu, it just tastes like whatever you put it in, like I think it has a little bit of a natural taste, but to most people it tastes pretty bland.

So it's kinda like whatever flavors you add tofu to is what it kinda soaks up the flavor of. But tofu is a different story.  it does technically have some taste to what, but  even if the sugar had like a slight taste to it  the main reason people are using it is because it enhances the natural flavors.

So, if you have like a. A protein bar and you put some sugar in it, it's gonna make those flavors sweeter. Or same thing with artificial sugars. It makes the flavors in the protein bar sweeter and more prominent without actually giving any more prominent nutrition.

Then there's flour. Now, flour has been demonized a lot in our culture, but flour is actually a pretty honest food because if you have ever baked anything, if you add more flour to it, it doesn't taste good anymore, right? Whereas when you add more sugar to something, like it still can taste good, but flour, things that have more flour in it taste more floury, and they give the predicted nutrition that's coming in. So they do have some nutrients there that are gonna come in through the flour.

Flour has actually been around like we have eaten wheat in particular for many, many, many thousands of years, longer than we ever ate meat. So flour and wheat has been along around longer than meat, which is pretty crazy to think about. Now, of course, we didn't start eating sugar till more recent years.  although they have found that humans have eaten sugar for a long time and they would just eat it from the raw sugar cane or beets, that's where the sugar would come from. It wasn't this hyper refined sugar like we have nowadays, and it definitely wasn't in as many things  as it is now than It used to not be such a hot commodity that was in literally  all of our foods that we consume from the supermarket.

And it's not necessarily that sugar is the problem here. It is just that sugar is often accompanied by added flavors.  I might even  change my perspective that if you wanna  change my perspective that if you wanna baked, baked goods at home with like real foods and flavorings. maybe that becomes your thing, but at least temporarily, I do think it's good to just see how this food often promises a larger amount of nutrition than it gives. And so for that reason, I'm choosing to avoid it during this time.

Now think about something like honey or maple syrup. Honey and maple syrup have honey and maple syrup flavored taste,  like they taste as they are. Assuming you get real maple syrup and real honey. This is why if you add maple syrup to a recipe, it's not very common. One, it is expensive, but it tastes mapley. So yes, it's high in sugar, but the high in sugar is accurately reflected by the taste. Now, I know I might have said I'm not going to eat these foods, but what I'm really doing is avoiding them and avoiding is the perfect balance between moderation and abstinence, where abstinence is saying, I'm never gonna have this food again. And moderation is trying to have it sometimes, which is like pretty vague.

So avoidance is not desiring having it, but like if  it happens. This is the B minus work, the not being  perfectionistic about it. Really just allowing ourself to not desire these foods anymore, but in a way that allows for the flexibility of life.

So that is my goal, is to avoid these foods.  I'm not gonna be perfect about it and the more I change my thoughts around the foods I know, the easier it will be. But the intention is to avoid them anytime I can. I'm also going to be trying to move away from supplements.

If you know me, you'll know that I have been vegetarian for 10 plus years. It has been a long time. I also don't eat dairy right now, primarily because I have found that it breaks my skin out.  I can see it as inflammatory for my body because it's the way my skin responds to it. But I'm doing something crazy and I am starting to eat meat again, and this is gonna be a full audio for another day 'cause this one's already getting a little bit long.

But because I am wanting to eat more Whole Foods and not have supplements, which the supplement thing is a story for another day too. I'm  just like making all these notes. I'm like, okay, here's a few other things I have to tell you, but the problem is supplements is, it's  the reverse of like flavored foods we're flavored foods. They have the flavor, but not the nutrition. Supplements have the nutrition but not the flavor, and so our body will be receiving a large amount of vitamins from these supplements, and they're not knowing where they're coming from. They're confused with how did all of this vitamin B12 and iron and calcium and all the things in my multivitamin, how did that all just come into my body because the foods that I tasted don't typically give that.

And so that creates more confusion about where do we source our nutrition from. So if I want to move away from having my multivitamin, I'm gonna need to have   other sources of b12 and iron. And because of  that's why I've started eating meat again.

Now I am probably gonna stay dairy free for the most part during this time, just because again, I know it is a clear acne trigger for me.  but I'm working with a functional nutritionist and doing some sort of supplement detox protocol. It's more like herbs versus like actual vitamins. So it's not as big of a problem as vitamins would be to have. But I'm hoping that with that I will be able to eat dairy sometime again in the future. We'll just have to see what that looks like, and I'll have to experiment. But for now,  I'm looking into ways that I can get my calcium and other nutrients from dairy in other forms. But when you allow yourself to eat as many food categories as you possibly can, like of course if you are celiac, you cannot eat gluten or you have a strong dairy intolerance like me, you know, you don't have to eat these things. It would be nice if we can include them eventually, but if  you have a big intolerance in 'em, you obviously don't have to include them.

But as many food groups as we can include, the better, because that's gonna give us a wide variety of nutrition and our body will be able to source where its nutrition is coming from and actually feel satisfied, actually remove our hunger because we are well ized, right?

Remember that if we don't have enough nutrition in our body, it's gonna continue to send out cravings and urges of where it thinks that nutrition is coming from, even if it thinks that nutrition is coming from are ice cream because of the way it's flavored it's not, but that's where it's sending us to, to eat because it thinks  that's where the nutrition might be coming from because of the strong flavoring.

So my goal is to get in as many different types of real foods and as many different types of ways as I can. So whether that's like dried fruit, fresh fruit, you can have baked meat, dried meat, like all of those things are included because just think back to how we would've eaten a hundred years ago, that would be a good test to see, would this food be considered, um, deceptive or not, is what did exist a hundred years ago.

And for the most part, most of these things would not. And we can have foods from all over the world and all different flavors.  So like this sounds restrictive. I know sometimes I'd be like, oh, I'm not gonna have sugar anymore. I'm not gonna have most of these,  processed food that have these additional flavorings and additives to it.

But there are so many good real foods out there, you guys that are delicious and they will actually help us get to where we wanna go.