Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you

and other passionate, dedicated moms, the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood

and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day,

because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy

are you building? So let's dive in. Okay, so today we're going to be talking a little bit

about sugar and cravings. I got a ton of feedback on episode three. So episode three was all about how to stop having bad food days.

And so in that episode, we talked about at the end of the day, women especially tend to

quantify their day in terms of, oh, like I had X amount of sugar today.

So today was a bad day.

Or like, oh, I only ate kale and vegetables.

So today was a good day.

And we wrap our whole identity over time. Our whole identity becomes this like, oh, I only ate kale and vegetables, which day was a good day. And we wrap our whole identity over time. Our whole identity becomes this like vicious cycle of whether or not

we ate good or bad foods. And then that can turn over into how we value ourselves. Like if I had a

bad day with food because I ate cupcakes and ice cream, then I might also be a bad person,

which is just this really horrific mental cycle.

So if you want to hear more about that, jump on over to episode three after you listen to

today's episode, because it was the episode that I've gotten probably the most comments on so

far and the most texts and emails and messages of, oh my gosh, I'm sitting here listening to

this.

I'm crying because this is exactly how I talk to myself.

I beat myself up over feeling like I'm eating bad foods or eating too much sugar or just not making

healthy lifestyle choices. So today I want to give you the opposite of that. I want to give you

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