196: Sarah Wilson - I Quit Sugar • Living As A Nomad • A New Way To Look At Balance
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Wilson is an entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author of I Quit Sugar. Her journalism career spanned 20 years, across TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, and online. She’s the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and host of the first series of MasterChef Australia, the highest-rating show in Australian TV history.
Sarah’s interests include minimalist living, philosophy, anti-consumerism, combatting food waste, hiking, ocean swimming, sailing, and eating.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Travelling for 4 and a half months (earlier this year) with only a small backpack that weighed 8kg
- Living as a nomad out of 2 suitcases for 8 years
- Was Sarah always a minimalist?
- Food waste is the biggest contributor of CO2 emissions
- How to preserve your herbs
- Sarah's health depleted to the point where she couldn't walk or works for 9 months
- Living in an army shed, in the forest
- The mental impact of living a minimalistic lifestyle
- Morning routines allow us to make less decisions
- We've lost the art of fending
- The sugar-autoimmune-anxiety connection
- When it comes to sugar, we don't have an off switch
- Snacking and smaller meals more often isn't the right call
- Sugar, carbs, and processed foods are like putting kindling on the fire
- Take charge of your health by learning how to cook
- Should you avoid dairy if you have Hashimoto's?
- The two things that impact every cell in the human body
- Consuming a quarter cup of fat/oil each day
- Eat your snack with your meal
- Gelatin gummies make a great nighttime snack
- Sarah's morning routine at home vs when she's travelling
- Why Sarah chooses to use a microwave
- Maintaining balance with work and day-to-day life
- A new way to look at balance
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Related links:
Sarah Wilson - I Quit Sugar (book)
Sarah Wilson - The I Quit Sugar Cookbook (book)
Sarah Wilson - I Quit Sugar for Life (book)
Follow Sarah Wilson on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
I travelled for 4 months with only 8 kilos. This is what it looked like. - Sarah Wilson's website
Related episodes:
268: Sarah Wilson – Zero Waste Cooking • Minimal Consumption • Start Thinking Differently
232: Sarah Wilson – Normalizing Anxiety • The Impact Of Gratitude On Your Brain • Just Walk
197: Focus Friday – How We Quit Sugar
155: Vinnie Tortorich – Exercise For Mental Health • Choosing The Right Trainer • No Sugar No Grains
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't like having things around me. |
| 0:01.5 | It feels heavy and clutchery and it stops me |
| 0:04.1 | from doing what I love doing. |
| 0:05.8 | And that is writing, communicating, creating, hiking, |
| 0:10.1 | eating. |
| 0:10.8 | I don't need things for any of that stuff. Hello and |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 196 |
| 0:23.7 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level |
| 0:29.8 | This week our featured guest is Sarah Wilson. She's an entrepreneur in New York Times best-selling author of I Quit Sugar. |
| 0:36.5 | Her journalism career spanned 20 years across TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, and online. |
| 0:43.1 | She's the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine |
| 0:45.8 | and hosts the first series of Master Chef Australia, |
| 0:48.9 | the highest rating show in Australian TV history. |
| 0:52.1 | Sarah's interests include minimalist living, philosophy, |
| 0:55.5 | anti-consumerism, combating food waste, hiking, ocean swimming, sailing and eating. |
| 1:02.0 | Sarah truly is such a unique individual. |
| 1:05.0 | Not only is her accent amazing, but she was just so inspiring to have on the podcast, |
| 1:10.0 | and we got into so much great information with her. |
| 1:12.0 | Here's some of the highlights. We talk about how |
| 1:14.4 | Sarah traveled earlier this year with only 8 kilos on her back. So amazing and so inspiring. |
| 1:20.2 | We talk about how Sarah's health depleted to a point where she couldn't walk or work for nine months |
| 1:24.8 | We get into the mental impact of living a minimalistic lifestyle. We also discuss the connection between sugar |
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