
Learn how sugar and stress affect your body and emotions. Find out your personal sugar style and start your own sugar story.
Food choices are shaped by far more than knowledge or willpower. This video explores how your history, emotions, habits, stress, and biology all come together to create your own unique Sugar Story.
Not all food affects the body in the same way, even if the calories look similar. In this video, we break down the difference between real, processed, and ultra processed foods, and why processing changes how your body and brain respond to food.
This is a short, playful exercise to help you look at food differently. You will learn a simple way to pause and ask whether a food is closer to real food or heavily engineered, without guilt or judgement.
People differ in how they handle tempting foods, and this is not a character flaw. This video helps you recognise whether clear boundaries or flexibility works better for you, so you can work with your biology instead of against it.
If you are working on your phone or tablet, be sure to switch to desktop mode to be able to access the online workbook. Here are the basic instructions to support you. For convenience, we have also provided the Offline Workbook Questions and Activities as resources. Feel free to answer within the offline document itself, or write down the answers in a notebook or on your phone. First prize would still be to complete the workbook online as there are some hidden 'Easter Eggs' to unlock. Look forward to your participation!
Glucose levels affect your energy, mood, focus, sleep, and long term health, not just diabetes risk. This video explains how stable glucose supports daily wellbeing, and how repeated spikes can quietly drive inflammation and insulin resistance over time.
Hormones, especially insulin, decide how your body uses and stores energy. In this video, you learn how glucose, insulin, and other hormones work together, and why balance matters more than calories alone.
Cravings are not random or a lack of discipline, they follow predictable brain and body patterns. This video helps you recognise your own trigger habit reward loops so you can move from automatic reacting to conscious choice.
Sugar often meets an emotional or nervous system need, not just hunger. In this video, we explore how sugar becomes linked to comfort and relief, and how awareness begins to loosen these patterns.
A stressed nervous system makes cravings stronger and choices harder. This video introduces simple, practical ways to calm your body, including breathing, awareness practices, and tools like RAIN, so you can respond instead of react.
Your body gives constant feedback through energy, mood, hunger, sleep, and focus, but many of us have stopped listening. This video helps you reconnect with these everyday signals so you can start recognising patterns and understanding what your body is asking for.
Change does not start from fixing everything that feels wrong, it starts by noticing what is already going right. This video guides you to identify small habits that are supporting you and choose one gentle step to build on them.
Food guilt and shame keep many people stuck in cycles of stress and overeating. In this video, we explore where these feelings come from and how shifting toward gratitude, presence, and kindness can transform your relationship with food.
Eating with others can be challenging when food is everywhere and expectations are unspoken. This video offers practical ways to navigate social settings with clarity and confidence, without guilt, explanations, or all or nothing thinking.
Knowing what to do does not automatically lead to doing it, and that is not a personal failure. This video explains why the brain resists change and introduces a kinder, more effective way to build habits through curiosity, small experiments, and self trust.
Food packaging often tells a very different story on the front than it does in the ingredient list. This video teaches you how to read labels with clarity, spot hidden sugars and additives, and make informed choices without fear or obsession.
“Sugar free” does not automatically mean better for your body. In this video, we explore how artificial sweeteners can affect cravings, insulin, and gut health, and why sweetness without sugar can still disrupt your balance.
Movement does not have to mean long workouts or gym sessions to be effective. This video shows how small, regular movements throughout the day can support glucose balance, improve insulin sensitivity, and lift both energy and mood.
Sugar is often tied to love, comfort, and celebration long before it becomes a habit. This video helps you explore your early sugar memories and how they shape your current relationship with food, without taking joy or meaning away.
Lasting change comes from awareness, kindness, and small steady steps, not perfection. This video brings everything together and helps you decide what you want to keep, what you want to change, and how to move forward with trust in yourself.
Lasting change needs more than information, it needs a reason that truly matters to you. This video helps you uncover a personal “why” that connects to what you care about, so you can keep going even when motivation fades.
Your nervous system strongly influences cravings, glucose levels, and decision making. In this video, you learn simple, practical ways to shift from stress and overload into a calmer state that supports digestion, balance, and sustainable change.
Good intentions are not enough without preparation. This video shows how small, thoughtful setups in your environment, routine, and support systems can make healthy choices easier and more natural.
Cravings are signals, not commands. This video offers practical tools to recognise, pause, delay, and redirect cravings so you can step out of autopilot and respond with awareness and self trust.
This final video brings everything together and invites you to reflect on your journey with food. It encourages you to move forward with curiosity, kindness, and presence, writing a Sugar Story that supports both your body and your life.
Many people know what they “should” eat, yet still feel stuck with sugar, cravings, overeating, or guilt around food.
Your Sugar Story is not a diet plan or list of rules. It is a guided exploration of your personal relationship with sugar and food, and the patterns that quietly drive your choices. This is what you need to know about yourself before attempting an eating plan or using weight loss medication.
In this course, we go beyond nutrition facts and calories. We look at psychology, habits, emotions, stress, biology, and the stories you tell yourself about food. You will learn to recognize why cravings happen, what they are really asking for, and whether change is needed right now or later.
By becoming aware of Your Own Sugar Story, it becomes easier to make healthier habits stick.
Rather than forcing willpower, this course helps you understand yourself better, so that any changes you make are realistic, kind, and sustainable.
This course is not a meal plan, weight loss program, or strict diet. It is a starting point, a place to slow down, reflect, and build awareness before making changes that actually last. It's also not just about sugar, it's about your story when it comes to food and drinks. Do you actually decide what you put into your body? Or are you on autopilot or ruled by cravings?
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get curious about your own story with sugar, and then decide what comes next.
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This course is presented by Dr. Janny Myburg. She is a medical doctor with a diploma in mental health, and a long standing interest in how glucose, food choices, emotions, and daily habits shape people’s health and quality of life.