Freedom from Cravings
Self-Study ($175)
Ever wonder why you can eat healthy but still have a 3 p.m. crash that sends you to Starbucks or the vending machine for chips or Peanut M&Ms?
Cravings are a biology game, not a willpower or discipline game. So-called bad habits – like eating too many samples at a grocery store, craving sweetener in your coffee, or “caving” to pre-dinner temptation – are actually signs your body is starving (even if your stomach is full).
“Correcting” bad habits and “discipline” don’t work because cravings and out of control hunger are triggered by blood sugar levels screaming that your biology and food are mismatched. They won’t stop their insistence until you learn the mechanics of what your body uniquely needs to correct imbalances. Generic advice from magazine or nutrition “experts” doesn’t take into account your unique biology and history. In this program, we’ll guide you through experiences and experiments to determine what your biology needs to feel satiated, focused, optimistic and energized.
About This Process
About the Lessons:
Lesson 1: What’s Best for Me – Vegetarian, Mediterranean or Paleo?
Discover whether you do best with a Vegetarian, Mediterranean or Paleo inspired diet, and what types of proteins – plant, animal or a mix – work best for your body. You’ll learn what to eat at breakfast to want to make the healthy choice at lunch, and two simple morning lifestyle changes for a craving-free day.
Lesson 2: Power Lunch to Prevent Afternoon Cravings
With a more energized, focused and craving-free morning, it’s time to learn how to support your metabolism at lunch including two gentle lifestyle changes to guarantee craving-free afternoons and nights.
Lesson 3: Eliminate Your Sweet or Salty Tooth
Feeling less hunger and cravings, you’ll figure out how much you need of this #1 missing food that prevents cravings, especially after your meals.
Lesson 4: I Get to Eat Carbs?! How Much?
Without the right carbs for your metabolism, we binge or overeat on bad carbs. Discover which and how many carbs are right for your body to prevent cravings and provide the energy for the life you want.
Lesson 5: Evening Eating – The Key to Craving-Free Days
How we eat at dinner and afterwards sets up cravings for the next day. Learn how to tweak your dinner so you feel satiated, get a good night’s sleep, and wake up feeling refreshed (instead of groggy).
Bonus Lesson: Real Life Tweaks – PMS to Post-Binge
Many diets and plans seem to forget: You live in the real world. Learn these key food tips when you don’t get enough sleep, have PMS, are recovering from a big work presentation – or after a binge.
Results include:
- Wake up energized without a kick-start of sugar or copious amounts of coffee
- Feel satisfied all morning, after lunch and through dinner — no snacking necessary!
- Decrease your need for mini-meals, snacks, and after dinner eating
- Arrive at the end of your work day energized to get to the gym or evening plans
- Fall and stay asleep with improved overall restfulness
- Know the right amount of fats, protein, and carbs to stay satisfied and nutritionally supported in a variety of different food situations — no anxious food planning necessary!
- Be in control of your hunger and reprogramming your body to crave the foods that support you
- Put your hormones on a healing path to balance hormone-related cravings and emotions
Included in this offering:
- 5 Lessons in easy downloadable audio podcasts and transcripts, plus a bonus lesson
- Food experiments with easy and simple recipes included in each lesson to guide you through the above process (all ingredients can be found at most regular grocery stores)
- Instructional videos to fast-track your learning by seeing real life clients’ food diaries. You’ll see how this process helped them to recognize and course-correct their blood sugar crashes (not their “weakness” around food)
Frequently Asked Questions:
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No, you don’t need a blood glucose monitor or anything beyond the program materials. Unfortunately, we’ve made food much more complicated than necessary. And knowing our numbers doesn’t change things as much as having exact experiments to see which foods make us feel better and life easier. Part of our battle with food is not trusting our body. With all my programs, we rebuild the trust diets and medical professionals, who have dismissed us, took from us. In that process, we simplify food and wellness, not making it more expensive or complicated.
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Yes. Nighttime cravings are often a combination of physical and emotional imbalances. By addressing the physical imbalances, you’ll feel more in control to manage the emotional reasons we eat at night, which have nothing to do with hunger.
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Yes! All cravings are tied to blood sugar control, which is the foundation of this program.
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Most nutrition plans are one-size-fits-all approaches. They offer absolute solutions where the real answer should be “it depends”! For example, most people will tell you fruit is healthy or carbs are bad. That’s not true for everyone. This program allows you to identify what “healthy” is for you. Until you learn that, you will feel stuck. And, you learn through experiments, the fastest way to change what you eat, not just wonder about it. There’s a profound difference between learning and changing. With my background in adult education, this program is designed to effect change as fast as possible.
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Dozens of clients have told me, after deeply understanding their blood sugar, they realize half their emotional eating wasn’t emotional eating at all! Rather, it was their blood sugar dropping. Because unbalanced blood sugar is so tightly connected to our emotions, it’s easy to link cravings with emotional eating. However, it’s a huge weight lifted off their shoulders when they see they just need to re-balance what they’re eating! The neat thing is, once you understand blood sugar, you have renewed inspiration to tackle the bigger emotional eating issues not associated with blood sugar.
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Have a question not addressed here? Feel free to write to me: ali@alishapiro.com
Here’s what others who have experienced Freedom from Cravings are saying:
“I lost 10 pounds. I never thought this was possible!”
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I had put weight around my middle which I attributed to getting older but nonetheless, wanted to take control of my weight. Ali guided me to do things in efforts to balance my blood sugar. I’ve lost 10 pounds. I never thought this was possible! I’m awestruck and thrilled, actually, and eternally grateful.
— D.G.
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“I’m down three pounds, my mood is better, and my thinking changed so I can implement even more change and stay motivated.”
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I was struggling with keeping my blood sugar balanced for several months and was getting nowhere; I tried to figure out the eating on my own as well as working with doctors who kept telling me my levels were fine.
After taking the FFC program, I better understand how to better balance my blood sugar through diet and emotional/behavior shifts. Having lost about 60 pounds on Weight Watchers then plateauing for several months, Ali’s approach jump-started my weight loss. I’m down three pounds, my mood is better and the program helped my thinking so that I can implement more change and stay motivated.
— J.L.
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“I know how to eat for my body!”
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I have read about blood sugar but never understood how it presents in the body until I started working with Ali. Freedom from Cravings has enabled me to understand not only how to eat for my body but how to feel satiated, clear and focused. All the unhelpful thoughts around food have started to disappear. I can’t recommend this program enough.
— S.J.
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“I feel satisfied and those “shark” moments are gone!”
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Imagine any shark movie you’ve ever seen, where they drop something bloody into the water and the sharks go crazy. That was me each afternoon as I was overtaken by the urge to eat anything sweet I could find. After taking Freedom from Cravings, I feel satisfied and those “shark” moments are gone!
— T.C.
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“I eat and sleep better, I’m regular for the first time in my life, I have more energy and my afternoon cravings are pretty much non-existent.”
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I eat and sleep better, I’m regular for the first time in my life, I have more energy and my afternoon cravings are pretty much non-existent.
I was totally surprised to learn that what I thought was healthiest for me in fact, wasn’t! As a result of working through the food experiments, I eat and sleep better, I’m regular for the first time in my life, and I have more energy throughout the day. And my afternoon cravings are pretty much non-existent.
None of this should be taken lightly. After an eating disorder, years and years of therapy, it hasn’t been until now, getting into the nitty gritty of what’s happening internally with my body, have I had such a fantastic mindset shift around food and its relationship to my body. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
— L.M.
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“I followed the breakfast tips and it kept me away from temptation all damn day. Yesssssss!!!”
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I am LOVING this, Ali! Thank you! I followed the breakfast tips and purposefully planned a ‘balanced meal’ (not a ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’ meal) and am so pleasantly surprised that it fulfilled me and kept me away from temptations all damn day. Yesssssss!!!
— T.B.
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“I was shocked I don’t need snacks… and I sleep better, have more energy and look forward to veggies in a way that is new to me.”
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In the past, I would design my daily menu around morning and afternoon snacks and still didn’t feel satisfied. After only a few days of being in Freedom from Cravings, I was shocked I didn’t need these snacks! Not only did I manage to avoid the temptation of afternoon holiday office treats, I now look forward to lighter and healthier dinners (without the usual stealing chicken nuggets off my children’s plates)!
I also sleep better, have more energy, and look forward to veggies (kale! Brussel sprouts! Spinach!) in a way that is new to me.
— L.G.K.
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“My energy is up and I don’t feel like I need an afternoon nap.”
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After Freedom From Cravings, my energy is up and I don’t feel like I need an afternoon nap.
— P.P.
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