The Remix Mantra
Our Three Principles of Food Freedom:
No Sugar. No Grains. No Worries.
Our Three Principles of Food Freedom:
No Sugar. No Grains.
No Worries.
The first principle of Remix tackles the ingredient hiding in almost everything: added sugar. Your body doesn’t need it, can’t process it efficiently, and suffers when it gets flooded with more glucose than it can handle.
The Science, Simplified
Your body runs on glucose, powering every cell. It gets glucose from carbs in whole foods first, then creates glucose from fats and proteins when needed. So everything else is extra—and that “extra” (added sugars) is where the problems begin.
The first principle of Remix is simple: eliminate added sugars.
Natural sugars from whole foods come with their own instruction manual: fiber, water, vitamins, and minerals that tell your body exactly how to process them. Added sugars are like sugar without the manual—your body overworks to manage the sugar.
The Added Sugar Cycle
Here’s what happens when you eat food high in added sugar: it floods your bloodstream with more glucose than you need—even faster than your body can handle. Your blood sugar spikes, prompting your body to release insulin quickly to lower it. Then you crash and crave more sugar. The kicker, when you eat more glucose than your body immediately needs, it turns the extra into fat and stores it to use for energy later.
This cycle disrupts your energy, mood, and hunger signals, and leads to fat gain.
Eliminate added sugars, and your energy system finds its natural rhythm.
- No more afternoon crashes. ✓
- No more sugar cravings that hijack your food decisions. ✓
- Powerful advantage in lowering your body fat. ✓
What Remix Means by “No Sugar”
Remix focuses on eliminating added sugars—those pumped into foods during processing, not the natural sugars found in an apple or glass of milk.
This isn’t about restriction—it’s about precision. When you choose sweetness consciously (honey in your tea, berries with your yogurt), you’re in control. When sugar is hidden in your pasta sauce and salad dressing, the food industry is making your choices for you.
Why This Changes Everything
Understanding the impact of added sugar is the foundation of the Remix approach. Once you spot how excess sugar hijacks your energy and taste buds, you’ll see why so many “healthy” foods rarely make you feel healthy. This principle helps you read labels, choose foods that really sustain you, and reset your palate to taste food the way it was meant to taste—without artificial enhancement.
Ready to see how this works in real life? Our Top 10 Playlists for Sweeteners show you exactly how to satisfy your sweet tooth while keeping your energy stable and your body happy.
The second principle of Remix challenges one of modern nutrition’s biggest assumptions: that grains are an essential food group. Many modern, refined grains are processed sugar with better marketing.
The Grain Reality
Here’s what most people don’t realize: Commercial whole wheat bread may have a glycemic index of 70 or more. Table sugar? Around 65. Your “healthy” morning toast can spike your blood sugar faster than candy.
This isn’t accidental—it’s how modern grains are processed. Refinement strips away fiber, vitamins, and minerals, leaving behind rapidly absorbed starch. Even “whole grain” labels can be misleading if the grain is pulverized into a fine flour—they tend to act like sugar, leading to rapid rises and falls in blood sugar. What’s left is empty calories that spike your blood sugar while providing almost no nutritional value.
Flour, Redefined
When a recipe calls for “flour,” most people automatically think wheat. But flour is simply ground-up plants—and there are endless alternatives to wheat. Almond, coconut, and cassava flours each offer unique nutrients, fibers, and benefits. Wheat flour is just one option, not the only choice.
The grain industry has convinced us that wheat is essential, but humans thrived for thousands of years eating roots, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and animal proteins. Wheat became dominant because it’s cheap to grow and has a long shelf life—not because it’s nutritionally superior.
Grain-based foods—especially those made from refined or finely milled flour—are digested quickly, causing sharp increases in blood sugar. The energy your body can’t use right away gets stored as fat, and before long, hunger and cravings return. This “blood sugar rollercoaster”is the ride you’re on when you eat processed foods.
The Inflammation Factor
Modern wheat contains proteins that can irritate your digestive system. When your gut lining becomes compromised, it affects everything from nutrient absorption to immune function. Many people who struggle with digestive issues, skin problems, or low energy find dramatic improvement when they eliminate grains.
The bigger issue is opportunity cost—grains take up space on your plate that could be filled with nutrient-dense vegetables, quality proteins, and healthy fats. Every bite of grain-based food is a missed opportunity to nourish your body with something that actually provides essential vitamins, minerals, and sustained energy.
Better Alternatives for Your Body
Replace grain-based foods with nuts, seeds, vegetables, and quality proteins, and something remarkable happens:
- Your blood sugar stabilizes. ✓
- Your energy becomes consistent. ✓
- Your hunger signals start working properly again. ✓
These alternatives provide what many grains promise but don’t deliver: sustained energy and satisfaction that lasts.
Why This Principle Matters
“No Grains” means challenging the idea that processed grain-based foods are automatically healthy, and encourages exploring ingredients that actually nourish your body. This principle is about breaking free from the fast-carb cycle, choosing foods for nourishment, and enjoying a more stable, vibrant energy each day.
Curious to transform your comfort foods? Our Top 10 Playlists for Flours show you exactly how to make everything from pancakes to pizza using ingredients that actually fuel your body instead of fighting it.
The third principle of Remix might seem counterintuitive, but it’s the most important one: The stress about food can be worse than the food itself.
“No Worries” isn’t about being careless with your nutrition—it’s about understanding that anxiety, perfectionism, and food guilt create their own health problems. It’s about making wellness so intuitive it becomes effortless.
Worry. Stress. Guilt. Repeat. ⇄
When you approach food with anxiety and rigid rules, you create a feedback loop where the worry itself becomes a health problem. Your body can’t tell the difference between genuine danger and food anxiety—it responds to both with stress hormones that disrupt your metabolism, sleep, digestion, and decision-making. You start craving the exact foods you’re trying to avoid. You’re literally creating the problem you’re trying to solve. Ironically, stress triggers the same inflammatory pathways as sugar and grains.
Traditional diet thinking teaches you to white-knuckle your way through cravings and beat yourself up for “slip-ups.” This creates a war between you and food where you’re always either winning or losing.
Build Resilience, Not Rules
“No Worries” means approaching food with curiosity instead of anxiety, flexibility instead of rigidity, and self-compassion instead of self-judgment. This isn’t about lowering your standards—it’s about building a sustainable relationship with food that works in real life.
The Remix approach recognizes that consistency matters more than perfection. When you consistently nourish your body with quality ingredients, you naturally break the cycle of cravings, energy crashes, and food obsession. A well-fed body handles stress more gracefully, sleeps more deeply, and maintains stable energy throughout the day.
When you go off-plan occasionally—at a party, during travel, or just because life happens—you simply return to nourishing choices without the guilt spiral that usually derails everything.
When you stop stressing about food and trust your body’s signals, something remarkable happens:
- Your relationship with food becomes peaceful and intuitive. ✓
- You bounce back from setbacks without guilt spirals. ✓
- Stress-related cravings decrease naturally. ✓
The Confidence Factor
When you learn to trust your body’s signals, you build deep confidence in your ability to make good choices. You stop needing external rules because you’ve developed internal wisdom. Food becomes a tool for feeling good rather than a source of stress and confusion.
The skills you develop—trusting your feedback, adapting to change, bouncing back from setbacks—become life skills that extend far beyond nutrition. You’re practicing how to approach any challenge in life with more confidence and less stress.
Ready to put this into practice? Our Top 10 Playlists give you the practical tools to create meals that satisfy your cravings while supporting your energy—no stress, no guilt, just food that makes you feel genuinely good.