WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:06.519 Welcome the Fast Feast Repeat Intermittent Fasting for Life. I'm 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:10.279 Jen Stevens, author of the New York Times bestseller Fast Feast. 3 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.800 Repeat, and I'm Sherry Bullock, longtime intermittent faster and health 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:17.280 and wellness advocate. Please keep in mind that this podcast 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.679 is for educational and motivational purposes only and is not 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.160 intended to provide medical or diagnostic advice. Jen and I 7 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.679 are not doctors, so make sure to check with your 8 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:30.760 trusted healthcare professionals before making changes, especially when it comes 9 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:32.920 to any medical treatments or medications. 10 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:37.280 Whether you're new to intermittent fasting or an experienced intermittent faster, 11 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.640 tune in each week to get inspired, to learn, and 12 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:47.920 to have some fun along the way. Hi, everybody, we 13 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.640 are so glad you're here today. Welcome to this week's 14 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:54.399 episode of the Fast Feast Repeat Intermittent Fasting for Life Podcast. 15 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.399 How are you doing today, Sherry? I'm doing great? How 16 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:59.159 are you? I am doing great. 17 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.640 I'm so excited that my YouTube channel is love. 18 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.719 I'm so excited for you. 19 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:08.480 Yeah, and it is so great working with Will Yeah, 20 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.239 my twenty five year old son. Yes, he he's doing 21 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.120 such a great job. He's made a lot of suggestions. 22 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.359 You know, he started creating content on YouTube when he 23 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.760 was twelve. I might have talked about that before. But 24 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:21.519 he loves to do it, and so he's working for me. 25 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.400 He's making his own content, but he also has great ideas, 26 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.120 like things you know that make the video better or 27 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.799 to make the upload. But anyway, I'm really enjoying it. 28 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:32.840 I've got a link in the show notes to how 29 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:34.519 to get to the channel. It can be hard to 30 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.519 find if you just searched Jen Stevens on UTSC That's how. 31 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:39.560 I tried to find you originally, and it was so 32 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.519 hard to find your channel. But here's why I think 33 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.920 I think anythm exactly. It's brand new because it's brand new. 34 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.959 Like when I've searched for it, I couldn't even find it. 35 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.040 It showed me like a million videos that I'd been 36 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:54.239 on of other people's channels, but it didn't show me mine. 37 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.400 It could also help defind me to know how to 38 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:02.079 like my like quote. YouTube name is at Jen dot Stevens. 39 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:03.680 Okay, well that's helpful. 40 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:06.359 So if you search for at Jen dot Stevens, I 41 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.599 think that should help you find. 42 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.840 It because that's like your account, Yeah. 43 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.439 My account is Jim dot Stevens. Yeah. 44 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:14.240 So yeah, I had. The only way I could find 45 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.120 it was I knew the name of your channel, and 46 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.080 so I typed it in exactly, but you were still 47 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.080 like the fifth option down. Yeah. 48 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:25.319 So it'll get better as people, as people visit, describe 49 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.000 and find it and visit it. 50 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:27.960 Absolutely. 51 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.719 Can I just tell you that, you know, writing a book, 52 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:37.319 doing podcasts those are hard. Making videos so much more vulnerable. 53 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:41.400 Yeah, yeah, I guess I understand. 54 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:44.000 Yeah, like scary, Like I was like, I'm never going 55 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.120 to make a YouTube channel, and honestly, you know, how 56 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.159 many things do we do for for reasons that are 57 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.639 outside of us? Like I was like asking, you know, 58 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.680 God the universe, Will was miserable at his job, and 59 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.400 so really it started. I was like, you know, he 60 00:02:58.479 --> 00:02:59.680 and I spent a lot of time talking about what 61 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:01.719 he could do with his work, and I was like, 62 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:06.599 you know, Universe, God, help me, help Will find something 63 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.680 that he loves to do. So he could. You don't 64 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.439 want to hate your job, no, And so then all 65 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.240 of a sudden, bam, the idea came to me. You know, 66 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.319 Will's graded editing videos and he loves to do videos. Now, 67 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.280 it's the time to start the YouTube channel. Like literally, 68 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.520 it was like, there you go, and I'm like, it's time. 69 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:25.759 You know, I've had it in the back of my 70 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:27.879 head literally for years, that I should have a. 71 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.400 YouTube channel, right, but she just didn't want to mess 72 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.840 with it. Well, and you know, when you start happily, 73 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.080 you didn't want to mess with it. 74 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:37.680 To fool with it, and its like I said, it's 75 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.159 out of my comfort, Zaine. And it's also you know, 76 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.199 I don't want to edit YouTube video rights and you 77 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.439 know having videos edited is expensive. 78 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:46.199 Yeah. 79 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:48.759 The people that we have been using to edit our 80 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.479 audio podcast. 81 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:51.520 I mean that's expensive. 82 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:55.240 They charged five hundred dollars. Said yeah, yeah, So I'm like, 83 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:59.159 you know, that's quite an investment. Will Will is being 84 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.840 paid less than I just tell you anyhow, and the 85 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.120 turnaround time is great. 86 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.479 Well, and it's funny to me, I mean, I guess 87 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:08.719 I don't know because I'm not a video editor, but 88 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.520 to me, it's still just a digital file, right, So 89 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:15.319 to me, I mean, we pay. 90 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:17.720 Out for. 91 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.759 A audio for an audio right editing, So what makes 92 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:28.360 a video editing like so much worth so much more? 93 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:29.639 I can't imagine it takes. 94 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:30.240 Time, for sure. 95 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:35.040 It's sort of a needs type thing, like people need 96 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.879 video editing because that's the direction people are going. 97 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:41.480 So and I know we could find for video by 98 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:43.279 the way, cheaper editing. 99 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.959 You know, we've gone down that route before. 100 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.319 We did one time we went with a cheaper company 101 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.680 and the work was definitely cheaper, so we went back 102 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.639 to the more expensive company. But Will is really doing 103 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.600 a great job. And I'm paying him a flat rate 104 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:57.759 to just be my content manager. So you know, it 105 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.680 depends on how many videos you'll do all of them. 106 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.199 The turnaround time is so much better. I made a 107 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.279 video on Sunday and he had it back to me 108 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.240 in an hour and fifteen minutes. 109 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:09.600 Where else do you get that kind of service. It's 110 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.360 kind of service that's in house ser might be better 111 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:13.920 than in house service, it's true. 112 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.759 So anyway, you know, I love working with him also 113 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:20.120 and that you know, but he's got a lot of 114 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.480 great ideas and like I said, the turnaround time is great, 115 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.480 and now he is able to he's able to earn 116 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.560 as much money from Jen Stevens as he was earning 117 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.279 it his landscaping job where he hated. You know, he 118 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.560 was there nine hours a day, five days a week, 119 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.160 and he worked hard at that job, and he was 120 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:41.759 proud of doing that hard work. But he's loving what 121 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.240 he's doing now. You know, life's too short to have 122 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:45.040 a job you hate. 123 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.279 Excellent, Yes it is. 124 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.360 Anyways, So everybody find the show notes, look for the 125 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:52.639 link there, or just try to find you on YouTube. 126 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.480 Hopefully you can at Jen dot Stevens to get you there. Oh, 127 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.879 I'm really excited about what I'm going to have. I'm 128 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.600 going to have videos that I make. Obviously the three 129 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.360 that I've done so far just me, but I'm also 130 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:05.480 going to talk to experts. Guess who I have booked 131 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:07.360 on coming on Tabitha. 132 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:08.240 Oh awesome. 133 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.399 We're going to talk about women and fatting and a 134 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.480 video because we need to have that on YouTube. Tabitha Barber, 135 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.600 Ob jubai In and I also have gotten Christopher Gardner 136 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.439 to agree to come one very neck he is. He 137 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:23.160 is awesome. He is a professor at Stanford. He was 138 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:24.399 on the Zoe podcast. 139 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:26.560 I know we tried to get him for the Life Lessons. 140 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:28.600 He was busy, he had a big project he was 141 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:29.519 working on, and. 142 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.680 Yeah, it was when those stuff came out. He was 143 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.319 on a Netflix documentary about the research he had done 144 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:37.040 about twins and diets. He's done a lot of work 145 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.800 in bioindividuality and you know what diet. One of his 146 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.360 projects was called Diet Fits and it had to do 147 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:44.879 with you know, who's going to do better on what 148 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.720 kind of diet? Like. His conclusion was low fat worked 149 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:50.800 better for some people, but some people gained weight on 150 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:53.439 low fat. Low carb worked better for some people, but 151 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.319 some people gained weight on low carb, so that no 152 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.920 diet was better if you averaged it, but each tight 153 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.199 it was better for some people, which I thought was fascinating. 154 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:03.720 So we're going to talk about all sorts of things 155 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.639 and I'm excited to have him. I'm also doing did 156 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:08.680 you see me talking about this in the community. I'm 157 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.959 going to be doing coaching videos. People can email me 158 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:14.399 with an issue, and I don't want it to just 159 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.439 all be like I can't lose weight, help me. I 160 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.319 wanted to be you know, people looking for help with they're. 161 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:24.160 Eating window or find any of the food fine tuning exactly, 162 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.839 coaching them through a struggle that they're having with their 163 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.120 intermittent fasting lifestyle, and they'll be like, I don't know. 164 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:32.439 Twenty minutes something like that. 165 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.040 And I'm also hoping to have video updates from past 166 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:37.920 intermitt and fasting stories guests. 167 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:38.639 Awesome. 168 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.079 I might even go back to old episodes of Intermittent 169 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:45.439 Fasting Stories and dig out little gems, you know, and 170 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.040 talk about that. I don't know, there's so many ideas now, 171 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.000 you know. Me, When I have a project that's in 172 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.000 my mind, I think about it, think about it, think 173 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:52.560 about it, and then. 174 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.879 I just do it, and then it just grows from there. 175 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:56.759 And then it grows and then the ideas just come 176 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.720 so fast. And I believe that, you know, when you 177 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:02.759 ask God or the universe for help, you know, whatever 178 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:07.240 your beliefs might be, and you're open and you're ready, 179 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.959 and then the time is right, those ideas just calm. 180 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.800 So anyway, I'm super excited. Thank you for letting me 181 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:13.480 talk about it. 182 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.480 Well, I'm excited for you. Thank you. All Right, Well, 183 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.839 let's celebrate a listener. This is from Grateful in Canada. 184 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.959 They wrote, Hi, Jen and Cherry, I'm writing to celebrate 185 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.759 one year fasting. I have always been health conscious and 186 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:32.200 managed to maintain a healthy weight within five to ten pounds. 187 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:35.559 Food quality was never my issue. I've always loved a 188 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.320 variety of whole foods. In kindergarten, we went around the 189 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.360 circle and we shared our favorite food and the first 190 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.399 thing that came to mind was broccoli. The teacher thought 191 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:48.600 I was joking and didn't understand why. Lol. Grateful in Canada, 192 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:50.080 if I when I was a kid, I probably wand 193 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:51.799 have told you my favorite food was green beans. I 194 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.399 love That's hilarious. I might have just hollered me. My 195 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:57.240 sister called me green Beanie like that. That was her 196 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.639 name for me. Love it, so I get it, she said. Now. 197 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.960 I am forty three years old, five foot five, and 198 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.480 I hover around one hundred and thirty pounds. In recent years, 199 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:09.399 I was starting to feel a slow creep of one 200 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.919 to two pound gain each year, and I was struggling 201 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.799 to manage it. I was inspired to try fasting after 202 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:17.279 hearing Gin on the Zoe podcast in April of twenty 203 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.320 twenty four. I was cautious and a little skeptical, having 204 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:23.600 studying nutrition in college and being very much in the 205 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.519 quote small frequent meals camp for as long as I 206 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:30.960 can remember. Jin's conviction opened my mind to at least 207 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.559 give fasting a try. I committed to stick to it 208 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.679 for at least a month. I started with a very 209 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.240 modest and doable ten hour eating window, so a fourteen 210 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.120 hour fast. If I made it to fifteen hours, I 211 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:45.200 was high fiving myself like I had just achieved the impossible. 212 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:47.360 If you had told me then that I would eventually 213 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.679 be totally satisfied and nourished eating within a three to 214 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.480 six hour daily eating window, I truly would not have 215 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.960 believed it. My progression with extending the fasting period has 216 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.120 been incremental but steady. As my body got used to 217 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.799 the break from eating, I started to crave more fasting, 218 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.840 which was unexpected. I loved having the parameters of an 219 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.440 eating window. It cuts down on a ton of decision 220 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:12.120 making and mental food chatter. Once I'm satisfied, that's it 221 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.639 for the day, and I'm not tempted to later nibble 222 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:19.360 on this or that. The windows closed maybe tomorrow. It's 223 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.720 hard to explain that sense of knowing when your body 224 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.000 has had enough. There have been many days I got 225 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.679 it wrong, focusing more on what I quote should be 226 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.679 fitting in rather than listening to my body and ending 227 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.399 up overly full. I am realizing that I really don't 228 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:37.679 need as much food as I thought or was taught, 229 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.320 and my body will let me know once in a 230 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.519 while I have an extra hungry day, and I'm learning 231 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:44.559 to listen to that as well and go for it. 232 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:47.279 This lifestyle really does help us to tune into our 233 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.159 body's wisdom. I am slowly letting go of needing to 234 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:53.279 plan and calculate my daily intake, which has been very free. 235 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.480 I just want to say to anyone concerned that fasting 236 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.159 might deprive your body or be overly restrictive, let we 237 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.159 understand that concern. And that was my hesitation as well. 238 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.679 But a year in, I feel better than ever, and 239 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.639 I'm maintaining a comfortable body weight with ease, and I 240 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.879 have proudly put on a noticeable amount of muscle. Not 241 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.879 from fasting alone, but the steady energy has allowed me 242 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:18.720 to increase my physical activity significantly. I never thought I'd 243 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.559 be able to work out on an empty stomach, and 244 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.879 I had no idea how that would unlock a new 245 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:27.080 level of energy I hadn't experienced before. This took time 246 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.720 to build up to, so newbies, be patient with yourself. 247 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:32.519 In addition to my increased energy, I have noticed that 248 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:35.639 my skin is much softer and smother the expression lines 249 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.320 on my face have faded significantly. These never really bothered me, 250 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.919 but it's a nice bonus. I am never angry anymore, 251 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:45.799 which used to be a daily occurrence when I get hungry. 252 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.360 Now it is so different. It's much more in control. 253 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.679 I can choose to eat if it's time, or I 254 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:53.320 can choose to delay, and it's not a problem. I 255 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.039 recently had blood work done and my cholesterol has come 256 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.720 down to a normal range. Previously, this had been high 257 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.039 for them the past few years, which runs in my family. 258 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.639 I suspect I had some visceral fat to clear out. Also, 259 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:08.559 all of the vitamins and minerals tested were well within 260 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:12.679 a healthy range, so I clearly haven't malnourished myself. Fasting 261 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:17.279 builds discipline into our daily lives, which translates to discipline 262 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.720 in other areas as well. I find myself less reactive 263 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.960 and better able to communicate in a calm and clearer way. 264 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.679 We hear that all the time. Oh yeah, Sadly, my 265 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.240 body does not do well with plain black or green 266 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.720 tea while fasting, and I prefer tea over coffee. I 267 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:36.840 quickly discovered that I am one of those people who 268 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:40.559 gets nauseous and intensely hungry with even a sip of 269 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.039 tea while fasting. A few times, I'd try again, hoping 270 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.240 it might be okay. Nope. I have learned to enjoy 271 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.240 diluted black coffee as an acceptable runner up and then 272 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:53.320 have tea in my eating window. I have shared fasting 273 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:55.440 with people close to me, and I've received a fair 274 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:58.320 amount of concern, which I completely understand. I would have 275 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.000 had the same reaction in the past. But my husband 276 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.360 has gotten on board and is very supportive, so that 277 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.200 is enough for me. Like you've said, it is not 278 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.080 my job to convince others. They may come around in 279 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:12.600 time the seeds are planted. This year has been a 280 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.120 very gradual and cautious journey of exploration into what this 281 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.919 lifestyle can do for me. I had to unlearn so 282 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:22.200 much and that process is still ongoing. The health and 283 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:27.000 wellness spaces become so loud and confusing. Quote experts seem 284 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.679 to be more and more opinionated while contradicting each other constantly. 285 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.440 We am bombarded by health products we supposedly can't live without, 286 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:36.840 and it's no wonder so many people throw up their 287 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:41.240 hands and feel disempowered. Thank you both for your calm, insightful, 288 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.600 and kind approach, reminding listeners repeatedly that this is a 289 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.480 long gain to tune into our inner wisdom and is 290 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.120 okay to not have figured it out even in a year. 291 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:55.120 Real lasting change takes months and years, not days or weeks. 292 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:57.600 I aim to still tweak and learn as I go. 293 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.120 Listening to this podcast Engines Internma and Fasting stories has 294 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:04.279 become part of my daily routine. You are both so positive, 295 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:07.399 helpful and informative supports I am learning to find the 296 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:13.120 balance between effort and eats. I could not love that more. 297 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.639 Grateful in Canada, I love that a lot too. And 298 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:19.000 the part that really jumps out to me is that 299 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.879 all throughout, from start to finish, it's your journey of 300 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.879 learning to trust your body and we really can do it. 301 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.519 You know, you really talked about part like we're in 302 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:34.000 information overload with very strong opinions, like you said, you know, 303 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.960 you said, the health and wellness space has become so 304 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.919 loud and confusing with experts who are more and more 305 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.600 opinionated while contradicting each other constantly. That is so true, 306 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:49.279 And I like to think about all of human history, 307 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:51.480 people knew how to eat. They knew how to move 308 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:52.080 their bodies. 309 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:56.120 There were no workouts if you go back, yeah two years, 310 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:57.519 salary counters. 311 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.720 That hadn't been invented. No one knew what routine was 312 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:05.240 or in anything. People just ate food, They moved their bodies, 313 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:06.080 they lived. 314 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.480 I spt to say they ate when they needed to eat, 315 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:10.320 and they lived their life. And that was the end 316 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:10.600 of that. 317 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.279 And it wasn't confusing. And you know, we look at 318 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:18.679 the animal kingdom. No animal in nature like no squirrel 319 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:20.240 is Like I wonder if I would really be better 320 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:23.519 off if I was a carnivore or you know, like 321 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:25.279 like my cat is not Like I think I'm going 322 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:29.200 plant based, right, you know, they know what they need. 323 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:30.960 Like I'll look at Ellie. She's out in the in 324 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.840 the grass eating grass. She needs grass for that moment. 325 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.799 I don't know, some the digestive, some reason she needs it. 326 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.120 Versus she also is eating a lizard and she's not 327 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:43.960 watching a cat influencer tell her that lizards aren't the 328 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:49.919 right food for her. So it's all about trusting our body. 329 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:53.080 And the number one expert on you is you. 330 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:58.159 Yeah, well, and I think too. You know, we talked 331 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.159 about the fat, that you have to learn to trust 332 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.919 your body. Yeah, And I feel like once you learn 333 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.120 to trust your body, then for me, and I've heard 334 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.320 other people say this as well, you also learn to 335 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:16.279 forgive yourself, okay, like because sometimes we feel so much 336 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.000 shame that you know, a lot of us are just 337 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.919 predisposed to being overweight. I am one of them. My 338 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:27.320 DNA says that. And you know, we've struggled our whole life. 339 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:29.240 I've struggled since I was a little girl. I was 340 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.879 on my first weight watcher's diet in seventh grade at 341 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:34.799 the age of twelve. And you start feeling like there's 342 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.919 something wrong with you, like what's wrong with me? Why 343 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.639 can other people eat and maintain a healthy way? And 344 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:43.960 I look at a slice of bread and I can't 345 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.399 fit into my pants tomorrow, you know, And you start 346 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.360 to internalize that, and you start feeling like you're flawed 347 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.159 and there's something wrong with your body and you're not enough. 348 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.919 And I feel like for me, once I fell into 349 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:59.159 fasting and I really just put all my faith and 350 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:04.799 trust into it, I was able to see that everything 351 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:10.960 I was doing before it wasn't working because it wasn't 352 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:14.119 designed for long time term health and weight loss. 353 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:18.119 It's all about micromanaging your body versus working with your body, right, 354 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:18.640 And so. 355 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.119 Then I was like able to forgive my body. I was, 356 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:23.960 you know, I like, there's a lot of people who 357 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.839 carry a lot of anger to their towards their mothers 358 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.039 because their mothers, you know, told them they needed to 359 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:30.599 go on a diet when they were young. I'm not 360 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:32.079 the only one that was put on a diet when 361 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.279 I was twelve thirteen years old. A lot of people 362 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.319 have been, and we hear about it all the time. 363 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:42.279 And so I was able to, you know, forgive my 364 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:44.519 parents for that. I was able to forgive my family 365 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.160 for making me feel like I was flawed. I was 366 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.920 able to forgive my body for not being you know, 367 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:54.519 the thin, tall, you know, lanky person that my brother 368 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:57.559 and sister were, and fasting gave me all of that. 369 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.400 And you know, we hear that all the time. It's 370 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.359 more than just weight loss, it's like overall healing. 371 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.400 Absolutely. Yeah, and trust yourself, like I said, instead of 372 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.680 that influencer that says how much protein you need to 373 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:10.039 be eating? 374 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:12.640 Yeah, yeah, Sharry and I. 375 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:13.839 Need a different amount of protein. 376 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:16.480 Absolutely, That's very much. 377 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:18.880 You follow us around when we're together for the week 378 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:20.680 and we eat very differently, and I feel great and 379 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:23.319 Sherry feels great getting the amount that's right for us. 380 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.039 And you know, we had somebody in the community this 381 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.920 week who's struggling with not losing any weight, and so 382 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.079 we were digging in looking at the you know, what's 383 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:31.440 going on. 384 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:32.960 Let's figure out how you're eating. 385 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:38.119 And she shared that she can't have a shorter window 386 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:42.359 because otherwise she can't I'm using quotation markets here get 387 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.640 in her protein right. And I'm like, there's your problem. 388 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.319 Someone else has told you you've got to get in 389 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.960 your protein, and so now you are forcing yourself to 390 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.759 have a longer window than your body needs. And you're 391 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.039 not losing any weight because you're you're not trusting your body. 392 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:01.480 You're not trusting how much you know, you're what your 393 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.759 society signals are telling you. You're focusing on something external 394 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:08.599 that somebody else has told you instead of trusting yourself. 395 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:10.839 I have no idea how much protein I eat, but 396 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:13.000 I'm in a phase right now where i can tell 397 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:14.920 I'm building muscle. I'm doing a lot of jumping on 398 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:19.119 my rebounder, holding weights, and I'm building muscle from that 399 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.160 and I'm not adding protein. I'm just eating, you know. 400 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.440 And something that's really interesting too, is like, for me, 401 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:34.200