Speaker 1: Welcome to Fast Feast Repeat Intermittent Fasting for Life. I'm
Speaker 1: Jen Stevens, author of the New York Times bestseller Fast
Speaker 1: Feast Repeat.
Speaker 2: And I'm Sherry Bullock, longtime intermittent faster and health and
Speaker 2: wellness advocate. Please keep in mind that this podcast is
Speaker 2: for educational and motivational purposes only and is not intended
Speaker 2: to provide medical or diagnostic advice. Jen and I are
Speaker 2: not doctors, so make sure to check with your trusted
Speaker 2: healthcare professionals before making changes, especially when it comes to
Speaker 2: any medical treatments or medications.
Speaker 1: Whether you're new to intermittent fasting or an experienced intermittent faster,
Speaker 1: tune in each week to get inspired, to learn, and
Speaker 1: to have some fun along the way.
Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, we are so glad you're here today.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feast Repeat,
Speaker 1: Intermittent Fasting for Life Podcast.
Speaker 3: How are you doing today, Sherry? I am doing wonderful.
Speaker 3: How are you well? I'm doing fun.
Speaker 1: I do want to update the world on what's going
Speaker 1: on in my life. Okay, and now is as good
Speaker 1: a time as any. I went ahead and shared in
Speaker 1: the community last week. I'm sure you saw it. Y'all
Speaker 1: know i'd shared on this podcast this spring that Chad
Speaker 1: and I were going to live separately but see each
Speaker 1: other a lot. Well, we are now getting divorced. Sure
Speaker 1: you already know that. So the plan did not work
Speaker 1: out as I had optimistically hoped that it would. So
Speaker 1: this is one of those things it's hard to update.
Speaker 1: But Chad just can't disappear, I guess without me mentioning it,
Speaker 1: because he's been mentioned in the podcast episode since I
Speaker 1: started with my very first one.
Speaker 2: So right, right, Well, I know that you have worked
Speaker 2: hard to try to make him happy and also still
Speaker 2: have joy in.
Speaker 3: Your life and try not to get emotional. It's hard
Speaker 3: to know, I'm so hard to talk about, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And you know here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Nobody goes into marriage looking to get divorced, right, And
Speaker 2: I think everybody works their hardest to try to hold
Speaker 2: a marriage together. And I have known you since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I know you've been working hard at your marriage since then.
Speaker 2: And fortunately it takes two parties to make a good marriage,
Speaker 2: and one person can't.
Speaker 3: Do all the work.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true, and you've been very helpful in the
Speaker 1: whole process, and I have really good friends, good family,
Speaker 1: close family, and close friends, and it's been helpful. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's my update. And so yeah, you know, I'm such
Speaker 1: an optimist. I always think things are going to work out.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've told you all along. You know when you'll
Speaker 2: know when it's time, you know. And the funny thing
Speaker 2: is it wasn't even you that made this decision exactly right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're still hanging in there. And look, I was like,
Speaker 3: this is going to work. We can get together.
Speaker 1: We can have you know when or not with the
Speaker 1: day to day challenges, you know, we we can have
Speaker 1: fun together, we can enjoy our time together.
Speaker 3: But he realized that is not what he wanted. So
Speaker 3: I had hard August love you just yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, even when you know in your heart
Speaker 2: it's the best thing for you, it's the healthiest thing
Speaker 2: for you. In my case, it was leaving an abusive marriage.
Speaker 2: It's still as hard emotionally to let that go, to
Speaker 2: let go of the life that you thought you were
Speaker 2: going to have, and you do more in that loss,
Speaker 2: even when in your heart you know that it's going
Speaker 2: to be okay, and that's you know, your joy is
Speaker 2: going to expand because of this. It's still hard and
Speaker 2: you still have to hard and you still have to
Speaker 2: greet the loss of what you thought your life was
Speaker 2: going to be. But you know, I think you're doing great.
Speaker 2: You always come out on top, and I think you're
Speaker 2: going to come out on top this time too.
Speaker 3: And well, thank you, we love you, oh thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, enough sad news.
Speaker 1: Let's be exactly. I'm like, all right, deep' read you breath.
Speaker 1: I never have to announce it again though, right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So our celebration this week is from Relieved in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Relieved wrote, Hello, everyone, I just wanted to share an
Speaker 2: eye of victory regarding an unsupportive spouse. I've been married
Speaker 2: for thirteen years, so I still consider that quote young
Speaker 2: in marriage, so just keep that in mind. I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to give marriage advice. I just want to share
Speaker 2: my experience and hopefully some encouragement. Okay, well maybe a
Speaker 2: little bit of marriage advice lol. I started fasting in
Speaker 2: November of twenty twenty three. I have never needed to
Speaker 2: lose much weight, but I decided that I wanted to
Speaker 2: get rid of my extra ten pounds as well as
Speaker 2: just to improve my overall health. I found IF through
Speaker 2: a friend, and I was all in. I bought Fast
Speaker 2: Feast Repeat and the twenty eight day Fast Start book,
Speaker 2: and I was excited to get going. One challenge I
Speaker 2: didn't expect was having a husband who was critical of
Speaker 2: what I was trying to do. For background, he was
Speaker 2: a bodybuilder when I met him, when he wasn't at work,
Speaker 2: he was at the gym. He was almost two hundred
Speaker 2: pounds of pure muscle on his five foot seven frame,
Speaker 2: and he was ripped. He got there by working his
Speaker 2: butt off, eating boiled chicken and raw eggs, drinking protein shakes,
Speaker 2: and by taking supplements. He now realizes how unhealthy that was.
Speaker 2: He cut out the supplements and the excessive weight lifting.
Speaker 2: He eats a well balanced diet and is very healthy
Speaker 2: at a reasonable muscle weight. Unfortunately, though, he was still
Speaker 2: very much in the mindset of eat less, move more.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that wouldn't have helped me, but doing
Speaker 2: it his way was not sustainable for me, and there
Speaker 2: is nothing wrong with trying IF. But oh, did he
Speaker 2: strongly disagree. This was a very hard time for me.
Speaker 2: We were going through some trials in our marriage and
Speaker 2: I was already thinking we would end up divorced. Tack
Speaker 2: this on and it made it worse. We would frequently
Speaker 2: get into full blown arguments about fasting as well as
Speaker 2: other things. Now, keep in mind, he was going through
Speaker 2: his own internal trials and unhappiness, and now he was
Speaker 2: just taking it out on me. Unfortunately that happens in marriage.
Speaker 2: At the time, it feels like a very timely question.
Speaker 2: How very strange that you brought that earlier. Exactly the
Speaker 2: time though, I was not sure if things would get better,
Speaker 2: but I did not want to quit if because of him.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, I came up with a few ways
Speaker 2: to cope short term, and if things didn't get better,
Speaker 2: then maybe he was not the type of man I
Speaker 2: wanted to be with anymore. When he would ask me
Speaker 2: if I wanted breakfast, I would say, oh, thank you
Speaker 2: so much, but my coffee really filled me up. I
Speaker 2: think I'll wait until lunch. I wouldn't do this every time.
Speaker 2: I sort of had to feel him out, and many
Speaker 2: days I would break my fast very early just to
Speaker 2: keep the peace. I didn't not fast those days. I
Speaker 2: just had a much longer eating window than I wanted.
Speaker 2: If nothing else, I kept my mindset on my goal
Speaker 2: and called it a long eating window. I gave up
Speaker 2: on trying to explain if to him he had already
Speaker 2: made up his mind that this was not going to work.
Speaker 2: When we would get into an argument, I would try
Speaker 2: and say that I was doing this for me. It's
Speaker 2: just something I want to try, and I want to
Speaker 2: make sure I try it long enough to really know
Speaker 2: how it works for me. And in the meantime, I
Speaker 2: just asked that he support me, even though he disagrees.
Speaker 2: I would try and sneak in longer fasts when we
Speaker 2: would be busy or he was working. I don't really
Speaker 2: encourage lying, and if you have to lie, that's a
Speaker 2: really bad sign. But I was in survival mode. Some
Speaker 2: days I would flat out lie, saying, yep, I already ate,
Speaker 2: and I would say, in my head, my body is
Speaker 2: eating right now, it's eating fat stores, so it's really
Speaker 2: just a little white lie. It's unfortunate. But I would
Speaker 2: not be able to rely on him for any comfort.
Speaker 2: I couldn't say, may and my head hurts, or I
Speaker 2: feel a little sick to my stomach, because everything was
Speaker 2: the fault of intermittent fasting. I would share my ailments
Speaker 2: with a friend instead, and finally I would share with
Speaker 2: him when I felt great, and I would let the
Speaker 2: evidence speak for itself. I'm five foot four thirty seven
Speaker 2: and I was one hundred and thirty nine when I started.
Speaker 2: I was in a healthy weight range when I started,
Speaker 2: so when I dropped nine pounds and started looking lean,
Speaker 2: he really noticed. It took a good nine to twelve months,
Speaker 2: but I am so happy to report that his willingness
Speaker 2: to accept IF has drastically improved, as well as the
Speaker 2: other issues we were having in our marriage. When he
Speaker 2: shows me support in IF, I make sure I take
Speaker 2: a moment to say, Honey, I really appreciate you being
Speaker 2: willing to support.
Speaker 3: Me doing this.
Speaker 2: I say thank you every time he shows one iota
Speaker 2: of support. Now, instead of him snapping to me, are
Speaker 2: you going to eat today? With this day, he says,
Speaker 2: I'm making myself an omelet?
Speaker 3: Would you like one?
Speaker 2: Or are you fasting? It took a while, but the
Speaker 2: disdain slowly went away, and now it's just an honest question.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I will take him up on it and let
Speaker 2: him make me an omelet, and then, of course I
Speaker 2: rave about how delicious it is. But most of the
Speaker 2: time I say no. Thank you, honey, I'm feeling pretty
Speaker 2: good right now. Thank you so much for asking me.
Speaker 2: Find a fasting friend. If your spouse's like mine was,
Speaker 2: join the community. If you don't have a fasting friend,
Speaker 2: find your support for your bad days. We've been married
Speaker 2: for thirteen years now, and this past year I learned that, sadly,
Speaker 2: there are times in your marriage where you will have
Speaker 2: to be strong for you with no support from your spouse,
Speaker 2: and they may even try to drag you down. But
Speaker 2: like hitting a plateau and if you might just need
Speaker 2: to give it time. If nothing gets better, make some tweaks.
Speaker 2: Marriage is a partnership, and I believe that you or
Speaker 2: your spouse's help meet. But when it comes to your health,
Speaker 2: you are number one. And if they won't help or
Speaker 2: even support you, just keep going on. I wasn't going
Speaker 2: to lose out on the possible help benefits of IF
Speaker 2: because of my husband's grouchiness. Sometimes we walk together, sometimes
Speaker 2: he carries me, sometimes I carry him, and sometimes you
Speaker 2: have to carry yourself. But hopefully just for a little bit,
Speaker 2: you can do it. Love you all, and really I
Speaker 2: have so many thoughts about this. I do too, I
Speaker 2: have so many thoughts about this. I'm going first bad
Speaker 2: that her husband has gotten to a point where he's
Speaker 2: accepting of this right. But I also just want to
Speaker 2: say from me and my perspective on I've learned through
Speaker 2: a not so great marriage and then a really good marriage.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying my husband and I are perfect
Speaker 2: and that we always understand each other. There are some
Speaker 2: days he's grouchy about my fasting. There's days he's grouchy
Speaker 2: about me eating healthy. But I think the number one
Speaker 2: thing is that you always have to have strong boundaries
Speaker 2: and when something is good for you, it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: matter whether your spouse or your significant other is on
Speaker 2: board with it, because it's not their body, and it's
Speaker 2: not their life. It's your body, it's your life, and
Speaker 2: it's not our job to always make our spouse happy.
Speaker 2: And I don't I mean, I don't feel like you
Speaker 2: should lie. I don't feel like you should hide that
Speaker 2: you're fasting. This is a decision you made, and you
Speaker 2: are a person with autonomy. You get to make that
Speaker 2: choice and you get to protect your fast And I mean,
Speaker 2: it's really none of their business how you choose to
Speaker 2: live and eat and when you choose to eat. It's
Speaker 2: just not and I feel really passionately about that. And man,
Speaker 2: I love that she made it work and that she
Speaker 2: figured out what she needed to do. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, this is where boundaries just come in and
Speaker 2: you just say, I'm not having this discussion with you.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm choosing to do, and I would
Speaker 2: like your support. If you cannot give me your support,
Speaker 2: please be quiet. Yeah, I mean I feel so sometimes
Speaker 2: in marriage. I don't mean for this to be a
Speaker 2: marriage counseling session, but sometimes in marriage we give up pieces.
Speaker 3: Of ourselves without realizing that we're doing it, and that
Speaker 3: hits home right there. Yeah. Yeah, And then over time
Speaker 3: you start giving up little pieces of yourself and you
Speaker 3: stop being true to yourself. And trust me, I did
Speaker 3: this and it happened really little bits over time, until
Speaker 3: I didn't know who I was anymore. And so I
Speaker 3: just encourage you to know yourself, be true to yourself.
Speaker 3: If you're struggle with boundaries, start working on how to
Speaker 3: have healthy boundaries, read some books about it. And when
Speaker 3: you make a decision, that's that's your decision. If it's
Speaker 3: not affecting anybody else, that's you. It's all you you
Speaker 3: get to choose. That's I'm like, go off my soapbox. Now,
Speaker 3: I think that's really good advice.
Speaker 1: And I would like to broaden this discussion to even
Speaker 1: be like friends and other family members because mom.
Speaker 3: To day and the mom you know.
Speaker 1: Today in the community, we had somebody who came in
Speaker 1: with a challenge that she's got a friend and her
Speaker 1: friend is telling her that fasting is bad for your
Speaker 1: blood sugar and you're gonna I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the friend's problem was. And also the friend said, you
Speaker 1: should only lose one pound per month if you're losing weight.
Speaker 1: He right, I'm like, well, you know, I do think
Speaker 1: one pound per month. It could be a pace if
Speaker 1: you don't have much to lose, but that's the only
Speaker 1: healthy rate of loss. No, no, So I just I
Speaker 1: wanted to point out that we have all sorts of
Speaker 1: people in our ear about what we're doing who chime
Speaker 1: in with opinions, and we will never please everybody, right,
Speaker 1: So we have to do what makes us feel our
Speaker 1: best and what's best for our health, and whether that's
Speaker 1: your spouse, your significant other, your friend, your sister. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of saying, look, I would love to
Speaker 1: discuss this with you after you peruse these resources fully
Speaker 1: that I have consumed, like, read this book, not just
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you in five minutes why it's good.
Speaker 1: Read this entire book, fast feast, repeat from cover to cover,
Speaker 1: and when you're done reading the entire book, let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. And until then, let's don't talk about it,
Speaker 1: and we'll just agree to disagree. I think being able
Speaker 1: to agree to disagree in any relationship is a sign
Speaker 1: of a healthy relationship. And you know, not to beat
Speaker 1: a dead horse about my own situation, but that was
Speaker 1: one thing we could not do. So if you're unable
Speaker 1: to agree to disagree, then it may be time to
Speaker 1: have some counseling. I don't know, but the boundaries I
Speaker 1: think are really important. Yeah, well, and you know that's
Speaker 1: the advice I actually gave you. That person's community was,
Speaker 1: you know, give them your copy of the book and
Speaker 1: say I would like to read this, and when you
Speaker 1: finish reading it, let's have a discussion about it. And
Speaker 1: maybe your friends is but I don't want to say, fine,
Speaker 1: you do not have to read it, but then this
Speaker 1: subject is closed. Right, It's not your job to convince
Speaker 1: your friends with words. I've written a book about it.
Speaker 1: They can read the book, they can go read doctor
Speaker 1: Mark Madson's book, they can look at resources that are
Speaker 1: out there from people who are knowledgeable about intermittent fasting.
Speaker 1: They don't have to take your word for it, nor
Speaker 1: should you feel like you have to defend it yourself
Speaker 1: or know all the answers well.
Speaker 2: And a great question to ask is like, I think
Speaker 2: a lot of this comes from concern, right, Sometimes when
Speaker 2: people see you losing weight and they hear what you're
Speaker 2: doing and it sounds hard or awful to them, immediately
Speaker 2: going to just bad talk it right because they're seeing
Speaker 2: you have success, but they're like, I can't do that,
Speaker 2: and they are feeling like maybe kind of left behind,
Speaker 2: maybe that you're making these great strides and you're losing weight,
Speaker 2: but whatever you're doing sounds alarming to them. And they
Speaker 2: immediately was like, oh, that's not good for you, you
Speaker 2: shouldn't do that. But it's really because they don't want
Speaker 2: to do that that sounds alarming to them. And when
Speaker 2: people really start giving you their opinions on it and
Speaker 2: you start asking them why, it's a lot of I
Speaker 2: don't think or I heard, but they haven't read the
Speaker 2: science behind it. They don't understand what happens when you
Speaker 2: clean fast and you're you know, metabolically, you.
Speaker 3: Know, adapted to use fat for fuel.
Speaker 2: It's like trainer's telling you you have to eat before
Speaker 2: you work out or you won't have the energy to
Speaker 2: work out. Instead of burning fat, you'll burn up your muscles. Well,
Speaker 2: they don't understand and that when you're a fat adapted person,
Speaker 2: you have endless fuel sources. Your body has no reason
Speaker 2: to go try to break down muscles, which is complicated
Speaker 2: process to give you energy. You have all this energy
Speaker 2: on your body, and so you know, it's just a
Speaker 2: lot of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge. But again, it's
Speaker 2: not your job to educate them.
Speaker 1: Right and they may even send you YouTube videos or
Speaker 1: Instagram reels or articles with alarming headlines like we've talked
Speaker 1: about on this podcast before, where someone is criticizing and
Speaker 1: ormitten fasting and saying something about it that is not
Speaker 1: what you think to be true, and that can be
Speaker 1: hard to deal with as well, you know, when they're
Speaker 1: sending you all this negative stuff. But there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people out there who do not understand the
Speaker 1: clean fast difference. And the research and that things just
Speaker 1: keep getting repeated and repeated and repeated that aren't true.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're feeling better and you're losing
Speaker 1: fat and you're able to build muscle and you're doing well,
Speaker 1: trust that, you know, Cherry. We saw this week someone
Speaker 1: shared a study in the community about fasting and muscle.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I just saw that like last week, and I started
Speaker 2: to read it and got called away. I think I
Speaker 2: was at work and I got hauled away and I
Speaker 2: never went back to read it. But from when I read,
Speaker 2: I was like, this is great information. There are people
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: Like there are legit people going on legit podcasts who
Speaker 1: are saying women, especially you can't do intermittent fasting and
Speaker 1: work out will eat up all your muscle. And this
Speaker 1: study was a study and we're not recommending that you
Speaker 1: do this because it was a fourteen day fast.
Speaker 3: Did you see that I did it. They fasted for
Speaker 3: fourteen days.
Speaker 1: Now, if your body's going to eat up your muscle,
Speaker 1: you would think it would happen by fourteen days.
Speaker 3: Well it didn't.
Speaker 1: And the article or the study talked about how, oh,
Speaker 1: the body has a mechanism in place for preserving your
Speaker 1: muscle and using other stored fuel like fat, which we
Speaker 1: know to be true.
Speaker 3: And that's the clean fast difference. And your body knows
Speaker 3: how to flip that metal ball switch. So please do
Speaker 3: not fast for fourteen days. We do not want you
Speaker 3: to do that. But know that our bodies are amazing.
Speaker 1: We are meant to be metabolically flexible, and so anybody
Speaker 1: who tells you we're not doesn't really quite understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I actually just wrote a note to myself.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go get a link for that study
Speaker 2: that was shared in the community. I'll drop it in
Speaker 2: show notes for any of you curious about that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, dealing with criticism, that's a big Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whether it's your spouse or a friend or someone sending
Speaker 2: you articles, you do not have to engage about it, right,
Speaker 2: And I just have one last thing to say. When
Speaker 2: you are confident in your decision and you have done
Speaker 2: the background education on it, and you know what you're doing,
Speaker 2: and you know what's happening in your body, and when
Speaker 2: you respond confidently, I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I hear you.
Speaker 2: But I have done a lot of studying on this,
Speaker 2: and I am very content. I am very assured that
Speaker 2: this is what's best for me in my long term health,
Speaker 2: and this is what I'm going to do. I encourage
Speaker 2: you to learn more about it, and I can give
Speaker 2: you some resources when you're ready, when you're a confident,
Speaker 2: and you respond confidently, and you let them know you've
Speaker 2: done your background research and that you're educated on this.
Speaker 2: Most people are not going to go into a debate
Speaker 2: with you, yeah.
Speaker 1: Or they're not going to read a book. If you say,
Speaker 1: if you read the book, we can talk about it more.
Speaker 1: I'd love to dig into some of these studies with you.
Speaker 1: They're not going to do that, and if they do,
Speaker 1: then you can debate it with them. That would be awesome.
Speaker 1: I love debating things of people who are well educated
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So now we have a question from a listener. This
Speaker 1: is from Jeanette from Australia. She said, I have been
Speaker 1: fat adapted for years. I don't struggle with the morning
Speaker 1: fast at all.
Speaker 3: Usually.
Speaker 1: However, after a recent respiratory illness, with a few days
Speaker 1: on pregnazone and now on I don't know what this
Speaker 1: other one is.
Speaker 3: Brio oh is that a lift of It's an inhaler okay.
Speaker 1: Also steroid, yes, okay, she said, I am ravenous from
Speaker 1: waking till I break my fast. What could be happening?
Speaker 1: I am only ten days into the new inhaler and
Speaker 1: struggling to fast. Any ideas why, Yes, we do have
Speaker 1: lots of ideas, and we know what it is, Janette,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent know what it is.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Jerry.
Speaker 2: So this there's a lot of inhaled steroid inhalers that
Speaker 2: are used for people with asthma with restrictive airwaid disease COPD.
Speaker 3: So you are basically.
Speaker 2: Putting in your mouth this device and you're inhaling like
Speaker 2: a powdered a very fine powdered steroid. And we know
Speaker 2: that when you take steroids it contributes to higher blood sugar,
Speaker 2: and higher blood sugar relates to higher insulin and all
Speaker 2: this is going to translate to more hunger. So my
Speaker 2: suggestion would be it's a once a day thing. Try
Speaker 2: changing the time of day that you use. It should
Speaker 2: be used at the same time of day, either morning
Speaker 2: or at night, but try switching it and see, like,
Speaker 2: if you're currently taking in the morning and you're feeling
Speaker 2: really hungry all day, try taking it at night. See
Speaker 2: if that like initial like spike you're getting in your
Speaker 2: blood sugar and your you know, you're hunger and everything.
Speaker 2: Maybe it happens more while you're sleeping and while you're
Speaker 2: in the fasted, stay already burning through what you've eaten
Speaker 2: that day and see if that helps. If you're taking
Speaker 2: in the evening, just maybe try taking it as you're
Speaker 2: opening your window. Because every drug has a half life,
Speaker 2: so you know it comes up at peaks and then.
Speaker 3: It starts to decay, to dilute whatever.
Speaker 2: You want to call it in your body. So if
Speaker 2: you can get it to where it's at its like
Speaker 2: least potent during your last few hours of the fast,
Speaker 2: it might help you.
Speaker 1: Steroids are just known with increased hunger in general. For
Speaker 1: whatever reason someone's taking any any form of steroid, we
Speaker 1: just hear that all the time, increased hunger. And they're
Speaker 1: also connected to weight gain, So something to keep in
Speaker 1: mind there as well. And I noticed that you said
Speaker 1: you just had a respiratory illness and so now you're
Speaker 1: using this medication.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's it's not going to be something
Speaker 3: that you need long term.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't, so you know, talk to your doctor
Speaker 1: about is this going to be something you need forever
Speaker 1: or is this just short term?
Speaker 3: And then you know you could expect to get back
Speaker 3: to feeling normal again.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, all right, So our next question is from
Speaker 2: Lauri and Nebraska, and Lauria wants to know can I
Speaker 2: do intermittent fasting while using a GLP one medication.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know you can, absolutely. Here's where you need
Speaker 3: to be cautious.
Speaker 1: I guess you know when you're using a GLB one medication,
Speaker 1: it's going to affect your appetite, right, And I know
Speaker 1: that different people have different levels of the medication or
Speaker 1: different effects on their appetite.
Speaker 3: And if you're finding that you're.
Speaker 1: Eating like a tiny, tiny, little amount of food while
Speaker 1: you're using your GLP one medication, that's not going to
Speaker 1: be good for your metabolism long term. So what you
Speaker 1: don't want to do is eat even less and less
Speaker 1: and less, and now you're barely eating at all. So
Speaker 1: you know, my advice would be, if you're using the
Speaker 1: GLP one medication for the purpose of weight loss and
Speaker 1: you want to be an intermittent faster, I would talk
Speaker 1: to your doctor about discontinuing the medication and focusing on
Speaker 1: natural appetite control from the clean fast and then nourishing
Speaker 1: your body well during your eating window rather than relying
Speaker 1: on the medication, just because you know, if you're using
Speaker 1: a GLP one long term for weight loss, you're going
Speaker 1: to be ending up with some metabolic consequences down the road.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked about these before on the podcast, so.
Speaker 2: Right now, if you're using them for diabetes and you've
Speaker 2: been taking it long term, it just depends on which
Speaker 2: medication you're using and what your doses. You know, a
Speaker 2: lot of times when people take it long term, and
Speaker 2: especially if it's some of the older ones, they don't
Speaker 2: have as strong as digestive effects and they are still
Speaker 2: able to eat, you know, relatively normal. It's when you
Speaker 2: get into the higher doses that it really starts to affect,
Speaker 2: you know, really affect your ability to eat a lot. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, just depending on why you're using it. But
Speaker 2: like I think, if you're already on it and you're
Speaker 2: trying to decide can you use if you know, can
Speaker 2: you pull if AT up a toolbox and add it
Speaker 2: to your you know, weight loss health plan, then yes,
Speaker 2: I think during the fast start would be a great
Speaker 2: time to work with your practitioner to start decreasing your medication.
Speaker 2: And I just recently learned that this medication stays in
Speaker 2: your system for twenty days. Wow, like ortal elimination is
Speaker 2: twenty days. So even if you decrease your medication, wean
Speaker 2: yourself off of it, by the time you're off of it,
Speaker 2: you should be fat adapted. And then let if do
Speaker 2: the work that the GLP one was doing for.
Speaker 1: It and real food, real food in your window, high
Speaker 1: quality food makes such a difference. And you know, I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about that for a minute, because you know,
Speaker 1: I've not been having my best eating during this whole
Speaker 1: challenge of Chad moving away and learning to cook for
Speaker 1: one and not having the energy to really do it
Speaker 1: and just relying more on convenience things and not wanting
Speaker 1: to make a whole meal from scratch just for me.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, finally, I'm like I've
Speaker 1: had enough of that. But appetite correction comes so yes
Speaker 1: from the clean fast, but also from the food that
Speaker 1: you're choosing yesterday, you know, I'm back, and then making
Speaker 1: the meal kits for myself figuring out you know, eat
Speaker 1: some one day had some of the next day, you know,
Speaker 1: having leftovers that sort of thing. But I had such
Speaker 1: a good, high quality window yesterday with food that I
Speaker 1: made a meal that I prepared, and the appetite correction
Speaker 1: is so different than when you're eating something that's more convenient,
Speaker 1: more ultra processed. So if you're struggling with appetite correction,
Speaker 1: whether you're on medication or not, food quality makes such
Speaker 1: a difference. So I just wanted to put that reminder
Speaker 1: out there. And I also appreciate sure that you said,
Speaker 1: you know, why are you on the GLP you want?
Speaker 1: Like when I said, are you doing it for weight loss?
Speaker 1: That's totally different than if you're on a dose for
Speaker 1: diabetes management, and you definitely have different dosages and considerations
Speaker 1: depending on why you're doing it. But the clean fast
Speaker 1: plus high quality food is also amazing for regulating blood
Speaker 1: sugar in the long run.
Speaker 2: So right, that's the other thing I was to say,
Speaker 2: even if you're on it for diabetes, once you start fasting,
Speaker 2: you may find that your blood sugar is really well
Speaker 2: controlled where you can start decreasing the dose to the
Speaker 2: GLP one and you know you could potentially get off
Speaker 2: of it. We have people reverse their diabetes, their type
Speaker 2: two diabetes all the time, and they're able to get
Speaker 2: off of their medications. So you know, you could use
Speaker 2: if with the goal of I'm going to reverse my
Speaker 2: diabetes and no longer need to use injections to help
Speaker 2: control my blood sugar.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to Fred Share. You know Fred,
Speaker 1: he was a very early Intermittent Fasting Stories guest and
Speaker 1: he was a moderator and are delayed on Deny group,
Speaker 1: and so I had him on an interview for YouTube,
Speaker 1: just catching up, and he reminded me that when he
Speaker 1: started intermittent fasting.
Speaker 3: First of all, this is cardiologist. He suggested it to him.
Speaker 3: He'd had lots and lots of hard issues. He got
Speaker 3: two pacemakers. Yeah, but his.
Speaker 1: Cardiologist is the one who said you got to start
Speaker 1: intermittent fasting.
Speaker 3: And he was also a type two diabetic. And this
Speaker 3: is years ago.
Speaker 1: I guess he started in twenty eighteen with intermittent fasting.
Speaker 1: He was off of his insulin in six months. It's
Speaker 1: not fabulous and he has not needed it ever since.
Speaker 1: He has been off of his insulin for diabetes since
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. And so just fasting intermittent fasting, So I
Speaker 1: would just encourage everybody. Our bodies are amazing. We can
Speaker 1: do this in a way to work with our body
Speaker 1: naturally with intermittent fasting plus choosing high quality of foods.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm going to be talking more and
Speaker 1: more about foods as time goes on. I've got a
Speaker 1: new project that I'm working on because I do know
Speaker 1: that food quality remains a struggle for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So my new project that I'm working on is about,
Speaker 1: you know, nailing your food choices, whether you're an intermittent
Speaker 1: faster or not, because I think it's time for us
Speaker 1: to really you know, the awareness is out there. We
Speaker 1: know about ultra processed foods, we know about what works
Speaker 1: off for our body. I reminded myself of it over
Speaker 1: the summer when I was we're not always going to
Speaker 1: be perfect, even me, but food is such a powerful
Speaker 1: lever to pull absolutely yep. So now I have time
Speaker 1: for our segment called What's Your Why. Most of us
Speaker 1: have weight loss in mind when we start intermittent fasting,
Speaker 1: which is a great reason to begin, but there is
Speaker 1: so much more to what intermittent fasting could do for
Speaker 1: us beyond weight loss. I genuinely believe that when your
Speaker 1: why is deeper than weight loss alone, you're more likely
Speaker 1: to find long term success and view intermittent fasting as
Speaker 1: a lifestyle like getting off of all of your insulin
Speaker 1: in six months?
Speaker 3: Right, amazing?
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, So this week we have a wife
Speaker 2: from Teresa. Teresa wrote, when I started intermittent fasting, my
Speaker 2: why was weight loss and better health. I was completely
Speaker 2: trapped in a body that I couldn't move around in
Speaker 2: without difficulty, and a mind that was afraid of everything.
Speaker 2: I was on the edge of the cliff of an
Speaker 2: increasing number of health issues. After three years of fasting,
Speaker 2: I've realized that my why has evolved so much.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: My why is to be able to live life to
Speaker 2: the absolute fullest without fear, without over analyzing every single scenario.
Speaker 2: Will I fit in that chair, that seat, that ride.
Speaker 2: Will I be able to walk that far? Will I
Speaker 2: be able to get up the stairs, up the hill,
Speaker 2: off the floor? Well I have a medical episode if
Speaker 2: I over exert myself, and.
Speaker 3: On and on and on.
Speaker 2: My why is that I can live a vibrant and
Speaker 2: colorful life, full of joy and full of love, including
Speaker 2: unconditional love for myself and my miraculous body. I want
Speaker 2: my life to be an absolute yes. I can do
Speaker 2: every single thing that I desire. I have more energy,
Speaker 2: more confidence, and more inner strength than at any other
Speaker 2: time in my adult life. I just turned fifty seven,
Speaker 2: and God willing, I hope I have many more years ahead.
Speaker 2: I want to live the rest of my life feeling
Speaker 2: strong and ready for the next adventure. That really makes
Speaker 2: me think. You guys have heard me talk about my
Speaker 2: mom has started and how great she's doing. I was
Speaker 2: back home about a year ago, it was about thirteen
Speaker 2: months ago, and I took my dad. My dad and
Speaker 2: I went to a baseball game. You can't say and
Speaker 2: see the key any Royals, And before I went, was like, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'd like to catch a Royals game.
Speaker 3: Do you want to go?
Speaker 2: Do you a mom want to go? And my dad said, oh,
Speaker 2: I would love to go, But I don't think your
Speaker 2: mom can do it. I don't think she can walk
Speaker 2: from the parking lot into the stadium. I don't think
Speaker 2: she can walk up to you know, the seats. That's
Speaker 2: too much walking. I don't think she can do that.
Speaker 2: So if you want to go, that's fine, I'll stay home. Well,
Speaker 2: then my mom found out why. I was talking to
Speaker 2: my dad and she said, no, you guys go, but
Speaker 2: we had to leave her at home, and that made.
Speaker 3: Me really sad.
Speaker 2: Well, my son just moved to Arizona, right outside of Surprise,
Speaker 2: where Mackinsey Rails do spring training, and he lives a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes from their training facility and stadium, and
Speaker 2: he sent me some pictures of it, and I sent
Speaker 2: it to my parents and my mom said, I think
Speaker 2: we need to take a spring break trip to Arizona
Speaker 2: so that we can go to spring training and.
Speaker 3: Watch the games. That is a drastic change.
Speaker 2: Wow. I mean she's going from walking like three minutes
Speaker 2: a day to forty minutes a day and she's only
Speaker 2: been fasting since May. So if you think you can't
Speaker 2: do it, yes you can. Just like start fasting, start small.
Speaker 2: If you can only walk to the ind of your driveway,
Speaker 2: walk to the end of your driveway, you will be
Speaker 2: so surprised at how quickly your endurance changes, your inflammation
Speaker 2: dials down, and you have the energy and the want
Speaker 2: to move your body more. It's just outstanding. I can't
Speaker 2: even I'm so happy for her, I.
Speaker 3: Know that, and that is something to just be very
Speaker 3: proud of knowing that you've been able to help your mom. Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, So we have a question, and this is
Speaker 2: from Natalie and new Brunswick. She said, high ladies, I
Speaker 2: have what I think is a fairly unique situation. The
Speaker 2: background to my fasting history is that I started really
Speaker 2: committing to intermint fasting after having my second daughter, and
Speaker 2: reading Fast Feast Repeat listening to the podcast has helped
Speaker 2: clarify and motivate me. I have lost approximately twenty five
Speaker 2: pounds and I am back to my high school weight,
Speaker 2: which is an amazing feeling.
Speaker 3: I am six feet.
Speaker 2: Tall with a very classic Swedish heavier build, and I
Speaker 2: currently weigh one hundred and ninety five pounds. I've always
Speaker 2: had a focus on clean, whole food and low carb eating,
Speaker 2: but definitely ate too much during my last pregnancy. My
Speaker 2: first question and fairly defeating situation I am in is
Speaker 2: that since losing weight and or doing intermitt and fasting,
Speaker 2: I have developed gallbladder sludge. I finally went to my
Speaker 2: doctor as the instant bloating, nausea and pain in my
Speaker 2: back was getting worse after any meal and debilitating after
Speaker 2: a twenty hour fast and affecting my quality of life.
Speaker 2: I fully expected my ultrashround to show gallstones, but there
Speaker 2: was nothing. My blood work did show a sharp increase
Speaker 2: in two of my liver enzymes, which I think convinced
Speaker 2: my doctor. I reluctantly told them that I did intermittent fasting,
Speaker 2: and he told me that it is not healthy and
Speaker 2: you can guess the regular advice he gave me. That's okay,
Speaker 2: doctors are human and only know what they know. But
Speaker 2: I am so sad at the thought of giving up
Speaker 2: intermittent fasting because it has changed my life. It has
Speaker 2: helped to start heal my food noise and has helped
Speaker 2: me to lose weight.
Speaker 3: I never thought I could. Have you ever heard of this?
Speaker 2: My second question is I was always very proud of
Speaker 2: how low my A and C was and anywhere from
Speaker 2: five point zero to five point two. With my success
Speaker 2: in intermint fasting, I let myself indulge more during my
Speaker 2: eating window, such as sweets, ice cream, homemade treats, now,
Speaker 2: my A and C has jumped up to five point nine.
Speaker 2: I think I know the answer, But is my A
Speaker 2: and C higher because of what I'm eating? It seems
Speaker 2: funny because I've lost weight, but my labs have declined, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So I'm going to answer the second part first, Natalie,
Speaker 1: And yes, if you had been eating in a different
Speaker 1: way and now you've added sweets, ice cream and treats
Speaker 1: and your A and C has gone up, that is
Speaker 1: a sign that it is not working for you as well.
Speaker 1: So food quality does matter, and ae C really does
Speaker 1: show what hower bodies reacting to what we're eating. So
Speaker 1: it seems like to me that what you're eating is
Speaker 1: not working as well for your body. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about gallbladder issues. And I want to remind everybody we
Speaker 1: are not doctors. We're not giving you medical advice, and
Speaker 1: we never want to tell you to disregard your doctor's advice.
Speaker 1: But I can share this information with you, and I'm
Speaker 1: just going to read something directly from a search. It
Speaker 1: says weight loss can increase the risk by altering bile
Speaker 1: composition and reducing gall bladder contractions, leading to symptoms like
Speaker 1: upper right abnominal pain, nausea, and indigestion. The increased cholesterol
Speaker 1: from fat mobilization, along with decreased gallbladder stimulation from your
Speaker 1: reduced CLOrk intake, can promote gall stoneformation or gallbladder dysfunction.
Speaker 1: And I have bad news about what they recommend, and
Speaker 1: that is eating less fat.
Speaker 3: You know, if you're having.
Speaker 1: Trouble with your gallbladder, weight loss is a big reason
Speaker 1: this can happen. And you know that's regardless of what
Speaker 1: style of weight loss you're doing. By the way, we
Speaker 1: know this from just in general, when we lose weight,
Speaker 1: we have a tendency not you know everybody, but weight
Speaker 1: loss is a risk factor for gallbladder issues. And also
Speaker 1: being overweight is a risk factor for gallbladder issues, as
Speaker 1: is also being over forty and being a woman, And
Speaker 1: there are lots and lots of things that lead to
Speaker 1: gallbladder issues. And so I guess the best advice would
Speaker 1: be never gain weight and never need to lose weight.
Speaker 1: But because we're human, I've certainly needed to lose weight.
Speaker 1: I've certainly gained weight, I've certainly lost weight, and so
Speaker 1: you know that advice, of course, is a bit tongue
Speaker 1: in cheap, because we can't go back and not have
Speaker 1: that happen. So you may find that you need to
Speaker 1: focus on lower fat intake, but also not so much
Speaker 1: sugar retreats. And you might think, well, how in the
Speaker 1: world can those two things go together. Well, Lean proteins, vegetables,
Speaker 1: real food, high fiber, those are all things that can
Speaker 1: really really help. And you know, definitely talk to your
Speaker 1: doctor about this. But I don't want you to think
Speaker 1: that you can't do intermittent fasting because you've had gallbladder issues.
Speaker 3: And I would like to.
Speaker 1: Encourage anyone to listen to a recent YouTube that I
Speaker 1: did catching up with a different guest, Mary lou Reese,
Speaker 1: her study of one. She has been doing intermittent fasting
Speaker 1: for years and again this YouTube is a catch up
Speaker 1: on my YouTube channel, and she told the story in
Speaker 1: her catch up interview with me that she used to
Speaker 1: have terrible gallbladder problems but when she started intermittent fasting,
Speaker 1: it all went away. And so you know, your own
Speaker 1: study of one does definitely matter. And it's very clear
Speaker 1: that you have had these problems due to your weight loss.
Speaker 1: But as you get to the point where you're maintaining
Speaker 1: instead of continuing to lose weight, you're finding a maintenance
Speaker 1: intermittent fasting protocol, working on your food choices, food quality
Speaker 1: a little bit, you may find that the gallbladder symptoms
Speaker 1: settle down. Now you've got gallbleer or issues, sharing you've
Speaker 1: had them from way before, so you talk about it
Speaker 1: a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I'm just I had my moot right. I've never had
Speaker 3: anything with my gallbladder.
Speaker 2: So I had my daughter when I was eighteen, and
Speaker 2: I had trouble all through my pregnancy with chest pain
Speaker 2: and nausea, pain between my shoulder blades, and it was
Speaker 2: always worse after eating, like usually a fatty meal, like
Speaker 2: if I had taco salad or went to olive Garden
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 3: I would have these episodes.
Speaker 2: And I didn't realize. I was not in healthcare at eighteen,
Speaker 2: didn't realize what was going on. They kept studying me
Speaker 2: trying to see if I had blood clots in my lungs.
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 2: But then when my daughter was three weeks old, I
Speaker 2: had a really bad attack. Went to the er, and
Speaker 2: as soon as they found out I'd had a baby,
Speaker 2: they said, oh, it's your gallbladder. They didn't even image
Speaker 2: it back in nineteen ninety two, they just took me
Speaker 2: in and took my gallbladder out, and the doctor who
Speaker 2: did it said my gallbladder was so rotten he could
Speaker 2: all m'st not get it.
Speaker 3: At yet.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's gallbladder disease can come about just from hormones,
Speaker 2: from unbalanced hormones, like they know, estrogen dominance can cause
Speaker 2: gallbladder disease, and having just had a baby is something
Speaker 2: that triggers gallbatter disease. But you know, if you try
Speaker 2: not to eat high fat meals, When you eat a
Speaker 2: high fat meal, your body has to really push out bile.
Speaker 2: And if your gallbladder's not working great and it can't
Speaker 2: push out in a bial for that high fat meal
Speaker 2: to help digest that high fat meal that you ate,
Speaker 2: it's when you start getting the spasms in your gall butter.
Speaker 2: So that's where like focusing on fiber low sugar is
Speaker 2: another thing they say, don't eat a lot of sugary foods,
Speaker 2: just you know, really like a Mediterranean diet, low fat diet,
Speaker 2: high fiber, lean proteins, lower processed sugars and processed carbs.
Speaker 3: You're going to help you.
Speaker 2: And unfortunate if they've truly given you, you know, a
Speaker 2: diagnosis of you know, billiary dyskinesia. Really the only cure
Speaker 2: for it if you cannot modify your issue with diet
Speaker 2: is usually to have your gallbladder removed, but definitely tried
Speaker 2: diet first for sure. Diet helps balance your hormones too,
Speaker 2: which will help well.
Speaker 1: That Matt explains what women over forty as we're going
Speaker 1: through in the perimenopausal transition.
Speaker 3: Things just our bodies change. Mm hmm, yep, all right.
Speaker 1: We have a question from Sue in Essex. She says,
Speaker 1: I am enjoying fasting and find it easy to fit
Speaker 1: into my lifestyle. I started fasting in April and I
Speaker 1: initially lost about five to seven kilograms and I'm now
Speaker 1: in the mid range of healthy on smart BMI hooray.
Speaker 1: Celebrating with Sue, she said, I'm about five foot seven
Speaker 1: and I weigh around seventy five kilograms. I'm nearly fifty
Speaker 1: three in perimenopausal taking HRT. I'm also taking liquid levothyroxine.
Speaker 3: Did I say that right? Cherry, Okay?
Speaker 1: And my question is about this. I need to take
Speaker 1: it on an empty stomach and without coffee, but the
Speaker 1: oral solution contains citric acid and glycerol, which I think
Speaker 1: breaks my fast. I try to do a five hour
Speaker 1: window two to seven, but I take the med when
Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning, and I take my
Speaker 1: HRT before bed with magnesium.
Speaker 3: Do you have any advice. I drink one or two
Speaker 3: cups of coffee every morning and was wondering if I
Speaker 3: should take the thyroxine before I break my fast instead,
Speaker 3: but not sure if it will be less effective after coffee.
Speaker 3: I did take the tablet form before I started fasting
Speaker 3: earlier this year, but I ended up having a rash,
Speaker 3: so they put me on the oral solution. I have
Speaker 3: subclinical hypothyroidism, and I wonder if this has also caused
Speaker 3: the plateau. I'm not too worried about this, but would
Speaker 3: like to shift a little more. I also have joint
Speaker 3: pain from arthritis and hip dysplasia, so I regularly do
Speaker 3: drink training and I have a good diet. I'm vegetarian,
Speaker 3: mostly plants and unprocessed.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your advice. I love listening to you
Speaker 1: both and your positive energy. We love bringing you positive energy.
Speaker 3: Well. I have some thoughts on that. I did some
Speaker 3: research actually on this because I wasn't as familiar with
Speaker 3: the oral live with thyroxine.
Speaker 2: The liquid yeah, the liquid, yeah, liquid. Sorry, They're all oral,
Speaker 2: so when you take a pill, it takes time for
Speaker 2: it to dissolve and for your body to uptake that medication,
Speaker 2: and so you know, there's pretty tight parameters on when
Speaker 2: you can have anything to eat or drink fatty after
Speaker 2: taking it. But what they're finding is that the oral
Speaker 2: is absorbed much more quickly, so it can be taken
Speaker 2: closer to high fat meals without the absorption being affected.
Speaker 2: So the amount of time that you have to like
Speaker 2: fast after taking it before eating is lessened. They say
Speaker 2: you should wait thirty to sixty minutes after taking it
Speaker 2: before eating. Now, something that I looked into was like
Speaker 2: if a person was to work night shift and they
Speaker 2: were to wake up every afternoon at three pm, the
Speaker 2: recommendation would be for them to take it upon waking.
Speaker 2: They tell people to take upon waking because most people
Speaker 2: start eating after they wake up. So my suggestion to
Speaker 2: you would be to just wait and take it before
Speaker 2: you open your window, So allow like sixty minutes before
Speaker 2: you eat food and just take it.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 2: Yes, it may make you hungry during that last hour,
Speaker 2: but then you're not having as much disruption to your fast,
Speaker 2: and I think it'll help you. The one caveat is
Speaker 2: when adjusting the timing of your thyroid medicine, whether you're
Speaker 2: a person who's moving it from morning to bedtime or
Speaker 2: whatever they do say after about six to eight weeks
Speaker 2: to go ahead and have your labs redrawn, just to
Speaker 2: make sure that the time of day is not affecting
Speaker 2: how your body absorbs it, and that you're still.
Speaker 3: At a dose that works for you. Yep. I love
Speaker 3: that you know all these things. All right. Well, if
Speaker 3: I don't know them, I do some research.
Speaker 2: Awesome, all right, Before we get to the tweak of
Speaker 2: the week, I just want to talk to you inn
Speaker 2: about what I'm doing and what I'm loving doing, and
Speaker 2: that is helping intermittten fasters like you who are either
Speaker 2: maybe in a plateau or you're just really struggling with
Speaker 2: mindset or nutrition. How to eat, how to best eat,
Speaker 2: how to achieve satiety in your window. These are all
Speaker 2: things I've been helping people with and every time I
Speaker 2: meet with a faster number one, it's so inspiring to
Speaker 2: me how much people want to find success with inter
Speaker 2: fasting and how they are almost afraid to trust their
Speaker 2: own intuition, is what I'm finding. Like, people often know
Speaker 2: maybe what's holding them back, or sometimes they don't like
Speaker 2: sometimes people don't understand why when they open their window,
Speaker 2: they just can't stop eating. But usually within a few
Speaker 2: minutes I can figure it out. And so if you're
Speaker 2: a person and you're struggling and you're struggling to find
Speaker 2: the tide in your window, or if you're in a
Speaker 2: plateau and you're not seeing weight loss, or you're hungry
Speaker 2: during your fast all the time, contact me. I would
Speaker 2: love to sit and talk with you. I offer thirty
Speaker 2: forty five minutes and sixty minute sessions. I also have
Speaker 2: a monthly program where we talk weekly and you can
Speaker 2: text me daily and I am loving doing it so much,
Speaker 2: and I have had so much fun meeting y'all and
Speaker 2: working with you, and I love to see the changes.
Speaker 2: People are emailing me back and saying, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you know I was stuck. I haven't lost weight in
Speaker 2: four months, and in this last week I lost one
Speaker 2: point five pounds. And so sometimes just having a person
Speaker 2: to bounce some ideas off of can be so helpful,
Speaker 2: and we can work through whatever you're struggling with and
Speaker 2: get you back to where you're losing weight, feeling good,
Speaker 2: the faster easy, and you're achieving appetite correction in your window.
Speaker 2: So if that sounds like something you need, reach out
Speaker 2: to me at Sherry at fast Feast Repeat dot com.
Speaker 3: And again my name is s h e R I.
Speaker 3: Very simple, five letters s h r I at Fast
Speaker 3: Feast Repeat dot com. I love that so much.
Speaker 1: And you know, this makes me think back to being
Speaker 1: a school teacher and that we all need different support
Speaker 1: for things.
Speaker 3: You know, there's the kid in the classroom, you just
Speaker 3: hand them something. They do it right, They just need
Speaker 3: the book. They're good.
Speaker 1: Some people need, you know, more of like the community approach,
Speaker 1: but some people need one on one. You know, we
Speaker 1: would send our kids out for some one oh one
Speaker 1: on one with the interventionist who was skilled. And that's
Speaker 1: what you're providing. People need different levels of support and
Speaker 1: I love that you've got this added tool for people.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've been thinking.
Speaker 2: About doing it for a long time, but I had
Speaker 2: a really busy summer and I was like, Okay, I've
Speaker 2: got to get through the summer before I can log
Speaker 2: into doing this for people.
Speaker 3: I've been so happy. I love it. I look forward
Speaker 3: to every day that I sit down and talk with people.
Speaker 3: Love it. So now it's time for our tweak of
Speaker 3: the week. You know I always say tweak it till
Speaker 3: it's easy.
Speaker 1: But the tweak that works for me might not be
Speaker 1: the one that works for you, And that's why it's
Speaker 1: super helpful to hear how other intermitten fasters are making
Speaker 1: intermittent fasting work for them. This is from Gizelle from Ohio.
Speaker 1: She said, I have been doing intermittent fasting for two years.
Speaker 1: My weight loss is slow, but my health benefits outshine
Speaker 1: the rate of loss. Not to mention the peace of
Speaker 1: mind around food. Many days I would beat myself up
Speaker 1: when the scale is up or not moving, or when
Speaker 1: I'm not happy with my food choices, or life gets
Speaker 1: in the way of whatever good plan I had for
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 3: I decided to set three daily goals.
Speaker 1: One fast number two walk ten thousand steps, Number three
Speaker 1: eat fruit and veg cheese. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I check those goals off my list and feel good.
Speaker 1: The next morning, at the scale is not my friend,
Speaker 1: remind myself that I met my goals, I write down
Speaker 1: the number, and I move on. So my tweak is
Speaker 1: to set daily goals, with fasting being one of them,
Speaker 1: and a couple of others that benefit you and are
Speaker 1: easy to accomplish. Check them off your list. Every night
Speaker 1: and recommend in the morning. This takes the focus on
Speaker 1: what is going right and helps you celebrate what you
Speaker 1: accomplished in your day. And Gazelle, I actually do that.
Speaker 1: My goal every day is I have physical activity in there,
Speaker 1: and it's on my calendar, Like I put things in
Speaker 1: my calendar that I have to do, like.
Speaker 3: On Tuesday, record two episodes for Sherry and whatever is
Speaker 3: going on that day. But physical activity is the one
Speaker 3: I have. And you know I could do it could
Speaker 3: be anything for me, and I just make sure I
Speaker 3: do something every day. So I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that too, all right, So we are going
Speaker 2: to leave you with an inspiration now quote or it's
Speaker 2: actually just a motivational message from Michelle. She said, during
Speaker 2: my walk today, I saw a neighbor out gardening and
Speaker 2: it got me thinking about seeds and our fasting journeys.
Speaker 2: Fasting is basically gardening, but without the dirt and with
Speaker 2: some hunger pains. We plant seeds every time we start
Speaker 2: a fast, throw seeds when we share our winds or blips,
Speaker 2: some sprout, some compost. We nurture seeds by sticking to
Speaker 2: our routine without losing our minds, and finally we eat
Speaker 2: seeds when all that patience pays off in energy, focus
Speaker 2: and maybe even bragging rights at lunch. And let's not
Speaker 2: forget the weeds, those pesky cravings we have to pluck
Speaker 2: along the way. Happy gardening peeps love that.
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