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of you today wherever you are tuning in. We have listeners all over the world,

whether you're walking, you're jogging, you're cooking, you're cleaning,

you're working out, you're driving, driving you're traveling you are doing the dang thing girl you're choosing to show up to prioritize

yourself to become the best possible version of yourself so that you can serve others in your best capacity.

Now today we're chatting all about intermittent fasting.

This is something that a lot of women inside my macro counting Made Simple and Movement with Julie community groups ask

about.

So I thought that I would dedicate an entire episode to just sharing my full answer as to

whether or not it should be something that you should be doing and implementing.

Before I want to share my thoughts though on intermittent fasting, I first want to explain

what it is for those of you who may not be exactly sure.

You might have heard of it or maybe you've never heard of it before. But basically there are countless different protocols when it comes to intermittent fasting. No matter what protocol you are following, you have a designated window of time where you

don't eat aka your fasting and then a designated window of time where you do eat.

The most common protocol that I've seen is a 16-8 so this is where you fast for 16 hours and then have an 8 hour eating window

So this would look like eating between noon and 8 p.m. and then fasting from 8 p.m. to noon. Some people do a

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