Ep. 320 - Breaking Through Fasting Plateaus | Behavioral vs Biological vs Logistical Stalls | Fasting Persona Quiz | Identifying Your Plateau Type | Strategic Solutions | Join Our Next Fasting Challenge!

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Wadier.
0:03.0	And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the Fasting for Life podcast.
0:07.0	This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health, achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.
0:15.0	Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.
0:20.0	We cover
0:20.8	everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.
0:24.3	We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and
0:28.9	we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way.
0:35.6	Hey everyone, welcome to the Fasting for Life podcast.
0:42.2	My name is Dr. Scott Water, and I'm here, as always.
0:44.1	I'm a good friend and colleague, Tommy Welling.
0:45.4	Good afternoon to you, sir.
0:46.8	Hey, Scott, how are you?
0:48.1	Doing fantastic, my friend, really excited.
0:51.1	I know I usually just say I'm excited, but I'm really excited about today's conversation.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	We are going to be talking about the dreaded plateau.
0:59.0	Oh, man.
1:00.0	The fasting plateau.
1:02.0	So while you're stuck in three different buckets, behavioral, biological, and life logistical plateaus, we're going to break them down.
1:10.0	We've never done this before. We're going to, we've compartmentalized them, and then We're going to break them down. We've never done this before.
1:12.2	We've compartmentalized them.
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