Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.

And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.

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We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone welcome to the fasting for life podcast my name is Dr. Scott water and I'm here as always

with the good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir. Hey Scott how are you doing

great my friend gonna have a good conversation today and I'm hoping as always that it will be

actionable and enlightening for all of y'all listeners so just I don't really know where today's going to go full transparency. We've talked around these

conversations, you know, pretty much week in and week out in our groups and underlying challenges and communications back and forth with you guys.

And one of the things that I love about the conversation today is it's going to be around one of the main topics as to why people

come to fasting so we're going to talk about weight loss but we're also going to talk a little bit about

the mythical creature called metabolism and talk through some of what we feel

leads to fasting as being a beneficial way to get the best of both worlds when you are living in an insulin-friendly or fasting-friendly lifestyle compared to the calorie counting counting low and slow calorie restriction world.

So not really sure, like I said, Tommy, where it's going to go.

I know you and I each have our thought processes on this, but I'm excited to have the conversation because there's a couple of cool

takeaways at the end that I think are going to put a nice kind of bow on things and then there'll be as always an action step that we can put in to

level up our fasting game which is ultimately getting the results of long-term weight loss and health benefit.

Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, that mythical word, that metabolism, you know, we each have

our histories with that word and I think just the idea of slowing my own metabolism or you know just kind of the fear and the hesitation around it is is kind of what kept me from actually discovering fasting much sooner, much earlier in my journey.

Because I didn't want to do that and I knew I had heard that before and you know there's there's just a lot of a lot of

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