Episode 106: Cortisol Fears, Shifting Your Window, Not Finding Weight Loss Success, and More
Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life
Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fast Feast Repeat, intermittent fasting for life. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Jen Stevens, author of the New York Times bestseller Fast Feast Repeat. |
| 0:10.5 | And I'm Sherry Bullock, longtime intermittent faster and health and wellness advocate. |
| 0:15.4 | Please keep in mind that this podcast is for educational and motivational purposes only |
| 0:19.9 | and is not intended to provide medical |
| 0:21.9 | or diagnostic advice. Jen and I are not doctors, so make sure to check with your trusted |
| 0:27.0 | health care professionals before making changes, especially when it comes to any medical |
| 0:31.4 | treatments or medications. Whether you're new to intermittent fasting or an experienced intermittent |
| 0:36.7 | faster, tune in each week to get inspired, to learn, and to have some fun along the way. |
| 0:45.2 | Hi, everybody. We are so glad you're here today. Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feast, Repeat Intermittent Fasting for Life podcast. How are you doing today, Sherry? |
| 0:53.8 | I'm doing great. And guess what? What? The day that this comes out, you will be here. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, I will be. I just looked up and saw it the day after my birthday. Yeah. So the day that this comes out, |
| 1:05.8 | we're recording this a month ahead of time, but the day it comes out, you will be here at the beach with me and also Roxy will be here. So I'm excited for the future us. Me too. Me too. I am ready for that. I'm ready for some sunshine. Well, I hope you get some. For what feels like we're raining here today. It's dreary. Yeah. Our local meteorologist actually just said, expect rain every single day for the next month. |
| 1:30.8 | We cannot tell you how much or when it's going to arrive until the day of. |
| 1:34.8 | But basically plan for rain is what he said. We're in a rainy season. |
| 1:38.4 | We need the rain, right? So anyway, I can't remember if I've shared on the podcast or not. |
| 1:45.1 | Our son, who is 22, joined the Marines. |
| 1:50.2 | He left May the 20th. |
| 1:52.2 | So by the time this comes out, we'll be getting closer to graduation. |
| 1:55.3 | Wow. |
| 1:55.7 | We just got our first letter from him the other day. |
| 1:59.7 | It actually came on my husband's birthday, and he was like, what a great birthday present. Of course, we're worried about him. We can't, you know, you're in no contact for 13 weeks, pretty much. I mean, telephone contact. So we finally got our first letter. He's doing great. He's got a great attitude. He's looking at this whole thing as an |
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