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Fast. Feast. Repeat.  Intermittent Fasting For Life

Episode 111: ADF for Metabolic Boosting, Confusion About Fasting, Women, & Protein, and More

Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life

Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this week’s episode of Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting for Life, with Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock.

To make a submission for the podcast, go to fastfeastrepeat.com/submit.  We are a community-driven podcast, and we look forward to sharing your questions, success stories, non-scale victories, IF tweaks, motivational quotes (and more!) on each episode of the podcast. 

Resources used in today’s episode: 

https://www.fastfeastrepeat.com/episodes-and-shownotes/episode-42-that-recent-fasting-study-if-while-eating-out-and-more 

https://www.fastfeastrepeat.com/episodes-and-shownotes/episode-28-dr-tabatha-barber-obgyn-and-fasting-for-women 

All about Hormones with Dr. Tabatha Barber:  https://youtu.be/7eaRbcri1EQ

Fasting and Women: Debunking the Myths, with Dr. Tabatha Barber:  https://youtu.be/A-cy1XwE8ws

To inquire about personal coaching, contact Sheri@ fastfeastrepeat.com

https://www.fastfeastrepeat.com/sheri.html  

https://crunchi.com/?als=SheriBullock 

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00147/full 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Fast Feast Repeat, intermittent fasting for life. I'm Jen Stevens, author of the New York Times bestseller Fast Feast Repeat. And I'm Sherry Bullock, long-time intermittent faster and health and wellness advocate. Please keep in mind that this podcast is for educational and motivational purposes only 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,

0:42.2

tune in each week to get inspired, to learn, and to have some fun along the way.

0:46.1

Hi, everybody.

0:47.6

We are so glad you're here today.

0:52.0

Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feast, Feast, Repeat, Intermittent Fasting for Life podcast.

0:53.3

How are you doing today, Sherry?

1:00.5

I'm doing great. I'm so glad. Me too. It's hot. Yeah, it is that time of year that it's really hot.

1:06.4

My husband is cranky. Have you ever seen that meeting that says, please forgive me for the things I said while I was hot?

1:27.8

No. That's my husband. He's very heat intolerant. Well, he wouldn't have liked my air conditioner going out the other day, so luckily it's fixed now. Oh, no, he would not have done well with that at all. I woke up in the morning. I was like, why am I so hot? Something's not right. Yeah. It was not right. So we're fixed. It was easy.

1:28.6

Drain line.

1:30.0

Unclogged. I like those repairs that takes five minutes, right? Right. Right. As soon as the guy walked in the door, he's like, it's going to be your drain line. I'm like, what? He was right. It's crazy that you and I had the exact same problem this same summer. Well, it's the summer. And he said in the summer, if it's a problem, it's the drain line.

1:27.4

Yeah.

1:27.7

You know, we live in a very humid climate, it's the summer. And he said in the summer, if it's a problem,

1:44.3

it's the drain line. Yeah. You know, we live in a very humid climate, both of us do. Yeah. We got a lot of water to get out of the air. A lot of draining needs to happen. And thank goodness, it's, you know, shut off my system instead of flooding. But yours flooded. Like mine, mine flood. Yeah, Luckily, the AC, the whole HVAC unit is above my garage up in the attic. So, I mean, I do have now water stains on my garage ceiling that at some point I'll have to tackle. But I needed to do some work out there anyways. So. But yeah, I wasn't, and luckily we were home, like it didn't happen while we were out of town or something.

2:19.0

Because my little valve shut off was broken. So that's why mine just kept pumping water out into the attic.

2:25.2

But yeah, you know, first world problems, I guess.

2:29.2

Thank goodness for air conditioning. I just don't know how people lived.

2:32.2

It's when you have a day without air conditioning that you're like, oh my gosh, how did people survive before this? I think, and people settled in the

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