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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?

I'm doing great. How are you? I am fantastic. Back from a week in Florida, and it went so well this year.

And I know you had a good time. I did have a good time. You know, we actually had one friend who came for just a few days. We hadn't seen her since 1991.

Really? Yeah, she came back for the first homecoming and then we haven't seen her. So it was great to catch up with her. She wasn't there the whole time. But I did so much better with my fasting and windows this year. You know, I went in with a plan. Yeah. That I was not going to open at my normal time of two and just snack around the pool. and then because our windows. We tended to eat a little later. We would go out.

And so... going to open at my normal time of two and just snack around the pool and then fix our windows.

We tended to eat a little later. We would go out. And so there were a bunch of days where I didn't

even eat until we went to the restaurant at all. And there were two days that I purposely had lunch

because we were opening earlier. One of them really didn't end up being to 1.30, so it wasn't too bad.

And really, the other one probably like that, too. So I did not feel overly full the whole time.

Like last year, when I felt overly full.

Last year, he learned. I did. I don't want to do that again.

I can flex on a short vacation more than I can flex on an eight-day trip, right? Right. So it felt so much better, and I did not. It took one day to get back to normal. You know, I like to eat when I'm traveling because I feel the air sickness when I'm landing. So I like to eat on my layover. And so I did, but it was still like 2.30 by the time I opened that day, but then I came home and had a little more. But the next day when I was home, it took me, you know, I had a little nap in the afternoon, getting through my glycogen stores. And then I was back to normal. So it happened very, very quickly. I didn't feel overly full. And, you know, I always say we never, never regret sticking to a window. No, ever.

Ever. I know at the beginning of the summer, we suggested that people keep an eye on their windows

this summer and, you know, don't go crazy just because it's summertime and you can still enjoy

your summer without having, you know, really long windows

every weekend or whatever. And yet here we are at the beginning of fall, end of summer, and

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