Episode 118: Weight Regain While Fasting, Understanding Research Studies, and More
Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life
Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Resources used in today’s episode:https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/features/is-intermittent-fasting-bad-for-heart-health
https://www.fastfeastrepeat.com/episodes-and-shownotes/episode-58-digging-into-research-studies-blood-glucose-level-concerns-and-morehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38695175/https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(24)00199-2/fulltext
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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, |
| 0:42.2 | tune in each week to get inspired, to learn, and to have some fun along the way. |
| 0:49.1 | Hi, everybody. We are so glad you're here today. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feast Repeat, Intermittent Fasting for Life podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | How are you doing today, Sherry? |
| 1:03.4 | I'm doing wonderful. I'm glad. Anything new going on with you? Well, let's see. My husband's had oral surgery last week, and he's on vacation for two weeks. This is his final week. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm going to need a vacation when he goes back to work. |
| 1:15.6 | Poor Eric. Yeah. I love my husband dearly, y'all. I do, but he's a lot. He's on the spectrum. |
| 1:24.0 | Communication is not his strong point. So sometimes we struggle when we spend a little bit too much |
| 1:30.0 | time together. We're very different. Like we complement each other, but we're so different. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm high energy. He's low energy. I'm extroverted. He's introverted. He doesn't understand my |
| 1:42.8 | need to connect outside of the house. |
| 1:45.1 | He's very content to just sit here in the house. |
| 1:47.4 | So my salvation has been doing coaching because I get to come into my office and shut the door and talk to people. |
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