Episode 119: Dealing With Criticism, Gallbladder Issues, and More
Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life
Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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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 |
| 0:38.1 | week to get inspired, to learn, and to have some fun along the way. |
| 0:46.7 | Hi, everybody. We are so glad you're here today. Welcome to this week's episode of the |
| 0:50.9 | Fast Feast Repeat, Intermittent Fasting for Life podcast. How are you doing today, Sherry? I am doing wonderful. How are you? Well, I'm doing fun. I do want to update the world on what's going on in my life. Okay. And now is as good as time as any. I went ahead and shared in the community last week. I'm sure you saw it. Y'all know I shared on this podcast this spring that Chad and I were going to live separately, |
| 1:12.7 | but see each other a lot. |
| 1:14.3 | Well, we are now getting divorced. |
| 1:16.5 | Sure, you already know that. |
| 1:17.9 | So the plan did not work out, as I had optimistically hoped that it would. |
| 1:22.9 | So this is one of those things that's hard to update, but Chad just can't disappear, I guess, |
| 1:27.5 | without me mentioning it because he's been mentioned in the podcast episodes since I started |
| 1:32.4 | with my very first one. |
| 1:34.0 | Right. Right. Well, I know that you have worked hard to try to make him happy and also still have joy in your life and try not to get |
| 1:48.2 | emotional. It's hard to, you know, I'm so hard to talk about, right? Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, |
| 1:55.5 | here's the thing. Nobody goes into marriage looking to get divorced. Right. And I think everybody works their hardest to |
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