Episode 120: Celebrating & Looking for Wins, Losing Summer Regain, Managing Hunger, and More

Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life

Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Welcome to this week’s episode of Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting for Life, with Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock.
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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.
0:51.8	Hi, everybody. We are so glad you're here today. Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feastafete,
0:55.2	Intermittent Fasting for Life podcast. How are you doing today, Sherry?
1:03.8	I'm doing fantastic. How are you? Sad about summer. I know. I was actually... All is in the air,
1:09.8	and every year I'm so surprised. When I said fantastic, I immediately thought, well, I took Lulu outside this morning and it was a little chilly
1:11.9	this morning. But, you know, your jeans, I'm really, the reason. Chili to me. Yeah, me too.
1:20.2	The bad news is I'm wearing jeans, but the good news is my jeans still fit from last year or so. That's great. Exactly.
1:31.5	I have been using my sonnet again. I have a sunlight and sauna. Oh, I meant to do it today and I forgot. Well, when it's so hot outside, Eric doesn't like me
1:37.1	to turn it on because it's in the house. Right. And he thinks it heats the house up. It doesn't.
1:41.4	He thinks having the kitchen light on an LED light is heating the house up.
1:47.0	So anyways, I just to pacify him, I don't turn it on while he's here, but I have it preset to turn on at a
1:55.0	certain time so that once I get up and get the dogs taken care of and get my coffee, I just move
1:58.8	into my sauna and I'm using it like three or four times a week and it's feeling great. That's awesome. I got to do it. I love my new sauna. Mine is from Life Pro. You know, we're big fans of Life Pro and it's awesome. But I just keep forgetting. Today I was like, I am going to use my sauna sauna today and then I got busy doing a bunch of things
2:17.9	it's just not yeah yeah I forgot I do yeah well the sunlight has an app now and you can like I can lay in
2:26.4	bed and turn my sauna on to preheat if I want that is awesome yes yeah so well I'm going to put a night
2:32.9	in my mind it reminds me to get in it like Like I smell it. I'm like, oh, yeah, I need to get in my sauna this morning. So anyway, there's the benefits. I'm looking for like the benefits of cooler weather, right? Well, there we go. There we go. Yeah. I'm just having to put on different clothes, no more summer dresses.
2:53.5	You know, I was having a little sad moment about that this morning when I got dressed.
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