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Fast. Feast. Repeat.  Intermittent Fasting For Life

Episode 121: Fasting With an Underactive Thyroid, Suddenly Feeling Hungry, Snack vs. Meal, and More

Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life

Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 53 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.
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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

0:08.3

Times bestseller Fast Feast Repeat. And I'm Sherry Bullock, longtime intermittent faster and health

0:13.7

and wellness advocate. Please keep in mind that this podcast is for educational and motivational

0:19.0

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.

0:49.8

Hi, everybody. We are so glad you're here today. Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feast, Feast, Repeat, Interminton Fasting for Life podcast. How are you doing today, Sherry?

0:54.1

I'm doing wonderful.

0:56.3

Crazy busy, but wonderful. Yeah, me too. Busy is good. I'm so busy. Busy is good.

1:03.9

Busy is good. I even got up early today, which is really hard for me on a Tuesday morning,

1:09.0

and I still feel like I'm running behind. I'm so much

1:11.1

to do today. And I'm really trying to prioritize getting my workouts in, doing all the stuff I need

1:17.4

to do for me, plus everything else that I do. So I'm like set it for success, I'm wearing my

1:23.4

workout clothes, and ready to roll. Awesome. Yeah, I went into sauna this morning. I'm doing

1:28.6

better at that. I actually wrote the word sauna in my daily list of things to do. Like a sauna is now

1:34.8

that doesn't mean I have to do it every day, but it reminds me because I keep forgetting that

1:38.3

but 20 minutes. Do you feel it? Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Yeah. My function labs came back that I have a lot of inflammation, particularly joint inflammation. So I've been trying to use it like three times a week to really help with that. And there's actually like a setting on the sunlight and sauna for inflammation. Yep. But I also decided to do it update today. I did down day last night. So eating

2:03.2

breakfast took the place of my sauna time this morning. Maybe tonight. Yeah. Yeah. Actually,

2:09.3

saw something that it could help with sleep if you do it before bed. I don't know if I want to be

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