Episode 126: Medication and Fasting, Food Noise, and More
Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life
Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Resources used in today’s episode:Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think, and Live: https://amzn.to/46Ze3yD
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/202503/quieting-the-food-noise
https://www.katelymannutrition.com/blog/food-noise-adhd
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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. |
| 0:15.5 | 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 week to get inspired, to learn, and to have some fun along the way. |
| 0:44.3 | 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? |
| 0:52.7 | I'm doing wonderful. Me too. I'm telling myself that, |
| 0:57.1 | but it's also like cold and dreary and rainy. Yes. Yeah. I'm in a sweater and my fur boots, my |
| 1:05.1 | hugs. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I broke out the hugs a couple weeks ago and I keep turning the fireplace on. And then air comes home from work, and he turns the air conditioner back on. Oh, gosh. I'm loving my fireplace in the mornings. Yeah. Yeah. I reoriented the room. You haven't seen it since I reoriented it. No. The chairs towards the fireplace. You knew that I did it, though, right? Did you know that? No, I didn't. Oh, I reoriented that whole room. Someone who I will not mention did not think that a TV belonged over a fireplace. Oh, did you put it over the fireplace? Yeah. Oh, great. So I had to do it a certain way because, okay, whatever. So we had a table in front of the fireplace. And the chairs were facing totally away from the fireplace. You couldn't even see the fireplace. I always thought that was weird. Well, it was weird, but the things we do to accommodate other people. So, but now I just can accommodate myself. So I had one morning I woke up and I'm like, |
| 2:05.0 | well, I need you to come over here. We're going to move some heavy furniture. But he came right over. |
| 2:09.2 | It was like a Saturday. And we put the table where the chairs had been. And the TV is over the |
| 2:13.9 | fireplace. And the chairs are facing the fireplace. And it's like it always should have been. |
| 2:19.3 | The room is more open. |
| 2:20.8 | You can see the fireplace from inside the... |
| 2:22.5 | And you can see outside now. |
| 2:24.2 | I'm looking outside. |
| 2:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:26.6 | It's so much nicer, but I can literally see the fireplace. |
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