Episode 93: Medication, Illness, & Fasting, Hormonal Birth Control, Losing Weight After Menopause, and More
Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting For Life
Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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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. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:47.2 | We are so glad you're here today. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Fast Feast, Repeat, Interminton Fasting for Life podcast. |
| 0:53.1 | How are you doing today, Sherry? |
| 0:54.9 | I'm doing great. I'm a little sleepy. Try to wake up. Time change. Hitting you hard. I worked extra this weekend. I have a poor girl I |
| 1:02.7 | work with who's been going through going through it. Her husband's now been in the ICU three |
| 1:07.8 | times since the beginning of February. Wow. He keeps having accidents. |
| 1:12.4 | And so I've been working a lot extra and I end up working extra Friday night and then I just |
| 1:16.6 | didn't sleep well. I think my body's telling me it doesn't want to be a night worker anymore. I don't |
| 1:23.1 | sleep well during the day anymore. Yeah. It also could be that I stay with my friend and she does not |
| 1:30.2 | sleep. She doesn't sleep. Well, luckily for her, she has a position she actually sleeps at work. |
| 1:36.6 | Okay. So then she doesn't have to sleep all day while I'm sleeping at her house. And so she's always up |
| 1:40.7 | like vacuuming over my head and cleaning stuff and dragging ladders around |
| 1:44.8 | because she's like never stops. She's like the Energizer Bunny. And so I don't know, I really don't |
| 1:50.5 | know how much of my not sleeping on the weekend lately is that she's always so busy. I sleep at her |
| 1:55.2 | house or if my body just doesn't like sleeping during the day anymore. Well, you know, our circadian rhythm is important. |
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