Fasting Q&A: Hormones, Insulin, and Staying Consistent When Motivation Fades
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A grounded Q&A episode focused on what actually keeps you consistent when motivation fades.
Episode #241
🎙️ Motivation is powerful at the start — but it never lasts. What matters is what you build underneath it.
Megan Ramos answers listener questions on hormones, insulin resistance, PMS, PCOS, perimenopause, ADHD, and the mental side of fasting. She explains why biology matters more than willpower and why well-built habits — not motivation — are what carry you forward long term.
👉 What you'll learn:
- How insulin resistance affects hormones and cycle-related symptoms
- Why fasting can support PMS, PCOS, and perimenopause when insulin is addressed
- Why cortisol fear around fasting is often misplaced
- How to think about hunger, appetite, and structure once weight loss slows
- Why motivation fades — and what actually keeps you consistent
- How to reduce food-driven dopamine reliance, especially with ADHD
⏱️ Timestamps
00:43 – Q1: Why fasting can reduce PMS and period symptoms (insulin and hormones)
02:00 – Q2: PCOS, fasting, and cortisol concerns
01:11 – Q3: Spotting, cycle changes, and healing with PCOS
08:58 – Q4: Taking vitamin D on fasting days
11:28 – Q5: Dark chocolate, insulin resistance, and health claims
14:14 – Q6: Losing weight but still thinking about food and fasting
17:54 – Q7: Eating without hunger and extending fasts
19:42 – Q8: Is fasting different for women than men?
21:50 – Q9: ADHD, dopamine, and alternatives to food
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When we start our journeys, we're very motivated, but motivation is fleeting. |
| 0:05.0 | So once we hit our goals and that health motivation, that weight loss motivation isn't there anymore, it can be tricky to slide in to some old habits without addressing our relationship with food. |
| 0:30.4 | Hi everyone, it's Megan Ramos here with another episode of the Fast Sane Method podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, I get to answer your questions. Now, let's dive in. The first question comes in from Jenna in Michigan. Why is it that when I'm consistent with fasting in my diet, my PMS and period symptoms, |
| 0:46.5 | cramps, headaches, backache, etc. are lessened. |
| 0:49.8 | Does it have anything to do with insulin? |
| 0:52.1 | And the answer is yes. |
| 0:54.0 | Hyper and insulinemia causes |
| 0:55.7 | imbalances in our sex hormones. And it's those imbalances in sex hormones that often result |
| 1:01.2 | in those PMS symptoms. If our sex hormones are in good balance with one another and are at the |
| 1:07.6 | appropriate levels that they're supposed to be in the second half of our cycle, |
| 1:11.7 | that ludial phase, then we shouldn't really experience too much of any type of PMS symptom. |
| 1:18.9 | But with our modern diets of highly processed and refined foods, we do tend to have a lot of |
| 1:25.4 | hyperinsulinia around and imbalances in sex hormones as a result. |
| 1:31.1 | When someone is consistent with fasting and diet, they reverse their hyperinsulinemia or insulin |
| 1:36.3 | resistance, then they notice that they almost never have any symptoms of PMS or it's extremely |
| 1:43.2 | mild compared to what they used to experience. So that's |
| 1:47.1 | one of the benefits of getting your hormones or insulin all sorted out. Question number two comes in |
| 1:54.0 | from Amy in South Dakota. I keep hearing mixed answers about fasting for polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS. |
| 2:03.2 | Some say it's really beneficial and others tell me to eat five to six small meals a day |
| 2:08.0 | and not to fast or have coffee on an empty stomach because of the cortisol response. |
| 2:13.0 | Can you please clarify? |
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