Keeping a Hand on the Wagon
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A story of calm confidence, healing, and letting go of perfection.
Episode #233
What happens when you stop chasing perfection and start trusting your body? In this heartfelt conversation, Audrey shares with Coach Lisa how she moved from fear and confusion to calm confidence by embracing nourishment, community, and self-compassion.
Audrey's journey reminds us that fasting isn't just about hours — it's about listening to your body, releasing perfectionism, and keeping "a hand on the wagon," even when life gets messy.
What you'll learn:
- Why fasting alone wasn't enough for Audrey
- The mindset shift that helped her release perfectionism
- How she advocated for herself through confusing medical advice
- The practices that improved her sleep, confidence, and cardiac markers
- How she navigates social eating, travel, and cravings with ease
Books mentioned in this episode:
- The Paleo Cure — Chris Kresser
- Adrenal Transformation Protocol — Izabella Wentz
- Fast Like a Girl — Dr. Mindy Pelz
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Audrey's backstory & early fasting attempts
01:26 Heart-health fears and statin pressure
03:10 Why fasting alone wasn't working
04:26 Joining TFM & shifting her approach to nourishment
05:01 The statin conversation & advocating for herself
07:08 Improvements in A1c, triglycerides & confidence
09:20 Cardiac testing results & reducing medications
11:08 The biggest surprise: calm, freedom, and mindset shifts
13:14 "Hand on the wagon" — Audrey's powerful analogy
16:22 Hunger waves & reframing discomfort
18:41 Energy, sleep, and positive influence on friends
20:55 Navigating social events & travel with TRE
23:54 Managing a cruise without derailing progress
26:24 Goals ahead: autoimmune health & elimination diets
28:23 Self-advocacy and working effectively with doctors
30:35 Community language, inside jokes & belonging
31:40 Fasting apps, perfectionism & releasing harsh self-judgment
32:53 Closing reflections & encouragement
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think there's this calm, this sense of I've got this, this confidence that I know what to do and where to turn to look for answers. |
| 0:07.9 | And I think that was the biggest surprise because I thought it was just to do-do, to eat, not to eat, not to drink, you know, things like that. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, everyone. My name is Lisa Chance. I'm a fasting coach here at TFM. |
| 0:25.6 | Today we welcome one of our community members, Audrey Fung. |
| 0:30.6 | Hi Audrey, how are you doing today? |
| 0:32.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi, Coach Lisa. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:35.6 | Yes, we're here to find out about your transformation. Let's start |
| 0:39.6 | off with a basic question here. What prompted you to start fasting? How did you find Dr. Fung and |
| 0:45.9 | Megan Ramos? Well, I found out about fasting maybe 10 years ago. And it was when Dr. Jason Fung |
| 0:54.0 | started coming out and I was in Malaysia. I was not in the US yet. And I did fasting. So I knew about Megan Ramos. I knew about Jason Fong. I knew about the obesity code and all that. I knew it was all in my head. And I tried fasting and I was good at fasting. I could fast three days, five days, not a problem. |
| 1:11.7 | But I was not seeing the results that I wanted, you know. And so I was just kind of skirting |
| 1:17.3 | around. I thought I knew fasting, but I did not know the full picture of how it should work for me. |
| 1:23.8 | And that's why I came to the community. You were specifically concerned about heart health, |
| 1:29.5 | correct? Yes, because what happened is as the years passed, I was due to family history or |
| 1:36.3 | whatever, I was already on blood pressure medication. And then I have an autoimmune condition |
| 1:41.1 | that I'm on a low dosage for something else. And then what happened |
| 1:45.6 | was because of my cholesterol, my doctor was pushing me to go and study, which I pushed back for |
| 1:51.0 | some years and I just gave in because it was just too much pressure to take from, you know, |
| 1:56.6 | a professional that's supposed to be taking care of my health. But at the back of my mind, |
| 2:01.2 | I knew something wasn't right. Like I did not feel at ease with it. And that's why I started looking. |
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