Member Transformation: Melanie Bugg
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Episode #196
In this week's episode, Coach Bethany gets to talk with Melanie Bugg, a client who shares her health and weight-loss journey.
Summary Timestamps:
- Melanie's journey with fasting and weight loss, and became aware of Dr. Fung's work on fasting. (01:51)
- Success with weight loss but regain the following year due to lifestyle changes. (04:54)
- Coaching with Bethany to get back on track. (07:13)
- Analogy about 'good/bad' mentality when it comes to fasting and diet. (09:15)
- How Melanie lost 61 pounds. (11:14)
- The importance of a positive mindset around food and fasting, and avoiding the 'good/bad' mentality. (14:35)
- How meal prepping and having go-to, default meals helped Melanie stay on track, even when cooking different meals for her son. (17:14)
- Melanie's top tip for navigating social situations. (21:16)
Chapters:
00:00 Disclaimer
01:51 Melanie's weight-loss and fasting journey
04:54 Successful weight loss followed by regain
07:13 Coaching to get back on track
09:15 Analogy about 'good/bad' mentality
11:14 61-pound weight loss!
14:35 Importance of a positive mindset
17:14 Meal prepping
21:16 Tip for navigating social situations
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started with today's episode, I would like to quickly read you our podcast |
| 0:12.0 | disclaimer. |
| 0:13.4 | This podcast is for educational purposes only, and it is not to substitute for professional |
| 0:20.4 | care by a doctor or other qualified medical |
| 0:23.8 | professional. You should always speak with your physician or other healthcare professionals before |
| 0:29.9 | doing any fasting, changing your diet in any way, taking or adjusting any medications or supplements, |
| 0:41.2 | or adopting any treatment plan for a health problem. |
| 0:42.4 | The use of any other products or services purchased by you as a result of this podcast does not |
| 0:49.7 | create a health care provider patient relationship between you and any of the experts |
| 0:56.4 | affiliated with this podcast. Any information and statements regarding dietary supplements |
| 1:03.1 | have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to |
| 1:09.1 | diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. |
| 1:13.5 | All right. And now we'll get started with today's episode. |
| 1:18.8 | Hi, everyone. This is Coach Bethany. I'm back with another episode of The Fasting Method podcast. |
| 1:25.1 | And we have a very special episode today with one of our members |
| 1:30.1 | and a coaching client of mine named Melanie. And I want to talk to Melanie today because she's |
| 1:36.0 | experienced great success at the fasting method. And hopefully learning about her story is helpful to |
| 1:42.3 | others. So welcome, Melanie. Thank you, Bethany. Thank you for |
| 1:45.9 | having me. So Melanie, I would love to hear how you got into fasting. Okay, so I had come across |
| 1:55.3 | Dr. Fung's work probably about, I want to say, like seven or eight years ago. And I cannot recall where I |
| 2:05.0 | first heard of him, but I came across his work and it really just piqued my interest. And so |
| 2:11.2 | probably in maybe 2016, 2017, I started sort of dabbling in fasting. I would try skipping a meal here and there. |
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