So. Four years into widowhood, I was 45 years old, still grieving, mentally squirrelly, and weighed 275 pounds. It was another three years before I woke up to the world again. I’d developed sleep apnea, lost my driver’s license for six months, and lost 20 pounds from all the extra walking to bus stops. That motivated me to start dieting again, and I was down to 240 pounds by the time I married my current Prince Charming at age 49. The next twelve years were about more and more diets. No more yo-yo, but I couldn’t get lower than 220 pounds. Everyone said it was much harder to lose weight as we get older, and I just bought into that. It took me several months to realize that my diabetes was showing its TRUE colors. Yet, I was clueless to what my next step would be. My list of struggles was endless. Not only did I cry each day, but I made everyone around me cry as well. I saw absolutely no loss per the scale for at least 3 weeks, but my belly was going away and clothes were fitting looser. I did a 72 hour fast and dropped 5 pounds, sat there for a while; another long fast with a drop, and sat there - but then my body seemed to start to learn what to do. Appetite Correction is the Holy Grail of intermittent fasting, and it is the state you reach when your satiety signals are in tune with an appropriate amount of food for your body.” 3. You Will Be Inspired:

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It’s important to note that intermittent fasting is not really a diet. It’s the practice of building in some time between meals. it’s when you eat that makes the difference On New Years Eve 2017/18 I met a friend at a party in India. He used to be fit, toned and sporty and we’d exchange exercise notes. But after some sporting injuries, he’d let go of his fitness. I was still at it, but gaining steadily. He and I drowned our mutual weight woes over several drinks that night.Tammy’s advice: Be patient! Give IF a year. Trust your body. IF is a mindset, not will power. Read Gin’s books and listen to her podcasts. What has made this so easy for me is that we are 5 sisters all doing IF, so there is a lot of support, and we all encourage one another when times get tough. Our biggest supporter is Katie. Before we would give up or get discouraged because we didn't see a fast weight loss, we would call on her, and her response would be: trust the process. She would talk us through whatever difficulty we were having.

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The photo on the left should've been a happy milestone. It was our twentieth wedding anniversary, and we were celebrating with a photo shoot complete with a stunning custom-made scarlet dress. But underneath those smiles, my husband and I were suffering from escalating health problems: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, crushing fatigue, chronic depression, pre-diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and more. Even though the Gin talks about her personal experience, she’s not asking you to take her word for it. The book is filled with resource links just in case you are skeptical and want to read all the details behind her findings. By the end of March of 2022, Leah reached her highest weight. A close friend gave her Fast Feast Repeat, and Leah began her IF journey that very day! She has lost 50 pounds, her skin and nails improved, and Leah felt her very best. Sounds pretty normal. You are losing weight, just slowly and steadily. Your age may be a factor. It's harder as you get older (not sure why, but it is). I followed advice from Gin and her team of moderators on the FB groups and the outpouring of moral support from others, to venture into OMAD and break my plateau. I lost all the weight that I hoped to, and a bit more that I never dreamed I could. I never thought I’d live to see my belly shrink before my eyes, but it has.

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Several years ago, I walked happily into my doctor's office seeking treatment for my cold/flu that I had for several weeks. Not a big deal. As my eyes met the doctor's, my heart sank. Right away, I knew that the words that would soon flow out of his mouth would be words of despair. As I felt the heart-breaking energy in the room, it happened. He announced in the same tone that he would a death that I was a diabetic. He went on to inform me that it was due to my weight.

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It's now September 2017. I wobble between 146-148, but my body looks completely different. I'm wearing anywhere from 4s to 8s in clothes. I'm sleeping well, my skin looks better, and I have tons of energy. I had a physical recently and the doctor said all my lab tests look great - my HDL was so high it offset my high LDL. We were both so busy last year trying to get her through chemo (she went into the hospital for five days, every 3 weeks, for a total of 6 treatments) that our eating habits got out of hand. As she mentioned (below), they told her to eat whatever and whenever and that is exactly what we did. And because I adore her and she is my hero, I was there with her for every bite! LOL.Knowledge.Ask questions in a safe space with other intermittent fasters who embrace the clean fast. At some point on my Facebook feed I started getting information about Intermittent Fasting from various sources. One that I remember suggested that women should fast 12-14 hours, then have their first meal. I dabbled with that for some time and felt great doing it. To find out how you, too, can live an intermittent fasting lifestyle, read my latest book, Fast. Feast. Repeat.

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Would you do the 16:8 every day to lose the 1.5 stone or just 5 days a week. I like a glass of wine at the weekend which throws the fasting off. I also eat breakfast with dcs so it is more like 14:10 5 days a week. I am 49. When I was old enough to be interested in boys and care what I looked like, I assumed the responsibility for my own dieting. Through high school, I’d yo-yo between 120 and 135 (115 would have been ideal for my frame); in college, it was between 120 and 160. By the time I married at age 25, I was up to 200. It was the usual story. Get hooked on a particular diet, lose 30 pounds, get to the unsustainable point and gain 45. By age 34, I was up to 225 and feeling pretty desperate...didn’t seem like there was anything new to try. And then I learned about self-hypnosis. I was already doing the old calorie in calorie out diet (had just started) and thought "I can do this and it is much easier".

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