Episode 172: Body Shame From Family, Patience With the Process, Healing After Long Covid, and More

Welcome to this week’s episode of Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting for Life, with Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock.To make a submission for the podcast, go to fastfeastrepeat.com/submit.  We are a community-driven podcast, and we look forward to sharing your questions, success stories, non-scale victories, IF tweaks, motivational quotes (and more!) on each episode of the podcast. Resources used in today’s episode:Interested in a Shapa scale?  Click this  LINK Make sure to select “lifetime membership”.  Or you can Google to find  the Shapa website and use the promo code GINSTEPHENS2026 and it will apply the offer.  Make sure to select “lifetime membership”. I’m saying that twice because that is important.https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-patients-have-altered-metabolite-levels-2-years-after-infection https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2026.1787799/full https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39049-x#Sec2 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12191075/#sec3-biomedicines-13-01482 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11281454/#sec5-viruses-16-01142 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-07461-0#Sec9 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666396124000074 https://plantbasedrdblog.com/category/recipes/breakfast/ Join us on the 2027 Fast Feast Repeat Cruise! https://sarah.funcruises4you.com/GroupRegistrations/view/139054 Join Gin in the Fast Feast Repeat app for The Grown-Up Year: 52 Weeks to Listen, Play, and Nourish, as well as a growing collection of intermittent fasting resources. Go to app.fastfeastrepeat.com to join us or go to the App Store and download the Fast Feast Repeat app, available for both iPhone and Android.To get the books, go to https://www.ginstephens.com/get-the-books.html. The second edition of Delay, Don’t Deny is now available in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audIo book.  This is the book that you’ll want to start with or share with others, as it is a simple introduction to IF.  It’s been updated to include the clean fast, a thorough description of ADF and all of your ADF options, and an all new success stories section.  When shopping, make sure to get the second edition, which has a 2024 publication date.  The audiobook for the second edition is also available now!Gin has a new YouTube Channel!  Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_frGNiTEoJ88rZOwvuG2CA and subscribe today so you never miss an intermittent fasting tip, a support session, or an intervie