Adventures In Fasting

Book a 20 minute chat with me In this episode, I talk about what The series Severance, starring Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette, has to teach us about how to make any kind of fasting an easier, more empowering experience. No spoilers included (I cover no more than the trailer) - and no need to have watched the programme itself to get something out of this episode. In Severance, employees of the ominous Lumon corporation choose to have a chip implanted in their brains that severs their work consciousness from the person they are outside the office.  I was inspired by this consciousness split to explore a problem that I see many people having with fasting. Imagine severing your consciousness every time you fast. You get to avoid the discomfort, because you have outsourced going through that discomfort to - let’s call them - ‘Fasting You’. This reminded me of a concept I heard the writer David McRaney talk about - Now You vs Future You. It is a kind of severance - minus the sci fi. On 1st January, millions allocate their health to Future You…the only problem being that Future You inevitably turns into Now You. You know Now You - they are the ones with resistance and minor obstacles like, er, life that get in the way of their goals. I talk about this and what I see as the alternative to this Now You vs Future You schism. Resources Book a 20 minute chat with me   Fasting Game Starter Guide   Severance trailer   Cheers now! Harriet Morris info (at) theshiftinside dot com

Heads up! 30th June is my first talk free on Zoom; The Secret To No-struggle Fasting. Make sure you get your link here Welcome to Adventures in Fasting (formally Motivational fasting) I'm Harriet Morris, and whether you're looking to start your very first intermittent fast this week, or you want to optimise your extended day fasting, you've come to the right place. Think of each episode as a rocket fuelled booster pack for your motivation. We are designed by mother nature to be able to fast, but I've noticed that human beings make fasting so much more difficult than it needs to be. I have been coaching binge eating and sugar addicts for over 8 years and now I want to help you leverage the greatest tool for health available - fasting - in whatever form works for you.  The great news is that while it is a challenge, it doesn't have to be a struggle. Do it right, and fasting can get easier the more you do that.  How? by stopping struggling and turning it into an adventure. Join the Facebook group

Heads Up! https://www.theshiftinside.com/fasting-game/ This podcast is soon to be changing its name to The Fasting Game Get your free Starter Guide to The Fasting Game at the above link. DAVID BOWIE Amateur sounding vocalist…not outstanding…a singer devoid of personality…not particularly exciting. -BBC audition report for David Bowie and his band The Lower Third, from 1965 Four years before David Bowie exploded onto the pop scene in 1969 with Space Odyssey, this is what BBC music executives thought of his musical talent.  However, when we think of Bowie, we think: cultural icon, rock god, towering musical influence, edgy androgynous cultural boundary breaker. Bowie was so prolific that I have never met anyone who doesn't like at least one Bowie of his records. I don't think you can say the same about other musical icons of reinvention, like Elvis or Madonna. So what has Bowie got to teach us about fasting motivation? Here's what.   Lesson 1: Triumph of The Ordinary Lesson 2: He Leveraged His Imperfection Lesson 3: His Why Was Bigger Than His Fears In this episode, find out exactly how Bowie did all of these and the link with you making intermittent or extended day fasting easier and more motivating. Harriet Morris Info (at) theshiftinside dot com

Heads Up! What are your fasting and intermittent fasting problems? I would love to chat informally with you, so if you a spare 15 min let's set it up. Email me info {at} theshiftinside.com In the Harry Potter series, the term muggle is used to identify non-magical folk. It is no coincidence that boy wizard Harry's muggle relatives, The Dursleys, are not only non-magical, but so straightlaced you can almost see their metaphorical straightjackets under their clothes. They are more blinkered than a racehorse at The Grand National, and more small-minded than the Buriolestes schultzi dinosaur, whose brain was the size of a pea. For many years now, I have been using the term Muggle to refer to anyone who I find narrow-minded, lacking in curiosity and never questions their beliefs.  Fasting muggles are people who dismiss this awesome health tool out of hand. If you have had to face the derision of fasting muggles, you will know how demotivating it can be. You do your first day intermittent fasting and are super proud of yourself. Now tell a fasting muggle and watch them gleefully puncture your well-deserved excitement and pride in your hard work. You need to know how to handle these people, and I show you how in this episode. Once you liberate yourself from worrying about the irrelevant opinions of fasting muggles, you are free to maximise the transformative power of a life lived to the full.

“If you can’t be Spiderman without the suit, then you shouldn’t wear it” Tough love spoken by Ironman to his protégé in Spiderman: No Way Home. This sentence has hidden gold in it when it comes to making fasting and intermittent fasting work for you. I explain exactly how in this episode. We are also joined by James Bond and the cast of Back To The Future (well, sort of;) You see, it’s all to do with perfectionism vs imperfectonism. Most people are using perfectionism as a means to an end, and it is backfiring on them, and preventing them reaching their health goals. It’s like looking at a picture of The Venus De Milo and deciding because it has limbs missing that is worthless. Note that this work of art is estimated at $100 million. Not quite the box office of No Way Home, but nothing to sniff at. All is explained in this episode.... RESOURCES 5 Ways To Make Fasting Easier video series Interview with Dr Pradip Jamnadas

Check out this weekend's - 15/16 January - Guided Fast at More details below. Only a fool would say that fasting is a vaccine. However, some experiences I had in December with COVID – or should I say not getting COVID – gave me a great idea for a thought experiment on this topic. With the science firmly separated from Harriet’s creative thinking, let’s dive into the question of fasting as an immune booster. Motivational Guided Fast Join me the weekend of the 15th/16th January for an online Guided Motivational Fast. Whether it is your first time trying intermittent fasting for 16 hours, or you want to extend what you are doing now, this will help you if: *You are interested in the health benefits of fasting and intermittent fasting, but are scared of being hungry *You want to find a way to change this from a struggle-filled challenge to an intrepid adventure *You would benefit from having a positive supportive group to cheer you on Included: Prep materials to get you thinking ahead about the most important things before your fast Six optional group Zoom calls over the weekend to suit a wide variety of time zones  Two inspirational audios - one to psyche yourself up and one 'in case of emergency' to use if you are struggling Optional Facebook group for the experience Find out more at To paraphrase Helen Keller, fasting is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Join me this weekend to uplevel your health, and swap misery for marvelling at your own hidden abilities. Swap deprivation for laughing diabolically at your inner critic who says you're just no good at this. And swap self-doubt for self-discovery...of this innate superpower gifted to each and every one of us by evolution.   RESOURCES Articles cited: Articles cited:

This is an old episode from the time when Adventures In Fasting went by the name Motivational Fasting. .................................... If you spend any time around adolescents, then the words teenage and wisdom may not seem to belong in the same sentence. But they really can, if you listen hard enough... Harriet Morris

Heads Up: The weekend of the 15-16th January I am leading an online guided fast. Zoom sessions to inspire and support you, as well as support materials are included. More details to follow in the next few days. In this episode I talk about the biggest New Year fasting mistake you can make. Here it is: not understanding the interplay between discomfort and pleasure. You see, most people have a very dysfunctional attitude to the place of both discomfort and pleasure in their lives. PLEASURE is seen as illicit, something that you cannot just allow yourself. There is surface excitement in taking pleasure when you apparently shouldn’t. Is excess the only form of pleasure you are allowing yourself? Did you know that there are other ways to get true pleasure from eating? DISCOMFORT is the punishment for having sought pleasure. This is not just evident in fasting, but wellness as a whole: look at extreme programs like Insanity. Push yourself to the limits and you can purify yourself of the excess pleasure you committed.You can see how intermittent fasting and extended fasts can get misused in this swing between the two opposites. You can see an illustration of this Metronome here Both discomfort and pleasure have very useful roles in our lives, and the key to stilling The Metronome is to reframe both of them and stop misusing them! I explain how in this episode. Harriet Morris Creator of Motivational Fasting

Watch the video version of this episode here: This bonus episode seems at first blush to have nothing to do with fasting – but as you’ll discover, it is really relevant to helping you develop an ease and power around intermittent, alternate day or extended day fasting. How so? Well, I interview someone who has managed to pull off what I see very few human being do…and is the key to happiness in the 21st century. I am talking about working toward what you want, while developing an uncommon resilience for the curveballs that life throws at us. Artist Catherine Rains has had her unfair share of challenges in life, but is just about the happiest, most well-adjusted, ego-free person I have ever met. Why is this relevant for Motivational Fasting? Because if we can manage life directly, we have no need to misuse fasting or food to do the job. At the end I discuss some of the points discussed and how they help you with your fatsing goals. In this interview, I talk to artist Catherine Rains about her two-pronged approach to dealing with life’s problems: “Double-pronged non-resistance”: while continually affirming the job she wanted, she was at the same time embracing the job she had. How to be unintentionally intentional The five words anyone can use in a negative situation to feel more empowered Catherine’s epiphany about non resistance The non linear nature of change. How she diverted her energy to sidestep jealousy and intended her way to the job of her dreams Why affirmations don’t work for so many people - because they are doing this thing alongside the affirmation Her strategy for releasing fear and dread after her cancer diagnosis (I have never heard this from anyone else) How she developed compassion for her husband in the midst of her divorce but still shielded herself from his manipulation Her hilarious way of managing old resentments   RESOURCES Check Catherine out on Instagram:  Find out more about Catherine here And on Instagram

Get your free video series 5 Ways To Make Fasting Easier at Q: How can you use films to make fasting and intermittent fasting more enjoyable? A: The Hero/ine's Journey. This is a story structure that is used as the basis for most Hollywood plots. But it goes deeper than the latest crashy bang Marvel adventure. This is a 2,000 year of story framework that is a powerful way to help any of us move through life's big challenges...like fasting and intermittent fasting. This lens turns your health goals from struggles to adventures. I hope this episode gets you excited to rewatch your favourite films in a new light. However, a word of caution. We live in an age of spectacle, and there is a significant shift from spectating while your most admired action hero does all the living to following in their pretty uncertain footsteps.  Moreover, the most popular films contain superhuman characters achieving extreme feats of superhuman strength. I am concerned that people will transfer this onto their health goals and turn fasting into an Ironman challenge. No!   RESOURCES Get your free video series 5 Ways To make Fasting Easier at  The metronome Find out about 1 to 1 coaching Episode 2 What is Motivational Fasting? Episode on The Metronome Episode on using back To The Future to End Binge Eating   Email: info (at) theshiftinside.com