Fast and Fabulous

Meet Justin Claypool!  Justin is 33yo,  born in Klamath Falls, OR and currently residing in Clarkston, WA.  Justin was prediabetic from an early age and overweight his entire life.  At his highest weight he was 375+ lbs.  In 2017, he decided to start his journey to good health at 28yo. Through whole foods and intermittent fasting, he has been able to lose over 150lbs & keep it off! Justin has now shifted his focus from losing weight to building muscle and longevity.

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Meet Star McEuen from Arizona!  Star is a 40yo mom of SIX, Wife, Fasting Coach, Influencer, Author and downright badass.  Most Star's life was focused on her weight- she always wanted to be “skinny and/or fit”.  She had tried every “diet” out there to lose weight, did all the at home workouts, went to the gym, became a personal trainer herself, hired a nutritionist...and they all lead to the same place, failure, disappoint and defeat. She turned 35 years old and no matter what she did to lose weight before, nothing was working this time and the weight just pilled on. Star's last recorded weight was in May of 2019 at 210lbs. She was at the darkest point in her life - depressed and deteriorating health, tired and felt out of options. 

Then in August of 2019, she found intermittent fasting (IF) through her high school best friend who had been sharing about her IF journey on social media.  Her friend had lost weight successfully and said it was fairly easy -  she recommended Star try it. She read Delay, Don't Deny by Gin Stephens and started with a clean fast aiming for a 19 hour fast and 5 hour eating window protocol with an OMAD (One Meal A Day) lifestyle. By February 2020 she had reached her first goal weight of 140lbs. In April of 2020 she started implementing one "meal-less" day a week and by August of 2020 (one year of IF) she had lost a total of 81lbs!! 

Her new goal now is to get to 20+ hours fasted each day, with a 1-3 hour eating window  (with the occasional shorter fasts and longer eating windows depending on her day). A huge game changer for Star was breaking her fast with her main meal instead of a snack. For months she broke with a snack, then had a meal, then if she felt the need for something else she would have it. One day, her body stopped liking this protocol. Each fast was getting harder, she wanted 2 meals all of a sudden- it took her awhile to pinpoint what was going on... she was breaking her fast with a snack, but her snack would be so BIG, that when dinner came, she wasn’t very hungry. This lead to her not getting enough protein or nutrients to sustain her fast the next day. Once she started breaking her fast with her main meal, fasting felt easy and good again. 

Today, when she feels the need for her body to “reset” she will throw in a meal less day on occasion, but for the most part sticks to a daily fasting protocol of 20+ hours fasted and a 1-3 hour eating window - she feels her body does best there. If she allows a longer eating window,  sometimes she  will tend to not make the best food choices - short and sweet is her sweet spot. 

IF has taught Star to be mindful of everything that goes into her body and to eat for nutrition and purpose, it has taught her to think nutrients NOT calories. She is no longer a prisoner to food, food is not the enemy -  too much circulating insulin is the problem. IF helps us regulate All our hormones and helps us learn how to trust ourselves around food again.

IF truly is THE health plan with a side effect of weight loss -  everyone should be an intermittent faster whether they have weight to lose or just for the health benefits alone!

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Becca is a  50yo, wife, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother.  She’s been married for almost 29 years with 4 adult kids ranging from 27 down to 20.  She has recently delved into the world of illustration and enjoys nearly all things art. Her motivation for wanting to slim down and live a healthier life was most certainly her family and wanting to be able to live a life where she could say a lot more YES to activities and adventure!  Becca hit rock bottom 3.5 years ago when she weighed just over 160lbs. At only 5ft, she was very uncomfortable, struggling to find clothes that she felt sufficiently hid her body and was abstaining from activities that she used to enjoy. Through clean IF, Becca has released over 30lbs and is living her best life now!  http://fastandfabulouspodcast.com

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Julie Stone is a 57yo mom who had tried SO many diets to loose weight over the years without success…until she discovered clean intermittent fasting in April, 2020.  By the end of 2021, Julie had released an astonishing 64lbs!  Tune in to hear her inspiring story!

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Mid October we start to have what I like to call “holiday panic mode”  - for a number of reasons – but the foods/drinks that come along with the season are such a huge part of the holidays... I thought, how amazing it would be to answer your questions whether it’s your first holiday season as a faster or you’re simply trying to take your power back and have a healthy relationship with all your holiday favorites without the stress and guilt of gaining that dreaded holiday weight.  

This episode, I have two very special guests join for our first ever HOLIDAY episode! Melissa Denny & Lisa Jasunas, two of the most incredible ladies in our community who are passionate admins of our DDD support group and so proud to call my friends.  To learn more about Melissa and Lisa’s individual fasting journeys, check out episodes 1&2 of the show!

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Beth was born and raised in the stunning Willamette Valley in the middle of Oregon.  She taught literature, writing, and communications classes for 16 years at the college level before jumping into entrepreneurship. In 2011, Beth co-founded Capital Pawn & Couture with her husband, Adam. Their three grown children work in the business alongside them.  Beth is passionate about spending time with family and friend, a lover of wine, trees, travel, books, Disney, Converse, good food, and the pawn industry. Today, with two full years of successful fasting, she can say she is passionate about fasting as well as inspiring others to be the healthiest version of themselves.

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Robyn Gilleran is an actor/model and stand-up comic in the Detroit, MI area. She is the mother of two teenage boys and has struggled with maintaining a healthy weight since childhood. Despite being active and watching she ate, she found it harder and harder to lose weight into her late 40s. After seeing the scale hit her pregnancy weight she found Gin Stephen’s book, Delay Don’t Deny - and my Facebook support group shortly after and decided to give clean fasting a try. She has lost 25 pounds and found a new lease on life through menopause happily not hiding behind giant sweaters.

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Lizzie is a mother of 2 and married to her husband for 12 years who since adopted IF into his life for health reasons.  Lizzie had been an overweight person most of her life. Once she hit puberty ,she was about 10-15 lbs overweight. Although she struggled with her weight, she did not try any crazy diets but if she wanted to lose any weight, she had to run daily and eat around 1200 calories/day.  When she was tired of that, she would just gain the weight back. Lizzie was introduced to IF in 2018 but was not successful because she was not fasting CLEAN. In February 2021, she was introduced to clean fasting and has lost an incredible 70 lbs since!

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Christine Morales is 59yo and lives with her husband in Florida. Before Christine turned nine years old, she was a “skinny” child (actually, normal weight for my height/age). She was raised by her grandparents from the ages of 2 to 9 and were traditional 3 meal a day folks (natural IF without even trying). They did not snack and portions were naturally sensible, never “diet” minded, but not huge either. They had dessert with every dinner, be it canned fruit, or her grandmother’s delicious flan- she was an amazing cook.

Christine's father remarried when she was turning 9,  and she went to live with him and her new stepmom (“mom” from there on out). Her mom was well meaning, but she overfed everyone. The chunky kid is a healthy kid thought was deep in her. Sweets were plentiful, they ate between meals and were served large portions.

Christine went through severe emotional trauma as a young child and later learned to assuage her hurt with food - she had an uncle who weight trained and was part of bodybuilding competitions. Her Uncle, grandfather and sometimes father were hyper focused on weight. The greeting she'd get was 1st: How are your grades? and 2nd: You’ve gained weight. Her grandfather even pointed out the difference between her and a tall svelte friend she had in high school. Her family was not well versed in confidence building. She was to be seen, not heard.

Christine entered the military, married, had children, and watched her weight fluctuate between 114, topping out at 174 pounds (in a non-pregnant state); She is just under 5’1”. Diet mentality had her jumping from incessant calorie counting to fad dieting, always not sustainable. 

In 2017/2018 intermittent fasting came into her awareness. She read many articles and experimented with having her 1st meal in the afternoon. About 2019, she read Brad Pilon’s Eat-Stop-Eat, her first book on the topic. She dropped 30lbs very quickly.

Her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia around the same time (2019… all the signs were there over a year earlier) and became his full-time sole caregiver (it’s been 3 years now). Her doctor insisted she take an anti-depressant, an SSRI, Lexapro was prescribed, and she reluctantly took it - had every side effect listed and put on 26 pounds.

By now, she had read more intermittent fasting material, Dr. Fung’s books, then Gin Stephens' Delay, Don’t Deny and Fast, Feast, Repeat. The magic started! She found her way. In March of 2021at 138 lbs, she made a lifestyle change, and will never look back. She became consistent with her workouts, and has figured out what eating windows worked for her. Entering September 2021, she had lost the 26 pounds and has been maintaining a weight of 110-115 since then. 

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Lisa Glick,  a  retired  music educator from Mid-Hudson Valley,  NY - now living in Tucson, AZ.  She is an ultra-runner,  an avid hiker, fitness instructor and singer!   Her passion for the outdoors, music and community service  are tools she uses to stay well and grateful, along with good nutrition and of course,  IF!

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