About this episode
In this episode of Intermittent Fasting Stories, Gin talks to Astrid Rivera who lives in New York City but is from El Salvador.Join Gin in the new 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.Are you ready to take your intermittent fasting lifestyle to the next level? There’s nothing better than community to help with that. In the Delay, Don’t Deny community we all embrace the clean fast, and there’s just the right support for you as you live your intermittent fasting lifestyle. You can connect directly with Gin in the Ask Gin group, and she will answer all of your questions personally. If you’re new to intermittent fasting or recommitting to the IF lifestyle, join the 28-Day FAST Start group. After your fast start, join us for support in The 1st Year group. Need tips for long term maintenance? We have a place for that! There are many more useful spaces beyond these, and you can interact in as many as you like. Visit ginstephens.com/community to join us. An annual membership costs just over a dollar a week when you do the math. If you aren’t ready to fully commit for a year, join for a month and you can cancel at any time. If you know you’ll want to stay forever, we also have a lifetime membership option available. IF is free. You don’t need to join our community to fast. But if you’re looking for support from a community of like-minded IFers, we are here for you at ginstephens.com/community. Astrid shares her transformative journey with intermittent fasting, detailing her initial struggles, the impact of pandemic lockdowns on her health, and her eventual success in adopting a clean fasting approach. She discusses the challenges she faced, the importance of understanding the science behind fasting, and the non-scale victories that have come with her lifestyle change. Astrid emphasizes the significance of community support and encourages others to embrace intermittent fasting as a sustainable solution for weight loss and improved health.Takeaways:• Astrid discovered intermittent fasting through a friend who was losing weight.• She initially struggled with keto and found it hard to stick to.• The stress of the pandemic led to comfort eating and weight gain for Astrid.• She reached her heaviest weight of 222 pounds during the pandemic.• A turning point came when she decided to learn more about inter
