Fast. Feast. Repeat. To Learn How We Fast Clean

Read Fast. Feast. Repeat. to help elevate your intermittent fasting results.

Cleaning up my fasts took my results to the next level. The advice Gin provides in Chapter 5 may help you too.

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Fast. Feast. Repeat. by Gin Stephens is a book about intermittent fasting that I’d heard good things about for a few years before I finally read it.

Now I know why so many people liked it. I wish I would have read it sooner. Gin does an excellent job using her prior teaching career skills to gather a lot of great information and then teach the readers in a way that is easily digested (no pun intended.)

She writes about what she’s learned through her own experiences. Gin did a great deal of research and has many years of experience communicating with others and learning from their personal experiences. 

She provides so many references to all of the sources from her research that I could spend weeks, probably months, reading through all of it! Since I don’t have that kind of time, I certainly appreciate Gin doing all the work researching intermittent fasting and pulling it together in Fast. Feast. Repeat.

There’s so much we can learn in Fast. Feast. Repeat, but in this article, I want to focus on Chapter 5: “Keep it Clean! Learn How We Fast Clean.” This chapter struck a chord with me because Gin makes some great arguments about cleaning up our fasting acts.

Powerful mind-shift questions to ask yourself

Chapter 5 inspired me to ask myself these questions:

Do you want your body to learn to adapt and be metabolically flexible?

Do you want your body to tap into its fat instead of what I put in my coffee?

Do you want your body to recycle damaged protein into new usable cells (autophagy!) instead of using the protein I’m sneaking in during my fast with a collagen drink or some bone broth?

Can you wait to enjoy a meal so you’re not sabotaging your intermittent fasting efforts?

Delay, Don’t Deny is another excellent book by Gin Stephens that supports this principle. It’s an easy read and less sciencey than Fast. Feast. Repeat.

You want to optimize your health, don’t you?

If it’s clear to you, after answering all of the above questions, that you do desire the best health scenario possible for yourself:

Then, why is it okay to add a little of this or a little of that and still call it fasting? Gin sure made me think hard on this one. And she convinced me to clean up my act!

I’m not perfect, but I’m fasting cleaner now, about 80% of the time. I tried to be close to 100% clean for the first couple of months when I decided to implement this until I started to see the results (weight loss, better sleep and focus, and less inflammation.) 

This method of intermittent fasting will be a tool that I can use to get back on track if I go off the rails during the holidays (for example). I can rev it up closer to 100% clean when needed.

Give it chance

Read chapter 5 of the Fast. Feast. Repeat. book. It could be the tweak that will help you more easily experience a successful fasting lifestyle.

I recommend reading the entire book. But if you’re not into reading that much or don’t have the time, jump into Chapter 5 and see what you think.